Current events of 29 January 2007 (2007-01-29) (Monday) edit history watch

With the first launch events in Auckland, New Zealand, at 1101 UTC (12:01am NZDT, January 30), the global launch of Microsoft Windows Vista commences. (Fox News) (New Zealand Herald) Japan’s oldest person, Yone Minagawa, 114, has become the world’s oldest living person. (Weird Asia News) Azim Isabekov becomes Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, replacing Felix Kulov. (Kyiv Post) War in Somalia (ICU insurgency): At least two people have been killed, including a Somali police officer, during an hour-long gunbattle in the capital, Mogadishu. (BBC) Three civilians are killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. (BBC)