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Current topics
- Martti Ahtisaari wins the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
- With no candidate winning a majority in the first democratic presidential election in the Maldives, the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed move on to a second-round runoff.
- French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The British Government announces details of a financial rescue package aimed at stabilizing and restoring confidence in the British banking sector.
- Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.
- Yoichiro Nambu (pictured), who discovered the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, who discovered the origin of the broken symmetry, win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.