Portal:Current events/2007 December 8
December 8, 2007 (Saturday)
- The United States Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launch a joint inquiry into the destruction of two CIA tapes of the interrogation of two suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. (AP via the Houston Chronicle)
- A second human case of H5N1 bird flu is confirmed in eastern China. (People's Daily)
- Gunmen attack a party office of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi, Pakistan, killing three supporters. (AP via Google News)
- The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.[citation needed]