Current events of 26 January 2007 (2007-01-26) (Friday) edit history watch

War in Somalia: Attackers fire four mortar shells at an Ethiopian military camp close to Mogadishu. (Aljazeera) Palestinian factional violence: More than 13 people are killed in clashes between rival factions Hamas and Fatah. (BBC) Scientists find connection between tobacco smoking addiction and the insula, a region of the brain's cerebral cortex linked to emotion. (Washington Times) UK retail giant Tesco opens its first own-brand supermarket branch in China, in the capital, Beijing. (BBC) An argument has erupted between Adam Air and the Indonesian government over who bears the cost of recovering the black box of the crashed plane Adam Air Flight 574. (Monstersandcritics.com)