September 1, 2009 (2009-09-01 ) (Tuesday)
European leaders remember the victims of
World War II at ceremonies marking the start of the conflict 70 years ago.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
(CBC)
(Time )
(Japan Today)
Muammar al-Gaddafi :
President
Tabaré Vázquez of
Uruguay shuffles his cabinet, with
Gonzalo Fernández , drafter of all major legislation, moving from Foreign Affairs to Defence.
(MercoPress)
Former
heavyweight world champion
boxer
Muhammad Ali visits the birthplace of his great-grandfather in
Ennis ,
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
Speaking in
Lima 's
El Comercio in response to some ironic quotes by
Peruvian
President
Alan García ,
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez says his country will continue to export
oil to the
United States because it is "in interest".
(MercoPress)
Fiji is suspended from the
Commonwealth of Nations , only the second full suspension in the organization's history.
(BBC)
(Times of India )
Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the
Petronas Towers in
Kuala Lumpur ,
Malaysia , using no safety equipment.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(New Straits Times )
The
unemployment rate across the
Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%.
(BBC)
Chile 's
government sets aside 4 billion
pesos for the purchase of more fuel-efficient trucks for citizens through its “
Cambia tu Camión ” (“Change your Truck”) program.
(MercoPress)
The
European Union
bans the manufacture or import of 100 watt
incandescent light bulbs , beginning a phase-out in favour of energy-saving
compact fluorescent lamps .
(BBC)
The
Pakistani Army claims to have killed at least 20 suspected militants in clashes across north-west
Pakistan .
(BBC)
An outbreak of
diarrhoea in
Orissa ,
India , kills at least 26 people and hospitalises 237.
(BBC)
A ban on
samurai swords comes into effect in
Ireland in an effort to reduce increasing crime rates.
(RTÉ)
Ali Ben Bongo ,
Pierre Mamboundou and
Andre Mba Obame each declare victory in the
Gabonese presidential election .
(Voice of America )
91 countries agree to the first ever global treaty focused specifically on the problem of
IUU fishing .
(MercoPress)
(Associated Press)
(UN News Centre)
Documents released by the
British government show that the
United Kingdom gave in to
Libyan demands that the
Lockerbie bomber be eligible for transfer home to serve his sentence there.
(CNN)
(Xinhua)
A
Sri Lankan journalist is jailed for 20 years on charges of "inciting racial hatred" and "supporting
terrorism " for writing articles critical of the
government's military operations.
(The Independent )
A
Guatemalan court sentences
Felipe Cusanero , an ex-paramilitary officer, to 150 years in prison for the forced disappearance of civilians in the 36-year
Guatemalan Civil War .
(BBC)
(Boston Globe )
(The Irish Times )
(Reuters)
A plane carrying
South African Deputy President
Kgalema Motlanthe back from an
African Union summit in
Tripoli ,
Libya makes an emergency landing on an unlit runway in northern
Congo after missing a fuel stop.
(IOL)
A
diarrhea epidemic kills 34 people in
Ethiopia and infects more than 5,000, with 500 hospitalised in
Addis Ababa in one day alone.
(IOL)
Saba threatens to secede from the
Netherlands Antilles in a letter to
Dutch Prime Minister
Jan Peter Balkenende .
(NRC Handelsblad)
September 2, 2009 (2009-09-02 ) (Wednesday)
The
66th Venice International Film Festival gets underway.
(BBC)
A helicopter carrying
Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
disappears during a flight in southern
India .
(ArabNews)
Iolu Abil is elected the
President of Vanuatu during the third round of the
Vanuatuan presidential election .
(RNZI)
(Xinhua)
Greek Prime Minister
Kostas Karamanlis announces that he is to ask the president to dissolve parliament and call
a general election for October.
(BBC)
Charles Gibson announces he will step down as anchor of
World News and retire from
ABC in January 2010.
Diane Sawyer will replace him at ABC World News.
(ABC News)
British energy company
BP says it has drilled one of the deepest wells ever in the
oil and
gas industry as it made a "giant" discovery in the
Gulf of Mexico .
(MarketWatch)
A 7.3 magnitude
earthquake occurs on at 14:55 local time on the
Indonesian island of
Java , killing at least 32 people.
(Yahoo News)
(Jakarta Post )
(Reuters)
Google 's
Gmail service is hit by an outage affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users.
(BBC)
A
Chilean judge issues arrest warrants for 129 people for allegedly helping to purge critics of the country's former ruler General
Augusto Pinochet .
(BBC)
(Bernama)
Two
car bombs explode in
Athens and
Salonika , damaging the
Athens Stock Exchange and lightly wounding one woman.
(RTÉ)
(Reuters)
(Athens News Agency)
An
Iraqi court sentences four security force personnel to death by
hanging for their parts in a
bank robbery which left eight security guards dead.
(BBC)
(Press TV)
A
Taliban blast kills
Afghan deputy chief of intelligence Abdullah Laghmani. The blast shakes the city of
Mihtarlam , 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of
Kabul in
Laghman Province ; it kills several government officials and wounds several civilians.
(ABC)
Two
American journalists held by
North Korea for illegal entry admit to crossing the border but claim North Korean guards arrested them on the
Chinese side of the border and dragged them back into the country.
(Reuters)
The
death certificate of
American
pop star and entertainer
Michael Jackson is amended to reflect his cause of death as
homicide via "
injection by another".
(BBC)
Ennama Asfari , the co-president of a
Committee for the Respect of Freedoms in
Western Sahara , is jailed for four months for insulting a policeman.
(IOL)
Prime Minister of
Burkina Faso
Tertius Zongo confirms least three people were swept away by floods and thousands are left homeless in
Ouagadougou and its suburbs.
(IOL)
A woman kills a man by jumping on top of him in
Barcelona ,
Spain .
(IOL)
Sixteen
Somalis drown after being forced overboard into the
Gulf of Aden .
(IOL)
Malaysia reverses a ruling which had banned
Muslims from attending a
Black Eyed Peas concert in
Kuala Lumpur .
(BBC News)
Two British boys planning to create a massacre in a high school in
Manchester are on trial after wanting to emulate the
Columbine High School massacre .
(BBC News)
A 3,700-year-old wall is discovered in east
Jerusalem .
(BBC)
(USA Today )
(CTV)
(Xinhua)
Miyuki Hatoyama ,
Japan 's new first lady, speaks of riding a
UFO to
Venus , calling it "a very beautiful place" and "really green".
(Reuters)
September 3, 2009 (2009-09-03 ) (Thursday)
September 4, 2009 (2009-09-04 ) (Friday)
The death toll in the
2009 Java earthquake rises to 63.
(CBC)
(Xinhua)
Ryan Tubridy takes over as host of
The Late Late Show , the world's longest running chat show.
(Irish Examiner )
(The Irish Times )
Xinjiang
Thousands of mourners from across southern
India pay their respects to the dead chief minister of
Andhra Pradesh ,
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy .
(BBC)
Six
Gambian journalists jailed for criticising
President
Yahya Jammeh are freed.
(Gambia News)
(UPI)
(BBC)
Looting occurs in
Port Gentil ,
Gabon , after riots broke out over a disputed
presidential election .
(AFP)
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
A court in
Burma agrees to hear an appeal by detained
National League for Democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi .
(The Guardian )
(Times of India )
(Jakarta Post )
North Korea announces it is in the
final stage of
uranium enrichment , as
Russia ,
South Korea ,
Japan and the
United States express concern.
(RIA Novosti)
(Reuters)
(Wall Street Journal )
(Yonhap)
More than 90 people, among them at least 40 civilians, are killed
when an American jetfighter called in by German troops attacks two fuel tankers hijacked by
Taliban -insurgents in
Kunduz , northern
Afghanistan .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(BBC)
The
armed forces in
Madagascar
reject calls by opposition groups to take over the country's institutions for an interim period.
(IOL)
(Xinhua)
(AFP)
The
International Monetary Fund grants
Zimbabwe a
US$ 500 million loan, its first to the country in 10 years.
(The Herald )
(Business Day )
Temperatures in the
Arctic are at their highest for 2000 years, according to a new study.
(The Daily Telegraph )
The
United States eases more restrictions on
Cuba , allowing unlimited family visits and telephone exchanges.
(MercoPress)
(CNN)
(Washington Post )
The
Brazilian
Senate condemns
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez for his restrictions on the press, further delaying its
Mercosur
bid .
(MercoPress)
Israeli
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is to approve new settlements in the
West Bank before a building freeze.
(New York Times )
(Ha'aretz ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Associated Press)
Air India Flight 829 suffers an engine fire during pushback at
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport ,
Mumbai . All 228 people on board successfully evacuate via emergency slides.
(NDTV)
Two
Bangladeshi newspapers, the
Daily Manab Zamin and the
New Nation , apologise after publishing an article taken from satirical
US website
The Onion , which claimed the
Moon landings were faked.
(BBC)
Former
US soldier Steven D. Green is sentenced to life in
prison with no possibility of release for the murder of an Iraqi girl and her family.
(Al Jazeera)
September 5, 2009 (2009-09-05 ) (Saturday)
The
G-20 finance ministers outline plans for
banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions.
(MarketWatch)
(Reuters)
At least 15 people, mostly
Bulgarians , drown in
Lake Ohrid ,
Republic of Macedonia , as a
tourist boat sinks .
(MIA)
(BBC)
(Makfax)
The
Communist Party Chief in
Ürümqi ,
China , is removed from his post following
recent protests over a series of stabbings with
hypodermic needles .
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
Ireland 's
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Micheál Martin travels to
Khartoum for meetings with the
Sudanese government over the
kidnapping of aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki nine weeks ago.
(RTÉ)
An oil deal and trade concerns with
Libya were at one point considered as factors in the
Lockerbie bomber 's release,
British Justice Secretary
Jack Straw says in an interview.
(CNN)
Thousands of people attend rival demonstrations for or against the policies of
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez in Venezuela,
Spain ,
Honduras and in other Latin American capitals.
(BBC)
(BBC video)
(Associated Press)
(El Universal )
Around 90 people are arrested in clashes between
right wing anti-
Islamic groups and anti-
Fascist protesters in
Birmingham ,
England .
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(The Independent )
Grenada releases the last seven prisoners convicted in the murder of
Grenadian Prime Minister
Maurice Bishop during the
1983 coup , including former deputy prime minister
Bernard Coard .
(France 24) [
permanent dead link ]
September 6, 2009 (2009-09-06 ) (Sunday)
September 7, 2009 (2009-09-07 ) (Monday)
September 8, 2009 (2009-09-08 ) (Tuesday)
A
shipwreck in
Sierra Leone leaves "scores" dead.
(The New York Times )
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Police in
Milwaukee ,
United States , arrest a man in suspicion of being the notorious
North Side Strangler , believed to have killed at least seven women between 1986 and 2007.
(MSNBC)
A colossal
statue of
Apollo is discovered at a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site at
Hierapolis ,
Turkey .
(Discovery Channel)
Two
Norwegians ,
Joshua French and
Tjostolv Moland , on trial for alleged
murder and
espionage , are found guilty on both counts and sentenced to death by a
Congolese military tribunal.
(Norway Post)
Mobile network operators
T-Mobile and
Orange agree to merge their
British businesses.
(BBC)
A
magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northern
Georgia .
(BBC)
(USGS)
(The Georgian Times )
35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in a
coal mine in
Pingdingshan ,
China .
(BBC)
(China Daily )
(Al Jazeera)
Kenya replaces almost all of its senior police officers after they were blamed for deaths during
post-election violence in 2007 and 2008.
(Daily Nation )
(BBC)
Sudanese journalist
Lubna al-Hussein is freed from one day in jail after being prosecuted for wearing trousers – the fine was paid by the Journalist Union.
(Associated Press)
(Al Jazeera)
A storm, with rain, hail and winds of over 60 mph kills at least 14 people in northern
Argentina and southern
Brazil .
(BBC)
September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09 ) (Wednesday)
US
Representative
Joe Wilson (
R -
SC ) interrupts President
Barack Obama 's health care speech to the
Congress with an audible shout of "You lie!"
(New York Times )
Aeroméxico Flight 576 , a
Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from
Cancún , and forced to land at
Mexico City International Airport .
(BBC News)
Floods in
Istanbul , the worst in 80 years, kill around 20 people and injure a further 20.
(Today's Zaman )
(Reuters)
The
Democratic Party of Japan agrees to form a
coalition with two other parties, the
Social Democratic Party and
People's New Party .
(Mainichi Shimbun )
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
South Korea accuses
North Korea of deliberately releasing water from a
dam across the
Korean Demilitarized Zone , in which six people died.
(Xinhua)
(Yonhap)
(Associated Press)
Iranian authorities close the offices of opposition leader
Mehdi Karroubi , confiscating material.
(Al Jazeera)
(Press TV)
A new series of
hypodermic needle
stabbings occur in
Ürümqi , northwestern
China .
(China Daily )
(Press Trust of India)
(Press TV)
(The Straits Times )
The son of former
Filipino
President
Corazon Aquino ,
Benigno Aquino III , announces his intention to run for the presidency.
(The Philippine Inquirier )
(CNN)
(The Australian )
North Korea holds celebrations to mark the 61st anniversary of its founding.
(CBC)
(The Straits Times )
Stephen Farrell , a journalist with
The New York Times , is rescued in northern
Afghanistan after four days as a captive of the
Taliban , but his Afghan colleague Mohammad Sultan Munadi is shot dead during the raid.
