July 1, 2009 (2009-07-01 ) (Wednesday)
July 2, 2009 (2009-07-02 ) (Thursday)
July 3, 2009 (2009-07-03 ) (Friday)
The
African Union stops cooperation with the
International Criminal Court because it charged
Sudanese
President
Omar al-Bashir with
war crimes .
(BBC)
Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-construction
mosque in
Mysore ,
India .
(CNN)
John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000
Jews in
Treblinka extermination camp .
(RTÉ)
Disney XD is in
Latin America and
Brazil
Energy ministers of
Algeria ,
Niger and
Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the
Trans-Saharan gas pipeline .
(Reuters)
(Bloomberg)
(BBC)
Flooding affects parts of
County Mayo and
County Galway in
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon arrives in
Burma , meeting
junta leader Senior General
Than Shwe and calling for the release of political prisoners.
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post )
Two
Iranian staff working for the
British embassy in
Tehran will face
trial over allegedly inciting
protests .
(BBC)
Three
dinosaur species—
Australovenator wintonensis ,
Wintonotitan wattsi and
Diamantinasaurus matildae —are discovered in
Australia .
(BBC)
(Sydney Morning Herald )
Syria invites
United States
President
Barack Obama to the
Damascus summit.
(Sky News)
Algerian
raï music star
Cheb Mami is jailed for five years in
France for trying to force his former partner to have an
abortion .
(BBC)
(IOL)
(Reuters)
Manuel Pinho,
Portugal 's Economy Minister, resigns after performing a
cuckold gesture at an opposition
MP .
(BBC)
North Korea broadcasts its first ever
beer commercial, for
Taedonggang beer.
(BBC)
(The Los Angeles Times )
Two more people die in
Viareggio ,
Italy , following the
train explosion , bringing the death toll to 21.
(RTÉ)
Six people, including three children, are
killed after a fire in a high rise residential tower block in
Camberwell , south
London ,
England .
(BBC)
Russia opens a route for the
United States to fly arms to
Afghanistan .
(The New York Times )
American politician
Sarah Palin , current
Governor of
Alaska and
2008
Vice Presidential candidate, announces her resignation as Governor, effective July 26.
(Fox News)
(CNN)
Two aid workers, including one
Irish woman, with the charity
GOAL are kidnapped by an armed gang in
Sudan 's
Darfur region.
(RTÉ)
Thirteen people are injured after the
Paris to
Cahors train derails near
Limoges ,
France .
(RTÉ)
A 6.0 magnitude
earthquake centred in the
Sea of Cortez shakes western
Mexico .
(IOL)
July 4, 2009 (2009-07-04 ) (Saturday)
The
Cherokee County killer claims his fifth victim in
South Carolina ,
United States .
(CNN)
Ireland 's
Minister for Foreign Affairs ,
Micheál Martin , calls for the immediate release of two aid workers who were kidnapped in
Sudan 's
Darfur region.
(RTÉ)
Bishop of Rochester
Michael Nazir-Ali calls on
homosexuals to "repent and be changed" and says the
Church of England will not be "rolled over by culture".
(The Daily Telegraph )
North Korea test
fires seven more missiles into the
Sea of Japan .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Korea Times )
(Xinhua)
Torrential rain forces over 150,000 people from their homes, topples hundreds of houses and punches a hole in the spillway of a dam in southern
China .
(IOL)
The
United Nations
Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon is denied access to meet detained
National League for Democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi while on a visit to
Burma .
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
12 militants are killed in an air raid in northwestern
Pakistan .
(Xinhua)
Nine
Chechen policeman are killed after their vehicle is attacked in neighbouring
Ingushetia , southern
Russia .
(BBC)
(The Hindu )
The
Iranian
state-owned newspaper
Kayhan calls for
Mir-Hossein Mousavi to stand trial.
(The Los Angeles Times )
35 people are arrested in
Mazandran , northern
Iran , during post-
election
protests .
(Press TV)
Serena Williams wins the
women's singles at the
2009
Wimbledon Championships after defeating her sister,
Venus Williams .
(The Daily Telegraph )
Three people die as a result of contracting
swine flu in
New Zealand , the country's first flu deaths.
(IOL)
(The Irish Times )
July 5, 2009 (2009-07-05 ) (Sunday)
July 6, 2009 (2009-07-06 ) (Monday)
July 7, 2009 (2009-07-07 ) (Tuesday)
July 2009 Ürümqi riots
A
public memorial for
Michael Jackson takes place at the
Staples Center in
Los Angeles ,
California , with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more
viewing around the world .
