August 1, 2007 (2007-08-01 ) (Wednesday)
New Zealand launches its
first commercially available biofuel , which consists of 90 percent
petrol and 10 percent
bioethanol made from cows' milk.
(AFP via The China Post)
The
President of the United States
George W. Bush orders senior adviser
Karl Rove not to testify before a
United States Senate committee on the
Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy .
(BBC)
The
Bombay Stock Exchange
Sensex lost 615 points in a single day becoming the third biggest such crash in its history.
The
bridge carrying
Interstate 35W in
Minneapolis ,
Minnesota , collapses into the
Mississippi River late in the afternoon
rush hour , killing thirteen and injuring hundreds.
(Star-Tribune)
(CNN)
The remains of the
RMS Titanic 's Unknown Child, initially identified as
Eino Viljami Panula , are re-identified by a
Canadian research team and found to be those of another young passenger,
Sidney Leslie Goodwin .
(AP via FOX)
The
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign an agreement to bolster economic and security relationships. It also called for negotiations on a
Free Trade Agreement between ASEAN,
Australia and
New Zealand by the end of
2008 .
(AP via Forbes)
A
French court orders the release of two suspects in the
1994
Rwandan genocide .
(AP via IHT)
At least 28 people die in
Uttar Pradesh ,
India as an overcrowded boat carrying
flood evacuees and aid workers capsizes on the
Rohni River .
Monsoon floods have killed more than 150 people in
India during July while at least 82 people have died in
Nepal over the past two weeks and 38 in
Bangladesh .
(BBC)
2007 Russian North Pole expedition : A
Russian expedition with the aim of claiming
petroleum beneath the
Arctic reaches the
North Pole .
(AP via CNN)
The Accordance Front ,
Iraq 's largest
Sunni party, withdraws from
the government while at least 70 people die in three bomb attacks.
(AP via Boston Herald) [
permanent dead link ]
US crude oil prices reach a new high of $78.77 a barrel due to declining stocks and decreased output.
(Reuters)
Russia’s gas exports monopoly
Gazprom will almost halve supplies to
Belarus from
August 3 after failing to reach a deal with Minsk over a
$456 million energy debt .
(Financial Times)
18 militants killed near Banda checkpoint of
North Waziristan ,
Pakistan by Pakistan troops.
The
United Kingdom
Office of Fair Trading levies a fine of
£ 121.5 million on
British Airways for price collusion over long distance passenger fuel surcharges. British Airways and
Korean Air later plead guilty to conspiracies to fix the price of passenger and cargo fees in the
United States with fines of
$ 300 million each being levied.
(Wall Street Journal)
(Washington Post)
Archived 2012-11-02 at the
Wayback Machine
Sudan pledges support for
UNAMID , a joint
United Nations and
African Union
peacekeeping force in
Darfur .
(BBC)
Sixty-nine
Chinese
coal miners are rescued from the
Zhijian Mine in
Henan province.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The
US House of Representatives passes a resolution to lift travel restrictions on
Taiwan 's president and other high-level officials visiting the United States.
(AP via China Post)
The
Prime Minister of Spain
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero visits the
Canary Islands to inspect the damage caused by five days of
fires on the islands of
Gran Canaria and
Tenerife .
(BBC)
Norihiko Akagi resigns as
Japan 's
agriculture minister after scandals involving him adversely affected the
Liberal Democratic Party's performance in the
Japanese House of Councillors election, 2007 .
(ABC News Australia)
Sumo wrestler
Asashoryu becomes the first
Yokozuna in history to be suspended from competition.
(Mainichi) [
permanent dead link ]
August 2, 2007 (2007-08-02 ) (Thursday)
August 3, 2007 (2007-08-03 ) (Friday)
The former deputy director of
Augusto Pinochet 's secret police,
Raul Iturriaga , is captured by the police after having entered in rebellion in June 2007 against the Chilean state and justice
Los Angeles Times .
The
Governor of California
Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a
state of emergency in
Santa Barbara County ,
California with hundreds of people ordered to evacuate due to
wildfire .
(AP via Fox News)
US President
George W. Bush signs a bill to implement recommendations of the
9-11 Commission .
(AP via San Diego Union Tribune)
The
United States Congress allocates
$ 250 million to rebuild the
I-35W Mississippi River bridge in
Minneapolis, Minnesota .
(BBC)
The
United States Senate votes to extend the powers of intelligence agents to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists in a victory for
President of the United States
George W. Bush .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Raids at the
Your Black Muslim Bakery in
Oakland, California allegedly produces evidence that links the bakery to the
murder of
Chauncey Bailey , editor of
The Oakland Post , and two other people.
(CNN)
The
Canadian government agrees to make available a judicial report on the treatment of
Maher Arar falsely accused of
terrorism .
(ABC News Australia)
Mexican archaeologists announce the discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of
Aztec emperor
Ahuitzotl .
(IHT)
Russia says that it will launch a criminal case against
Andrei Lugovoi if the
United Kingdom provides it with convincing evidence of Lugovoi's involvement in the murder of
Alexander Litvinenko .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
50 people are feared drowned and 100 are missing after a boat capsized in
Sierra Leone
(Reuters via CNN)
The
President
Robert Mugabe of
Zimbabwe signs the
Interception of Communication Act into law, allowing the Zimbabwean government to listen to private
telephone conversations, open
mail and intercept
faxes and
e-mail .
(AFP via Africaasia)
Two
Cuban
boxers ,
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Olympic
bantamweight champion and amateur
welterweight world champion
Erislandi Lara , who deserted their team at the
2007 Pan American Games are found in
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil and will be sent back to Cuba.
(CNN)
An
outbreak of
foot and mouth disease at a cattle farm in
Surrey , UK is confirmed by
Defra . The unlicenced movement of all livestock throughout the UK is prohibited.
(BBC)
George W. Bush invites representatives of the
UN and major industrialized and developing countries to a conference to discuss a
post-Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions .
(Reuters)
2007 South Asian floods :
Monsoon
floods make millions homeless in
India ,
Nepal and
Bangladesh with a death toll of 145 in India and 65 in Bangladesh.
(BBC/AFP via ABC News Australia)
Turkey 's two largest cities,
Ankara and
Istanbul , struggle with water shortages with Ankara
rationing water to two days on, two days off as a result of having 5% left in their
reservoirs .
(AP via the Guardian)
The
Supreme Court of Pakistan frees
Javed Hashmi , the leader of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy and
Pakistan Muslim League faction leader, who was jailed in 2003 for writing a letter critical of the
President of Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf .
(BBC)
Rebel groups in
Darfur hold meetings in
Tanzania jointly mediated by the
United Nations and the
African Union to resolve disputes.
(BBC)
Patriarch
Teoctist of the
Romanian Orthodox Church is buried in a ceremony in
Bucharest led by
Bartholomew I , the leader of the
Eastern Orthodox churches.
(AP via IHT)
August 4, 2007 (2007-08-04 ) (Saturday)
A
natural gas pipeline between
Turkey and
Greece is completed allowing gas to be sent from the
Middle East to
Europe .
(Today's Zaman)
An outbreak of
foot-and-mouth disease in
Surrey ,
England prompts the banning of exports of British
livestock and other animal products.
(Globe&Mail)
Jesse Spielman – a
United States Army soldier was given sentences of 110 years in prison in
plea deals that spared him the death penalty for his role in the
gang-rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the mass murder of her family.
(CNN)
The
United States House of Representatives passes the budget for the
United States Department of Defense .
(Fox News)
The
United States House of Representatives passes an
energy bill which aims to expand the use of
renewable energy and reduce tax concessions to oil companies.
