Wikinews:2008/December
- Hillary Clinton nominated as US Secretary of State
- British charities form fund recovery group
- Wikinews Shorts: December 1, 2008
- Vodafone begins 3G activation, services in NSW fail
- India's Home Minister quits as first political fallout of Mumbai attacks
- Space Shuttle Endeavour lands in California
- International community marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
- Number of Zimbabwe cholera deaths nears 500
- Obama's transition website 'frees the content'
- Thai PM barred from politics, three parties dissolved
- Arrest made in Jennifer Hudson family killings
- Minyama residents promise to keep fighting to stop McDonald's development
- Wikinews Shorts: December 2, 2008
- Car accident was an act of God, says driver
- .tel top-level domain launched
- Republican Senator from Georgia wins run-off election
- Wikinews Shorts: December 3, 2008
- Local council in Australia rejects McDonald's development plan
- Somalia in danger of famine
- Congressional panel concludes Gulf War Syndrome a legitimate condition
- Lashkar-e-Toiba implicated in Mumbai attacks
- Wikinews Shorts: December 4, 2008
- Lockerbie convict's family among protesters for justice in Edinburgh
- University's lion mascot out like a lamb after DUI
- Car bomb kills seventeen in Pakistan
- US November job losses reach 34-year high
- Solar car travels around the world
- Canadian Parliament suspended until late January
- Wikinews Shorts: December 5, 2008
- Leaked online: UK Home Office non-disclosure agreement with ID card companies
- Brazil blames human error for 2006 midair airliner collision
- Honda quits Formula One racing
- Southern California hit by 5.1 earthquake
- Wikinews Shorts: December 6, 2008
- Passengers rescued from stranded Antarctic cruise ship
- O. J. Simpson sentenced to 15 years in prison
- Boxing: Pacquiao stuns De La Hoya with eighth round TKO
- Thousands protest PM Harper in Toronto
- Militants in Pakistan torch NATO, US military vehicles
- Wikinews Shorts: December 7, 2008
- Irish government orders recall of all pork products
- Eighth Filipino journalist killed this year
- Sunshine Coast Council ratifies McDonald's development rejection
- Launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover delayed until 2011
- British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
- US F-18 fighter jet crashes in San Diego residential area
- Wikimedia, IWF respond to block of Wikipedia over child pornography allegations
- Details emerge of Honda's withdrawal from Formula One
- New Zealand Parliament reconvenes after election
- Australian PM announces public affairs channel
- Wikinews Shorts: December 8, 2008
- Two-plane crash in Florida kills four
- IWF reverses censorship of Wikipedia
- US Supreme Court dismisses appeal on Obama's citizenship
- Governor of Illinois arrested on suspicion of corruption
- Quebec's Liberal premier Jean Charest wins third term
- Alleged 9-11 conspirators will confess and plead guilty
- Wikinews Shorts: December 9, 2008
- Football: Ronaldo to play for Corinthians
- Ghanaian presidential elections go to run-off
- Formula One set to see standardised engines
- Small British island gets first democratic election
- Alleged 9-11 conspirators withdraw offer of guilty pleas
- Somali pirates release Greek ship, 19 sailors
- Wikinews Shorts: December 10, 2008
- Riots in Greece enter fourth night
- Israel allows cash for Gazans
- Body of small child found in Orlando, Florida
- Iraqi restaurant hit by suicide bomber
- Obama selects Steven Chu as US Energy Secretary
- Wikinews Shorts: December 11, 2008
- US automaker bailout deal fails to pass Senate
- Zoo elephants live shorter lives than their wild counterparts, report warns
- FIA lays out cost cutting measures for Formula One
- German internet watchdog to remove URLs to 'Virgin Killer' from search engines
- Human remains in mass grave confirm Argentina secret death camp
- Market maker Bernard L. Madoff arrested in $50B 'giant Ponzi scheme'
- 23 Australians arrested in global child porn network
- Mugabe declares Zimbabwe cholera crisis under control
- Wikinews Shorts: December 12, 2008
- Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian released on bail
- Asbestos scare shuts down mail delivery in Christchurch, New Zealand
- UN General Assembly approves measures to protect economic, social and cultural rights
- White House considering auto rescue plan
- Obama announces choice for Secretary of Housing
- Wikinews Shorts: December 13, 2008
- Russian Ksenia Sukhinova crowned Miss World 2008
- Iraqi journalist throws shoes at US president George Bush
- Climber dies on Mount Cook
- Wikinews Shorts: December 14, 2008
- Thai opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva elected as new Prime Minister
- U.S. Supreme Court requests reconsideration of habeas petitions of Gitmo captives
- Somali parliament rejects president's dismissal of prime minister
- Ferry sinks in northern Philippines, 28 dead
- New Zealand journalist deported from Fiji
- Sharp increase in number of Zimbabwean cholera deaths
- Wikinews Shorts: December 16, 2008
- New Zealand Government to repeal Electoral Finance Act
- OPEC cuts production by 2.2 million barrels a day
- South Korean actress Ok So-ri gets suspended term for adultery
- People bid farewell to elderly Shinkansen super-express in Japan
- Wikinews Shorts: December 17, 2008
- US Supreme Court allows 'light' cigarettes lawsuits
- Zimbabwe Air Marshal shot
- Somali pirates hijack Indonesian tugboat and Turkish container ship
- Iraqi journalist arrested after throwing shoes at George W. Bush
- Rudd heckled over 5% climate target
- Yahoo! to purge personal data after 3 months
- Philippine shipwreck kills man; rescue boat also rescued
- Illinois court rejects attempt to have governor removed from office
- US, UK investigators collaborating after US 777 incident similar to London crash
- Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US's first face transplant
- French appeals court confirms Volvo guilty over death crash
- Twin bomb blasts in 2 Philippine malls kill 6, injure 38
- RNA journal submits articles to Wikipedia
- Polaroid goes bankrupt
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of 'Star Trek' creator dies of cancer at 76
- Deposed Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is released
- Philippines Supreme Court to probe leak of draft judgment in election case
- Taiwan culls 18000 chickens due to H5N2 virus outbreak
- 20 years on: Lockerbie victims' group head talks to Wikinews
- Two-and-a-half tonnes of marijuana destroyed in Afghan school
- BBC reporters arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage
- International controversy over UN declaration to stop anti-homosexuality legislation
- UK government sells stake in nuclear weapons firm
- Russian flight returns to Athens after bomb threat
- UK legislation expands debt collectors' powers
- US drone strike kills eight in Pakistan's tribal region
- Continental 737 runs off runway at Denver International Airport
- Cyprus charges five over 2005 air crash that killed 121
- Report blames 747 crash at Brussels on bird strike
- 168-centimetre water main breaks near Washington D.C.
- Fiji, New Zealand expel diplomats
- Wikileaks tells Wikinews why they published Danish child porn censorship list
- Military dissolves Guinean government
- Hamas ends truce with Israel
- Apartment gas blast in Yevpatoria, Ukraine
- FDA says Coca-Cola's Diet Coke Plus is misbranded
- Wikinews Shorts: December 25, 2008
- Australia makes changes to Boxing Day cricket test team
- Egyptian teacher who killed child receives prison term
- World’s largest ice 'Father Christmas' built in China
- Nine dead after armed Santa Claus opens fire in LA suburb
- NFL: Packers defeat Lions 31–21, Lions become first team to finish season with 0-16 record
- Four UK retailers call in administrators during the week of Christmas
- Bangladesh elects new Prime Minister
- Polish Wikinews reaches 9,000 articles
- Wikinews interviews the Wikimania 2010 Poland bid promoter