(AP via Google News)
UN
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon begins his two-day visit to
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
Police shoot dead the
Cherokee County
serial killer , identified as
Patrick Tracy Burris , after he fired several times at the police.
(BBC)
Tunisian police charge nine men—including two air force officers—with plotting several deaths during joint military exercises with the US.
(Jerusalem Post )
(BBC)
A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the
July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's
Hyde Park .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
An institutional
child abuse
museum is suggested in
Ireland by the
Labour Party 's
Ruairi Quinn , with
Education Minister
Batt O'Keeffe criticising the
Opposition on the issue.
(RTÉ)
The
United Nations
Security Council condemns the recent
missile launches by
North Korea .
(Xinhua)
The
United Nations says around 204,000 people have fled
violence in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia as a result of a militant offensive against government forces.
(CNN)
Two bombs
explode in the southern
Philippines , killing two and injuring 53.
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
(Bloomberg)
Pope
Benedict XVI calls for a new financial world order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for a common good.
(The Times of India )
(Associated Press)
12 people die in a
U.S. missile strike on a training camp run by
Baitullah Mehsud in
South Waziristan ,
Pakistan .
(Al Jazeera)
(Reuters)
Ousted
Honduran
President
Manuel Zelaya is to meet with
United States
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton .
(Reuters)
Iraq bans planned group visits to
Saddam Hussein 's grave.
(BBC)
United States
President
Barack Obama addresses graduates in
Moscow ,
Russia .
(BBC)
(The New York Times )
(RIA Novosti)
A
Mikoyan MiG-29 of the
Serbian military
crashes at
Batajnica Air Base near
Belgrad , killing the pilot and one soldier on the ground.
(Sky News)
Iranian opposition leaders call for the release of people who
demonstrated in the aftermath of the disputed
presidential election .
(New Straits Times )
Prosecutors at the
International Criminal Court challenge a tribunal's decision not to indict
Sudanese
President
Omar al-Bashir on charges of
genocide in
Darfur .
(Associated Press)
Al Franken is sworn in as a
U.S. Senator , the 60th caucusing with the
Democratic Party which is a
filibuster -proof majority.
(The New York Times )
July 8, 2009 (2009-07-08 ) (Wednesday)
The
European Commission fines
GDF Suez and
E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the
MEGAL pipeline .
(Financial Times )
(The Wall Street Journal )
(Bloomberg)
(Reuters)
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen announces that the
second referendum on the
Treaty of Lisbon in
Ireland will be held on
October 2 .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il makes a rare public appearance to mark the 15th anniversary of
his father 's death.
(BBC)
(CTV)
(The Guardian )
(MSNBC)
(The Times )
The
35th G8 Summit begins in
L'Aquila ,
Italy .
(BBC News)
(CNN)
July 2009 Ürümqi riots
Debris and bodies from
Yemenia Flight 626 , which crashed off the
Comoros in the
Indian Ocean , wash up on
Mafia Island ,
Tanzania .
(BBC)
Indonesian presidential election, 2009
Malaysian opposition leader
Anwar Ibrahim 's trial on
sodomy charges of engaging in
sexual intercourse with a male aide is delayed after his main defence lawyer falls ill.
(BBC)
July 2009 Mindanao bombings
Strikes by 70,000 workers in
South Africa halt work on the
World Cup 2010 stadiums.
(BBC)
(AFP)
South Korea says
North Korea is behind a number of
cyber attacks on the websites of government agencies, banks and businesses in South Korea and the
United States .
(Yonhap)
(BBC)
(The Times )
Exiled
Honduran
President
Manuel Zelaya and interim President
Roberto Micheletti agree to talks under mediation by
Costa Rica .
(The Guardian )
Iran says two thirds of
protesters have already been released and another 100 will be freed in the aftermath of the disputed
presidential election .
(Reuters)
Germany defends its response to the stabbing of pregnant
Egyptian
Marwa El-Sherbini , saying
Chancellor
Angela Merkel will meet the
Egyptian President to discuss the affair.
(BBC)
(CBC)
(CNN)
(The Guardian )
(The Irish Times )
Four
Rio Tinto executives accused of
espionage are detained by Chinese Authorities amid
iron ore negotiations.
(News.com.au)
Two car bombs blow up in
Mosul , the second of them killing at least nine people.
(BBC)
Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into government buildings in the
United States , assembling bombs within, on ten occasions.
