Portal:Current events/2013 March 17
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March 17, 2013 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near the Iraqi city of Basra kills at least 10 people. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. (AP via Google News) (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- Following a train derailment, Amtrak temporarily suspends service along the busy New York-to-Boston route. (AP via Google News)
Law and crime
- An Albanian hitman serving time in Greece takes six people hostage in an apparent escape attempt. (BBC)
- Five people are wounded during a shooting at a nightclub in Belle Glade, Florida, United States. (WPBF) (Sun-Sentinel)
- Prominent French lawyer Olivier Metzner is found dead of an apparent suicide. (Bloomberg)
- Two members of the Steubenville High School football team have been found guilty of raping a sixteen-year-old girl in the U.S. town of Steubenville, Ohio. (Sky News Australia)
Religion
- Thousands of people gather in Rome's Saint Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver his first Angelus prayer and blessing. (BBC)
Science and technology
- New data suggests that the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the World Ocean, is home to a large amount of bacterial life forms. (LiveScience)
Sport
- In Formula One, Kimi Räikkönen wins 2013 Australian Grand Prix, the first stage of the 2013 season, ahead of Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel. (BBC) (Reuters)
- In tennis, Rafael Nadal wins men's singles and Maria Sharapova wins women's singles at the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, United States. (BBC) (NDTV)
- Greek football player Giorgos Katidis is banned from his national team for life after giving a Nazi style salute while celebrating a goal in the 2012–13 Superleague Greece match. (Daily Mail)
- In men's field hockey, Australia defeats Malaysia 3–2 in the final of the 2013 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. (NDTV)
- In basketball, the field for the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is announced. (CNN)
- In volleyball, Russia's Lokomotiv Novosibirsk defeats Italy's Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo 3–2 in the thriller final to win the 2012–13 CEV Champions League. (CEV)
- In snooker, Ding Junhui defeats Neil Robertson 4–3 to win the Grand Final of the Players Tour Championship 2012/2013. (BBC) (Eurosport)
- In road bicycle racing, Gerald Ciolek of Germany wins 2013 Milan – San Remo single-day cycling race, the fourth stage of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. (BBC)
- In Alpine skiing, Austrian Marcel Hirscher and Slovenian Tina Maze win the overall men's and women's 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup titles, respectively. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- In biathlon, last stage of the 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup ends in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Martin Fourcade wins men's overall title and Tora Berger wins the women's overall title. (CBC) (AP via Yahoo! Sports)