Feb. 1: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assumes sweeping new powers for 18 months.

Feb. 3: A suicide bomber kills 135 people and wounds over 300 by driving an explosives-laden truck into a busy market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Feb. 4: U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams sets a new record in space walking of 22 hours and 27 minutes.

Feb. 5: Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo is sentenced to three years in jail over a slush fund scandal.

Indian American corporate leader Indra Nooyi is elected Pepsico Chairperson.

Feb. 6: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi an accused in the Bofors payoffs case is detained in Iguazu, Argentina.

Feb. 8: The Hamas and Fatah representatives reach a power-sharing accord on Palestinian regime at Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Feb. 11: Turkmens cast votes in presidential polls.

Feb. 12: Iraq’s criminal court upholds the death penalty against former Vice-President, Taha Yassin Ramadan, for genocide.

Feb. 13: North Korea agrees to dismantle nuclear programme in exchange for energy aid at the end of the six-party talks in Beijing.

Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedou is sworn in Turkmenistan President.

Feb. 15: The Hamas-led Palestinian Government resigns.

Feb. 16: A former rebel fighter Ramzan Kadyrov takes over as Chechnya President.

Feb. 23: Ottavio Quattrocchi gets bail from the Missiones appellate court.

Feb. 25: Martin Scorsese wins the best director’s prize at the Oscars for his film “The Departed”. Forest Whitaker gets best actor award for “The Last King of Scotland”. Helen Mirren bags best actress award for “The Queen” at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California.

Feb. 26: The International Court of Justice, The Hague clears Serbia of genocide during the brutal 1992-95 war in Bosnia.

The Nepali Government decides to nationalise royal property.

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