Portal:Current events/2008 July 15
July 15, 2008 (Tuesday)
- 18 people are injured after a funfair ride composed of a spinning arm with a compartment at one end which carries passengers collapses at the Liseberg theme park Gothenburg, Sweden. (BBC News) (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- General Motors announces plans to suspend its dividend, sell off assets and cut 20% off salaried costs in a response to slumping car sales. (CNNMoney)
- A videotape of an interrogation of terrorism suspect Omar Khadr by Canadian officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is released publicly. (The New York Times)
- A suicide bomber at an Iraqi Army base near Baquba kills at least 35 people and injures another 55. (RTÉ) (AP via Yahoo! News) (The New York Times)
- An earthquake with a 6.3 magnitude strikes near the island of Rhodes in Greece, leading to one death. (AP via Google News)
- Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme resigns after less than four months in office. King Albert II does not accept his resignation. (AFP via Google News)