January 25, 2010 (Monday)
- Live Nation and Ticketmaster complete their merger, following an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to divest some interests. (Reuters)
- Police in the Venezuelan capital Caracas disperse an opposition student protest over the closure of several television stations. Meanwhile, Vice President Ramón Carrizales resigns. (AFP) (El Universal)[permanent dead link]
- Houthi fighters in northern Yemen offer to leave Saudi Arabia after three months of fighting on the border. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Press TV)
- Representatives of the Dalai Lama head to Beijing for the first discussions with Chinese authorities in 15 months. (The Hindu) (AFP) (The Guardian)
- Voters in Saint Kitts and Nevis go to the polls in the 2010 general election. (Washington Post)
- New traces of melamine in milk products are discovered in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill from a previous incident. (China Daily) (BBC)
- The European Union agrees to send a team to train up to 2,000 Somali troops to help fight insurgents in the country, as intense gun battles take place in the capital Mogadishu. (Reuters South Africa) (UPI)
- Environment ministers from the G4 bloc (IBSA Dialogue Forum & China) meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks, such as the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP-16") at Cancún, Mexico, to be held from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010 [1]. (AFP) (The Daily Star)
- Dutch football club HFC Haarlem, national champion in 1946, is declared bankrupt, becoming the first Dutch professional club to be disestablished since FC Wageningen and VCV Zeeland in 1992. (Telegraaf)
- Iraq:
- Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", is executed. (BBC News)
- Three car bomb explosions in central Baghdad kill 36 people. (BBC)
- Burma's Home Minister General Maung Oo says Aung San Suu Kyi will be released by November this year. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- The United States will reportedly "reconsider" Algeria's placement on its terror watch list, which requires Algerian citizens to undergo extra security screening. (Xinhua)
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, with 85 passengers on board, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Beirut Airport, Lebanon. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- A Qantas terminal at an airport in Perth, Western Australia, is evacuated after police locate a "suspicious item". (The Age)
- An inquest into the deaths of five Afghan asylum seekers opens in Australia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A record-breaking half a million Australians take extra time off work "sick" as Australia Day approaches. (The Age)
- A senior Chinese Internet official says his country is now the largest victim of cyber attacks in the world. (China Daily)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at Downing Street to discuss the devolution deadlock in Northern Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the opening of an exhibition of Auschwitz concentration camp blueprints in Yad Vashem. (The Washington Post)
- Gordon Park, convicted murderer in the Lady in the Lake trial, is found hanged in his prison cell in Garth prison, Lancashire, England, in an apparent suicide. (BBC)