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Current topics
- Yoichiro Nambu (pictured), who discovered the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, who discovered the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature, are announced as winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, and Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that human papilloma viruses can cause cervical cancer in women, are announced as winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- President George W. Bush of the United States signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law after passage in the Congress.
- The U.S. Congress approves the civilian nuclear agreement between the U.S. and India.
- Fifty Somali pirates capture the Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina, along with its cargo of weapons and ammunition, and 33 T-72 tanks.