(BBC)
The Guardian claims that rival
English newspaper, the
Rupert Murdoch -owned
News of the World
tabloid , paid £1 million in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping celebrities and politicians.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
It is claimed that the drug
rapamycin , discovered in the soil of
Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the ageing process.
(BBC)
July 9, 2009 (2009-07-09 ) (Thursday)
July 10, 2009 (2009-07-10 ) (Friday)
July 11, 2009 (2009-07-11 ) (Saturday)
July 12, 2009 (2009-07-12 ) (Sunday)
July 13, 2009 (2009-07-13 ) (Monday)
Twelve European companies launch the €400 billion
Desertec project to build
solar thermal power stations in North Africa.
(Bloomberg)
Burma announces it will release an unspecified number of
political prisoners to allow them to take part in the
2010 general election .
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post )
(Reuters)
Henry Okah , a
guerrilla leader of the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta , is released from detainment after accepting an
amnesty offered by the
Nigerian government .
(BBC)
Turkey ,
Bulgaria ,
Romania ,
Hungary and
Austria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the
Nabucco natural gas pipeline .
(BBC)
At least 16 people have died, including eight children, in the city of
Mian Channu ,
Pakistan , after a
bomb blast in a school.
(CNN)
(The Times of India )
Greek police use bulldozers to completely clear a sprawling
migrant camp that had been in place in the port town of
Patras for over a decade.
(Sky News)
The
United Kingdom halts some arms sales to
Israel following the
Gaza conflict .
(The Times )
(Haaretz )
Ürümqi police shoot dead two armed suspects and injure another, all being from the
Uyghur ethnic group.
(BBC)
(AP via Google News)
(Xinhua)
(ChinaDaily)
The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims an attack on an oil depot in
Lagos ,
Nigeria .
(Forbes)
(Vanguard )
Russian
President
Dmitry Medvedev makes his first visit to
South Ossetia .
(RIA Novosti)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
John Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of
accessory to murder in
World War II at a court in
Germany .
(Deutsche Welle)
(AP)
An explosion in
Kabul ,
Afghanistan , kills a police chief and injures four others. The
Taliban are the suspected culprits of the
attack .
(The New York Times )
U.S.
Senate confirmation hearings for
United States Supreme Court nominee
Sonia Sotomayor begin.
(CNN)
Former
Prime Minister of Lebanon
Amin al-Hafez dies at age 83.
(AP via Google News)
July 14, 2009 (2009-07-14 ) (Tuesday)
July 15, 2009 (2009-07-15 ) (Wednesday)
The
Episcopal Church of the United States votes to overturn a three-year ban on the appointment of gay bishops.
(BBC)
The
Catholic Church praises
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince after previously accusing the books of promoting witchcraft and the occult.
(Irish Independent )
Caspian Airlines
Flight 7908 , flying from
Tehran to
Yerevan ,
Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in
Iran shortly after takeoff.
(BBC)
(Press TV)
A 7.6-
magnitude
earthquake strikes off
South Island ,
New Zealand , generating brief fears of a small
tsunami .
(Associated Press)
(New Zealand Herald )
(RTÉ)
(USGS)
China 's
foreign exchange reserves have reached a record of
US$ 2.13 trillion, which is more than twice the size of
Japan 's—the second-biggest holder.
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
China urges its citizens in
Algeria to "take extra care" after reports circulate of a militant group's plans to avenge recent deaths of Muslim
Uyghurs .
(BBC)
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara , the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have died of
cancer aged 69, three years after giving birth.
(BBC)
Six people, including two traffic police, are killed and sixteen people are injured in a
suicide attack in
Anbar ,
Iraq .
(RTÉ)
A group of soldiers who took part in
Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive"
rules of engagement .
(BBC)
Two people are killed and five are injured in the explosion at a
Total
petrochemicals plant in
Carling ,
France .
(France 24)
(RTÉ)
Chansa Kabwela , editor of
Zambia 's biggest-selling newspaper
The Post , is charged with distributing obscene materials relating to a health sector crisis.
(BBC)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
(Sowetan ) [
permanent dead link ]
The British government opts not to end the
Common Travel Area between the
United Kingdom and
Ireland .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Space Shuttle
Endeavour launches on mission
STS-127 to the
International Space Station .
(BBC)
July 16, 2009 (2009-07-16 ) (Thursday)
A
Ugandan study finds
circumcising men who already have
HIV does not protect their female partners from the virus.
(BBC)
A
United Nations
Security Council committee imposes further sanctions on
North Korea .
