Portal:Current events/2007 October 6
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October 6, 2007 (Saturday)
- A collision between a train and a bus kills at least 28 people and injures over 70 in Cuba's eastern Granma province. (CNN via AP)
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown rules out calling an early election. (AP via CNN)
- Danish police arrest more than 400 people in protests in Copenhagen over the closure of the Ungdomshuset youth centre earlier in the year. (BBC)
- 2007 Pacific typhoon season:
- Typhoon Krosa hits Taiwan, killing at least four people and injuring 40 more. (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
- Typhoon Krosa later heads for the People's Republic of China, where 730,000 people are evacuated from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. (VOA)
- War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomb attack on a United States convoy in Kabul kills a U.S. soldier and five civilians. (Reuters) (BBC)
- Pervez Musharraf wins the Pakistani Presidential Election in unofficial results. The announcement of the official result will be withheld until a Supreme Court verdict is made on the legality of his candidacy. (BBC)
- Adventurer Jason Lewis of Expedition 360 completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. (BBC)
- Quentin L. Cook is called as an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 177th Semi-Annual General Conference. (Deseret News)
- Christopher John Worden, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable from Hay River, Northwest Territories, is shot and killed by an unknown assailant. (CBC News)(CTV News)