Portal:Current events/2008 March 27

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Current events of March 27, 2008 (2008-03-27) (Thursday) edit history watch

Iraqi authorities impose a curfew until Sunday in a bid to stop clashes with Shiite militants (see 2008 Mahdi Army revolt). (AFP via France 24) Geert Wilders releases his controversial anti-Islam film, Fitna. (BBC News)  Puerto Rico Governor Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá and twelve others are charged with electoral fraud. (Reuters)  Germany scraps plans to build the Transrapid high-speed monorail link between the Bavarian capital Munich and its airport because of a massive overrun in costs. (Deutsche Welle) Airbus parent EADS wins a £13 billion contract for airtankers from the United Kingdom. (The International Herald Tribune) (Wikinews) The oldest known recording of a human voice, created with a phonautograph by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9 1860 is replayed by American researchers. (The New York Times) A gunman opens fire at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia, killing two people and critically wounding one other who later died of his injuries before being shot and wounded by police. (WTVM) Violent anti-Emo protests rage throughout Mexico. (Austin American Statesman) (BoingBoing with Video)  Romanian literary critic, politician and television host George Pruteanu, born in 1947, dies.  Japan - Code Geass-inspired video game and visual novel Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Lost Colors is released.

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