Portal:Current events/2013 September 12

• Islamic insurgency in the Philippines:
  • The Moro National Liberation Front attacks the Philippines town of Lamitan with five people missing and two injured. (AP)
• American born Islamist militant Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki is shot dead in a dawn raid in a shootout with his former al-Shabaab colleagues in southern Somalia. (ABC News Australia)

• Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, leaves the Royal Air Force to devote his energies to Royal and community work. (The Australian)

• The People's Republic of China sets goals for use of coal as part of a comprehensive plan for reducing air pollution. (Reuters via Thomson-Reuters Trust)

• A massive fire burns parts of the boardwalk in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Numerous decades-old buildings are destroyed. (USA Today)(ABC News}

• Syria applies to join the Chemical Weapons Convention which outlaws the production and use of such weapons. (BBC)

• The governing body of the Church in Wales votes to allow the ordination of women bishops. (BBC)

• NASA announces the Voyager 1 space probe has left the Solar System becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. (BBC)
  • The announcement, while confirmed by external research, is still met in some quarters by skepticism. NBC News