September 6, 2008 (Saturday)
- 2008 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Lowell forms off the coast of Mexico. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- Komlan Mally resigns as prime minister of Togo, after less than a year in office. (Xinhua)
- Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler wins the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. (AP via Google News)
- Nuclear Suppliers Group clears Indo-US nuclear deal. (CNN-IBN)
- 2008 Cairo landslide: At least 18 people are killed and 22 injured when dozens of homes in northern Cairo collapse after being hit by a massive rockslide. (AFP via Google News)
- The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games begin in Beijing. (BBC News)
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Hanna makes landfall in the United States on the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. (AFP via the Melbourne Age)
- Hurricane Ike reaches Category 4 strength as it prepares to hit Turks and Caicos. (AP via Google News)[dead link]
- Pakistan
- The Electoral College of Pakistan elects Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples Party as the next President of Pakistan. (The New York Times)
- A car bomb in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan kills at least thirty people. (BBC News)