(The Irish Times )
"Beatles Day" is celebrated worldwide as remastered versions of
The Beatles '
albums are released, as well as
The Beatles: Rock Band .
(Newsday )
September 10, 2009 (2009-09-10 ) (Thursday)
British
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown apologises for the post-war treatment of celebrated
WWII code-breaker
Alan Turing , who was chemically
castrated for having
homosexual relations.
(Downing St)
(CBC)
(Reuters India)
(The New York Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi says he will demand a permanent place in the
United Nations Security Council for
Africa and compensation worth 777 trillion dollars for years of colonialism in
New York later this month.
(IOL)
A
Hong Kong court convicts
Du Jun , a former senior banker at
Morgan Stanley , in the country's largest insider trading case.
(BBC)
Gabon bars opposition leaders from leaving the country following recent riots over claims of fraud in the
2009 presidential election .
(BBC)
Dubai 's
Metro System , the first mass transit system of the Arabian Peninsula, officially opens to the public as its first
metro line is partially operational.
(Al Bawaba)
Prime Minister-designate
Saad Hariri steps aside in
Lebanon .
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
At least five girls are killed and 30 other students injured in a stampede at a state-run school in the
Indian capital,
New Delhi .
(ABC)
(RTÉ)
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez
recognizes
Abkhazia and
South Ossetia during a visit to
Russia .
(El Universal ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters)
Afghan journalists express anger over the killing of local reporter
Sultan Munadi during a rescue operation that saved his colleague
Stephen Farrell .
(RTÉ)
British consul John Terry is murdered in
Jamaica .
(Jamaica Gleaner )
(Times Online )
Greek militant group
Revolutionary Struggle threatens to attack the "golden boys" it blames for the economic crisis as it claims responsibility for the
Athens stock market bombing.
(RTÉ)
In
football ,
Germany beat
England 6–2 in the
UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final, claiming their seventh
European title .
(BBC)
A boat with over 250 people on board capsizes in a storm off the coast of
Sierra Leone , killing at least 8.
(New York Times )
(Awareness Times )
(Al Jazeera)
Supporters of the traditional
Kabaka of Buganda ,
Muwenda Mutebi II , riot in the
Ugandan capital
Kampala after a move by the government to prevent him from visiting a local area, resulting in several deaths.
(BBC)
(IOL)
(Press TV)
September 11, 2009 (2009-09-11 ) (Friday)
The search and rescue effort following the
2009 Sierra Leone shipwreck comes to end, with 90 confirmed dead and at least 100 others declared missing.
(Reuters)
In an interview with
The Wall Street Journal ,
Libertas founder
Declan Ganley says the
second Irish referendum on the
Treaty of Lisbon is "profoundly undemocratic".
(RTÉ)
Former
Taiwanese President
Chen Shui-bian and his wife,
Wu Shu-chen , are both sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of
corruption .
(Taiwan News )
(France 24)
Zimbabwe 's
President
Robert Mugabe condemns "bloody whites" for meddling in his country's affairs, specifically perceived
British and
American interference.
(IOL)
President
Vladimir Voronin of
Moldova resigns.
(Xinhua)
Prime minister
Jadranka Kosor of
Croatia and
PM
Borut Pahor of
Slovenia agree on an immediate end to
Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession and further negotiation of the
Gulf of Piran border dispute between two countries.
(Delo)
(Deutsche Welle)
(Malaysia Star )
A
Kenyan magistrate sentences
Jon Cardon Wagner , an
American who founded the popular chain of coffee shops,
Nairobi Java House , to 15 years of imprisonment for the statutory rape of three teenage Kenyan girls.
(IOL)
Sharon Commins, an aid worker kidnapped with a
Ugandan colleague in
Sudan , makes contact with her family in
Ireland for the first time in several weeks.
(RTÉ)
NASA 's Space Shuttle
Discovery lands at the
Edwards Air Force Base in
California ,
USA .
(BBC)
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez announces the discovery of a vast gas field off the coast of his country, one of the world's largest finds.
(BBC)
(MercoPress)
September 12, 2009 (2009-09-12 ) (Saturday)
September 13, 2009 (2009-09-13 ) (Sunday)
Russia announces that it will assist
Venezuela in the building of a nuclear energy program.
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At least 19 people die and 80 are missing after a
ferry sinks in the
Congo River in the
Democratic Republic of Congo .
(AFP via Google News)
Kim Clijsters of
Belgium defeats
Caroline Wozniacki of
Denmark to win the
2009 US Open Women's Singles .
(New York Times )
Qubo Last Moments of
Lamb Chop's Play-Along ,
Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures ,
Theodore Tugboat and
VeggieTales
Cork beat
Kilkenny in the final of the
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 .
(RTÉ)
Police arrest more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in
Uganda 's capital
Kampala , as the death toll rises to 14.
(IOL)
Brazilian
President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the
G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis.
(BBC)
German
Chancellor
Angela Merkel appears with her main rival,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier , in a TV debate, two weeks ahead of an election.
(BBC)
(Deutsche Welle)
(The Guardian )
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Miami Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
Saudi Arabia 's veteran foreign minister
Prince Saud al-Faisal undergoes successful spine surgery in the
United States .
(Reuters)
38 people are killed in a
fire at a
drug abuse clinic in
Taldykorgan ,
Kazakhstan .
(Kazakhstan News)
(AFP)
(RIA Novosti)
(IOL)
Hundreds of people protest in
Hong Kong over alleged beatings of its journalists in mainland
China covering
unrest in
Xinjiang .
(RTHK)
(BBC)
(Straits Times )
At least 6 people die in a fall down an elevator shaft of a skyscraper under construction in
Hong Kong .
(BBC)
(IOL)
(The New Zealand Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
4 people die and 3 are injured when a mud house collapses in floods at
Lazaret , a poor district of the
Nigerien capital
Niamey .
(IOL)
Two of the so-called
Bermuda Triangle 's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.
(BBC)
Teeth and bones from a range of animals, including
hyenas ,
deer and
rhinos , are discovered by
archaeologists inside a cave in
Devon ,
England .
(BBC)
September 14, 2009 (2009-09-14 ) (Monday)
September 15, 2009 (2009-09-15 ) (Tuesday)
September 16, 2009 (2009-09-16 ) (Wednesday)
New documents disclose that novelist
J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for
His Majesty's Government in the run up to
World War II .
(The Daily Telegraph )
José Manuel Barroso is re-elected as
President of the European Commission , by
Members of the European Parliament .
(BBC News)
(Angola Press)
Yukio Hatoyama is sworn in as the 60th
Prime Minister of Japan .
(Asahi Shimbun )
(Radio Australia)
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez announces that
China is to invest 16 billion
US dollars to boost oil production in the country particularly along the
Orinoco River as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on the US market.
