Portal:Current events/2018 November 7
November 7, 2018 (Wednesday)
Arts and culture
- Jean-Claude Arnault, Postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
- A member of the Swedish Academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jayne Svenungsson, states that she is leaving the body, the eighth person to quit amid sex abuse and financial crimes scandals at the exclusive group. (AP via Binghamton Homepage)
Disasters and accidents
- Authorities find the body of another man in the two collapsed buildings in Marseille, France, two days ago, bringing the death toll to five. (The Mail and Guardian)
Science and technology
- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider find evidence for the detection of a particle with a mass of 28 GeV, a particle not predicted by any currently proposed models. (Phys.org)