Current events of 24 January 2008 (2008-01-24) (Thursday) edit history watch

Australia's longest running magazine, The Bulletin, is closing down after almost 130 years of publishing. (ABC News Australia) A medical student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is expelled when it turns out that he was paroled from a maximum-security prison after being convicted of murder in 2000. (The New York Times) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is forced to resign following a lost vote of confidence in the Senate. (BBC News) An Australian girl spontaneously switches blood types and adopts her donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type. (Breitbart) The Brazilian government passes legislation aimed at curbing Amazon deforestation. (BBC News) Jérôme Kerviel is blamed for worsening the January 2008 stock market downturn by allegedly losing €4.9 billion ($7 billion) for French bank Société Générale. (The Daily Mail)