(BBC)
A vehicle with
Florida license plates driven by men of
Middle Eastern origin is stopped by police in
Goose Creek, South Carolina , and found to be carrying
explosive devices .
(ABC)
The
United States House of Representatives approves legislation expanding the
United States Government 's ability to conduct surveillance without a court order on foreign
terrorism suspects.
(Reuters)
Brazilian Defense Minister
Nelson Jobim fires the head of the Brazilian airports authority,
José Carlos Pereira for recent problems including the crash of
TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 and hires
Sergio Gaudenzi , the President of the
Brazilian Space Agency .
(New York Times)
San Francisco Giants outfielder
Barry Bonds ties
Hank Aaron for most career
home runs with 755, while
Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player to hit 500 home runs in
Major League Baseball .
(TSN) ,
(Sports Illustrated) [
permanent dead link ]
Oakland
police claim that a 19-year-old man has confessed to the murder of
Chauncey Bailey , the editor of
The Oakland Post .
(CNN)
United States forces claim that they have killed
Haitham al-Badri , the leader of
al-Qaeda in
Salahuddin province in
Iraq and believed to be the man responsible for the bombing of the
Al-Askari Mosque in
Samarra in June.
(Reuters)
NASA launches the
Phoenix Mars Lander which is due to land in
Planum Boreum on the
Martian northern ice cap next year.
(AP via Washington Post)
The
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown holds an emergency
COBRA
cabinet meeting to discuss an outbreak of
foot and mouth disease on a farm in
Surrey ,
England . The foot and mouth strain has been identified as a rare strain used at the nearby Institute for Animal Health at
Pirbright .
(Reuters)
(BBC)
2007 South Asian floods : The
Ganges River system will come under further strain from
monsoon
floods as 20 million are homeless in
Nepal ,
India and
Bangladesh . Almost 200 people have died.
(ABC News Australia)
(BBC)
Ten pro-
Taliban militants and four
Pakistan Army
soldiers are killed in a clash in North
Waziristan near the
Afghanistan border. In another incident, a suicide car bomber kills six in
Parachinar ,
North West Frontier Province in Pakistan.
(BBC)
August 5, 2007 (2007-08-05 ) (Sunday)
August 6, 2007 (2007-08-06 ) (Monday)
Turkish President
Ahmet Necdet Sezer gave a mandate to
Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to form his second cabinet following a landslide victory for the
Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the
general elections .
(Turkish Daily News)
Mexico and
Brazil sign an agreement on developing technology for
oil and
natural gas exploration and exploitation involving co-operation between
Pemex and
Petrobras .
(AP via IHT)
The
Lebanese government claim that the police have killed
Abu Hureira , the second in command of
Fatah al-Islam .
(AP via Forbes)
Trinidad Chief
Magistrate
Sherman McNicolls orders the
extradition of three men to the
United States to face charges of involvement in a
terrorist attack on
John F. Kennedy Airport .
(New York Times)
United States District Court
judge
Ronald Whyte strikes down a
California law aiming to prohibit
minors from buying or renting violent
video games on
First Amendment grounds.
(IGN)
An
Arizona
judge rules that a
United States Border Patrol agent
Nicholas Corbett must stand trial for
murder for shooting dead a
Mexican immigrant.
(Reuters)
The
United States Food and Drug Administration approves
Pfizer 's
AIDS
drug
Selzentry .
(Reuters via National Post)
50 feared dead when a boat carrying 130 passengers overturned in the midstream of River
Ganges in
Bihar , India.
Five members of the
Iraqiya coalition led by former
Prime Minister of Iraq
Ayad Allawi suspend their participation in the current
Cabinet led by
Nouri al-Maliki .
(New York Times) ,
(BBC)
NASA reports that three
galaxies the size of the
Milky Way are colliding with another galaxy three times the size of the Milky Way in
galaxy cluster
CL0958+4702 . The eventual galaxy could be up to ten times the size of the Milky Way.
(BBC)
A
second case of
foot and mouth disease is reported in
Surrey ,
England , resulting in the culling of more
cattle .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Six
miners are trapped in a
coal mine 15 miles west of
Huntington, Utah . A 3.9 to 4.5
(USGS) magnitude
earthquake was reported in the area around the time of the cave-in.
(Reuters)
Former
Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina files petitions challenging government move to try her in connection with an extortion case.
North Korea and
South Korea exchange gun fire over the
border , the first such incident in a year.
(CNN)
José Ramos-Horta , the
President of East Timor , selects
Xanana Gusmão as the
Prime Minister of
East Timor .
(BBC)
A
truck bomb in
Tal Afar in northern
Iraq kills at least 25 people and destroys 10 homes.
(Reuters)
Sir
Michael Somare 's
National Alliance Party forms a
coalition with six partners which will be the next government of
Papua New Guinea .
(Radio New Zealand)
Flooding in
Lagos ,
Nigeria , leads to thousands of people being forced from their homes and six people going missing.
(Reuters via Press TV)
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors examine the
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in
Japan .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Japan marks the 62nd anniversary of the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima .
(Reuters via Washington Post)
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Wayback Machine
A
state of emergency is declared in the
Croatian city of
Dubrovnik due to a
forest fire .
(BBC)
The
Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert and the
President of the Palestinian Authority
Mahmoud Abbas meet to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state.
(Reuters)
August 7, 2007 (2007-08-07 ) (Tuesday)
Six new species of animal are discovered in a forest west of
Lake Tanganyika in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo including a
horseshoe bat , a
rodent , two
shrews and two species of
insects .
(China Daily)
Two men are arrested in
Paris for stealing
Pablo Picasso paintings from the
apartment of his granddaughter.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Argentina signs an "energy security treaty" with
Venezuela in
Buenos Aires .
(BBC)
Barry Bonds of the
San Francisco Giants hits his 756th career
home run , passing
Hank Aaron as the
all-time leader in
Major League Baseball . Bonds hits the shot against
Washington Nationals pitcher
Mike Bacsik in the fifth inning of their game at
AT&T Park in
San Francisco, California .
(MLB.com) ,
(BBC)
Seismic activity frustrates rescue efforts for six
coal miners trapped underground near
Huntington, Utah .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Two buses crash on the
Panamerican Highway in southern
Peru resulting in 17 casualties and 37 injuries.
(AFP via Times of India)
Astronomers of the
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey announce the discovery of
TrES-4 , the largest known
planet in the
universe , circling the
star
GSC 02620-00648 in the
Hercules Constellation .
(AP via IHT)
(BBC)
The
Taliban attacks
Firebase Anaconda in
Uruzgan province but is repulsed by a joint force of
Afghan fighters and
United States Army forces with 20 militants killed.
(AP via CNN)
Jordan opens its
government schools to
Iraqi
refugees .
(BBC)
Israel evicts
Jewish settlers from
Hebron . A dozen religious members of the
Israeli Army refuse to participate and are sentenced for up to a month in a
military jail .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia ,
Colombian
cocaine trafficker boss of the
Norte del Valle Cartel is apprehended in
Brazil and faces extradition to the
United States . The US Government had offered a reward of US$5 million dollars.
(Reuters)
Malaysia bans hiring of foreign
security guards following rape and murder of a student by a
Pakistani security guard recently.
Georgian-Russian relations :
Two Russian aircraft allegedly violate Georgia's airspace with one firing an air-to-surface guided rocket onto
Georgian territory. The rocket did not explode and the
Russian government denies the incident took place.