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(Japan Today)
China's
GDP grows 7.9% year by year in the second quarter of 2009, despite the
global economic crisis .
(Xinhua)
(China Daily )
(BBC)
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh , head of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and
Vice President of Iran , resigns for unknown reasons.
(ISNA)
(BBC)
(Jerusalem Post )
(Xinhua)
Former
South Korean
President and
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Kim Dae-jung is in an intensive care unit in a
Seoul hospital being treated for
pneumonia .
(Yonhap)
(BBC)
President
Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of
Turkmenistan announces the latest stage of a plan to channel drainage water from the country's
cotton fields through desert.
(BBC)
Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an
application to join the
European Union , after five days of debate.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Independent )
(The Telegraph )
The
Holy See acknowledges
Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet.
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
Interim
Honduran
President
Roberto Micheletti says he is willing to step down, only if
Jose Manuel Zelaya ceases his claim to the presidency.
(CNN)
(AFP)
Omar Bongo 's son,
Ali-Ben Bongo , is chosen to stand as the ruling party's
presidential candidate in Gabon.
(BBC)
Chinese athletes withdraw from the opening ceremony of the
World Games but say they will compete.
(BBC)
A magnitude 6.1
earthquake occurs off the coast of
Papua New Guinea but causes little damage.
(RTÉ)
The 110-story
Sears Tower in
Chicago ,
United States is renamed the
Willis Tower .
(BBC)
The
black boxes from crashed
Caspian Airlines
Flight 7908 in
Iran are recovered.
(Bernama)
(Press TV)
(Press Association)
Zac Sunderland , at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
(BBC)
Madonna 's concert in
Marseille ,
France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine.
(AFP)
(BBC)
(Boston Globe )
(CBC)
(Japan Today)
(MSNBC)
(Pravda)
(The Telegraph )
July 17, 2009 (2009-07-17 ) (Friday)
Footage of
FARC leader
Jorge Briceño saying he financed
Ecuadorian
President
Rafael Correa 's
2006 campaign is broadcast on
Colombian television.
(BBC)
(AFP)
Timothy Kirkhope
MEP defends alleged
homophobic remarks made by
European Conservatives and Reformists ' leader
Michał Kamiński in a television interview.
(BBC)
Pope
Benedict XVI slips in the bath in his mountain chalet and is treated for a fractured wrist in
Aosta ,
Italy .
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
(The Telegraph )
A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in
Marseille for
Madonna 's forthcoming tour to
France .
(AFP)
(BBC)
(Daily Mail )
(The Guardian )
(The Times )
Irish
President
Mary McAleese announces her intention to convene a meeting of the
Council of State on 22 July.
(The Irish Times )
Brazil complains of 64 containers with over 1,400 tonnes of
British used condoms, syringes and rotting nappies located in three of the country's ports.
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(Sky News)
Two journalists from
South Africa and the
United Kingdom are due in court after being allegedly attacked and then arrested while filming seal hunters in
Namibia .
(BBC)
Hong Kong appoints a new chief executive of the
Hong Kong Monetary Authority .
(SCMP)
Ruslan Balayev ,
Ingushetia 's minister for sport, is shot dead in his car.
(The Irish Times )
Ghana is set to receive a US$600 million three-year loan from the
International Monetary Fund .
(BBC)
(Reuters)
The
World Bank approves a US$76 million loan for
Mozambique .
(Reuters Africa)
An argument between the
National Portrait Gallery and online encyclopedia
Wikipedia over use of images escalates.
(BBC)
Bombings at the
Marriott and
Ritz-Carlton Hotels in
Jakarta ,
Indonesia , kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others.
(AP)
(Herald Sun )
(Reuters)
(The Times )
Former
Iranian President
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani holds
Friday prayers in
Tehran and calls for the release of
political prisoners from the
election protests .
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(Press TV)
At least 14 people, including 11
Serbian tourists, are killed and at least 10 tourists are injured in a bus collision with a lorry on a road near
Port Safaga ,
Egypt .
(BBC)
(Jang Group) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters UK)
(Reuters Africa)
22 prominent figures, including
Poland 's
Lech Wałęsa and the
Czech Republic 's
Václav Havel , warn in an open letter to the
Barack Obama administration against developing closer ties with
Russia .
(The New York Times )
BBC staff's expenses claims are revealed to include candles, flowers, champagne and a hamper.
(The Daily Telegraph )
49 members of a
Sicilian Mafia syndicate are jailed in
Italy in what the government describes as a landmark case.
