Portal:Current events/2012 August 24

August 24, 2012 (Friday)

Typhoon Tembin makes landfall on Taiwan. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tropical Storm Isaac hits the island of Hispaniola containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A hurricane watch threat level is set for Haiti. (BBC) (NHC)
Heavy monsoon rain and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan. (Daily Times)
The newly-built Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin City in China collapses, killing three and injuring five people. (BBC)

Two U.S. government employees were ambushed and wounded by gunshots in Mexico City by unknown assailants. (Houston Chronicle)
A court in Oslo, Norway, deems Anders Behring Breivik sane and sentences Breivik to 21 years' imprisonment for killing 77 people in two terror attacks in July 2011. (BBC)
A South Korean court rules that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents on mobile computing technology. (The Wall Street Journal)
The High Court of Australia quashes the conviction of former Bundaberg, Queensland surgeon Jayant Patel on manslaughter charges due to a miscarriage of justice with a fresh trial to be held. (The Australian)

Mir-Hossein Mousavi, leader of the Iranian opposition and former Prime Minister, returns home from hospital after a heart attack. (Tabnak)

The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it will ban former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and recommend he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles. (The Washington Post)