(civil.ge)
(Reuters via CNN)
Tests confirm a second outbreak of
foot and mouth disease in
Surrey ,
England . Inspectors think that there is a "strong probability" that the disease came from a research site at
Pirbright shared by
Merial , a
vaccine company and the
Institute for Animal Health .
(The Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
(BBC)
The
United Kingdom asks
United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to release five residents of the UK from the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp .
(AP via FOX)
Youths in
East Timor attack
Australian Army forces and
United Nations personnel following the announcement that
Xanana Gusmão would be the next
Prime Minister .
(News Limited)
Fortune magazine lists
Mexican businessman
Carlos Slim as the richest man in the world ahead of
Microsoft founder
Bill Gates .
(BBC)
The
Pakistan Army launches a strike on a militant base in the
Degan area near
Miranshah in North
Waziristan .
(BBC)
A
storm kills at least 17 people in
Vietnam with another 12 missing.
(AP via Washington Post)
Archived 2012-11-02 at the
Wayback Machine
Bangladesh security officials arrest 24 suspected militants at
Zia International Airport en route to
Kabul ,
Afghanistan .
(Times of India)
Chinese police arrest six protesters calling for a free
Tibet by unfurling banners on the
Great Wall of China .
(AP via the Guardian) [
permanent dead link ]
Paul Calvert announces his resignation as
President of the Australian Senate and as a
Senator for
Tasmania effective from next week.
(AAP via Melbourne Herald Sun)
An
earthquake of 6.4 preliminary magnitude occurs off the coast of
Okinawa in
Japan .
(Reuters)
Satsuki Eda of the
Democratic Party of Japan is chosen as the President of the
House of Councillors making him the first member of an Opposition party to hold the position.
(BBC)
August 8, 2007 (2007-08-08 ) (Wednesday)
A
British Army
helicopter crashes near the
Catterick Garrison army base in
Yorkshire causing at least two deaths.
(AP via Forbes) ,
(BBC)
Tropical Storm
Pabuk causes deadly
landslides in the
Philippines before hitting
Taiwan causing power cuts. This comes after
floods from
another tropical storm kill 34 in central
Vietnam .
(AP via the New York Times) ,
(Reuters via Washington Post)
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Wayback Machine
Street gunbattles continue for a third successive day in
Port Harcourt ,
Nigeria as part of a criminal
turf war .
(Reuters via CNN)
Endeavour lifts off from
Kennedy Space Center for the
STS-118 assembly mission of the
International Space Station .
(CNN)
Nouri al-Maliki , the
Prime Minister of Iraq , visits
Iran to seek co-operation in reducing the level of violence.
(AP via Forbes)
Authorities tighten security on the site of the
I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse following the arrest of 16 people for
trespass and hindering investigations.
(CNN)
Powers Fasteners, the company that supplied the
epoxy blamed for the
Big Dig ceiling collapse in
Boston, Massachusetts is indicted on a
manslaughter charge.
(AP via the Guardian)
A
United States raid and air strike on a
Shiite militant base in
Sadr City results in 32 deaths.
(New York Times)
A third outbreak of
foot and mouth disease has been discovered in southern
England but a ban of sending animals to slaughter is lifted in most of the country.
(Reuters via News Limited)
A
tornado touches down in
Brooklyn, New York just after dawn during a violent thunderstorm that dropped near three inches of rain in the
New York City area, crippling the city's subway and commuter rail system during the morning rush hour.
(CNN) ,
(Reuters)
Two
fossils found in
Kenya challenge existing views of
human evolution by showing that
Homo erectus and
Homo habilis lived side by side in eastern
Africa for half a million years.
(New York Times)
An earthquake with a
magnitude of 7.4 hits
Jakarta ,
Indonesia .
(Sky)
2007 South Asian floods : Fresh round of
floods hits
Gujarat ,
India . People make trains at railway stations their homes in
Bihar . Many places inaccessible by road or rail.
In
Germany the
labour court of
Nuremberg prohibited the
strike prepared by the
Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL), which was to be the largest in 15 years. According to the
Deutsche Bahn train company, the strike was prohibited because of the heavy tribute which would have been paid by the
national economy
(BBC) .
Two people killed and several injured as a bomb hidden in a bicycle parked at a police station explodes at
Jorhat ,
Assam ,
India
The
Pakistani government claims to have killed at least 10 pro-
Taliban militants in
North Waziristan .
(BBC)
China's
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Chinese Vice-President
Zeng Qinghong visits its capital,
Hohhot , and participates in a series of large celebration events.
(CCTV International)
China sends investigators to investigate illegally-built government offices in 30 provinces.
(ABC)
The
Reserve Bank of Australia raises
interest rates to 6.5%, the highest level in
Australia since
1996 .
(News Limited and AAP)
The
Yangtse River Dolphin is declared
extinct .
(The Scotsman) [
permanent dead link ]
(Guardian)
Violence erupts in the
Western Highlands of
Papua New Guinea with security forces and villagers exchanging gunfire.
(ABC News Australia)
Rear Admiral
Kevin Scarce is sworn in as the new
Governor of South Australia .
(AAP via the Melbourne Age)
Xanana Gusmão is sworn in as the
Prime Minister of
East Timor with the opposition
Fretilin party boycotting the ceremony.
(BBC)
North Korea and
South Korea agree to hold summit in
Pyongyang from
August 28 through the 30th.
(Yonhap News)
August 9, 2007 (2007-08-09 ) (Thursday)
(New York Times - 9 August 2007)
August 10, 2007 (2007-08-10 ) (Friday)
Novell wins the rights to the
copyrights for
Unix from the
SCO Group in
SCO v. Novell decided in the
United States District Court in
Utah .
(Computer World)
A
storm system comprising at least three
tornadoes sweeps across northern
Ohio , killing a woman in
Marion, Ohio and leaving thousands without power.
(AP via the Cincinnati Post)
Francisco Chaviano , a prominent opponent of
Fidel Castro 's regime in
Cuba , is released from
prison after 13 years (of a 15 year sentence) for allegedly revealing state secrets.
(AP via the Washington Post)
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Wayback Machine
The
New York Police Department increases security in
Manhattan and in
bridges and
tunnels as a result of an "unverified radiological threat".
(Reuters via MSNBC)
The
Bush administration announces tougher penalties for companies that hire illegal immigrants.
(BBC)
Colombian general
Hernando Perez Molina is relieved of his command of the Third Division based in western Colombia. Several officers in his command are accused of collaborating with the
Norte del Valle
cocaine
cartel .
(AP via International Herald Tribune)
Three construction workers are killed installing equipment at a
coal mine in southwestern
Indiana .
(CNN)
The
Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper announces the construction of two
Arctic bases including an
army training base and a deep water port in response to recent
Russian claims to the area.
(BBC via the ABC)
Nurses in
Fiji end industrial action after 18 days.
(Radio Fiji)
STS-118 :
NASA discovers a
gouge in the belly of the
Space Shuttle Endeavour after it docks with the
International Space Station .
(AP via Forbes)
The
Congolese Labour Party of the
President of the Republic of the Congo
Denis Sassou-Nguesso and affiliated groups win 90 per cent of the seats in
parliamentary elections .
(Reuters)
Another body is found in the
Mississippi River as a result of the
I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse in
Minneapolis, Minnesota .
(New York Times)
United States share markets finish slightly lower as a
$ 38 billion injection from the
Federal Reserve helps to stabilise the situation.
(CNN Money)
The
United Nations Security Council approves an enhanced role for the
United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq .
(Maxims News)
Hamid Ansari becomes 13th
Vice-President of India .
Thabo Mbeki , the
President of South Africa , sacks
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as the Deputy Health Minister for attending an
AIDS conference in
Spain without authorisation and criticising
hospital conditions.