(MercoPress)
Argentina formally accepts apologies from the
Spanish government which admitted having committed a “protocol error” on allowing the presence of a delegation from the
Falkland Islands in an international fisheries sustainability conference.
(MercoPress)
Kenya 's parliament nullifies
President
Mwai Kibaki 's reappointment of Kenya's anti-corruption chief,
Justice Aaron Ringera , who critics say has shown little interest in fighting graft.
(IOL)
The
European Union casts doubt on last month's election results showing
Afghan President
Hamid Karzai winning the presidential election outright in the first round.
(Reuters)
The
World Meteorological Organisation says the
hole in the
Ozone layer is smaller than in 2008.
(AFP)
China says it has foiled a possible terrorist attack in
Xinjiang , detaining six people.
(Xinhua)
(The Straits Times )
(UPI)
The
Somalian
Islamist group
Al-Shabaab call for reinforcements after a
U.S. raid killed its leader
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan .
(Reuters)
Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in
Mexico .
(Associated Press)
(CNN)
Kenya begins moving the first residents out of
slums in the capital
Nairobi , as part of a plan to clear all
shanty towns over the next two to five years.
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(Capital FM)
21 people are injured, three seriously, after a collision involving a
Luas tram and a double-decker bus on
O'Connell Street in
Dublin , the worst ever accident involving the city's trams.
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
(The Belfast Telegraph )
(The Canadian Press)
The
TEAMS cable system , providing high speed
broadband to
East Africa for the first time, is poised to go live.
(BBC)
Egyptian border guards shoot dead two sub-
Saharan migrants, bringing to at least 14 the number killed this year as they try to cross illegally into
Israel .
(IOL)
A lightning bolt kills five children at their school in
Bamali ,
Cameroon , as they are preparing to begin their school day.
(IOL)
September 17, 2009 (2009-09-17 ) (Thursday)
A senior
Irish
Catholic
bishop says
Roman Catholics can vote "Yes" in the country's
second referendum on the
Treaty of Lisbon "in good conscience".
(BBC)
At least 87 refugees are killed after an
army air raid on a camp for displaced people in
'Amran Governorate , northern
Yemen .
(BBC)
(Saba)
(Bernama)
(Al Jazeera)
The
President of France
Nicolas Sarkozy says
European Union leaders agree to impose a cap on
banker pay.
(AP via Google News)
The
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic ,
Jan Fischer , says that
President
Barack Obama told him that the
United States is abandoning plans for a
missile shield based in
Poland and the
Czech Republic .
(AP via Houston Chronicle )
(RIA Novosti)
Two large explosions hit the main base of
African Union peacekeepers in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia .
(AP via Chicago Star-Tribune ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Xinhua)
Shia insurgency in Yemen : More than 80 people are killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern
Yemen .
(BBC)
A number of children are injured in
an attack at the Carolinum secondary school in the
Bavarian town of
Ansbach .
German police arrest a man.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Colombia says it would consider quitting
UNASUR if the bloc does not agree to debate issues related to
drug trafficking ,
terrorism and arms purchases.
(MercoPress)
Ethiopia 's
Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi denounces an
International Crisis Group (ICG) report that warns his country could descend into ethnic violence ahead of its first national election since a 2005 poll triggered deadly street clashes.
(IOL)
A large
car bomb attack in the centre of
Kabul ,
Afghanistan , kills six
Italian
ISAF soldiers.
(BBC)
(Adnkronos)
Egypt 's top
Islamic authority,
Grand Mufti
Ali Gomaa , defends women's rights to wear trousers in public following the high-profile court case in neighbouring
Sudan where women, including
Lubna al-Hussein , were
flogged for dressing in the garments.
(IOL)
Seven explosions hit the
Burmese city of
Yangon with no casualties.
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Times of India )
Indonesian police confirm the death of their most wanted man,
Noordin Mohammed Top , who was suspected of involvement in the
2009 Jakarta bombings and the
Bali bombings in 2002.
(Jakarta Post )
(Al Jazeera)
(CNN)
United Nations Under-Secretary General for
Political Affairs
Lynn Pascoe begins visiting camps holding displaced
Tamil refugees in northern
Sri Lanka .
(Colombo Page )
(BBC)
(AFP)
Venezuela and
China agree a
$ 16 billion oil exploration deal allowing China to drill in the
Orinoco basin.
(Bloomberg)
(MarketWatch)
(Al Jazeera)
The ruling Burmese
junta defends its decision to bar opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi from attending her appeal hearing.
(Straits Times )
(Gulf News) [
permanent dead link ]
(Philippine Star ) [
permanent dead link ]
Four more people are found guilty and jailed for carrying out
attacks with syringes in the western
Chinese province of
Xinjiang .
(BBC)
The
National Assembly of Kenya passes a
bill to reduce the number of ministries from 40 to 24.
(BBC)
September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18 ) (Friday)
Two people are killed and eight are hurt when a man confronted by police for scrawling graffiti at a
Mexico City
Metro station opens fire on passers-by.
(CNN)
(BBC)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
A
mine blast in
Ruda Śląska ,
Poland , kills at least 13 miners and hospitalises at least 30 more. The country's worst mining disaster since 2006, two days of national mourning are declared the following day.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(The Irish Times )
Hong Kong sentences former
Morgan Stanley managing director
Du Jun to seven years in prison for his
insider trading conviction in its most high-profile case.
(BBC)
International Quds Day :
30,000
Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by the
dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura , which, according to the
United Nations , has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by a
London -based oil firm is not enough.
(BBC)
Solidarity co-founder and former
President of Poland
Lech Wałęsa (in favour) and
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader
Nigel Farage (against) arrive in
Ireland to campaign over the country's
second referendum on the
Treaty of Lisbon .
(Euronews)
(The Irish Times )
(The Times )
Burma :
The first ever
Global Irish Economic Forum , modelled on
Switzerland 's
World Economic Forum , begins in
Farmleigh in
Dublin 's
Phoenix Park .
(The Belfast Telegraph )
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
(Forbes)
(Reuters)
The
Brazilian
government announces a plan to ban
sugarcane farming in the
Amazon Rainforest and indigenous areas.
(Latin American Herald Tribune )
(BBC)
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il tells a visiting envoy of
Chinese
President
Hu Jintao he is willing to engage in talks on his country's nuclear programme.
(BBC)
(Yonhap)
Uruguayan
President
Tabaré Vázquez calls for an integrated
Mercosur with a greater number of countries to make it more competitive overseas, but also demands greater balance inside the group among members.
(MercoPress)
Sri Lanka announces it will rehouse displaced
Tamil refugees within the next four months.
(Associated Press)
The
Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirms that serving
PSNI officers provided training to the
Libyan police force in the past twelve months.
(RTÉ)
Two people are killed and a further 12 injured in a stabbing attack in
Beijing .
