Wikinews:2008/October/9
< Wikinews:2008 | October
- Nobel Peace Prize misused says Norwegian lawyer and activist
- Markets down across the world; Dow Jones falls below 9,000
- UK motorway closed for several hours, heavily congested due to woman on bridge
- IMF: World on brink of recession; prepares special loan program
- Rap music fan sentenced to Beethoven, pays fine instead
- Iceland nationalises Kaupthing Bank
- French author Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Leading Sky News anchor Bob Friend dies at age 70
- US presidential candidate Barack Obama has 50% support
- At least twelve killed after building collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
- Zimbabwe cancels education year for 4.5 million after political and economic troubles