(BBC)
The
President of Venezuela
Hugo Chávez meets with the
President of Bolivia
Evo Morales and the
President of Argentina
Néstor Kirchner in
Tarija, Bolivia .
(BBC)
A bus carrying
Serbian
tourists to the
Croatian
Adriatic coast crashes resulting in two deaths and 40 injuries.
(Reuters Alertnet)
A gun battle in the
Old City in
Jerusalem results in the death of a gunman and injures at least ten other people.
(Reuters)
Asian
stock markets fall sharply following trends in
Europe and
North America . The
Bank of Japan and
Reserve Bank of Australia try to inject liquidity to restore confidence to the market, shaken by the
subprime mortgage crisis .
(AFP via the Sydney Morning Herald)
A drill reaches a pocket where six
miners have been trapped for four days in the
Crandall Canyon mine near
Huntington, Utah .
(AP via the Guardian)
The
Queensland Legislative Assembly passes legislation reducing the number of
councils from 156 to 72.
(ABC News Australia)
The
Ugandan government announces plans to pay the "chronically poor" earning less than a
dollar a day a
poverty allowance of $10 a month.
(AP via the Guardian)
Floods in
Vietnam kill 43 people.
(BBC)
East Timor faces a humanitarian crisis as hundreds of houses are burnt down near
Viqueque and affected villagers flee to the mountains.
(ABC News)
Envoys from the
United States ,
European Union and
Russia visit
Serbia and
Kosovo seeking a solution to the
Kosovo issue.
(BBC)
Britain 's Chief Veterinary Officer
Debby Reynolds raises concern about another possible
outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in
England .
(Reuters)
August 11, 2007 (2007-08-11 ) (Saturday)
August 12, 2007 (2007-08-12 ) (Sunday)
Bulk-carrier
M/V New Flame collides with an
oil tanker and runs aground near the southernmost tip of
Gibraltar .
(International Herald Tribune)
African Union nations pledge up to 12,000 troops for the joint
United Nations -
African Union mission to
Darfur .
(Reuters via CNN)
A clash between
Taliban militants and
Afghan security forces in
Kandahar province results in nine militants dead with five police dying in a
bomb .
(AP via the International Herald Tribune)
Peru issues a map of outlining its claim to maritime territory also claimed by
Chile .
(Xinhua)
Heavy rains in
Mauritania cause at least two deaths from mudslides and causes thousands of people to become
homeless .
(Voice of America)
A gunman kills two people and wounds two others before killing himself on a
Dallas, Texas
freeway .
(AP via CNN)
Former
Governor of Wisconsin
Tommy Thompson withdraws as a candidate for the
Republican nomination in the
2008 United States presidential election following his low level of support in the
Ames Straw Poll .
(Wis Politics)
Guatemalan authorities find 46 children believed to have been taken from the parents for illegal
adoption overseas in
Antigua Guatemala .
(BBC)
A gunman kills three people and injures as many as ten others in a church in
Neosho, Missouri .
(CNN)
Tiger Woods wins the 2007
PGA Championship played at the
Southern Hills Country Club in
Tulsa, Oklahoma .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
South Africa refuses to set up a
refugee camp for the influx of people fleeing
Zimbabwe .
(AFP via News Limited)
People claiming to be from
Turkey attack the
United Nations website forcing some sections to be taken offline.
(BBC)
Nouri al-Maliki , the
Prime Minister of Iraq , calls for emergency talks with
Iraq 's political leaders to try to save his national unity government.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , the
President of Iran , replaces his
Oil Minister
Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh with
Gholam-Hossein Nozari , head of the
National Iranian Oil Company acting as his deputy.
(Reuters)
Italian police uncover a secret plan to
smuggle
Russian weapons into
Iraq .
(AP via Forbes)
Five hundred people are evacuated from the slopes of
Mount Karangetang , an active
volcano that is spewing ash and
lava , on the island of
Siau in
Indonesia .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Denmark sends a scientific team to the
Arctic to try to establish that the
Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of
Greenland so it can claim sovereignty over oil reserves.
(AP via New Hope Courier)
A
Jakarta conference of
Islamists sponsored by the
Hizb ut-Tahrir discusses plans to reestablish a
caliphate .
(ABC News Australia)
Fossilised remains of an ancient
cypress
forest estimated at 8 million years old are discovered in an open cast
coal mine in
Bükkábrány ,
Hungary .
(BBC)
Gloria Arroyo , the
President of the Philippines , sends the chief of the army
Romeo Tolentino to
Zamboanga in the southern
Philippines to direct operations against militants.
(BBC)
August 13, 2007 (2007-08-13 ) (Monday)
Two Belgian tourists who went missing last week in
Iran appear to have been kidnapped by a bandit who is demanding that his brother be freed from prison.
(AFP via AfricaAsia)
A scandal erupts in
Argentina when a
Venezuelan businessman is caught trying to smuggle
$ 800,000 into the country on a plane belonging to
Enarsa , Argentina's government-owned energy company.
(New York Times)
Archaeologists using
radar imagery reveal that
Angkor , the former capital of the
Khmer Empire , was the largest preindustrial urban centre of its time covering a 3,000 square kilometre area and with a population of up to half a million.
(AFP via Independent Online South Africa)
Werner Velasquez , mayor of the town of
Santa Ana Huista in
Guatemala , is shot dead in a political attack before the election on September 9. More than 40 Guatemalans have died in pre-election violence.
(Reuters Alertnet)
Chile withdraws its
ambassador from
Peru for consultations after Peru publishes a map of maritime territory claimed by both countries.
(Reuters via CNN)
The
Taliban releases two of the 23
South Korean hostages kidnapped three weeks ago.
(BBC)
(CNN)
2007 Pacific hurricane season : A
state of emergency is declared on
the island of Hawaii as
Category 3
Hurricane Flossie approaches.
(Reuters)
A 5.3 magnitude
earthquake strikes
the island of Hawaii about 25 miles south of
Hilo, Hawaii .
(AP via USA Today)
Iraq War : United States troops in
Iraq launch an offensive against
Al Qaeda -linked
Sunni militants and alleged
Iranian linked
Shiite militants.
(Gulf Daily News)
Five members of a single family die when they fall from a
ferris wheel car at an
amusement park outside of
Busan , South Korea.
(Guardian Unlimited)
A Russian luxury train going from Moscow to
Saint Petersburg derails near
Malaya Vishera .
(BBC)
Pakistan releases 134 Indian
prisoners detained in its jail on its Independence Day eve.
Salvage crews prepare to try to refloat a
cargo ship that collided with an
oil tanker off
Europa Point , the southernmost tip of
Gibraltar , and ended up partially submerged.
(International Herald Tribune)
Philip Ruddock , the Attorney-General of Australia, appoints
Federal Court
judge
Susan Kiefel to the
High Court of Australia .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Eric Laroche, the
United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator for
Somalia raises concerns about recent killings of eminent Somali journalists.
(BBC)
Karl Rove ,
Deputy White House Chief of Staff and
George W. Bush 's leading political adviser, tells the
Wall Street Journal that he intends to resign at the end of August.
(BBC)
Solidarity , a South African
trade union , calls a
strike in
coal mines .
(Reuters South Africa) [
permanent dead link ]
Zhang Shuhong , the head of a Chinese
toy company at the centre of a worldwide toy
recall commits suicide.
(News Limited)
(AP via the Melbourne Age)
Nineteen people are killed and seven seriously injured in a
bus crash on the
North-South Expressway in
Malaysia .
(BBC)
The
National Parliament of Papua New Guinea meets to select a new
Speaker and
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea with Sir
Michael Somare re-elected as Prime Minister.
