WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 2013
Find out what all happened January to February 2013

More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. (10. January 2013)

At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. (25. January 2013)

One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia. (11. January 2013)

A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards. (19. January 2013)

A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people. (9. January 2013)

241 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil. (27. January 2013)

An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria. (16. January 2013)

Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill at least 17 people and injure more than 100 others. (21. February 2013)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. (28. February 2013)

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. (8. February 2013)

A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. (15. January 2013)

A hot-air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people. (26. February 2013)

A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. (15. February 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium. (11. February 2013)

An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100. (31. January 2013)

At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (1. January 2013)

A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines. (4. January 2013)

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. (29. January 2013)

The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public. (1. February 2013)