Portal:Current events/2011 September 12

• The EU Council votes to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. (BBC)
• British comedian David Walliams completes a 140-mile charity swim along the River Thames, raising £1 million in aid of the BBC's Sport Relief. (BBC)
• Leila Lopes of Angola is named Miss Universe 2011. (LA Late)

• Stocks on Asian markets fall sharply due to renewed concerns over the Eurozone debt crisis. (Market Watch)
• The UK's Independent Commission on Banking recommends that British banks should separate their retail banking divisions from investment banking arms to safeguard against riskier banking activities. (BBC)

• At least 75 people are killed by a petrol pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. (BBC)
• At least 19 people die in a bus crash on the Indonesian island of Java. (Jakarta Post)
• At least 240 bodies have been recovered off the coast of Zanzibar following Saturday's ferry sinking. (Xinhua)
• An explosion occurs at the Marcoule nuclear power plant in southern France, killing one person and injuring four. (BBC)

• Police in Kenya are searching for a gang who killed a British tourist and kidnapped his wife at a beachside resort. (BBC)
• Former British Conservative peers Lord Taylor of Warwick and Lord Hanningfield are released early from prison sentences for fiddling parliamentary expenses. (BBC)

• Bernard Hogan-Howe is named as the new Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police. (BBC)

• In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's Singles at the 2011 US Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1. (New York Times)