Portal:Current events/2007 January 3
January 3, 2007 (Wednesday)
- Palestinian factional violence: Clashes between Hamas, Fatah result in abductions from both sides. Four Fatah loyalists and a female bystander are killed in gunbattles. (Ynetnews)
- A prison guard is arrested in Baghdad under suspicion of secretly filming the execution of Saddam Hussein using a mobile phone and publishing the video on the Internet. (The Times)
- The North Korean Korean Central News Agency reports that Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun has died, without describing the cause of death. (BBC)
- Fourteen-year-old Michael Perham becomes the youngest person to ever sail single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean, when he completes a six-week voyage from Gibraltar by docking in Antigua. (The Times)
- Former United States President Gerald Ford is buried in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. (BBC)
- A National Express coach overturns, killing two people, near Heathrow Airport, London on a slip road from the M4 to the M25 motorways. The driver is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. (BBC)
- Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (UK) launches, sparking the Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy.