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- The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to reinforce MONUC, the largest peacekeeping force in the world, stationed in Nord-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- The first successful tracheal transplantation using a tissue-engineered organ created from the patient's own stem cells is performed in Spain.
- New Zealand and Australian researchers identify a new species of penguin, the Waitaha penguin, which lived in New Zealand until its extinction 500 years ago.
- Somali pirates capture the oil tanker MV Sirius Star (pictured), the largest vessel to date to be hijacked, off the coast of the Horn of Africa.
- G-20 leaders meet at a summit in Washington, D.C. to discuss the current financial crisis.
- Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully lands the Moon Impact Probe on the lunar south pole.
- Saudi Arabia's Royal Navy joins NATO's mission in combating piracy in Somalia. (Bloomberg)
- The New Zealand national rugby league team defeats Australia's team 34 to 20 in the final of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. (IHT)
- Children in the Northern Hemisphere born in the autumn months have the highest rates of asthma, probably caused by winter viruses like RSV. (U.S. News & World Report) (AJRCCM study)
- Zimbabwe refuses to grant visas for Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter, who were traveling to the country on a humanitarian mission. (VOA News)
- The annual APEC summit opens in Lima, Peru amid an ongoing economic crisis that is expected to lead discussions. (Reuters)
- Second grenade attack in Thailand injures eight
- Somali pirates now hold 134 Filipino seafarers hostage
- US Nazi leader talks about Barack Obama, the economy and more
- Global and Russian financial crises:
- Construction of several skyscraper buildings in Russia ( Norman Foster's Russia Tower, Gazprom's Okhta Center) is cancelled due to lack of credit available during the financial crisis. (The Guardian)
- The 2010 Winter Olympics may be "facing challenges" as several corporate sponsors may stop financing the Olympics due to the crisis. The Russian government announces it will review spending on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying it had "set a target of saving some money". International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge says there is "no issue" of financing for the coming three Games: the 2010 Olympics, the 2012 Summer Games in London, and the 2014 Winter Games; however, the organizers may need to "hold down the size" of the Games to cope with the global financial downturn. (The Globe and Mail) (The Guardian) (The Times)
- Toyota cuts its Japanese temporary workforce by 50 percent from 6,000 to 3,000 due to falling automobile sales. (Bloomberg)
- Burmese comedian Zarganar is sentenced to 45 years in prison for organising relief for victims of Cyclone Nargis. (AFP via Google News)
- Confirmation of Neil Barofsky as special inspector general of the Troubled Assets Relief Program is delayed by an unnamed Republican United States Senator. (The Deal)
- According to unofficial sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton has agreed the serve as the next U.S. Secretary of State and Timothy F. Geithner as the next Secretary of the Treasury under the presidency of Barack Obama. (The New York Times)
- The U.S. National Intelligence Council predicts a major decline in U.S. economic, military, and political dominance over the next two decades (BBC News)
- Malaysia bans the practice of yoga by Muslims. (BBC News)
- Gas prices in the U.S. fall below $2 a gallon
- NY Times says Hillary Clinton accepts US Secretary of State position
- Two veteran actors to depart beleaguered soap 'Days of our Lives'
- Thaksin's ex-wife appeals tax evasion conviction
- Harvard Law School gives its highest honour to Pakistani judge
- United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. (Politico)
- The Swedish Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon. (Dagens Nyheter)
- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers evidence of enormous underground deposits of water ice on Mars; one such deposit, under Hellas Planitia, is estimated to be the size of Los Angeles. (AFP via Breitbart)
- Global financial crisis of 2008:
- Automotive industry crisis: Executives of the top three U.S. automakers ( Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler) testify before Congress for a bailout package. (AP via Google)
- French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën announces plans to cut 2,700 jobs due to falling demand in Europe. (BBC News)
- At least one person is dead and twenty injured after a bomb is thrown into a People's Alliance for Democracy protest compound in Bangkok, Thailand. (ABC)
- Piracy in Somalia:
- The Russian Navy announces that it will deploy more warships in the Gulf of Aden to curb piracy. (AFP via Google)
- The Indian Navy receives permission from the Somali government to enter its territorial waters in pursuit of pirates. (CNN-IBN)
- Five Guantánamo Bay detainees who successfully argued Boumediene v. Bush before the Supreme Court are ordered freed by Judge Richard J. Leon of the District Court for Washington, D.C. (The New York Times)
