Template:In the news/sandbox
- North Korea conducts a nuclear weapons test.
- Pope Benedict XVI announces that he will resign as leader of the Catholic Church at the end of February.
- Thirty-six people are killed and thirty-nine injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
- At the Grammy Awards, Gotye wins Record of the Year and Mumford & Sons wins Album of the Year.
- In association football, the Africa Cup of Nations concludes with Nigeria defeating Burkina Faso in the final.
- Argo wins three awards, including Best Film, at the 66th British Academy Film Awards.
- A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
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"In the news" mentions and links to entries of timely interest – encyclopedia articles that have been updated to reflect an important current event – rather than conventional news items. To prevent vandalism on the Main Page, it is a permanently protected template. See Wikipedia:In the news for more details.
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