Current events of 6 September 2008 (2008-09-06) (Saturday) edit history watch

2008 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Lowell forms off the coast of Mexico. (AP via Houston Chronicle) Komlan Mally resigns as prime minister of Togo, after less than a year in office. (Xinhua) Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler wins the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. (AP via Google News) Nuclear Suppliers Group clears Indo-US nuclear deal. (CNN-IBN) 2008 Cairo landslide: At least 18 people are killed and 22 injured when dozens of homes in northern Cairo collapse after being hit by a massive rockslide. (AFP via Google News) The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games begin in Beijing. (BBC News) 2008 Atlantic hurricane season Tropical Storm Hanna makes landfall in the United States on the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. (AFP via the Melbourne Age) Hurricane Ike reaches Category 4 strength as it prepares to hit Turks and Caicos. (AP via Google News) Pakistan The Electoral College of Pakistan elects Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples Party as the next President of Pakistan. (The New York Times) A car bomb in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan kills at least thirty people. (BBC News)