Portal:Current events/2015 March 24

March 24, 2015 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

War in Afghanistan
- Gunmen kill at least thirteen people in an attack on three passing vehicles including a bus in Wardak province's Sayad Abad district. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

A BBC investigation finds that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson assaulted a producer with reports that he will be sacked from the television program. (The Telegraph)

Disasters and accidents

Germanwings Flight 9525
- A Germanwings flight crashes en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, in a mountainous region of the Alps near Digne-les-Bains in Southern France leaving 150 dead. Rescue workers recover the damaged, but still usable, cockpit voice recorder. (RT) (Reuters) (The Guardian)(RT)

Science and technology

The Opportunity rover completes a Martian marathon, the first time any vehicle has traveled more than 26.2 miles on the surface of another world. (CNN)

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