Portal:Current events/2008 August 6
- At least nine firefighters are missing presumed dead after a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter crashes in northern California. (The Oregonian)
- UNICEF releases The State of Asia-Pacific’s Children 2008. The report recommends focus on China and India, where 2.4 million preventable child deaths occur every year. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (The Straits Times)
- An explosion on the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline halts oil supplies through one of the biggest pipelines in the world. (Reuters) (Hürriyet)
- September 11, 2001 attacks. (Bloomberg)
- A Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef and the Interior Minister. (ABC News Australia)
- A UH-1H helicopter of the Royal Thai Air Force crashes in Thailand, killing ten. (The Australian)[permanent dead link]
- Competitions start at the Beijing Olympic Games two days ahead of the opening ceremony with the Women's football tournament.
- The United States Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax scares of 2001 that killed five people and made 17 others ill. (BBC News)
- Leader of Malaysian opposition Anwar Ibrahim is formally charged with sodomy, which he claims is a politically motivated charge. (BBC News)