Portal:Current events/2011 October 6

Current events of October 6, 2011 (2011-10-06) (Thursday)

Arts and culture

• Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Nobel Foundation), (The Guardian), (The Washington Post)

Business and economy

• Production at the Japanese plants of carmaker Toyota returns to normal following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)
• The Bank of England injects £75bn through quantitative easing (BBC)

International relations

• South Korea rejects North Korea's demands that two citizens from the north who crossed the border be repatriated. (Yonhap)

Law and crime

• The trial of Ichirō Ozawa, a powerful faction leader in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, over a political funding scandal begins today in Japan. (AFP via Google News)

Politics and elections

• Voters in Canada's most populous province Ontario go to the polls for a general election. (The Globe and Mail)

Scientific

• IEEE Day 2011