September 23, 2011 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Yemeni uprising: The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, returns from Saudi Arabia after a three-month absence, amid an increase in political unrest and violence in Yemen. (Al-Jazeera)
- Thousands of mourners gather in Kabul for the funeral of former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed by a suicide bomber earlier in the week. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Global stock markets fall for a second day amid fears of a deepening economic crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald) (Bloomberg) (CNBC)[permanent dead link] (Sky News)
- Thousands of Toyota workers in Australia go on strike over a pay dispute. (ABC News Australia)
- Fitch Ratings predicts that financial returns on commercial property in the United States will stabilize, though slowly, in the months ahead. (Reuters)
Disasters
- Floods in the Filipino province of Maguindanao affect 16,000 families. (Inquirer)
International relations
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- During the opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, makes a bid for UN recognition in a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, which would exist in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and have East Jerusalem as its capital. (Washington Post) (Sky News)
- The quartet of Middle East negotiators - the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations - call on both Israel and Palestine to resume negotiations. (BBC)
Law and crime
- South Korean prosecutors raid the offices of seven savings banks whose operations were suspended last week, with the president of one bank committing suicide. (Yonhap)
Politics
- Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is declared the winner of the Zambian presidential election. (BBC)
- The United States House of Representatives passes a resolution providing funding for the Government through to November 18, but the Senate vows to reject it, making a government shutdown from October 1 possible. (Washington Post)
Science
- NASA's 1991-era Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to fall from orbit sometime this evening Greenwich Mean Time. (BBC)