Portal:Current events/2008 December 29
December 29, 2008 (Monday)
- President of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed resigns. Parliamentary Speaker Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe will take over for 30 days, in which time the legislature will select a new head of state. (BBC)
- Bangladeshis vote in their country's general election. (BBC)
- Liverpool F.C. player Steven Gerrard is arrested following an altercation at a Southport nightclub and subsequently charged with Section 20 grievous bodily harm. (BBC)
- An Ebola outbreak in West Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo kills 11 people. (BBC)