Portal:Current events/2011 January 4

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents
  • Russia begins an operation to free 500 people stranded in ships by ice in the Sea of Okhotsk. (BBC)
  • More evacuations take place in Queensland, Australia, as flood waters continued to rise and the Australian prime minister says damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. (CNN)

Law and crime

Politics

Science and technology