- UN to deploy over 3000 more troops to Congo
- Negotiations for hijacked Saudi oil tanker begin
- Grenade attack on Thai protesters kills one, injures at least 20
- NTSB continues investigation of near-collision in Pennsylvania, United States
- Los Angeles wildfires are nearly contained
- The International Monetary Fund approves a US$2.1 billion rescue package for Iceland following its financial crisis. (The Wall Street Journal)
- The Supreme Court of California agrees to hear a challenge to Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state (Los Angeles Times)
- The Supreme Court of Nepal approves foreign same-sex marriage for Nepalese citizens. (Hindustan Times)
- Amnesty International's report on the 2008 South Ossetia war highlights Georgia's role as aggressor and notes evidence of "notoriously inaccurate" Georgian artillery fire resulting in "scores" of civilian deaths in South Ossetia, of aimed artillery fire at Russian peacekeepers base, and of Russian failure to provide defense to civilians during the conflict. (Amnesty International)
- Piracy in Somalia:
- The Indian Navy frigate INS Tabar destroys a pirate ship and forces the abandonment of another pirate vessel off the coast of Somalia. (BBC News)
- The MV Delight, a Hong Kong cargo ship carrying 36,000 tons of wheat and 25 crew members is hijacked near Yemen's coast in the Gulf of Aden. (CNN)
- A Thai fishing ship with 16 crew members is hijacked off the coast of the Horn of Africa. (AsiaOne)
- New Zealand and Australian researchers identify a new species of penguin, the Waitaha penguin (Megadyptes waitaha), which lived in New Zealand until its extinction 500 years ago. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- John Key is officially sworn in as the Prime Minister of New Zealand by Governor-General Anand Satyanand. (AFP via Google News)
- The first successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ is performed in Spain. (BBC News)
- NASA successfully tests the first deep-space communications protocol to pave the way for Interplanetary Internet. (MSNBC)
- UK football club criticized by council for attempting to trademark city's bird
- Thaksin to return to Thai politics
- Senator Ted Stevens loses re-election bid in Alaska ballot
- CERN says repairs to LHC particle accelerator to cost US$21 million
- Democrat Mark Begich defeats Republican incumbent Ted Stevens in Alaska's highly contested Senate race. Begich will be the first Democratic senator representing the state in twenty-eight years. (AP via MSNBC)
- Togiola Tulafono is re-elected as Governor of American Samoa, easily defeating challenger Utu Abe Malae. (Pacific Magazine)
- Takehiko Yamaguchi, a former Japanese Vice Minister for Health, and his wife are found stabbed to death in Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo. (BBC News)
- Global financial crisis of 2008:
- Central European stocks drop to a three-week low on expectations of slowing economic growth. Poland forecasts economic growth to drop to 2.3% in 2009 from 5.4% in 2008 and the Warsaw Stock Exchange's WIG 20 index falls 3.5% in two hours. Bulgaria's Sofia Stock Exchange is at a five-year low. Both Bulgaria and Romania may need International Monetary Fund loans to repay US$100 billion of external debt. (Bloomberg)
- HSBC Holdings announces 500 layoffs in Hong Kong. (CNN-IBN)
- Pepsi announces 3,000 layoffs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. (CNN-IBN)
- 2008 Russian financial crisis: Trading remains will reamain suspended at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange for another two days or until the Federal Financial Markets Service instructs otherwise. (Forbes)
- 2008 Nord-Kivu fighting: War crimes are reported in the Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a ceasefire is broken and fighting resumes, leaving at least 100 civilians dead. ( INSI)
- Japan enters recession
- Pakistan wins Fortune Cup defeating West Indies by 3-0
- ETA chief arrested in southern France
- Wikinews Shorts: November 18, 2008
- Global financial crisis of 2008:
- Citigroup will cut 75,000 jobs by early 2009. (BBC News)
- The Japanese economy posts consecutive second-quarter contraction for the first time since 2001, officially putting the country in a recession. (CNN-IBN)
- On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures contracts fall by 3.7% to close at $US54.95 per barrel, the lowest price in 22 months. (MarketWatch)
- 2008 Russian financial crisis: The Russian Trading System stock exchange is suspended after its nine indices fall by more than 5%. (Forbes)
- The MV Sirius Star, a Saudi-owned oil tanker, is captured off the coast of Somalia by pirates. This is the largest vessel to date to be hijacked by Somali pirates. (BBC News)
Current events of November 16, 2008 (2008-11-16) (Sunday) edit history watch
- Jimmie Johnson wins NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the second driver to win three in a row. (The New York Times)
- A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, kills two; a tsunami warning is issued, but later lifted. (CNN)
- United States President- elect Barack Obama resigns his Senate seat. (The Washington Post)
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