Portal:Current events/2012 August 8

Armed conflict and attacks
Business and economy
  • China announces plan to close one-third of the nation's 23 rare-earth mines and about half of 99 smelting companies. (CNN)

Disasters

Arts and culture
  • Anthropologists find the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial in Templo Mayor, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. This finding is "unprecedented for the Aztec culture." (The Huffington Post)

Law and crime

Politics

Sport