(BBC)
July 18, 2009 (2009-07-18 ) (Saturday)
July 19, 2009 (2009-07-19 ) (Sunday)
July 20, 2009 (2009-07-20 ) (Monday)
July 21, 2009 (2009-07-21 ) (Tuesday)
July 22, 2009 (2009-07-22 ) (Wednesday)
July 23, 2009 (2009-07-23 ) (Thursday)
July 24, 2009 (2009-07-24 ) (Friday)
China produces a
giant panda using frozen
sperm .
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
(The Washington Post )
(Xinhua)
At least six people die as a
Croatian
high-speed train travelling from
Zagreb to
Split
derails 30km from its destination.
(AP via Google News)
Chloe Smith wins the
Norwich North by-election , the first
British constituency
by-election since the
United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal , and gains the
Conservative Party a
seat held by
Labour for the past 12 years.
(The Guardian )
20 people are killed in a
bus crash near
Rostov-on-Don ,
Russia .
(BBC)
The
President of
Indonesia ,
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , is declared as the winner of the
Indonesian presidential election .
(AP via Google News)
Wildfires in the north east of
Spain claim the lives of six firefighters in that region.
(Sky News)
The trial of
Burmese
National League for Democracy General Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi nears its end.
(Jakarta Globe )
(The Times )
(Al Jazeera)
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urged to dismiss his choice of
Vice President ,
Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei .
(Associated Press)
(Press TV)
Aria Air
Flight 1525 crashes in
Mashhad ,
Iran , killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board.
(BBC)
The
Gran Telescopio Canarias , the world's largest
reflecting telescope , is inaugurated by King
Juan Carlos I of Spain .
(The New York Times )
Afghan President
Hamid Karzai , setting out his election manifesto, vows to make foreign troops sign a framework governing how they operate in a bid to limit civilians casualties.
(Reuters)
Canada 's national rail service,
Via Rail , cancels train service due to a
strike by its engineer workers.
(CTV)
FBI and
IRS agents arrests 44 people, including five
rabbis , two
New Jersey state legislators, and three
mayors in
Operation Bid Rig .
(The New York Times)
A group of 8 people were trapped for 8 hours in an
Otis elevator in Toronto. A repair man who tried to fix the elevator fell 10 floors to his death.
(CityNews)
July 25, 2009 (2009-07-25 ) (Saturday)
July 26, 2009 (2009-07-26 ) (Sunday)
July 27, 2009 (2009-07-27 ) (Monday)
President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her last
State of the Nation Address and denies plans to extend her term which end in June 2010 as plans to convene a
constituent assembly to amend the constitution erupts.
(BBC)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer ) [
permanent dead link ]
A line of wildfires in the
Mediterranean region , which has killed eight people, spreads to
Croatia .
(RTÉ)
(The Times )
At least 150 people are
killed as clashes continue between radical
Islamists in northern
Nigeria after two days of unrest.
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(Africasia)
Canada challenges the
seal ban of the
European Union at the
World Trade Organization .
(BBC)
(CBC)
(Reuters)
The
United States and
China begin the first
U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue .
(AFP)
(Xinhua)
(Reuters)
Former
Liberian leader
Charles Taylor denies
cannibalism at his war trial in
The Hague .
(BBC)
(The Times )
A rural community in the
Eastern Cape in
South Africa lays claim to the entire town of
Mthatha in one of the biggest land restitution cases since the end of
apartheid .
(Sky News)
Patriarch Kirill of the
Russian Orthodox Church begins a visit to
Ukraine .
(BBC)
French
President
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves hospital after tests due to his
fainting
fits .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(The Times )
German
health minister
Ulla Schmidt is criticised when her official car is stolen during the burglarization of her driver's hotel room in
Alicante ,
Spain .
(BBC)
(Deutsche Welle)
A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his illegal
sexual conquests on television apologises for his actions.
(BBC)
A break-in at
Christ Church Cathedral in
Waterford ,
Ireland , damages the building and the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817.
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
(Sunday Tribune ) [
permanent dead link ]
Researchers outline
bokodes , a proposed replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional
barcode .
(BBC)
A
British -led military offensive,
Operation Panther's Claw , succeeds in clearing the
Taliban from parts of southern
Helmand Province in
Afghanistan .
(CNN)
Albanian
Prime Minister
Sali Berisha 's alliance wins enough seats to form a government, though it fell one seat short of a majority.
(BBC)
July 28, 2009 (2009-07-28 ) (Tuesday)
July 29, 2009 (2009-07-29 ) (Wednesday)
July 30, 2009 (2009-07-30 ) (Thursday)
70,000 people are evacuated from
Bryan, TX ,
United States , after
ammonium nitrate is released during a
fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse there.
