Portal:Current events/2008 December 10
December 10, 2008 (Wednesday)
- Talks on North Korea's nuclear program stall in a dispute over verification. (BBC)
- Automotive industry crisis of 2008: The White House and U.S. Congress agree on a proposal for a US$15 billion bailout package for three major US automakers. (AFP)
- Global food price crisis: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that 963 million people are suffering from prolonged food deficiency around the world. (Bloomberg)
- The Rio Tinto Group announces plans to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide. (ABC News Online)
- The first democratic election takes place on the Channel Island of Sark, a British crown dependency. (BBC NEWS)
- After monitoring stellar orbits around Sagittarius A* (the supermassive black hole in center of the Milky Way) for 16 years, scientists estimate the object's mass at 4.31 million solar masses. (arΧiv.org) (MSNBC)
- Scientists say they have found evidence for water vapour and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 189733 b. (NY Times) (Nature)
- Former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari receives Nobel peace prize in Oslo.