Portal:Current events/2008 February 10
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February 10, 2008
(Sunday)
- The wooden portion of Namdaemun Gate in Seoul, South Korea is destroyed in a suspicious fire. (BBC News)
- Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008:
- Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Maine caucus. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Patti Solis Doyle resigns as campaign manager for New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Maggie Williams replaces her. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- A suicide car bomb at a market in Balad, Iraq kills 25. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates also arrives in Iraq from a Germany security conference to meet with Iraqi leaders, General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. (CNN)
- Association football: Egypt beats Cameroon 1-0 to win the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. (BBC News)
- Ten people are trampled to death at a rock concert in Bandung, Indonesia. (AFP)[permanent dead link ]
- Over five hundred people are evacuated from the North Sea oil rig Safe Scandinavia, 282 kilometres (175 mi) northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland after a hoax bomb scare. (RTÉ News)
- "Anonymous" protests the policies of the Church of Scientology at different locations around the world. (The Scotsman) (The Star) (Adelaid) (Indymedia) (The Guardian) (Newsweek)
- The 2008 (or 50th) Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, United States.