Portal:Current events/2008 December 18
December 18, 2008 (Thursday)
- India successfully test-fires supersonic cruise missile BrahMos for the first time from a mobile universal vertical launcher fitted on a naval warship in the Bay of Bengal. (Times of India)
- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Théoneste Bagosora guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentences him to life imprisonment. (Reuters)
- 75,000 people in Papua New Guinea are displaced by flooding caused by tidal swells. (Sydney Morning Herald)