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Portal:Current events/2015 February 22

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;Armed conflict and attacks

;Arts and culture

;Disasters and accidents

  • A rescue operation is underway in Bangladesh as a ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler. The death toll has reached 41. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_BANGLADESH_FERRY_CAPSIZE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (AP)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/22/us-bangladesh-ferry-idUSKBN0LQ05R20150222?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews (Reuters)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/asia/bangladesh-ferry-accident/index.html (CNN)] [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/02/23/death-toll-rises-bangladesh-ferry-disaster (AAP via SBS)]
  • All 486 trapped by an underground fire at the Harmony Gold Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville, South Africa have been rescued. [http://m.news24.com/fin24/Companies/Mining/Fire-breaks-out-at-Harmony-Gold-mine-20150222 (News24)] [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/fire-at-south-africa-gold-mine-leaves-200-unaccounted-for/article23140549/ (Globe and Mail)]

;Law and crime

  • Six current and former Gold Coast Titans players are charged with supplying cocaine including Greg Bird, Dave Taylor, Beau Falloon, Jamie Dowling and Kalifa Faifai Loa with all players stood down for the coming Australian National Rugby League season. [http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/sport/nrl/bird-and-taylor-latest-titans-named-in-cocaine-investigation/story-fnj9yd9w-1227233169617 (Gold Coast Bulletin)] [http://www.sportsfan.com.au/titans-stand-down-stars-in-drugs-crisis/tabid/91/newsid/154543/default.aspx (AAP via Sportsfan)]
  • Thai police arrest at least three people for holding an unauthorised demonstration. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/bangkok-police-detain-at/1672856.html?cid=TWTCNA (Channel NewsAsia)]
  • Former President of the Maldives and current Opposition Leader Mohamed Nasheed is arrested. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150227012108/http://vnews.mv/37822 (V News)]

;Politics

  • Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind become embroiled in a "cash for access" scandal. The two deny any wrongdoing and refer themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Hudson. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/11411007/Jack-Straw-and-Sir-Malcolm-Rifkind-in-latest-cash-for-access-scandal.html (The Telegraph)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-31580374?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central (BBC)]
  • Hungary's ruling Fidesz Party loses its two-thirds supermajority in the National Assembly after a left-wing independent candidate wins a by-election in a district based on the city of Veszprem. [http://www.startribune.com/world/293478431.html (AP via Star Tribune)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Sports

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