Portal:Current events/2010 December 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

Art and culture

Business and economy
  • Hundreds of small investors engage in protest activities in Dhaka following the steepest daily fall in the stock exchange. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
  • 60 Minutes, an influential news program, runs a segment with Meredith Whitney a bank analyst credited with a timely bearish call in 2008, in which she predicts hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defaults by U.S. municipalities. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

Law and crime

International relations

Politics and elections

Sport