(AP via google)
Palmanova bombing
Albania 's
Prime Minister
Sali Berisha indicates
he may legalise
gay marriage in the country.
(CBS)
(Straits Times )
2009 Nigeria religious violence
The
United States Coast Guard calls off its search for as many as 79
Haitians missing after their
boat capsized near the
Turks and Caicos Islands with two hundred people onboard.
(Al Jazeera)
(CNN)
Iranian police clash with mourners at a
Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the
grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader
Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Cook Islands
Prime Minister
Jim Marurai fires
Foreign Minister
Wilkie Rasmussen , accusing him of plotting to topple the government.
(RNZI)
A
South Korean fishing boat is towed away by a
North Korean patrol boat.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Korea Times )
(RTÉ)
Moldovan
President
Vladimir Voronin says he is ready for dialogue "with all political forces represented in the new parliament".
(RTÉ)
Australian
Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously.
(Straits Times )
U.S.
President
Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and
African American
public intellectual
Henry Louis Gates at the
White House in a bid to quell a dispute over
racial profiling that arose from an
altercation between the two of them.
(AP via New York Times )
Referendum Commission research indicates a
significant increase in the level of understanding of the
Treaty of Lisbon among Irish voters.
(RTÉ)
Islamist militants kill at least 15
Algerian soldiers and injure 20 others in an ambush outside
Tipaza .
(BBC)
8 people are killed and 10 are injured in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party,
Kitab Sultan , in
Diyala Governorate .
(Straits Times )
Multiple sclerosis sufferer
Debbie Purdy wins a "landmark victory" in the
House of Lords in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide abroad.
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
Iraq 's government admit that seven
Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp north of
Baghdad .
(Reuters)
University College Dublin quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly
Italian and
Russian students are assessed by doctors for
swine flu .
(RTÉ)
The
United States
Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to several international figures including
Stephen Hawking ,
Billie Jean King ,
Harvey Milk ,
Sidney Poitier ,
Mary Robinson ,
Desmond Tutu and
Muhammad Yunus .
(Boston Globe )
(The Los Angeles Times )
(San Francisco Chronicle )
July 31, 2009 (2009-07-31 ) (Friday)
Nigerian battles
Spain
Venezuela
U.S. House of Representatives approves an extra $2 billion to the
Car Allowance Rebate System .
(The Wall Street Journal )
A
Norwegian cargo vessel with a crew of six sinks after a storm in
Swedish waters near
Strömstad .
(CBC)
(Reuters)
(RTÉ)
Eight
Dutch tourists are killed and 42 people are injured in a
bus crash near
Barcelona .
(Bangkok Post )
(RTÉ)
(The Times of India )
Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of
Italian
Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi 's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a seat in the
European Parliament until his wife complained.
(BBC)
Gazprom launches construction of the
Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline .
(Reuters)
(UPI)
British Airways loses £148m in the last three months, the company's first loss since privatisation in 1987.
(Sky News)
The verdict in the trial of
National League for Democracy General Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi , scheduled for today, is postponed until August 11.
(Bangkok Post )
(Al Jazeera)
(RTÉ)
(The Straits Times )
Twenty-nine people are killed in
Iraq after bombs explode at
Shiite mosques in
Baghdad .
(Yahoo News)
Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at
Kennedy Space Centre in
Florida ,
United States , ending a
16-day mission to the
International Space Station (ISS).
(BBC)
Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city of
Altinum , regarded by some scholars as a forerunner of
Venice .
(BBC)
(Der Spiegel )
(The Times )
Briton
Gary McKinnon , accused of carrying out the biggest ever
U.S. military hacking operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, and faces
extradition to the
United States .
(CNN)
(RTÉ)
Filmmaker
Benicio del Toro is
presented with the
International Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Prize by the
Cuban
government in
Havana .
(BBC)
(The New York Times )
Research claiming to have created human
sperm in a
Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn due to evidence of
plagiarism .
(The Daily Telegraph )
Three
United States tourists are detained by
Iranians in
Iraq .
(BBC)
The giant Swiss bank
UBS and that nation's government have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against UBS by
United States tax authorities, in an agreement that seems likely to result in giving the
Internal Revenue Service access to thousands of previously secret U.S. client accounts.
(Globe & Mail)
A church in
Copenhagen offers blessings to 18
same-sex couples from around the world who are typically chastised.
(The Copenhagen Post )