Featured articles

• Malagasy cuisine ( nom), a distinctive and diverse food culture, reflects the island's unique history as a crossroads of the Indian ocean. ( Lemurbaby) picture at right
• Voalavo ( nom), a small group of Malagasy rodents discovered only in 1998 and an intriguing example of unique and long-unrecognised Malagasy diversity. This promotion completed a set of three articles that have been promoted to featured-topic status ( Ucucha) picture at right
• Tropical Storm Nicole (2010) ( nom), a short-lived and asymmetric storm that killed 13 people and caused extensive damage in Jamaica. (Nominated by Hylian Auree)
• Hurricane Eloise ( nom), which according to nominator Juliancolton is "one of the more significant cyclones I've written about on WP, and it's been a work-in-progress for a couple years".
• Canoe River train crash ( nom), a disaster in 1950 in eastern British Columbia in which two trains collided head-on killing 21 people, including 17 Canadian soldiers en route to the Korean War. The tragedy helped to make John Diefenbaker prime minister of Canada. ( Wehwalt)
• Theobald of Bec ( nom), c. 1090 – 1161) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161. He faced challenges to his authority from one of his bishops, and had a turbulent relationship with King Stephen, who forbade him to attend a papal council and was defied, resulting in the confiscation of his property and his temporary exile. ( Malleus Fatuorum and Ealdgyth) picture at top
• Harold Pinter ( nom), acclaimed as one of the most influential English-language playwrights of the post-war era; the award of a Nobel Prize in 2005 confirmed his status. Many of his most well-known plays were adapted to film, and among his screenplay adaptations of the work of other writers were The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and Sleuth (2007)( Jezhotwells)
• Over There (Fringe) ( nom), the two-part second-season 2010 finale of the Fox television science-fiction drama series Fringe. The premise of the series is based on the idea of two parallel universes, our own and the Other Side—each of which contains historical idiosyncrasies.( Ruby2010)

One article, Tooth development ( nom), was delisted (referencing, prose, MOS compliance, clean-up banners).

Featured lists

Four lists were promoted:

• List of songs in Rock Band 3 ( nom) (Nominated by Drilnoth.)
• Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year ( nom) ( Jaespinoza.)
• List of Tennessee Volunteers head football coaches ( nom) ( Patriarca12.)
• 1974 Asian Games medal table ( nom) ( Bill william compton.)

Featured topic

• Voalavo ( nom) was promoted, with two featured articles (one of them promoted just last week) and one good article. Voalavo is a genus of rodent found only in Madagascar, a large island off the south-east coast of Africa. They are small, grey, mouse-like rodents, among the smallest of their subfamily (nominator Ucucha). (picture at right)

Featured pictures

Three images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

• Spilosoma canescens caterpillar ( nom; related article), the larval form of the moth, found in Australia, busy eating a pumpkin leaf (created by User:99of9).
• Uranium reduction at Ames during the Manhattan Project ( nom; related article), a "bomb" ( pressure vessel) containing uranium halide and sacrificial metal, probably magnesium, being lowered into a furnace; remnant slag after the reaction, which coats the interior of a bomb (picture at right); and uranium biscuit, a uranium metal "biscuit" from the reduction reaction. The secret US project—with support from the UK and Canada—led to the creation of the atomic bomb (all three images created by an unknown US government photographer).
• Dilma Rousseff ( nom; related article), 36th and current president of Brazil (created by Roberto Stuckert Filho).