April 6, 2015 (Monday)
Business and economy
- Twitter and YouTube are both inaccessible for hours in Turkey; part of a crack-down on social media by the government there. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- In Fujian, Southeast China an explosion and fire at a paraxylene producing petrochemical plant by Dragon Aromatics occupied 430 firemen. (Reuters)
- Tropical storms kill at least 36 people and injure scores in Bangladesh over the past couple of days, with Bogra District hardest hit (20 deaths). (AP via Fox News)
Law and crime
- An Indonesian court rejects Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's appeal against the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo's refusal to grant them clemency against the death penalty as organisers of the Bali Nine plot to smuggle heroin to Australia in 2005. (ABC News Australia)
- Gul Ahmad Saeed is suspected in the killing of his fiancee and nine of her relatives in Pakistan, apparently because of opposition to his marriage. He also is a suspect in the murders, earlier this year, of his mother, father, brother, and sister-in-law. (NBC)
- University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi announces that it will "pursue all available options" against Rolling Stone magazine a day after the magazine withdraws "A Rape on Campus", a story alleging a student was gang-raped at a party in 2012. (CNN Money)
Sports
- Basketball
- In basketball, Dick Bavetta, John Calipari, Spencer Haywood, Lisa Leslie, Dikembe Mutombo and Jo Jo White are announced as 2015 inductees to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. They will be formally inducted alongside five figures announced in February, Louie Dampier, Lindsay Gaze, Tom Heinsohn (already inducted as a player but now entering as a coach), John Isaacs, and George Raveling, on September 11. (ESPN)
- In basketball, Duke defeats Wisconsin 68–63 to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. (USA Today)