Portal:Current events/2007 September 9
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September 9, 2007 (Sunday)
- The Lancet publishes a placebo controlled double blind study linking food additives to hyperactivity. (Science Daily)
- Kevin Everett of the National Football League's Buffalo Bills suffers a life-threatening spinal cord injury in a game against the Denver Broncos. The surgeon who operated on him says Monday Everett is unlikely to walk again, assuming he survives. ((CBS News))
- A lorry carrying dynamite crashes and explodes near Sacramento in the Mexican state of Coahuila; scores of people are injured and 37 are killed, including three local reporters covering the story. (BBC)
- South African police arrest Helen Zille, the leader of the Democratic Party and Mayor of Cape Town, while she was taking part in an anti-drug protest at the Cape Flats slum area. (Mail & Guardian)
- An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hits near the north coast of Colombia. (Reuters Alertnet)
- Israeli police arrest eight men originally from the former Soviet Union accused of forming a neo-Nazi cell. (Scotsman)
- 2007 U.S. Open: Roger Federer of Switzerland defeats Novak Djokovic in the final of the men's singles in straight sets 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4. (Bloomberg)
- Five thousand Algerians protest in Algiers after two recent suicide bomb attacks. (Reuters)
- Voters in Guatemala go to the polls in the Guatemalan general election, 2007. (AFP)
- Jamaican Asafa Powell set a new men's world 100 meters record of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix at Rieti, Italy. (CNN)
- At least 15 dead and many injured when a flyover under construction at Panjagutta junction, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India collapsed. Wikinews
- The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is forced to cut short a speech in Kabul after gunfire is heard outside. (Reuters)
- A landslide in West Bengal, India kills seven people; over 500 houses buried or damaged.
- Pakistan
- Pakistan's airports are placed on the highest alert due to concerns over an imminent terrorist threat. (BBC)
- Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif boards a Pakistan International Airlines flight from London to Islamabad with his return likely to provoke a confrontation with the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. (ABC News Australia)
- Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N) claims that 2,000 of its members have been arrested prior to his return. (BBC)
- Tropical Storm Gabrielle makes landfall near the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, United States, and hooks over Cape Hatteras before returning to the Atlantic as a tropical depression, bringing much-needed rain to coastal North Carolina as well as some beach erosion. (CNN)
- APEC Australia 2007:
- The APEC summit draws to a close with most leaders preparing to leave and the President of the United States George W. Bush having left. (ABC News Australia)
- The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard meets with the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe to discuss security and climate change. (Times of India)