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 is due to arrive 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)

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)