On This Day: April 24th

A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.

Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.

An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.