Portal:Current events/2008 November 1

November 1, 2008 (Saturday)

Floods kill 24 people in Vietnam including 11 in the central province of Nghệ An. (BBC News)
Nineteen Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels are killed by Filipino military air strikes in the southern part of the island of Mindanao. (AFP via ABC)
A strong aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale hits southwestern Pakistan three days after it was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. (AFP via ABC)
India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmits two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon. (The Hindu)