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- 98th Academy Awards
- Nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards are released, with Sinners receiving 16 overall nominations, breaking the record for most nominations for a film that was previously held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. (Los Angeles Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2026 Gul Plaza Shopping Mall fire
- The death toll from a massive fire five days ago at a multi-story shopping mall in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, increases to 67 people. (CTV News)
- January 2026 New Zealand storms
- Two people are killed and several others are reported missing with no sign of life detected, including children, in landslides in Mount Maunganui and Welcome Bay, Tauranga, New Zealand. Further north, a man is swept away by a flood in Warkworth. (BBC News) (Sky News) (The Independent)
- January 2026 United States winter storm
- A state of emergency is declared in several U.S. states in anticipation for a potentially severe winter storm affecting the South and Eastern United States, Atlantic Canada, and Northern Mexico. (CBC)
- Vanderbijlpark scholar transport crash
- The death toll from the school bus collision with a truck near Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa, increases to 14 children killed, while the bus driver is charged with murder. (AP)
- Six people are lightly injured when a passenger train collides with a crane arm in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, in the fourth railway incident in the country within a week. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and 109 schoolchildren are injured in a head-on traffic collision between a pick-up truck and a school bus on R510 in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, South Africa. (IOL)
Health and environment
- Guinea-Bissau suspends a Trump backed study of hepatitis B vaccine on newborns pending an ethics review. (AP)
Law and crime
- Terrorism in the Philippines
- A regional court in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, sentences journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and her accomplice to up to 18 years in prison for financing terrorism following their arrest in 2020, but acquits them on a weapons possession charge. Press freedom and rights groups condemn the verdict. (AFP via The Guardian) (BBC News)
- Three people are killed and another is critically injured in a suspected domestic violence mass shooting in Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia. The shooter fled the scene by vehicle and is at large. (The Guardian) (BBC News)
- Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and another is critically injured in a school shooting at a primary school in Ntabankulu Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Independent Online)
- Six people are injured, including two critically, in a mass stabbing during a Kurdish demonstration in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. Two suspects are arrested. (The Guardian)
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