(China Daily )
(Associated Press)
(China Post )
At least 33 people die as a result of a
suicide bomb attack in
Kohat in the
North West Frontier Province of
Pakistan .
(RTÉ)
(AP via Google News)
(BBC)
(IOL)
Nicola Roxon , the
Australian
Minister for Health and Ageing , says that the
Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved an Australian-made
swine flu
vaccine .
(AP via Fox 59) [
permanent dead link ]
The
Raptorex kriegsteini , a smaller version of the
Tyrannosaurus rex , is discovered in northeastern
China .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Washington Post )
(The Guardian )
The
African Union says a
twin bombing that killed 17 peacekeepers on its base in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia , was conducted in
UN marked cars.
(CNN)
(IOL)
Michel Bagaragaza , former head of
Rwanda 's tea industry, pleads guilty to complicity in the 1994 genocide, altering his original not guilty plea.
(BBC)
Singapore 's best-known watercolour artist,
Cultural Medallion recipient
Ong Kim Seng , donates eight works to the country's new national art gallery.
(The Straits Times )
September 19, 2009 (2009-09-19 ) (Saturday)
A six-nation east
African regional bloc consisting of
Djibouti ,
Ethiopia ,
Kenya ,
Somalia ,
Sudan and
Uganda urges global sanctions on
Eritrea for backing
Islamist rebels in neighbouring war-torn Somalia.
(IOL)
Two men are arrested in
Denver ,
Colorado ,
United States , as part of an
FBI terror probe.
(AP via Google News)
Attacks by rebels in
Yemen are reported despite a
ceasefire .
(CNN)
(Saba)
(BBC)
Pro and
anti government protestors demonstrate in the
Thai capital
Bangkok and near the
Preah Vihear Temple along the border with
Cambodia .
(Bangkok Post )
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
A
gay pride march in
Belgrade ,
Serbia , is called off after police and
Prime Minister
Mirko Cvetković tell organisers they could not guarantee its safety.
(BBC)
(The Times of India )
(ABC News)
An
earthquake measuring 5.8 on the
Richter scale occurs off the coast of
Bali in
Indonesia .
(BBC)
DNA tests confirm that
Islamist
bomber
Noordin Mohamed Top is dead.
(BBC)
Treaty of Lisbon :
Four people are seriously injured in a bear attack in
Takayama ,
Gifu Prefecture ,
Japan .
(BBC)
Pakistani police raid a local
security firm that provides security for the
United States embassy for illegal weapons possession.
(AP via Houston Chronicle )
The
German government raises its terrorism alert level after
al Qaeda posted a video on the Internet threatening attacks in
Germany based on the outcome of this month's elections.
(CNN)
Two
German ships become the first Western commercial vessels to navigate the
Northern Sea Route .
(BBC)
Singer
Vera Lynn , aged 92, becomes the oldest artist to obtain a number one
album in the
United Kingdom .
(The New York Times )
France 's government holds emergency talks with farmers to avert protests over falling dairy prices.
(BBC)
Pope
Benedict XVI announces he is to hold a special meeting of
Roman Catholic
bishops to discuss the concerns and challenges of the Church in the
Middle East in October 2010.
(The Irish Times )
Nigeria 's government asks cinemas to stop showing the science fiction film,
District 9 , saying it denigrates the country's image by portraying Nigerians as cannibals, criminals and prostitutes.
(BBC)
Hundreds of
parachutists from the
United States , the
United Kingdom and the
Netherlands commemorate the 65th anniversary of
Operation Market Garden near
Arnhem , the Netherlands.
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Becky Simmons becomes the first
Guernsey -born person to swim the
English Channel .
(The Guernsey Press )
September 20, 2009 (2009-09-20 ) (Sunday)
September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21 ) (Monday)
A trial against former
Prime Minister of
France
Dominique de Villepin , over the
Clearstream affair , begins in
Paris .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
Legislative elections in
Macau attract a higher turnout than usual and strengthen the democratic minority.
(BBC)
(Radio Australia News)
Ousted
Honduran
President
Manuel Zelaya returns to his country, almost three months after the coup which overthrew him. He seeks shelter in the
Brazilian embassy in
Tegucigalpa . Interim president
Roberto Micheletti orders a 26 hour
curfew and shuts down the airport as a result of the demonstrations sparked by Zelaya's return.
(BBC)
(MercoPress)
(AP via Google News) ,
(AP via Google News)
(Reuters)
A
6.1 magnitude earthquake occurs in eastern
Bhutan and is felt in northeast
India ,
Tibet and
Bangladesh , leaving at least 10 dead.
(Earth Times)
(CNN)
(Indian Express )
(BBS)
(Malaysia Star )
A passenger train is intentionally derailed near
Craiova ,
Romania , injuring many people.
(Roumanie.com)
New clashes break out in the
Darfur region of
Sudan .
(BBC)
(Taiwan News )
South African
President
Jacob Zuma admits disagreements do exist between the
ANC and the trade union federation (
COSATU )—one of its main political partners.
(BBC)
Italy holds a
state funeral for six soldiers killed in
Afghanistan last week.
(Associated Press)
(Adnkronos)
Russia 's first
President
Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a "golden cage", his phone tapped and the
Kremlin controlling visitors, a colleague reveals.
(The Irish Times )
Sir Alex Ferguson ,
Gary Lineker and
Fabio Capello are among 1,000 guests at a memorial service held for the recently deceased
football manager
Sir Bobby Robson .
(The Times )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(USA Today )
Most of the world's major
river deltas are sinking, including
Colorado ,
Nile ,
Pearl ,
Rhone and
Yangtze , increasing the flood risk faced by ½ a billion people, scientists report.
(BBC)
New figures released by the Japanese
government indicate one in four women are aged 65 or over for the first time.
(Japan Today)
(Mainichi Shimbun )
(AFP)
Lou Nuer militiamen kill more than 100 civilians and security force members in an attack in
Sudan 's
Duk Padiet in
Jonglei , the latest in a series of ethnic clashes.
(BBC)
A judicial official says a 51-year-old man has confessed to sending threatening letters containing bullets to
President of France
Nicolas Sarkozy and other prominent figures.
(IOL)
In
swimming , Lisa Cummins becomes the first
Irish person and the 20th person ever to complete a two way crossing of the
English Channel .
(RTÉ Sport)
(The Irish Times )
(Kent Online)
Adidas and
Puma end their 60-year-old feud.
(BBC)
Singer
Jade Ewen is confirmed as the new member of
internationally successful girlband
Sugababes , replacing the only original member
Keisha Buchanan .
(Daily Mail )
Massimo Busacca , a high-profile
Swiss football referee who officiated the
2009 UEFA Champions League Final and was expected to take part at the
2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa , is suspended "immediately" for waving his middle finger at fans during a match.
(BBC)
Rescuers scour the sea off the
Morocco coast for dozens of
African migrants who are missing and feared dead after their boat capsized in an accident that kills eight others.
