Portal:Current events/2008 October 31
October 31, 2008 (Friday)
- Libya pays US$1.5 billion in compensation for past terrorist attacks to the United States, clearing the way for normal diplomatic ties between the two countries. (AFP via ABC)
- Seven people are killed in Tibet's worst snowstorm in recorded history. (Xinhua).
- A new study by the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit shows that the warming of Earth's polar regions is caused by humans. (CNN)
- The third pipeline bombing in the month of October targets an EnCana-operated gas pipeline near the town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia in Canada. (CBC)