Portal:Current events/2013 November 4

Current events of November 4, 2013 (2013-11-04) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syria civil war:
  • Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, top rebel leader and chief recipient of U.S. aid quits his position blaming recent losses on rebel infighting. (Washington Post)
• A truck carrying four people hits a land mine on a road leading to Menaka, Mali, killing all of the occupants. (AP via Miami Herald)
• A gunman opens fire inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey shooting out security cameras. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• German magazine Focus reports the 2011 discovery of Nazi plundered art worth €1 billion in Munich, including lost works by Picasso and Matisse. (Deutsche Welle)

Law and crime

• A man fatally stabs three people on a bus en route between Årdal and Tyin in Norway. (NBC News)
• The company Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay $2.2 billion in regards to a U.S. probe of the drug risperdal. (Reuters)

Politics and election

• Egyptian deposed president Mohamed Mursi's trial regarding charges of violence is postponed to January 8, 2014. (AllAfrica)

Science

• Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks undertakes to build successor to SR-71 Blackbird capable of mach 6 speed flight by 2030. (FOX News)

Sports

• In Florida, United States, Eric Rivera Jr. is convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 killing of NFL Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor during a burglary. (FOX News)