Portal:Current events/2008 May 14
May 14, 2008 (Wednesday)
- The discovery of G1.9+0.3, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way Galaxy, is announced. (NASA)
- Food prices center stage at EU-Latin America summit. (Reuters)
- Democrat Marc Dann resigns as the Ohio Attorney General following a sexual harassment scandal involving several of his aides and an admitted affair with a subordinate. (Akron Beacon Journal)
- 2008 United States presidential election: John Edwards, a former contender to be the Democratic Party nominee, endorses the bid of Barack Obama. (BBC News)
- The United States Department of the Interior declares that the polar bear is a threatened species due to declining levels of Arctic Ocean ice as a result of global warming. (AP via The New York Times)
- A suicide bomber kills at least 22 people and injures 40 in an attack on a funeral in a village west of Baghdad. (AP via Yahoo! News) (BBC News)
- Israel
- The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert warns Hamas that Israel will "not tolerate" attacks. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- The President of the United States George W. Bush starts a trip to the Middle East where he will celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. (BBC News)
- A Katyusha rocket fired at the Israeli city of Ashqelon struck a clinic in the third floor of the Huzot shopping mall. This attack resulted in three people seriously injured, two moderately injured and eleven people suffered minor wounds. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claims responsibility. (Haaretz)
- NATO raises concerns about an increase in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan and raises concern that it is partly due to agreements between Pakistan and militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. (Reuters)
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake
- Xinhua reports that the confirmed death toll from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake has reached nearly 15,000. Nearly sixty thousand people remain missing near the epicentre of the earthquake. (The Telegraph) (AP via Google News)
- Xinhua reports that 2,000 People's Liberation Army troops have been sent to repair "extremely dangerous cracks" in the Zipingku Dam, upriver from Dujiangyan City in Sichuan province. (AP via Google News)
- Cyclone Nargis
- The United Nations is warning that another cyclone could be forming near Myanmar which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis. (AP via Fox News)
- Thailand claims that the State Peace and Development Council will allow 30 Thai doctors to visit the Irrawaddy River Delta region worst hit by the cyclone. (AFP via The Times of South Africa)[permanent dead link] (AP via Yahoo! News)
- The Prime Minister of Thailand Samak Sundaravej fails to convince the State Peace and Development Council to open up for international relief efforts and allow foreign aid workers into the country. (Reuters)
- A car bomb explodes in a civil guards barracks in the town of Legutiano in the Basque Country of Spain killing at least one person and injuring several others. (AFP via Google News)
- In football, Zenit St Petersburg of Russia win the 2008 UEFA Cup after defeating Scottish side Rangers 2–0 in the final. (BBC News)