Portal:Current events/2008 January 7

President of the Marshall Islands. (Radio New Zealand)

Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." (BBC News)

Charles Taylor resumes at The Hague, Netherlands. (CNN)

Eastern Australia are affected by the worst floods in the last 20 years. (BBC News)

F/A-18 Super Hornets, a F/A-18E and two-seat F/A-18F, flying off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, crash in the Persian Gulf. The aviators were safely recovered. There was no indication of hostile fire. (CNN)

AIDS and HIV. (allAfrica)