Unix Timestamp: 1222300800
Thursday, September 25. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Shenzhou 7, the third manned Chinese spaceflight and the first with three crew members, is successfully launched. China becomes the third country ever to conduct a spacewalk.

Dark flow, a new and unexplained cosmic phenomenon, is observed by astronomers for the first time. //www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILSgrid=xml=/earth/2008/09/24/scispace124.xml ("The Daily Telegraph")

Pakistani and United States forces exchange fire on the Afghan-Pakistan border. //www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/world/asia/26military.html ("The New York Times")