User:Tristessa de St Ange/News Brief script holding pen/News briefs:February 21, 2008

Introduction
[Opening music] This is Wikinews News Brief, summarising the current news on [Day] [Date] [Month] 2008 at [HH]:[MM] hours UTC. I’m Nicholas Turnbull.

Events of worldwide notability, military action, disasters etc.
Magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes Aceh

Malaysian general election 2008 update

Fidel Castro resigns as Cuban president

Non-disastrous local events with notable impact and dead celebrities
Sarkisian wins Armenian presidential elections

Space Shuttle Atlantis completes mission STS-122

British actress Emily Perry dies at 100

McCain, Obama win Wisconsin primary

Business, commerce and academia
Joop den Uyl biography reveals Northrop bribe of Prince Bernhard

Dutch financial institution ING takes impairment charge

Blu-ray prevails in high definition disc war

Arts and culture
2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition: Varied fiction books showed different authoring style

Sports
Dutch tennis player Raemon Sluiter ends his career in Rotterdam tournament National Hockey League news: February 20, 2008

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