(Radio New Zealand)
(Reuters)
Flooding caused by
Tropical Storm Pabuk causes widespread flooding in
Guangdong Province in southern China affecting up to 1.2 million people.
(Reuters)
August 14, 2007 (2007-08-14 ) (Tuesday)
A bridge under construction completely collapses in
Fenghuang County,
Hunan Province, China, killing at least 47 people. 21 workers are injured, 13 are still missing.
(ChinaDaily)
(Xinhua)
(Yahoo)
A fire breaks out at the
Shanghai World Financial Center in China.
(BBC)
The Italian
coast guard finds the dead bodies of 14
illegal immigrants near the shores of the
Lampedusa island.
(BBC)
A Russian
far right group calling itself "National Socialism/White Power" publishes a video on the
Internet showing the execution of two men, one from
Tajikistan and the other one from
Dagestan . Russian authorities investigate the video.
(BBC)
A Polish soldier is killed by
Taliban near
Gardez ,
Afghanistan . It is the first Polish
casualty in the
War in Afghanistan .
(BBC)
The
Central Bank of
Nigeria announces the
naira will be made
convertible by 2009. It will also be
redenominated from August 2008.
(BBC)
A
tropical storm warning is issued for parts of
Texas and Mexico following the formation of a
tropical depression in the
Gulf of Mexico .
(AP via the Guardian)
A
Bangladeshi court sentences 15 members of the Opposition
Bangladesh Nationalist Party to seven years in jail for
extortion and three years for manipulating elections.
(Jurist)
Scott Kelly , the commander of the
Space Shuttle Endeavour , on its current mission expresses confidence that it can return to earth safely without repairs to its
heat shield .
(AFP via News Limited)
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , current
First Lady of
Argentina and candidate to become
President of Argentina , announces
Julio Cobos , the Governor of
Mendoza Province as her running mate.
(AP via the International Herald Tribune)
Benjamin Netanyahu wins the
Likud
primary election and continues as the party's parliamentary leader.
(Xinhua)
Hurricane Flossie weakens as it moves near the coast of
the island of Hawaii .
(Reuters)
British authorities investigate two new suspected cases of
foot and mouth disease, one in
Kent and one in
Surrey outside the
exclusion zone .
(The Globe and Mail)
Two
Belgians kidnapped in
Iran have been released.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
A woman dies and two people are seriously ill from
E. coli in the
Paisley area of Scotland. The
Morrisons
supermarket chain withdraws cold sliced meats from two of its stores in Paisley.
(Reuters via News Limited)
Iraq War :
Bingu wa Mutharika , the
President of Malawi , threatens to "close down" the
National Assembly of Malawi unless it starts discussing the
budget .
(BBC)
Nokia offers to replace 46 million
Matsushita
batteries that may be subject to
overheating .
(BBC)
(Nokia)
In
Nigeria ,
gunmen kidnap the mother of a member of the
Bayelsa State parliament. The 11-year-old son of another MP is freed.
(BBC)
12 members of the Indian
nationalist party
Shiv Sena attack the
Mumbai offices of
Outlook magazine.
(BBC)
Mattel recalls over 18 million
toys
made in China that may potentially be harmful to children.
(BBC)
(Herald Sun)
A
pistol is recovered from the hand bag of a
flight attendant of
Pakistan International Airlines .
Former
Islamist
guerrilla leader
Mustapha Kartali is wounded by a
car bomb in
Larba ,
Algeria .
(BBC)
Four
Palestinians are killed by
Israel Defense Forces in the
Gaza Strip . Palestinians claim two of them were
civilians .
(BBC)
Pakistan celebrates the 60th
anniversary of its
independence from the United Kingdom.
(BBC)
Abdullah Gül , currently the Foreign Minister of
Turkey , confirms that he will stand again for election as the
President of Turkey .
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
The Supreme Court of
Thailand approves the issuing of
arrest warrants for the former
Prime Minister of Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife on
corruption charges.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The
President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits
Afghanistan on the first leg of a
Central Asian tour before visiting the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in
Bishkek .
(BBC)
Russian
prosecutors launch a
terrorism investigation after an improvised
bomb derailed an overnight express train near the village of
Malaya Vishera in the
Novgorod region.
(CNN)
Alan Ferguson ,
Liberal Party
Senator for
South Australia , is elected as the
President of the Australian Senate .
(ABC)
A
Taiwanese court clears
Ma Ying-jeou , the
Kuomintang Party candidate for
President of the Republic of China , of charges of corruption dating from when he was the
mayor of
Taipei .
(BBC)
Hundreds of people die in
North Korea after days of torrential
rain .
(News Limited)
The
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation of
Central Asian countries comprising the People's Republic of China, Russia,
Kazakhstan ,
Kyrgyzstan ,
Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan meets in the Kyrgyz capital of
Bishkek to discuss security issues.
(Reuters)
Canadian
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper shuffles his
cabinet . Among the changes, embattled defence minister
Gordon O'Connor and heritage minister
Bev Oda are moved to National Revenue and International Cooperation and replaced by
Peter Mackay and
Josée Verner , respectively.
(Globe and Mail)
August 15, 2007 (2007-08-15 ) (Wednesday)
Governments, companies, and non-profit organizations around the world have been editing
Wikipedia to hide criticism and push a point of view. The previously anonymous edits can now be tracked to their source using the
Wikipedia Scanner .
(TIME)
(Reddit)
(BBC)
(BBC)
Hurricane Flossie passes Hawaii causing some damage but not as much as feared. It has deteriorated to a
tropical storm and should cause no further damage.
(Hawaii Reporter)
A
hurricane watch is issued for a portion of the
Lesser Antilles including
St. Lucia and
Martinique due to the prospects of
Tropical Storm Dean becoming a hurricane.
(ABC News WLOS)
The
Israeli Defence Force destroys a tunnel from the
Gaza Strip towards
Israel .
(Jerusalem Post)
President of the United States
George W. Bush ,
President of Mexico
Felipe Calderón and the
Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper to meet later this month under the
North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) mechanism to discuss economic and security issues.
(China View)
Jack McConnell resigns as the leader of the
Scottish Labour Party with
Wendy Alexander likely to be elected as his replacement as leader.
(The Scotsman)
China will send officials to the United States to discuss food and product safety following a spate of
product recalls in recent months.
(Reuters)
The trial of the
President of Zambia
Frederick Chiluba for stealing public money resumes today.
(Reuters via CNN)
A powerful
earthquake measuring 7.9 on the
Richter Scale rocks
Peru 100 miles near
Lima , according to the
U.S. Geological Survey . A
tsunami warning is issued for Peru,
Ecuador ,
Chile and
Colombia , following the earthquakes. At least 72 people are killed and another 680 injured.
(Fox News)
(USGS)
(Reuters)
(Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)
Japan resumes economic and humanitarian aid to the
Palestinian National Authority .
(BBC)
Tropical Depression Five strengthens into
Tropical Storm Erin , causing
tropical storm warnings to be issued for parts of
Texas and
Tamaulipas .
(Reuters) .
Mexican authorities deport hundreds of
illegal immigrants who got stuck on a closed
GWI
rail line in
Chiapas .
(BBC)
2007 South Asian floods : A
landslide hits the
Dharla village in the Indian state of
Himachal Pradesh , killing at least five people. Another 55 are missing.
(BBC)
Hundreds of
Kenyan journalists protest in the streets of
Nairobi against a law that would require them to disclose their sources.
(BBC)
Australia's foreign minister,
Alexander Downer , confirms Australia will sell
uranium and
nuclear technology to India.
