Portal:Current events/2007 November 5
November 5, 2007 (Monday)
- The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong drops over 1,500 points, or 5%, three days after a previous sizable decline. The Hang Seng registers its largest daily loss since September 2001. (Bloomberg)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The Netherlands suspends aid to Pakistan following the imposition of emergency rule.
- Several demonstrating lawyers protesting outside the Sindh High Court are arrested.
- President of the United States George W. Bush calls on the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf to end the state of emergency and restore civilian rule. (BBC)
- Italian police arrest Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, his son Sandro and two other mafiosi in Carini, Palermo. (BBC)
- A fire at a retirement home in a village near Tula, Russia, kills at least 23 people. (BBC)
- The Writers Guild of America asks 12,000 of its members to join a Hollywood screenwriters strike over a dispute over residuals. (BBC)
- Álvaro Colom is elected President of Guatemala in the 2007 general election. (Reuters)
- Google and the Open Handset Alliance announce the Android operating system, a joint effort in handheld computing. (Ars Technica) (CNN)
- The number of people in southern Mexico displaced by the 2007 Tabasco flood nears a million (VOA), with 300,000 more still trapped in their homes, waiting to be rescued. (BBC)
- Kimi Raikkonen wins the Formula One World Championship.