Portal:Current events/2018 September 27

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Business and economy

• Justin Milne resigns as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation following allegations that he interfered in the broadcaster's employment and editorial practices on behalf of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll of the floods that affected Nigeria this month rise to 200. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Adultery law in India
  • The Supreme Court of India strikes down a law criminalizing adultery as unconstitutional, stating it treated women as property of their husbands. (BBC)
• Capital punishment in China
  • China executes Zhao Zewei, the man responsible for killing nine children and injuring eleven others in a knife attack at a middle school in the Shaanxi province. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2017 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
  • MPs of the House of Commons of Canada vote to strip the State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship, citing her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar armed forces. (BBC)
• Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
  • Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, testifies before the Senate. (New York Post)
  • Kavanaugh testifies to the Senate following the testimony of Ford. Kavanaugh denies the sexual assault claim and calls it part of a "calculated and orchestrated political hit" designed to keep him off the Supreme Court. (AOL)