January 24, 2008 (Thursday)
- Australia's longest running magazine, The Bulletin, is closing down after almost 130 years of publishing. (ABC News Australia)
- A medical student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is expelled when it turns out that he was paroled from a maximum-security prison after being convicted of murder in 2000. (The New York Times)
- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is forced to resign following a lost vote of confidence in the Senate. (BBC News)
- An Australian girl spontaneously switches blood types and adopts her donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type. (Breitbart)
- The Brazilian government passes legislation aimed at curbing Amazon deforestation. (BBC News)
- Jérôme Kerviel is blamed for worsening the January 2008 stock market downturn by allegedly losing €4.9 billion ($7 billion) for French bank Société Générale. (The Daily Mail)