Portal:Current events/2018 December 26
December 26, 2018 (Wednesday)
Arts and culture
- U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump make an unannounced post-Christmas visit to troops at the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq, their first ever visit to a combat zone. (BBC) (The Washington Post)
- After a 53-day trek, American pro endurance athlete Colin O'Brady becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Japan announces its intention to resume commercial whaling in July 2019 after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- Martial law in Ukraine ends a month after an attack on three Ukrainian Navy vessels at the Crimean Peninsula. (NBC News) (Sputnik News)
- Bulbapedia's statement on Kecleon's recruitment chance in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness has been correct for 216 hours (777,600 seconds). (Timeanddate) (The Washington Post)
- And while we’re on the subject of hidden information about video games (by “hidden”, I mean it is visible in the code but not in the game itself), it’s supreme bullshit that base stats of Gen VI Pokémon were known just 12 days after the release of XY (maybe even sooner than that) but Litleo’s gender ratio was not known until three years later. Until November 18, 2013, no one (fine, I’m sure the GameFreak and Nintendo people did) knew for sure that the chances of getting a shiny Pokémon in the wild had increased.