Portal:Current events/2011 December 7

Current events of December 7, 2011 (2011-12-07) (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)