Portal:Current events/2008 September 5
September 5, 2008 (Friday)
- Five hundred people have died in the Haitian town of Gonaïves as a result of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Hanna. (Reuters via News Limited)
- According to several news reports, the US government plans to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a takeover plan. (MSNBC)
- Estimates of sea-level rise due to global warming are scaled back. (Reuters)
- Condoleezza Rice becomes the first United States Secretary of State to visit Libya since 1953. (AP via the New York Daily News)
- Pakistan reinstates Supreme Court judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf. (CNN)
- The unemployment rate in the United States rises to its highest level since December 2003 after the US economy loses 84,000 jobs in August 2008. (BBC News)
- La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider, starts to roam the streets of Liverpool, England, as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations. (BBC News)
- The European Union's Rosetta spacecraft performs a flyby of the asteroid 2867 Šteins. (AFP)
- Australia:
- Quentin Bryce is sworn in as the first female Governor-General of Australia. (AAP via The Melbourne Age)
- Morris Iemma resigns as Premier of New South Wales following a loss of support in the Australian Labor Party caucus, and is replaced by Nathan Rees. (Sydney Morning Herald)