Portal:Current events/2007 September 30

September 30, 2007 (Sunday)

General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who helped depose Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the 2006 Thai coup d'état, resigned as head of the Council for National Security. (BBC)
Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is selected Presidential Candidate for Other Russia in the 2008 presidentials. (AP)^{[permanent dead link]}
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007:
- Ukrainians went to the polls for the third time in three years to vote in parliamentary election. (AFP)
- According to data of National Exit Poll: Party of Regions 35.2%; Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 31.5%; Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc 13.4%; Communist Party of Ukraine 5.1%; Lytvyn's People's Bloc 3.7%; Socialist Party of Ukraine 2.5%. (ForUm)
The Topps Meat Company recalls 21,700,000 pounds (9,800 t) of frozen beef patties because of potential contamination with E. coli. Twenty-five cases of illness due to E. coli have been reported in the Northeastern United States. (NYT)
2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
- A central member of the military junta in Myanmar is reportedly interested in seeking political asylum in Norway. The colonel is said to have defected recently, and he is now hiding in the jungle among the Karen people. (The Norway Post)
- John R. Bolton, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, says the government of China is the key to political change in Myanmar, not United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari who has met the military junta. (Forbes)
Indian player Viswanathan Anand wins the World Chess Championship 2007 at Mexico City to become the new world champion. (NYT)
Lewis Hamilton wins the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix to take a 12 point lead in the 2007 Formula One season World Championship with 2 races remaining. (BBC)
With the help of the New York Mets completing one of the most improbable collapses in baseball history, leading the National League East division by 7 games with 17 games to play at one point, the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Washington Nationals to win the 2007 National League East title. (Yahoo! Sports)
U.S. college football: The new AP Poll results are released, with nine of the ten ranked teams that lost this past weekend either dropping further down the list or out of the poll completely. LSU rose to #1 for the first time since 1959, Kentucky and Boston College rise into the Top Ten for the first time since 1977 and 1992, respectively, and South Florida ascends into the Top Ten for the first time ever. (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
A dormant volcano erupts on Jabal al-Tair, a Yemeni island in the Red Sea. (BBC)