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March 28
2018

Sport Recreation

Three Australian cricketers were given lengthy bans after being caught up in a ball-tampering scandal that sent shockwaves around the sport and provoked outrage throughout Australia

March 28
2017

Economics Industry

A new £1 coin entered circulation in the United Kingdom. Hailed as “the most secure in the world”, the coin featured a string of security features to make it harder to counterfeit

March 28
2016

Crime Espionage Terrorism

The FBI revealed they could access encrypted data on a suspect’s iPhone without Apple’s help

March 28
2011

Disasters Accidents Riots

New pools of contaminated water were discovered leaking from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Levels of radioactive iodine-131 in sea water near the plant were 1,850 times higher than legally permissible

March 28
2011

Society Law Politics

Egypt’s military council announced that former President Hosni Mubarak and his family were under house arrest

March 28
2011

Society Law Politics

An explosion at an ammunition factory near the southern Yemeni town of Jaar killed 150 people

March 28
2010

Society Law Politics

Israeli President Shimon Peres said he believed the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had gone too far with its building plans in East Jerusalem. Peres reportedly told Netanyahu that the current diplomatic crisis with the U.S. could be resolved if Israel affirmed that the agreed status quo would not change, and that there would be no further construction for Jews in predominantly Arab areas of the city

March 28
2010

Disasters Accidents Riots

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva met with leaders of the anti-government “Red Shirt” United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to help bring about an end to the political crisis in the country

March 28
2010

Crime Espionage Terrorism

A 15-year-old boy died when a bomb exploded outside a public building in Athens. It was the first fatal bombing in Greece for many years

March 28
2009

Medical Science Technology

A Chinese spying network dubbed GhostNet was found to have infiltrated more than 1,000 computers in 103 countries, many in “high-value sites” including foreign ministries, international organizations and news media

March 28
2007

Crime Espionage Terrorism

Shia gunmen roamed Sunni neighbourhoods in Tal Afar, Iraq, killing around 70 people a day after two suicide truck bombs targeted Shia areas of the town, killing 152 people and wounding nearly 350

March 28
2007

Disasters Accidents Riots

Four people, including a promising 14-year-old ice skater, were killed when their pleasure cruiser collided with a Sydney Ferries jetcat beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia

March 28
2006

Society Law Politics

Kadima, the centrist party founded in 2005 by Ariel Sharon but now led by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon’s stroke, won Israel’s election, capturing 29 seats in the 120-member Knesset

March 28
2006

Economics Industry

Over a million protesters joined a general strike in France to oppose planned labour-market reforms aimed at cutting high unemployment but seen as grossly unfair to younger workers

March 28
2006

Deaths

Caspar Weinberger, who served as defence secretary under former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, died aged 88. He joined the Reagan administration in 1981 and went on to preside over a period of massive military spending at the height of the Cold War. He resigned as defence secretary in 1987 amid claims he had been involved in selling arms to Iran to fund pro-U.S. rebels in Nicaragua, but was pardoned by President George Bush Snr in 1992, weeks before he was to have stood trial over his alleged role in what became known as the Iran-Contra affair