Portal:Current events/2011 October 6

• Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Nobel Foundation) (The Guardian) (The Washington Post)

• Production at the Japanese plants of carmaker Toyota returns to normal following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)
• The Bank of England injects a further £75bn into the British economy through quantitative easing. (BBC)

• Tropical Storm Jova forms off the Pacific coast of Mexico. (NHC)

• South Korea rejects North Korea's demands that two citizens from the north who crossed the border be repatriated. (Yonhap)

• The trial of Ichirō Ozawa, a powerful faction leader in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, over a political funding scandal begins today in Japan. (AFP via Google News)

• Voters in Canada's most populous province Ontario go to the polls for a general election with the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Dalton McGuinty, winning another term under a slight minority government.(The Globe and Mail) (CTV)