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Soyuz TMA-12 is launched towards the International Space Station, carrying Yi So-yeon, the first Korean in space.
The Olympic torch relay is delayed and flame extinguished by security officials as disruption from protestors continues in Paris.
At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance.
Jules Verne (pictured), the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station.
Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus.
The Movement for Democratic Change secures a plurality of seats in the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, defeating incumbent President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. Results in the presidential election remain unclear.

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April 8, 2008 (Tuesday)

The first Korean astronaut, Yi So-yeon and two Russian Expedition 17 cosmonauts are launched towards the International Space Station on board Soyuz TMA-12. (Spaceflightnow.com)
Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General Tendai Biti calls for international intervention to thwart violence in the wake of the Zimbabwean presidential election. (BBC)

April 7, 2008 (Monday)

The European Commission approves the use of mobile phones on European flights. (Gaulia.com)
The Kansas Jayhawks defeat the Memphis Tigers in overtime, 75-68, to win the 2008 U.S. Division I men's college basketball championship. (AP via Yahoo)
The Washington Post wins six Pulitzer Prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles of poor conditions for veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. (The Washington Post)
2008 Summer Olympics
- U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton calls on President George W. Bush to boycott the opening ceremony at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. (ABC News)
- The head of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge says he's "very concerned" about unrest in Tibet and other issues associated with the Summer Olympics. (AP via Denver Post)
China and New Zealand sign a free trade agreement. This is China's first trade agreement with a developed nation. (New Zealand Herald)

April 6, 2008 (Sunday)

Mark Penn resigns as chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign. This comes in the wake of revelations that he performed lobbying work for the Colombian government, regarding a free trade pact that Senator Clinton opposes. (NPR)
One man grabs the Olympic torch before police wrestle him to the ground as thousands of anti-China protesters disrupt the Olympic torch relay through London. (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC News)
War in Iraq:
- Gunmen kidnap 42 university students near the Iraqi city of Mosul. They are later released unharmed. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Twenty people are killed and 50 injured in overnight clashes in Sadr City in Baghdad. (AP via Yahoo! News) (CNN)
- A rocket attack on the Green Zone in Baghdad results in the death of two United States Army soldiers and 17 injuries. (AP via Google News)
President of the United States George W. Bush and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold their final talks in their current positions. (AP via Google News)
At least ten people including Government minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle are killed in an explosion near Colombo, Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
Vandals desecrate 148 Muslim graves in France's biggest WWI cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette outside Arras in northern France. (Reuters)

April 5, 2008 (Saturday)

A bus carrying high school band students tips over on Interstate 94 northwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, killing one person and critically wounding three others. (CNN)
183 women and children are rescued from the YFZ Ranch compound linked to polygamist Warren Jeffs. (Reuters)
Comply or Die ridden by Timmy Murphy, wins the 2008 Grand National at Aintree by four lengths. (Sky News)

April 4, 2008 (Friday)

Former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army during the 1998–99 war Ramush Haradinaj is acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
United States airline Skybus announces that it will be shutting down Saturday and cancels all flights. (Columbus Dispatch)
The United States Department of State renews the contract of Blackwater Worldwide to provide security in Iraq despite a number of ongoing investigations. (ABC News)
A suicide bomb attack kills three policemen and a civilian in southern Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
The luxury yacht Le Ponant is seized by pirates off the Somalian coast. (BBC)

April 3, 2008 (Thursday)

An Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes upon landing in Benzdorp, Suriname. All nineteen on board are presumed dead. (BBC News)
Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008:
- Police in riot gear surround a hotel in Harare housing foreign journalists. New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, Daily Telegraph correspondent Stephen Bevan, and two others are arrested. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti reports that police have begun raiding opposition party offices in an apparent "crackdown". (AP via MSNBC)
Bagatur is named the acting Chairman of Inner Mongolia, succeeding Yang Jing, who is the new minister in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.(Xinhua)
Jules Verne, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station. (ESA)
In a procedural decision, the European Court of Justice overturns the addition of the Kurdish rebel organization PKK to the EU's terrorist blacklist. (BBC News)
Serbian Minister on Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić submits to UNMIK a plan suggesting Kosovo's division into cantons along ethnic lines. (Tanjug via Portalino)
Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia that has come to symbolize the island's ethnic partition. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 people and wounding 12. (AP via Google News)
At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance. (Washington Post)

April 2, 2008 (Wednesday)

Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman becomes the first Labour woman ever to answer Prime Minister's Questions. (The Scotsman)
A cross human-cow embryo survives a third straight day after being fertilized at Newcastle University, England. A director for embryonic stem cell laboratories at the Australian Stem Cell Centre said that the "99 per cent human" embryo could improve research within the field of human diseases. The Catholic Church in England however said that the creation was "monstrous" and says that the later destruction of it is unethical. (News.com.au)
The United States House of Representatives votes to provide $50 billion over five years to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa and other third world areas. (AP via Google News)
Suspended Serb prison workers from Lipljan, Kosovo, claim that Serbia has not paid them money promised for leaving the Kosovo institutions. (B-92)
Talks begin in Priština on demarcation of the border between Macedonia and Kosovo. (B-92)
Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announces he will resign on 6 May after 11 years of rule. (RTÉ)
A strong cold front sweeps across south-eastern Australia, bringing destructive winds to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. In Melbourne, a woman died when part of a wall collapsed in the suburb of Mentone. (ABC News Australia)
The European Union announces an investigation into the bailout of the Northern Rock bank in the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
The President of the United States George W. Bush supports the bids by Georgia and Ukraine to become members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Cuban citizens now have access to what were formerly "tourist-only" hotels and cellphones. (Wall Street Journal)
Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change defeats Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF in the Zimbabean parliamentary elections. (Bloomberg)

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