(BBC)
Richard Boucher , the U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State , arrives in
Pakistan to meet foreign minister
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and President
Pervez Musharraf .
(BBC)
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ,
Argentinian
presidential candidate , presents
Julio Cobos as her
running mate .
(BBC)
Ali Mohammed Ghedi , the interim
Prime Minister of
Somalia , says he plans to create a
Green Zone in
Mogadishu and criticizes the
United Nations for giving "so much emphasis on
Darfur and not to Somalia".
(BBC)
ODM-Kenya , the main
Kenyan opposition party, splits in two four months before the
general elections .
(BBC)
Charles Murigande , the foreign minister of
Rwanda , criticizes the
Democratic Republic of Congo for stopping military operations against the
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda .
(BBC)
War in Afghanistan :
On the 62nd anniversary of Japan's surrender in
World War II ,
Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and his ministers do not visit the
Yasukuni Shrine .
(BBC)
Government sources reveal that the Russian administration of
Boris Yeltsin sent unofficial signals to Finland at the end of 1991 about returning
Karelia to Finland.
(Kainuun Sanomat via NewsRoom Finland) [
permanent dead link ]
The
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation invites
Turkmenistan to its summit in
Bishkek with a view to asking it to join.
(RIA Novosti)
The death toll from the
2007 Qahtaniya bombings reaches 500 with 350 more people injured.
(CNN)
(BBC)
(CNN)
Six Italians are found shot to death in the town of
Duisburg , Germany. Police say they were connected to
'Ndrangheta .
(Fox News)
(BBC)
The
Myanmar government doubles the price of
petrol and increases the cost of
compressed natural gas fivefold leaving some commuters stranded.
(BBC)
The
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon orders a full evaluation of the needs of
North Korea after severe
floods hit the country. Up to 300,000 people may have been left homeless.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
60th anniversary of the
Partition of India :
Bangladesh marks the 32nd anniversary of the
assassination of
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , a pioneer of Bengali
independence from Pakistan and their first
President .
(The New Nation)
The United States declares
Iran 's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "specially designated global terrorist," paving the way for increased financial pressure on Iran and its assets abroad.
(The Washington Post)
August 16, 2007 (2007-08-16 ) (Thursday)
Three people are killed and another six injured as a
seismic jolt disrupts an attempted mine rescue effort at the
Crandall Canyon Mine near
Huntington, Utah , United States.
(NYT)
The leaders of Russia, China and
Iran use the forum of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to warn the United States not to become too heavily involved in
Central Asia .
(AP via IHT)
The British government is preparing to evacuate all Britons from
Zimbabwe , about 22,000 people, due to increasing violence and shortage of food.
(Times Online)
International conservation group
BirdLife International launches a critical fundraising campaign to save 189
endangered species of
birds .
(San Jose Mercury News) [
permanent dead link ]
U.S.
jihadist
José Padilla is convicted on all counts of supporting terrorism.
(AP via WTOP News)
Subprime mortgage crisis :
Human rights in Iran : Over 200 people are arrested in
Iran for attending an "illegal
rock concert " which included
alcohol and
female singers .
(Press TV)
The
Red Cross estimates that the death toll from
North Korean floods has reached 220. North Korea estimates that it has wiped out a tenth of its farmland.
(BBC)
(NYT)
The United States and
Israel agree to a US$30 billion military aid package.
(AP via Fox News)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season :
Hurricane Dean becomes the first
hurricane of the season, threatening the
Lesser Antilles , while
Tropical Storm Erin threatens
Texas . At least five people died in thunderstorms resulting from Erin while another two people went missing.
(CNN) ,
(AP via the Guardian)
Peru 's
civil defense agency estimates that the death toll from the
2007 Peru earthquake is now 337 with 827 more injured. The coastal province of
Ica is hardest hit. A 6.3 magnitude aftershock hits the country. The
Government of Peru declares a
state of emergency .
(The Telegraph)
Archived 2008-04-03 at the
Wayback Machine
(Bloomberg)
(AFP via ABC News Auatralia)
The
Supreme Court of Pakistan hears a petition from the former
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif to be able to return to the country and contest
elections .
(BBC)
Iraq War :
United States forces launch an airborne assault on a desert compound south of
Baghdad in search of
Sunni militants in the first phase of Operation Marne Husky.
(Reuters)
United States officials state that there is little hope remaining of finding survivors of the
Qahtaniya bombings .
(Reuters)
The
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
Almaz Atambayev and the
President of the People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao meet to discuss
Kyrgyz participation in a
Turkmenistan -China gas pipeline.
(Radio Free Europe)
Hugo Chávez , the
President of
Venezuela , announces plans to abolish
term limits for the President by changing the
Constitution .
(BBC)
Japan is hit by a 5.3 magnitude
earthquake off the coast of
Honshū .
(Bloomberg)
August 17, 2007 (2007-08-17 ) (Friday)
Six members of the
Iranian security forces are killed in a
helicopter crash near the town of
Piranshahr close to the
Iraqi border.
(Daily Times, Pakistan)
Five people are killed when the top floor of a building in South
Mumbai ,
India , collapses on an adjoining building.
A dozen
Taliban die in an attempted
ambush of a joint patrol of
Afghan police and Coalition troops in
Helmand province.
(Times of India)
France circulates a draft
United Nations Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the 13,600
United Nations peacekeeping force in
Lebanon .
(AP via the Washington Post)
Archived 2012-11-02 at the
Wayback Machine
Interpol issues warrants for the arrest of
Saddam Hussein 's eldest daughter
Raghad Hussein and his first wife
Sajida Khairalla Tulfa for providing support to
Iraqi insurgents.
(NYT)
Texas
oil executive
David B. Chalmers, Jr pleads guilty to
wire fraud connected with the
United Nations
oil-for-food program associated with the
United Nations .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Russia ,
China and four
Central Asian members of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation conduct
war games in the southern
Ural Mountains area of
Russia with
Vladimir Putin , the
President of Russia , proposing that they be held regularly.
(The Hindu)
A
Nile boat sinks off the northern
Egyptian town of
Beni Suef with dozens feared missing.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
172
coal miners are trapped in a
flooded mine in
Shandong province in eastern
China .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
(ChinaDaily)
The search for six miners trapped in the
Crandall Canyon mine in
Utah is suspended indefinitely after the death of three rescue workers.
(AP via Forbes)
Vladimir Putin announces that
Russia will resume patrols over the
Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans by its nuclear-capable
Tu-160 and
Tu-95 bombers after a 15-year hiatus.
(NYT)
Ashley Mote , a
Member of the European Parliament for
South East England , is convicted on 21 counts of
fraud .
(BBC)
Hurricane Dean :
Stock prices in the
United States and
Europe rally after the
Federal Reserve cuts its discount lending rate to restore confidence in the banking sector after the
subprime mortgage crisis .
(Bloomberg)
2007 Peru earthquake
The
International Atomic Energy Agency and the
United States Government advises that
North Korea is co-operating with plans to shut down its nuclear program.
(AP via Forbes)
Four people die as a
United States Marine Corps
helicopter crashes on a training flight north of
Yuma, Arizona .
(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Australian Prime Minister
John Howard says the country has decided to
export
Uranium to
India .
Adriaan Vlok ,
South African Police Minister during the
apartheid era, pleads guilty to one charge of attempted
murder of black activist
priest
Frank Chikane by
poisoning his
underwear . He is given a
suspended sentence of ten years in
jail .
(Reuters via the Age)
The
Parliament of Australia passes the
Northern Territory Indigenous Bill making changes to the
Australian
welfare system and
land rights .
