August 22, 2018 (Wednesday)
Business and economy
- Senior industry sources say that the previously announced initial public offering of Saudi Aramco has been halted. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Lane strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane for around three hours as it heads toward Hawaii, before returning to Category 4. (CNN)
- 2018 Venezuela earthquakes
- A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits close to yesterday's 7.3 earthquake, this one inland near Yaguaraparo, Venezuela. (AP)
- It is revealed that 5 people died from heart attack due to shock in yesterday's earthquake. (AP)
- Earthquakes in 2018
- A 6.2 earthquake, 100 miles from the Oregon coast, rocks the Western States of America. (The Independent)
Law and crime
- Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
- List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
- The lawyer of Michael Cohen, ex-lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty to eight felonies a day prior, says his client would refuse to accept a presidential pardon. (The Independent)
- Donald J. Trump Foundation § Investigations by New York State
- New York state investigators subpoena Michael Cohen as part of their investigation into the Trump Foundation. (AP)
- List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
- Terrorism in Germany
- Human rights in Saudi Arabia
- According to human rights campaigners, Saudi Arabian prosecutors seek the death penalty for six activists for inciting anti-government protests and morally supporting rioters. (NBC News)
- Killing of Mollie Tibbetts
- Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican man accused of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts after entering the U.S. illegally, appears in a Poweshiek County court for arraignment on first-degree murder. His bail is set at US$5 million. If released by local police, he may be arrested by ICE. (CNN)
- Corruption in Venezuela, Crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela
- The Venezuelan National Assembly supports and enforces a ruling made by exiled members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, sentencing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to 18 years and 3 months in prison for a litany of charges largely related to corruption. The Maduro government calls the court "illegitimate". (El Telégrafo)
Politics and elections
- Crisis in Venezuela
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says that the wages for workers in Venezuela must be linked to the petro. (El Nacional) (El Universal)
Science and technology
- Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
- A bone fragment found in Denisova Cave, Denisova 11, is identified as that of a girl who died 50,000 years ago aged at least 13. Genome-wide signatures tell that she had a Neanderthal mother and a mostly-Denisovan father. This first find of a prehistoric first-generation mixed offspring shows that different archaic human subtypes sometimes migrated, and then mixed more frequently than previously thought. (NBC News) (Live Science)
- 2018 in spaceflight, Living Planet Programme
- The European Space Agency's ADM-Aeolus global wind mapping satellite is successfully launched via a Vega rocket from Guiana Space Centre. (BBC)