December 7, 2011 (Wednesday)
Arts and culture
- The United States commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. (AP via WVEC)
Business and economy
- The board of Japan's Olympus Corporation announces its plans to resign early next year due to its accounting scandal. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav arrives at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape. (BBC)
- The former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in jail for corruption. (Reuters)
- Security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde is killed in Honduras, a day after journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos is killed, leading to a ban on a motorcycle passengers. (The Guardian) (NY Times)
Politics and elections
- Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev says that the Russian authorities must acknowledge the recent street protests, annul the results of Sunday’s parliamentary election and hold a new poll. (RT)
- Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won a majority of seats in the runoff election. (Ynet News)
Science
- The Russian Federal Space Agency officially gives up attempting to rescue Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1, and expects them to fall back to Earth in January 2012. (Space.com)