(ABC News Australia)
2007 Pacific typhoon season : Southeast
China and
Taiwan prepare for
typhoon Sepat .
(Xinhua)
Six
Islamic militants involved in planning the
2002 Bali bombings have their sentences reduced by five months due to good behaviour.
(News Limited)
August 18, 2007 (2007-08-18 ) (Saturday)
August 19, 2007 (2007-08-19 ) (Sunday)
August 20, 2007 (2007-08-20 ) (Monday)
Delegates from the
Russian Communist Youth Union vote 98-1 to back the pro-Kremlin, center-left party
A Just Russia in December's
State Duma elections.
(The Moscow Times)
NASA clears the
Space Shuttle Endeavour for an early landing tomorrow at
Cape Canaveral .
(Reuters)
The
United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to extend the
African Union Mission to Somalia .
(BBC)
At least 20 people have died as a result of
flooding in the
United States with further flooding likely in
Minnesota and
Wisconsin .
(New York Times)
A military
judge dismisses two charges against
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, a
United States Army officer in charge of the interrogation centre at the
Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq . Jordan still faces several more charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, disobeying a superior officer and failure to obey orders.
(Reuters via News Limited)
The thirteenth and final victim is recovered from the site of the
I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse .
(AP via CNN)
An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude hits south of the
Philippines .
(The Gulf Times)
The
Grand National Assembly starts voting to select a new
President of
Turkey . The frontrunner Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gül fails to achieve a necessary two-thirds majority in the first round with 341 out of 550 but is highly likely to be elected in later rounds when a
simple majority of 50 per cent is required.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Atlanta Falcons
quarterback
Michael Vick agrees to a plea deal to charges of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and conspiracy to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture in
Richmond ,
Virginia ,
United States .
(ESPN.com)
British police have released
CCTV footage of a motorcyclist shortly before his murder on the
M40 motorway near
Leamington Spa ,
Warwickshire .
(Sky)
Muslim groups occupy Sikh Bhai Taro Singh Jee temple in
Lahore ,
Pakistan
An official of
Murray Energy Corp , the operators of the
Crandall Canyon mine in
Utah , say that six trapped miners "may never be found".
(Wikinews)
An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude hits northern
Tanzania 85 kilometres north of
Arusha .
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Mohammed Ali al-Hasani , the
Shia governor of
Iraq 's southern
Al Muthanna Governorate is killed by a roadside bomb at
Samawa .
(BBC)
The
Tasmanian
Labor Party expels
Harry Quick , the Member of the
Australian House of Representatives for
Franklin .
(ABC News Australia)
Hurricane Dean :
A summit between
US president
George W. Bush ,
Canadian prime minister
Stephen Harper ,
Mexican president
Felipe Calderón , and about 30 CEOs from the three countries begins in the resort town of
Montebello, Quebec , near
Ottawa . The talks will deal with the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America .
Protesters representing a variety of issues hold demonstrations regarding the exclusion of civil society from the talks and the secrecy of the process; police respond with
tear gas .
(CBC News)
A
China Airlines
Boeing 737 airplane
explodes less than a minute after all passengers and crew are evacuated shortly after landing at
Naha , Japan.
(Wikinews)
August 21, 2007 (2007-08-21 ) (Tuesday)
August 22, 2007 (2007-08-22 ) (Wednesday)
August 23, 2007 (2007-08-23 ) (Thursday)
Chororapithecus abyssinicus , a 10-million-year-old fossil found in
Ethiopia , may prove that the last common ancestor of
gorillas and
humans existed 2 million years earlier than previously thought.
(Nature)
The
Governor General of Jamaica
Kenneth Octavius Hall announces that the
Jamaican general election, 2007 is postponed to September 3 due to the impact of
Hurricane Dean .
(Reuters)
The
Nigerian government extends a
curfew in
Port Harcourt after hundreds die in
gang violence this month.
(Reuters Alertnet)
A
storm in
Chicago injures 40 people and disrupts the transport network.
(AP via WSB)
Top British tennis player
Tim Henman has confirmed he will retire from the sport after this year's
Davis Cup in Croatia.
(Sky News)
The
Supreme Court of Pakistan issues a ruling allowing former Pakistan Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif and his brother
Shahbaz Sharif to return to Pakistan.
Officials in
Ohio declare a
state of emergency in nine counties as a result of
flooding .
(Reuters)
Two people are killed in
Ermera ,
East Timor in another outbreak of political violence.
(ABC News)
The
South African Communist Party launches an investigation into what happened to a political donation of 500,000
rand allegedly made in 2002.
(BBC)
The
European Union lifts a ban on the export of
British
livestock ,
meat and
dairy products imposed after a recent
foot and mouth disease outbreak in
Surrey .
(The Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
MySpace and
MTV join forces to let candidates in the
2008 United States presidential election hold online
webcasts with
young people .
(AFP via the Melbourne Age)
At least 25 people are killed, 22 arrested and five abducted as suspected
Al Qaeda in Iraq militants attack a
Sunni
mosque in
Baquba ,
Iraq .
(BBC)
Japanese political activist
Yoshihiro Tanjo is charged with
intimidation for cutting off his
little finger and sending it to the
Prime Minister of Japan
Shinzo Abe over Shinzo's refusal to visit the
Yasukuni shrine to commemorate Japan's
World War II dead.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Hurricane Dean is downgraded to a
tropical depression over
Mexico after killing 20 people in the
Caribbean .
(AP via Fox News)
Two youths aged 18 and 14 are arrested in
Liverpool ,
England on suspicion of shooting dead an 11-year-old boy in
Croxteth .
(The Times and PA)
More than 1200
Ford workers in
Victoria, Australia are stood down due to an
industrial dispute over unpaid entitlements owed to workers in a Ford supplier.
(AAP via News Limited)
Vendors selling
puffer fish meat as
salmon has led to 15 deaths and 115 people being sickened in
Thailand over the past three years.
(AP via IHT)
U.S. Customs and
U.S. Navy officials seized a
submarine -like vessel filled with $352 million worth of cocaine off the
Guatemalan coast. (prices given by CIA)
(AP via Forbes)
August 24, 2007 (2007-08-24 ) (Friday)
Former
NASA
astronaut
Lisa Nowak , whose arrest ended her career, apologized to
U.S. Air Force
Captain Colleen Shipman, her former romantic rival and the woman she is accused of terrorizing.
(Los Angeles Times)
Former
Ku Klux Klan member
James Seale is sentenced to
life imprisonment for his role in the 1964 murder of two black men in the
U.S. state of
Mississippi .
(Reuters via News Limited)
The
Georgian government announces that its forces have fired on a
Russian aircraft that was claimed to have violated Georgian airspace, possibly shooting it down.
(BBC)
United States District Court
judge
William Hoeveler rules against former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega returning to Panama after he completes his sentence in a
United States
prison stating that there was no reason why he shouldn't be extradited to
France to face a prison term there.
(Reuters)
Citing a "very reliable" source at the
University of Miami , the
Swedish broad sheet newspaper Norra Skåne reports that
Cuban leader
Fidel Castro is dead.
(Norra Skåne)
(The Expressen)
Part of the
Montreal Metro and the street above are closed off after the formation of cracks at
McGill station , causing severe traffic problems in downtown. There is no indication as to when the road or station will be re-opened.
(CBC)
At least 20 people are killed in
Peloponnese ,
Greece as a result of 150
wildfires burning out of control: two regions have been declared as disaster areas.
(Athens News Agency)
A
U.S.
circuit judge sentences
John Couey to death for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl
Jessica Lunsford in
Citrus County, Florida .
