Portal:Current events/2007 September 24
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September 24, 2007 (Monday)
- The India national cricket team wins the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 beating arch rival Pakistan by 5 runs. (Rediff.com)
- Menachem Mazuz, the Attorney General of Israel, orders a criminal investigation into the purchase of a house by the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert. (Reuters)
- The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University stating that Americans should look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001 attacks, defending his right to denial of the Holocaust, and denying the existence of gay Iranians. (CNN)
- The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon called for a new commitment by world leaders on climate change at a special United Nations session to discuss climate change. (Bloomberg)
- Members of the United Automobile Workers Union walk off their jobs at General Motors plants across the United States as union and company officials fail to reach agreement on a new contract. (NYT)
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Brazil's record on global climate change when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly this week. (Reuters)
- Brazil's stock market rises to a record 58,393.75 points and the country's currency, the real, gains 0.11 percent to 1.867 per U.S. dollar. (Reuters)
- Former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, arrives in Washington beginning her last visit to United States before ending her self-exile.
- Several tornadoes affect parts of Great Britain, causing severe damage. (Sky News)
- Eyewitnesses say the number of people demonstrating in Rangoon was as high as 100,000 as the biggest Burmese anti-government protest in twenty years continues. (BBC)