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  January * 1 - Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the seventeenth Eurozone country. * 9-15 - Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July. * 11 - Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903. * 14 - Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power. * 24 - 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia. February * 11 - Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held. * 22 - March 14 - Uncertainty ...

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  PARIS: From Elizabeth Taylor to Osama bin Laden, here are leading figures who have died in the year just ending: January - 4: Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, shot at age 66. - 24: Mexican Bishop Samuel Ruiz, who fought for the rights of indigeneous people. At age 87 in Mexico City. - 30: British composer John Barry, who wrote the music for a string of James Bond films, at age 77 in New York. February - 3: Maria Schneider, French actress who played in the 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris". At age 58 in Paris. - 5: John Paul Getty III, grandson of an American oil billionaire, at age 54 in Britain. As a teenager, he had been held hostage by Italian criminals who cut off one of his ears. - 27: Frank Buckles, last surviving US veteran of World War I, at age 110 at his home in West Virginia. - 28: US actress Jane Russell, co-star ...