April 16, 2008 (Wednesday)
- A Zimbabwean judge clears two British journalists of reporting on the 2008 presidential election without accreditation. (AP via the San Francisco Chronicle)
- Around 44 people, mostly children, die after a bus plunges into the Narmada River in the western Indian state of Gujarat. (BBC News)
- The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment over Eighth Amendment "cruel and unusual punishment" challenges. (BBC News)