Portal:Current events/2010 September 7

September 7, 2010 (Tuesday)

Current Barclays Capital chief Bob Diamond, one of the world's highest paid bankers, is to become chief executive of Barclays Bank plc succeeding the present incumbent John Varley next year. (BBC)

United States Army General David Petraeus, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, condemns plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks as inflammatory. (New York Times)
2010 Australian federal election
- Independent members of parliament Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott agree to support a Julia Gillard Australian Labor Party Government ensuring that Labor will be able to form a Government. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Bob Katter, an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives for Division of Kennedy, indicates that he will support the Liberal/National coalition in Parliament. (ABC News)
Politics of India
- The election bigul has been blown in Bihar as the election commission of India announced the schedule of 243-member state assembly election 2010.(samaylive)
- Trade unions in India declare a bandh or general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices. India is crippled. (samaylive), (NDTV)
Public transport workers in France and London go on strike over French and UK government austerity measures. The French actions are part of a general strike. (AP via ABC News America), (BBC)