Portal:Current events/2007 October 5
October 5, 2007 (Friday)
- Two bomb blasts in Kidapawan City, on Mindanao in the Philippines, the explosion killed a child and injured 36 people. (Radio Australia)
- Topps Meat Company announces that it is going out of business as a result of recalling 21.7 million pounds of beef in the United States linked to 30 cases of E. coli-related illness. (Reuters)
- Canada stops the sale of Novartis anti-inflammatory drug Prexige and cancels its authorisation due to the risk of liver-related effects such as hepatitis. (Reuters via Wall Street Journal)
- 2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
- Burmese security forces claim that they are looking for four of the monks that led the protests. (AP via CNN)
- United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari briefs the Security Council on the situation in an open session. (CNN)
- Iraq War: United States forces kill at least 25 members of a Shiite militia in a firefight. (AP via Topix)
- Marion Jones admits using banned substances during her athletic career and risks being stripped of her five Olympic medals. (AFP via ABC News Online)
- Saudi Arabia announces that it will overhaul its judicial system including the creation of a supreme court, an appeals court and new general courts to replace the Supreme Judicial Council. (BBC)
- Elections for a Nepalese Constituent Assembly are delayed as the Seven Party Alliance of ruling parties and the former Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rebels fail to break a deadlock over the republic issue and the voting system to be used. (BBC)
- SELENE, Japan's lunar probe, successfully achieves an orbit around the moon. (AP via NYT)