Portal:Current events/2008 November 11

November 11, 2008 (Tuesday)

Peter Eastgate of Denmark wins the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, winning over US$9.1 million. (ESPN)
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 sets sail on her final voyage before she is refurbished and turned into a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (BBC News)
Germany announces new charges against John Demjanjuk in the deaths of 29,000 people at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust. (BBC News)
A Holocaust survivor group announces the abandonment of negotiations with the LDS Church over the latter's continued posthumous baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust. (CNN)
Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announces the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid belonging to Queen Sesheshet, mother of King Teti. (CNN)
Former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China is arrested while the anti-corruption prosecutors have asked a three-judge panel to formally detain the former President. (CNN)
The Indian Navy foils an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a merchant ship in Gulf of Aden. (The Indian Express)
Mohamed Nasheed is sworn in as the new President of the Maldives. (CNN)
2008 Russian financial crisis:
- Russian regulators halt trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares. (AP via Google News)^{[permanent dead link‍]}