Portal:Current events/2008 September 1

September 1, 2008 (Monday)

U.S. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol is revealed to be five months pregnant. (BBC) (Telegraph.co.uk) (AP) (Al Jazeera) (Wall Street Journal)
The U.S. military hands control of Al Anbar Governorate over to the Iraqi government. (BBC)
An ACLU lawsuit challenges gag orders in National Security Letters. (AP via Google News)^{[permanent dead link]} (BBC)
2008 Atlantic hurricane season:
- Tropical Storm Hanna becomes Hurricane Hanna (2008) with hurricane warnings issued for the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos. (MSNBC)
- Tropical Storm Ike (2008) forms east of the Leeward Islands. (Miami Herald)^{[permanent dead link]}
- Hurricane Gustav weakens to a tropical storm in central Louisiana after being responsible for 7 deaths in the United States and more than 90 in the Caribbean. (UPI)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- The European Union suspends talks on a new partnership agreement with Moscow until Russian troops have withdrawn from Georgia. (BBC)
- Russia accuses the West of sending weapons to Georgia along with aid, while the European Union considers possible sanctions against Russia. (CNN)
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda abruptly resigns less than a year after taking office, triggering a leadership election. (BBC)
A Government of Orissa report states 558 houses and 17 places of worship were burnt in the 2008 Orissa violence. (Times of India)
Robert French is sworn in as the 12th Chief Justice of Australia. (ABC (Australia))
Manchester City Football Club is bought out by the Abu Dhabi United Group for Investment and Development Limited, the consortium led by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This effectively made City the richest Football Club in the world. It also made Transfer Deadline Day one of the most memorable, with City's new found wealth allowing them to bid for such players as Dimitar Berbatov, Fernando Torres, Mario Gomez and David Villa. They eventually signed Robinho for a British Record Fee of £32.5million. The takeover and the Robinho deal as a whole sent shockwaves throughout the Sporting world. (Independent)