Portal:Current events/2008 November 10
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November 10, 2008 (Monday)
- Reports surface that a United States nuclear weapon was lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base, Greenland. (BBC News)
- Ryanair Flight 4102 is forced to make an emergency landing at Rome's Ciampino Airport after several birds were sucked into its engines as it prepared to land. (BBC News)
- Global financial crisis of 2008:
- The United States government announces a second bailout of American International Group; the total value of the new plan, roughly US$150 billion, represents the largest government support package extended to a private company in US history.(MarketWatch)
- American retail chain Circuit City files for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. (MarketWatch)
- Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority announces that it is revoking the banking licence of the struggling Carnegie Investment Bank. (Reuters)
- Stocks gain worldwide after China announces a stimulus package involving US$586 billion to finance programs in 10 major domestic areas in the next two years. (CNN)
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeats a comment that United States President-elect Barack Obama is "young, handsome and also tanned," refusing to apologize for remarks he insisted are "flattering". (The Moscow Times)
- India wins the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by defeating Australia 2-0 in the five-Test-match cricket series. (CricketNext.in)
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on Richter scale shakes western China's Qinghai province. (CNN)