Portal:Current events/2007 November 30
November 30, 2007 (Friday)
- Colombian authorities release seized videos of 16 hostages being held by the FARC rebel group; these include former senator and presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt, last heard from in 2002, and three U.S. defence contractors abducted in 2003. (Independent)
- The Miami-Dade Police Department arrests four people in relation to the killing of Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor. (AP via ABC News)
- A man takes hostages at U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire. He has a package strapped to his chest. The siege ends at 6pm with his arrest. (Boston Channel) (WMUR-TV) (NYT)
- Amtrak Pere Marquette train #371 en route from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, collides with a parked freight train on the south side of Chicago, seriously or critically injuring five Amtrak employees and slightly injuring 100 to 150 of the 187 passengers on board. (Fox News) (AP via the Daily Herald)
- Protesters in Sudan demand execution of Gillian Gibbons for insulting the prophet Muhammad after she let students name a teddy bear after him. (BBC)
- The wreckage of Atlasjet Flight 4203 carrying 56 passengers and crew is found in central Turkey with no survivors. (BBC) (Reuters via the Melbourne Age)
- Wang Qishan resigns as the Mayor of Beijing, being succeeded by acting Mayor Guo Jinlong, who left his post in Anhui. (Xinhua)
- DNA tests confirm that "Baby Grace", the deceased two-year-old found floating on Galveston Bay in Texas, is indeed Riley Ann Sawyers. Earlier in the week, her mother and stepfather confessed to beating the child to death. (Houston Chronicle)