Portal:Current events/2008 July 31
July 31, 2008 (Thursday)
- The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger acts to end a budget crisis by firing 22,000 California state workers and cutting the pay of 200,000 more. (BBC)
- NASA announces discovery of water on Mars. (AFP by Google News)
- A Raytheon Hawker 800 corporate jet crashes in Owatonna, Minnesota, resulting in at least eight deaths. (AP via Google News) (Wikinews Article)
- The Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick signs legislation allowing gay and lesbian couples from other states to get married in Massachusetts. (Boston Globe)
- Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb leader, announces that he will defend himself at his trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (BBC News)
- Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, will contest a by-election to return to parliament after his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail vacated her Permatang Pauh seat in Penang. (AFP via Google News)
- A Thai court sentences Pojaman Shinawatra, the wife of former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra, to jail for three years for tax evasion. (AP via CNN)