(IOL)
(ABC)
(Xinhua)
September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22 ) (Tuesday)
American
Mesac Damas is extradited from
Haiti to stand trial for the murders of his six family members in
Florida ,
United States .
NBC-2
A
mid-air collision destroys
Iran 's only
AWACS equipped aircraft, an
Ilyushin Il-76 MD. (
Debka ), (
Defensenews )
A gang of
racist youths are sent to jail for a string of attacks on foreigners in
Moscow ,
Russia , in 2008.
(BBC)
U.S. President
Barack Obama calls for the resumption of the
Middle East peace process in meetings with the
Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu and the
President of the Palestinian Authority
Mahmoud Abbas .
(Voice of America)
Honduran soldiers break up protests outside the
Brazilian embassy in
Tegucigalpa in support of deposed
President
Manuel Zelaya , who is staying inside.
(BBC)
(MercoPress)
Several people are killed after
a bus comes off a road and slides down an embankment into a river east of
Düsseldorf ,
Germany .
(BBC)
(Taiwan News )
(RIA Novosti)
Casualties and 25 deaths are feared in a gun battle between
Maoist rebels and supporters of the ruling
Communist Party in the
Indian state of
West Bengal .
(BBC)
(Press Trust of India)
New figures reveal that for the first time since 1995 more people emigrated from
Ireland than immigrated there, with a growth of more than 40% from January–April 2009. Most of the emigrants are
Eastern European or Irish nationals.
(RTÉ)
French riot police detain 278
migrants in
Calais in an operation to dismantle the "jungle" camp.
(France 24)
(BBC)
(Straits Times )
China bans foreigners from entering
Tibet , ahead of the
60th anniversary celebrations of the People's Republic.
(Straits Times )
(Australia Network News)
Taiwan shows a documentary on
Uyghur leader
Rebiya Kadeer , as the website of the
Kaoshiung Film Festival is hacked.
(Central News Agency) [
permanent dead link ]
(China Daily )
(The Guardian )
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads for
New York to attend the
United Nations
General Assembly .
(Xinhua)
An Iranian military airplane crashes during a military parade in
Tehran .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
(ABC)
A
Spanish doctor, identified as AM, is sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the death of the former
First Lady of
Nigeria ,
Stella Obasanjo .
(BBC)
Ireland 's
National Ploughing Championships , the largest
ploughing championship in the world and the largest outdoor agricultural event in
Europe , begins in
Athy ,
County Kildare .
(RTÉ)
(Irish Independent )
(The Irish Times )
Attorney General for England and Wales
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal , is fined £5,000 after being found to have employed a housekeeper who was not legally allowed to work in the UK.
(BBC)
For the first time in at least ten years, all
United States embassies and consulates in
South Africa are closed following an unspecified "security threat".
(BBC)
(Bernama)
(Associated Press)
The
New Zealand dollar soars to a 13-month high against both the
U.S. dollar and
euro .
(The New Zealand Herald )
Bayo Ohu , the assistant news editor of the
Nigerian daily
The Guardian , is shot dead at his home in
Lagos .
(The Guardian )
Official government figures indicate the
murder rate in
South Africa has fallen, though
robberies and
sexual offences are on the increase.
(AFP)
(IOL)
Chinese
President Hu Jintao tells a
U.N. summit on
climate change that
China will reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on clean energy sources in coming years.
(CNN)
The
2009 Pacific Mini Games opens in
Rarotonga ,
Cook Islands .
(RNZI)
(Scoop.co.nz)
Former
world number 1
tennis player
Justine Henin announces that she is ending her year-long retirement from the sport.
(AP via ESPN)
The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for
menthol cigarettes .
(The New York Times )
Sixteen people go on trial in
Vietnam accused of committing fraud over the foreign adoption of more than 250 babies.
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Miami Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
Rescue teams scour eastern
Bhutan after at least 11 people are killed by an earthquake which struck the region.
(BBC)
Security is tightened across
Germany after the emergence of
al-Qaeda videos threatening attacks if troops are not withdrawn from
Afghanistan .
(BBC)
Cities around the world celebrate
World Car Free Day .
(The Washington Post )
September 23, 2009 (2009-09-23 ) (Wednesday)
The cities of
Canberra ,
Sydney and
Brisbane in
Australia are covered by a
dust storm , the worst in at least 70 years. Aviation in
New South Wales is disrupted.
(The Australian )
(ABC News)
(The Canberra Times )
A
chimney collapse in
Korba in the
Indian state of
Chhattisgarh leaves at least 15 workers dead and at least 50 feared trapped.
(BBC)
The
Libyan government pitches a tent in suburban
New York on land rented from
Donald Trump that leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi may use for entertaining, but local officials order workers to stop the construction, saying it "violated several codes and laws of the town of
Bedford ".
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(The Times )
(BBC)
(South China Morning Post )
(The New Zealand Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
Prime Minister of
Bhutan
Jigme Thinley describes an earthquake which hit the Himalayan kingdom on Monday as "one of the biggest disasters in recent times".
(BBC)
Gay activists in
South Africa welcome a life sentence for a man involved in the gang rape and murder of
lesbian
football star
Eudy Simelane , one of the first women to openly live as a lesbian in her community of
KwaThema .
(BBC)
Former
President of Cuba
Fidel Castro praises current
President of the United States
Barack Obama for his speech before the
United Nations General Assembly for admitting it had been slow to act on climate change but urges that the American capitalist system is incompatible with a clean planet.
(BBC)
One of the busiest border crossings between
Mexico and the
United States at
San Ysidro is closed for hours after a gun battle between US agents and suspected human traffickers.
(BBC)
(The Washington Post' )
(Herald Sun )
A
Scottish £1 banknote, dated 1836, sells for a world record £9,000 price at auction.
(BBC)
Swedish police hunt for robbers who used a stolen helicopter to raid a cash depot in
Stockholm .
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
A report carried by
The Sydney Morning Herald says
Australia is poised to be the world's fastest growing industrialised nation over the next four decades, reaching a population of 35 million by 2050.
(The New Zealand Herald )
The
Bundespolizei investigate whether a string of letters from the
far-right NPD party to politicians from
immigrant backgrounds have incited
racial hatred .
(BBC)
(Deusche Welle)
A court in
Tanzania sentences three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old
albino boy,
Matatizo Dunia , to steal parts of his anatomy. It is the
country's first conviction for this offence.
(BBC)
A man is shot dead in a clash between police and supporters of ousted
Honduran
President
Manuel Zelaya , believed to be the first death since his return to the country.
(RTÉ)
Indian villagers accuse the actress
Julia Roberts of interrupting
Navratri .
(BBC)
India successfully launches seven satellites in a single mission one month after its inaugural
Moon mission is aborted. Included are six smaller satellites from
Germany ,
Switzerland and
Turkey .
