Portal:Current events/2009 December 8
December 8, 2009 (Tuesday)
- Japan unveils a new ¥7.2 trillion (US$80.6 billion) stimulus package to strengthen the country's economy amid signs it is weakening. (BBC) (Japan Times) (Press TV)
- Anti-government protests in Iran continue at universities for a second day, with over 200 arrests. (Press TV) (UPI) (Lebanon Daily Star)
- Gunmen in Honduras shoot dead the head of the country's anti-drug trafficking unit, Julian Aristides Gonzalez. (Latin American Herald Tribune) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- For the second time in as many years, CBS cancels a United States-produced soap opera, this time As the World Turns after 54 years, in effect putting Procter & Gamble, the creators of said genre, out of that business. (Bloomberg News)
- President of Serbia Boris Tadić, his sports minister and ФСС/FSS chief Tomislav Karadzic are punished for breaking FIFA's strict no-alcohol policy at the Stadion Crvena Zvezda on 10 October. (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- The ruling junta in Guinea announces it has arrested 60 people so far for attempting to kill leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. (BBC) (African Press Agency)[permanent dead link]
- Eight children are killed and a further 26 injured in a stampede at a school in Xiangtan, Hunan, in central China. (China Daily) (The Times) (Indian Express)
- A series of earthquakes and aftershocks kill a 1 year old child and injure several other people in northern Malawi. (Reuters) (BBC)
- A Cambodian court sentences a Thai man on charges of spying for Thailand to 7 years imprisonment. (Thai News Agency) (Financial Times)
- Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spacecraft, is officially unveiled in the Mojave Desert, California. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Bombings in Iraq kill over 100 people. (Wall Street Journal) (Al Jazeera)
- Burmese authorities burn US$93 million worth of seized narcotic drugs at a ceremony in eastern Shan State. (Xinhua) (Times of India)