Portal:Current events/2012 March 8

March 8, 2012 (Thursday)

Armed conflict and attacks

2011–2012 Syrian uprising:
- Abdo Hussameddin, the Syrian deputy oil minister, announces that he is resigning and joining the Opposition. (BBC)
- Syrian dissidents reject a call by Kofi Annan to stop fighting and seek peace talks. (Reuters)
Police in Dublin remove the Occupy Dame Street camp during an overnight raid. (The Irish Times) (RTE)
British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that two engineers – Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara – who were abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces. (BBC)

Business and finance

Greece secures a debt-restructuring deal with private lenders. (New York Times)
Inflation levels in China fall substantially. (CNNMoney)
Spanx inventor Sara Blakely becomes the youngest self-made female billionaire on Forbes' list. (Forbes)
Toyota recalls 700,000 cars over safety concerns. (The Guardian)

Disaster

Evacuation orders are issued for the Australian towns of Griffith and Forbes due to floods moving west through the Murray–Darling basin. (Bloomberg)

Law enforcement and crime

A gunman kills one person and injures seven others before himself being shot dead at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (CNN)
Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus is found guilty of a high profile 1986 murder. (NPR)

Science and health

The first full map of the debris field of the remains of the RMS Titanic is announced. (Wall Street Journal)
A study suggests that donor stem cells may prevent organ rejection in imperfectly matched transplant cases. (Los Angeles Times)

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