(BBC)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
Julio Alberto Poch , a
Transavia commercial airline pilot, is arrested in
Spain over his alleged role in
Argentina 's 1976–1983 "
Dirty War ".
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(The Times )
(Miami Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters)
In his first
United Nations appearance,
Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi calls for reform of the
Security Council and chastises the Council for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars since the U.N. was founded in 1945.
(MSNBC)
China relaxes travel curbs for
Guangdong residents visiting
Macau .
(The Straits Times )
Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to call on
Sri Lanka to free hundreds of thousands of displaced people detained in camps since the island's civil war ended.
(The Straits Times )
A
Polish court awards €7,400 damages to
Alicja Tysiąc , likened to a child killer and
Nazi war criminal by
Catholic magazine
Gość Niedzielny for wanting an
abortion .
(BBC)
Germany 's first
nudist hiking trail opens.
(Der Spiegel )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(Reuters)
(MSNBC)
ABBA ,
Genesis ,
Kiss ,
LL Cool J ,
Red Hot Chili Peppers and
The Stooges are amongst several acts nominated for the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
(Rolling Stone )
(CBC)
(Billboard )
The multi-billion dollar
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , boasting one of the world's fastest
supercomputers , opens near
Jeddah in
Saudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to compete in science and technology internationally.
(BBC)
September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24 ) (Thursday)
Treaty of Lisbon :
The
2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit commences with two dozen world leaders in attendance.
Sixteen members of
al-Qaeda , five of whom have been sentenced to death, are at large after escaping from prison north of
Baghdad .
(BBC)
India 's
Chandrayaan-1 probe discovers large amounts of water on the
Moon .
(Press Trust of India)
(Financial Times )
(Xinhua)
(The Australian )
(The Guardian )
The
United Nations
Security Council , headed by world leaders, unanimously approve Resolution 1887 to prevent the proliferation of
nuclear weapons .
(BBC)
(China Daily )
(New York Times )
(Associated Press)
(Hindustan Times )
Thailand and the U.S. Army announce a breakthrough of a
HIV /
AIDS vaccine, after trials find it can reduce infection by 31%.
(Thai News Agency)
(Bernama)
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
(CNN)
Arthur's Day : The 250th anniversary of the signing of a lease by
Arthur Guinness for
a brewery at St James's Gate in
Dublin . Events organised by
Diageo get underway in Dublin,
Kuala Lumpur ,
Lagos ,
New York and
Yaoundé .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
(Philadelphia Inquirer )
(Sky News)
The last surviving
Ottoman ,
Ertuğrul Osman , dies in
Istanbul at the age of 97.
(BBC)
(Today's Zaman )
Nine
North Koreans enter
Denmark 's embassy in the
Vietnamese capital
Hanoi to seek
political asylum .
(BBC)
(Taiwan News )
(New York Times )
An online petition is launched after
President of
The Gambia
Yahya Jammeh threatens to kill human rights workers that "destabilise" the country.
(BBC)
(Newstime Africa)
Australia begins clearing up after its
worst dust storm in seven decades , which smothered
Sydney and brought transport to a standstill.
(BBC)
The
United Kingdom 's
largest haul of
Anglo-Saxon treasure, a collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces comparable to the
Book of Kells , is discovered buried beneath a field in
Staffordshire .
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Independent )
(RTÉ)
(Malaysian Sun )
(The Australian ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Sky News)
The
News of the World and
Daily Mail newspapers apologise to
Fabio Capello , the manager of
England 's
national football team , after printing pictures of him and his wife Laura resting in
mud-baths on an
Italian beach.
(BBC)
South Korea agrees to develop 1,000 km2 (386 sq miles) of farmland in
Tanzania .
(IOL)
(BBC)
(The Korea Herald )
A painting worth up to 3 million
euros by
surrealist artist
René Magritte is stolen by thieves at a museum in
Brussels .
(The Times )
(AFP)
Detained
Burmese
National League for Democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi welcomes a new
United States policy shift which would engage with the Burmese
military government .
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
A court in
Taiwan rejects former
President
Chen Shui-bian 's appeal to be released on bail.
(Associated Press)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
The
Tanzania Albino Society (Tas) calls for the
men found guilty of killing an albino boy in
Tanzania to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.
(BBC)
Bobby Cox , manager of the professional
baseball team
Atlanta Braves , announces he will retire at the end of the 2010 season.
(AP/FOX Sports)
Governor
Deval Patrick of
Massachusetts chooses former
Democratic National Committee chairman
Paul G. Kirk, Jr. to replace former
Senator
Teddy Kennedy on a temporary basis, until elections can be held to choose a permanent replacement to fill the remainder of Kennedy's term.
(Houston Chronicle )
2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit :
Tongan Loloahi Tapui , the housekeeper of
Attorney General for England and Wales
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal , is arrested alongside her husband over alleged immigration offences.
(BBC)
Five deaths occur in
Turkey as a result of flash floods.
(Xinhua)
(Reuters)
(BBC)
Nigerian politician
Waje Yayok , third in command in
Kaduna State , is kidnapped.
(BBC)
Melting ice is pouring off
Greenland and
Antarctica into the sea far faster than was previously realised because of global warming, new research shows.
(Irish Independent )
September 25, 2009 (2009-09-25 ) (Friday)
Photographs of
Spanish
Prime Minister
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family are published in the
United States and subsequently published on the front pages of newspapers in his home country. A controversy occurs as many Spaniards have never before seen the children of the intensely private Prime Minister.
(The Guardian )
Poland approves a law making
chemical castration mandatory for
paedophiles .
(Reuters)
Four people are charged in
Greece over recent bombing attacks, in the first arrests brought against suspected terrorists in several years.
(IOL)
(Canadian Press)
Nigerian MPs ask the government to investigate the status of
Chinese citizens living in the country, after allegations that Nigerians in China have been mistreated.
(BBC)
The trial of former
Israeli
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert on corruption charges begins in
Jerusalem . He is the first ever Israeli Prime Minister to be brought to trial.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Iran reveals to the
United Nations nuclear watchdog the existence of a second
uranium enrichment plant, facing accusations of secret building projects from
Gordon Brown ,
Barack Obama and
Nicolas Sarkozy .
(BBC)
(Haaretz )
(RTÉ)
Lawyers for the former
Prime Minister of France ,
Dominique de Villepin , say they will sue
President
Nicolas Sarkozy for having called him "guilty" of the "
Clearstream " affair and violating the principle of
presumption of innocence .
(BBC)
At least two people are killed and fifteen injured in a blast at a fireworks shop in
Santo André ,
Greater São Paulo ,
Brazil .
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(Ria Novosti)
Hundreds of people queue in
Birmingham ,
United Kingdom , to see part of the
Staffordshire hoard .
