Portal:Current events/2008 December 14
- At least 28 people are dead and 22 missing after the ferry Maejan capsizes in the northern Philippines. (AFP via News Limited)
- A bus crash in Minya, Egypt, kills 57 people. (AP via Google)
- early parliamentary vote with only candidates from the Democratic Party and associated organizations standing for election. (Reuters)
- an operation against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in the DRC's Garamba National Park. (BBC)