Portal:Current events/2008 December 31
December 31, 2008 (Wednesday)
- Several bombs and further threats by a disgruntled resident lead police to evacuate downtown Aspen, Colorado, United States. (New York Times)
- Israel rejects a proposed stoppage of Operation Cast Lead that would also have ceased rocket attacks from Hamas so humanitarian aid could be delivered to affected areas in the Gaza Strip. (Bloomberg)
- A car bomb explodes in Bilbao, Spain, and is blamed on Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque nationalist and separatist organisation. (CNN)
- One of the world's biggest accumulations of dinosaur fossils is found near Zhucheng, China. (Reuters) (BBC)