(BBC)
Palau is to create the world's first "
shark sanctuary", banning all
commercial shark fishing in its waters.
(BBC)
(The Times )
(UPI)
Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim
U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts , succeeding the late
Ted Kennedy .
(Roll Call )
September 26, 2009 (2009-09-26 ) (Saturday)
September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27 ) (Sunday)
Turkey announces it is to establish
formal diplomatic relations with
Armenia on October 10.
(The Hurriyet )
(BBC)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown denies rumours concerning his health as the
British
Labour Party gathers for its conference in
Brighton , expressing his amazement with
Andrew Marr of the
BBC for questioning him live on television.
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
In
Germany the
Christian Democrats and the
Liberals win the
federal election and announce their intention to form a new government with
Angela Merkel as
Chancellor . The
Social Democrats concede defeat.
(Der Spiegel )
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Al Jazeera)
The
Socialist Party win the
Portuguese
legislative election to elect members of the
Assembly of the Republic , with 36.6% of the vote.
(euronews)
(The Independent )
(Trend News Agency)
Second
South America-Africa Summit (ASA) on
Isla Margarita :
Film director
Roman Polanski is arrested in
Zurich on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant.
(BBC)
(Angola Press)
Afghan Energy Minister
Ismail Khan survives a roadside blast which kills four people and wounds seventeen outside a school in
Herat .
(BBC)
(Times of India )
The death toll from
Tropical Storm Ketsana rises to 73, with more than 300,000 people displaced.
(Philippine Inquirer )
(BBC)
(China Daily )
The
Swiss multinational
Nestlé is buying milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife of
Zimbabwe 's
President
Robert Mugabe , according to
England 's
The Sunday Telegraph .
(BBC)
American
General
Stanley McChrystal , Commander of the
International Security Assistance Force , formally requests more troops for the
War in Afghanistan .
(BBC)
The
American television series
Family Guy is outlawed by authorities in
Venezuela due to
an episode promoting the
legalization and use of
marijuana .
(BBC)
Iran 's
Revolutionary Guards test fire several short-range missiles – the
Fateh-110 and Tondar-69.
(Press TV)
(Chosun Ilbo )
(The Independent )
(Xinhua)
Italian
Premier
Silvio Berlusconi tells a rally in
Milan about his encounters with
President of the United States
Barack Obama , saying: "What's his name? Some tanned guy... Ah, Barack Obama!", also commenting on his wife
Michelle : "You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach because the wife is also tanned".
(IOL)
(The Daily Telegraph )
Honduras issues a 10-day deadline to
Brazil asking it to decide the status of deposed
President
Manuel Zelaya , who is residing in its embassy in the capital
Tegucigalpa .
(CNN)
(Reuters)
Discworld author
Terry Pratchett , who has
Alzheimer's disease , criticises new guidelines on
assisted suicide .
(BBC)
An award-winning essay written by
Paul McCartney as a 10-year-old for the
coronation of
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered in
Liverpool 's
Central Library for more than 50 years.
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(CBC)
(NME )
(The Sunday Times )
Four people injured in a
South African plane crash in
Durban on Thursday are still recovering in hospital.
(IOL)
September 28, 2009 (2009-09-28 ) (Monday)
Iranian students at the
University of Tehran demonstrate against the government on the first day of the new academic year.
(BBC)
(New York Times )
(Reuters India)
Opponents of the
Treaty of Lisbon question the
European Commission on deliberate interference in the
Irish referendum campaign in order to secure its desired "Yes" vote, suggesting that the Commission has broken the law.
(EU Observer )
(The Irish Times )
Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi and
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez sign eight accords in
Caracas following the weekend's second ASA summit.
(Latin American Herald Tribune )
(Xinhua)
The death toll in the
worst flooding in the
Philippines for forty years reaches 140 as the capital
Manila is "overwhelmed".
(The Guardian )
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
Roman Polanski officially challenges his proposed
extradition from
Switzerland to the
United States to face
child sexual abuse charges stemming from a 1977 incident.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Japan 's
Liberal Democratic Party elects
Sadakazu Tanigaki to replace
Taro Aso .
(BBC)
(Taiwan News )
(Xinhua)
Those in power in
Honduras empower police to quash "unauthorised" gatherings as
President
Manuel Zelaya calls on his supporters to march on the three-month anniversary of his fall, saying it will be "the final offensive".
(The Guardian )
An
Eldoret operation commences to close down
Kenya 's largest camp for people forced to flee their homes during the
2007–2008 Kenyan crisis ethnic violence.
(BBC)
President of the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan
Salva Kiir says
Sudan is at a "historic crossroads" which will lead to a split from the north.
(BBC)
(Voice of America)
Australia 's
12 Apostles natural landmarks continue to crumble.
(The Times )
Little Cumbrae ,
Scotland is converted into an
ashram .
(BBC)
Charges of plotting to topple
Robert Mugabe against
Jestina Mukoko , a prominent
Zimbabwean rights activist, are thrown out after the Supreme Court rules she had been tortured while in custody.
(BBC)
(The New York Times )
Grégoire Ndahimana , a former mayor accused of taking part in the 1994
Rwandan genocide, pleads not guilty at a
United Nations tribunal.
(The Guardian )
(BBC)
(The Age )
Chinese Civilisation Revisited by Xiao Jiansheng, a book about
Chinese history which is outlawed in China, goes on sale in
Hong Kong .
(BBC)
(AsiaOne)
A police officer who served at the
G20 demonstrations in London in April 2009 is to face a charge of assaulting a woman with a baton after becoming involved in a confrontation at a vigil for
Ian Tomlinson .
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
Spain 's
Pablo Pineda wins the best actor award at the
San Sebastián International Film Festival , the first actor with
Down's syndrome to win an international film award.
(BBC)
(Think Spain)
(Latin American Herald Tribune )
Art historian Henry Adams claims
abstract impressionist
Jackson Pollock camouflaged his signature as a "hidden message" inside his famous 1943 Mural .
(The Daily Telegraph )
North Korea revises its
constitution , removing all references to
communism , while mentioning
human rights for the first time, as well as stating
Kim Jong-il as its "Supreme Leader".
(RTHK)
(Associated Press)
(Korea Times )
(Reuters)
At least 58 people are killed at a large
opposition rally in
Guinea against
Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a coup last year.
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(Al Jazeera)
The interim government in
Honduras raids two media outlets critical of the government, and suspends other
civil liberties for 45 days.
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(Al Jazeera)
Oxfam launches an emergency appeal for £9.5 million for
Ethiopia and other
East African countries to fight the worst drought in a decade.
(BBC)
Former
Peruvian
President
Alberto Fujimori pleads guilty to bribery and illegal phone-tapping of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians.
(BBC)
September 29, 2009 (2009-09-29 ) (Tuesday)
September 30, 2009 (2009-09-30 ) (Wednesday)