Portal:Current events/2015 August 10
August 10, 2015 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Two women attack the U.S. consulate in Istanbul with automatic rifles. No fatalities are reported, and one of the attackers, wounded during the exchange of fire, is captured. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) claims responsibility. (The News Hub), (The Hürriyet Daily News)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- A suicide bomb blast kills at least five people at the entrance to the Kabul International Airport. The Taliban claim responsibility. (BBC)
- A stabbing at an Ikea store in Västerås, Sweden reslults in two people killed, and a third person seriously injured. (BBC News via MSN)
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
Business and economy
- Google creates a new holding company called Alphabet Inc. containing Google Inc. and Calico containing Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and other subsidiaries. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from floods in Myanmar tops 100 with more than a million people affected. (AAP via Sky News Australia)
Politics and elections
- Voters elect Tony Smith as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives replacing Bronwyn Bishop who resigned as a result of an expenses scandal. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Science and technology
- A night parrot is captured for the first time in over a hundred years in Australia's outback. (The Guardian), (The Australian)
- A study, part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, examined huge blocks of space as distant as several billion light years away and concluded that the universe is "slowly dying" as more stars gradually go out faster than they are being replaced by light-emitting active ones. In cosmological terms, the demise of the universe (the current age calculated at approximately 13.8 billion years) is billions, perhaps trillions of years away. (The Guardian via MSN), (CNN), (The South African Times Live)