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The House of Representatives of Thailand selects Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democrat Party as the country's new Prime Minister.
Bernard L. Madoff is arrested by the FBI in the United States, and charged with defrauding investors in a US$50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Switzerland becomes the 25th European country to join the Schengen Agreement, whereby cross-border passport checks will be abolished.
The Channel Island of Sark, a British crown dependency, holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism.
Anti-police riots (pictured) break out in Athens and spread to several cities across Greece.
Ireland issues an international recall of its pork products following the discovery of contaminated pig feed.
Patriarch Alexy II, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, dies of heart failure in Peredelkino, Russia.

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December 16, 2008 (Tuesday)

Anthony Pellicano is sentenced to 15 years jail for an illegal wiretapping operation. (Los Angeles Times)
Mosiuoa Lekota launches a new political party, the Congress of the People, to contest the 2009 South African general election, officially creating a split in the dominant African National Congress that had ruled South Africa since 1994.(AFP)

December 16, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 15, 2008 (Monday)

The House of Representatives of Thailand selects Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democrat Party as the new Prime Minister. (New York Times) (BBC)
President of Romania Traian Băsescu nominates Emil Boc, President of the Democratic Liberal Party, as Prime Minister. (Xinhua) (BBC)

December 15, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 14, 2008 (Sunday)

At least 28 people are dead and 22 missing after the ferry "Maejan" capsizes in the northern Philippines. (AFP via News Limited)
A bus crash in Minya, Egypt, kills 57 people. (AP via Google)
Voters in Turkmenistan go to the polls for an early parliamentary election with only candidates from the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan and candidates from associated organisations standing for election. (Reuters)
LRA insurgency: Uganda, DR Congo and the government of South Sudan launch an operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Garamba region of DR Congo. (BBC)
Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a journalist with al-Baghdadia television network, is subdued after throwing both of his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush, while he was making his farewell speech in Iraq, accompanied by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. (CNN)

December 14, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 13, 2008 (Saturday)

Leaders from China, Japan and South Korea meet on the island of Kyushu to discuss a response to the financial crisis. (BBC)
Pakistan Air Force officers claim Indian fighter aircraft violated Pakistani airspace before being forced to turn back by Pakistani jets. (AP via The New York Times)

December 13, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 12, 2008 (Friday)

Four members of the Royal Marines are killed in two explosions in Afghanistan. (BBC)
2008 Russian financial crisis: Russian Deputy Economics Minister Andrei Klepach claims that Russia may face at least two quarters of economic decline in the future. (BBC News)
Global financial crisis of 2008: A proposed $14 billion bailout of U.S. automakers fails in the U.S. Senate, raising the specter of an industry collapse that sent Asian markets reeling and sparked fears it could deepen the recession. (New York Times) (MarketWatch)
Switzerland becomes the 25th European country to join the Schengen Agreement, whereby cross-border passport checks will be abolished. (BBC News)
The United Nations Security Council finds that Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are using child soldiers to fight a proxy war. (AP)

December 12, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 11, 2008 (Thursday)

An Iraqi suicide bomber kills 48 people and wounds almost 100 in a restaurant north of Kirkuk celebrating the end of Id al-Adha. (NYT)
Human remains discovered in a plastic bag in southeast Orlando, Florida, United States, are believed to be the remains of missing child Caylee Anthony. Confirmation is not expected for weeks. (Orlando Sentinel)
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Nobel-laureate physicist Steven Chu as United States Secretary of Energy. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Free Software Foundation filed a lawsuit against Cisco for using is GPL-licensed components on its Linksys but failed to fulfill the requirements of the General Public License (GPL). (Ars Technica)

December 11, 2008 Wikinews articles

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)

December 10, 2008 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Canadian political crisis Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence Global financial crisis Icelandic financial crisis Nord-Kivu campaign Piracy in Somalia Russian financial crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification World food price crisis

Recent deaths
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Elections
Recent November 16: Guinea-Bissau, Parliament 18: American Samoa, Gubernatorial runoff election 23: Venezuela, Regional 25: Greenland, Self-government referendum 30: Romania, Legislative Upcoming December 29: Bangladesh, General

Trials
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Upcoming holidays and observances
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