Portal:Current events/2008 November 1
November 1, 2008 (Saturday)
- Floods kill 24 people in Vietnam including 11 in the central province of Nghệ An. (BBC News)
- Nineteen Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels are killed by Filipino military air strikes in the southern part of the island of Mindanao. (AFP via ABC)
- A strong aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale hits southwestern Pakistan three days after it was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. (AFP via ABC)
- India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmits two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon. (The Hindu)