Portal:Current events/2008 September 27
September 27, 2008 (Saturday)
- A bomb blast in Delhi, India kills 2 and injures 23. (TOI)
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Kyle strengthens into Hurricane Kyle with predictions that it will make landfall in the New England region of the United States or Canada's Maritime Provinces on Sunday. (Reuters)
- The United States Senate passes a large spending bill including $25 billion in taxpayer subsidised loans for automakers and the end of offshore drilling bans. (AP via Google News)
- The People's Council of Turkmenistan, implementing changes approved in the Constitution, passes a vote to abolish itself and allow opposition parties. (BBC News)
- During mission Shenzhou 7, Zhai Zhigang successfully performs the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut, as China becomes the third country to carry out extra-vehicular activity independently. (CNN)
- In Australian football, the Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Geelong Football Club in the 2008 AFL Grand Final by 115 points to 89. (ABC News Australia)
- 2008 Damascus car bomb: A suspected car bomb targeting a military installation in Damascus, Syria kills at least 17 and injures 14 others. (BBC News)
- A 12.9 million digit Mersenne prime is discovered. (AP via Los Angeles Times)[permanent dead link]
- Government officials announce plans to nationalise British bank Bradford & Bingley in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis. (BBC News)
- United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1835 on Iran, calling for compliance with previous resolutions, with no further sanctions. (BBC News)