Portal:Current events/2008 July 1
July 1, 2008 (Tuesday)
- At least 38 people die as a motorised ferry sinks in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta. (CNN)
- Police in Portugal announce that they are closing the investigation on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. (NineMsn news)
- Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol break world records for the 100 metres backstroke at the United States Olympic trials. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- A jury orders pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis to pay $114 million in compensation to the Government of Alabama for overcharging for Medicaid prescription drugs. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- Starbucks announces that it will close 600 underperforming coffee shops in the United States. (AP via CNN Money)[permanent dead link]
- A man stabs five people to death in a Shanghai police station. (AP via Google News)
- A four-day state of emergency is declared in Mongolia after violent protests following the legislative elections. (BBC News)
- Thousands of citizens battle local government officials in a major riot in Guizhou in China over a police cover-up dealing with the death of a local girl. (Straitstimes)