(ABC News America)
Russia sells
Venezuela 98
Ilyushin Il-114 aircraft.
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Flood warnings are in place in 10
US
states from
Ohio to
Texas with at least 25 people believed to have died in the past week.
(BBC)
Mexican
oil platforms resume production following the end of the threat from
Hurricane Dean .
(Reuters)
Three
British Army soldiers die in
Afghanistan in a suspected
friendly fire incident.
(BBC)
Bangladesh eases
curfew arrangements in place in its major cities following a reduction in street violence.
(Reuters)
Sixty suspected
Al Qaeda in Iraq gunmen attack police facilities in
Samarra ,
Iraq , resulting in at least 3 deaths and 9 injuries.
(AP via Fox News)
Ban Ki-moon , the
Secretary-General of the
United Nations , urges the Government of
Myanmar to show restraint in its treatment of students and pro-democracy activists who have been protesting against the regime.
(ABC News Australia)
At least four
Pakistan Army soldiers die in a
suicide bomber attack on a military
convoy near
Miranshah , the main city of
North Waziristan near the
Afghan border.
(BBC)
The
explosion of a
car bomb outside a
police station in the
Basque city of
Durango, Spain , is believed to be the first attack by the separatist group
ETA since it called off a ceasefire in June.
(AP via CNN)
Dozens of people are rescued from
floods on the
Sunshine Coast of the
Australian state of
Queensland .
(ABC News)
Two people are killed and eleven are injured when a
hot air balloon bursts into flames in
Surrey, British Columbia ,
Canada .
(CNN)
August 25, 2007 (2007-08-25 ) (Saturday)
A lawyer for missing
coal miners in the
Crandall Canyon mine in
Utah says that a sixth probe has not found enough space for the men to survive.
(AP via AZ Central) [
permanent dead link ]
Ongoing flooding in the
midwestern
United States affects six states and claim at least 26 lives
(MSNBC)
Twin blasts panic people in
Hyderabad ,
India . A gas cylinder explosion at a food mart kills 27, injures 50. Another blast at a park kills at least 14.
2007 Greek fires : More than 53 people, including children, die during the
Peloponnese forest fires in
Greece and many are missing in burnt villages. Huge fires also occur in the
Imitos mountain area,
Filothei ,
Athens and also in the
Styra ,
Euboea and
Keratea regions. The Greek government declares a national emergency and seeks assistance from the
European Union .
(BBC)
(Times of India)
(BBC)
The
11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics get underway in
Osaka ,
Japan .
(BBC)
On the 132-year anniversary of the
first crossing ,
Bulgarian swimmer
Petar Stoychev becomes the fastest person ever to swim across the
English Channel .
(Timed Finals)
Voters in
Nauru go to the polls for the
Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007 .
(ABC News Australia)
Horse racing meetings throughout
Australia are cancelled due to an outbreak of
equine influenza in
Centennial Park
stables next to
Sydney 's
Randwick Racecourse .
Peter McGauran , the Federal Minister for Agriculture, issues a 72-hour ban on horse movement throughout Australia.
(ABC News Australia)
(ABC News)
August 26, 2007 (2007-08-26 ) (Sunday)
August 27, 2007 (2007-08-27 ) (Monday)
August 28, 2007 (2007-08-28 ) (Tuesday)
August 29, 2007 (2007-08-29 ) (Wednesday)
Baiji , a
river dolphin recently declared
functional extinct , is witnessed in
Anhui , China.
(New York Times)
Former
Pakistan
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif is all set to return to Pakistan after seven years of exile.
The
Wyoming
Republican Party votes to move its nominating convention to January 5, 2008, making it the first event in the nation for the Republicans in the
2008 United States presidential election .
(MSNBC)
The
Red Cross reports that at least 17,000 are still missing from the former
Yugoslavia , including 13,400 from the
Bosnian wars, 2,300 from the
Croatian conflict and 2,047 from the
Kosovo conflict.
(AFP via NYT)
Moqtada al-Sadr suspends the activities of his
Mehdi Army
militia in
Iraq for six months.
(BBC)
Senator
Tim Johnson announces that he will return to the
United States Senate on
September 5 after recovering from
brain surgery since last December.
(Reuters)
The
United States Department of Defense 's inspector general launches an investigation into the United States military's inability to account for weapons sent to
Iraq after reports that
Kurdish militants were using US weapons to attack
Turkey .
(Reuters)
Thousands of people protest in
Chile against the economic policies of the
President
Michelle Bachelet with 350 arrests made when they attempt to enter the grounds of the
presidential palace .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
A
California produce company recalls bagged fresh
spinach after it tests positive to
salmonella .
(CNN)
The
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the
Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) claim to have captured a
Sudanese army base in the
Kordofan province of
Sudan .
(Reuters via ABC)
A
NASA internal investigation finds no evidence of heavy drinking or
drunkenness amongst
astronauts prior to missions.
(NYT)
The
United States Senate
Republican Party leadership requests that Senator
Larry Craig of
Idaho stand aside from his
Senate committees until the
United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics makes a ruling on his situation. Senator Craig agrees.
(WSJ)
John Holmes , the
United Nations '
emergency relief coordinator , warns that refugees of the
Darfur conflict are arming themselves and may soon be able to defend themselves if the Sudanese government renews its attacks.
(BBC)
Three
Palestinian children are killed in an explosion between
Beit Lahiya and the
Jabalya refugee camp in the
Gaza Strip caused by
Israeli
tank fire. The
Israeli Defence Forces later claim they were aiming for
rocket launchers in the area directed towards Israel, but eyewitnesses and medical sources said that there were no gunmen or rocket launchers at the scene.
(BBC)
(YNet)
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the
murder of British schoolboy Rhys Jones .
(Sky News)
Ten people are trapped alive in a collapsed
apartment building in
Baku ,
Azerbaijan with at least eight people having died.
(Reuters via News Limited)
The
Taliban release twelve
South Korean hostages of the 19 they have been holding.
(BBC)
A
curfew is imposed in the
Indian city of
Agra after angry mobs clash with police resulting in one death and 50 police are injured.
(BBC)
Prison officers in the
United Kingdom call a surprise 24-hour strike.
(Daily Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United States releases seven
Iranians hours after detaining them in a
Baghdad hotel.
(AP via Fox News)
Three people are killed - including a father and son - in a "targeted incident" involving firearms at a house in
Bishop's Stortford . Two others are injured, but a 3 year-old girl is unharmed. Police are hunting "two Asian men" in connection with the attack.
(BBC)
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
August 30, 2007 (2007-08-30 ) (Thursday)
Militants fire
rockets on a
United States military aircraft containing three
US Senators (
Richard Shelby ,
Mel Martinez and
James Inhofe ) as well as
Rep.
Bud Cramer as it leaves
Baghdad for
Amman in
Jordan .
(CNN)
At least 10
Malians are killed and several others injured after their vehicle hits a
land mine .
(Voice of America) [
permanent dead link ]
2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan : The
Taliban releases the remaining
South Korean hostages.
(ABC News Australia)
Nawaz Sharif , former
Prime Minister of Pakistan , states that he will return to
Pakistan from
exile after winning a case in the
Supreme Court of Pakistan .
(chosun) [
permanent dead link ]
An
Iowa
district court rules that
same-sex couples can marry based on the Iowa
constitution guarantee of
equal protection .
(CNN)
United States health officials issue a
consumer alert for people to check their
freezers for contaminated
meat .
(Reuters via CNN)
Darfur rebels accuse the
Sudanese Government of bombing South Darfur.
(Reuters via ABC News Online)
Two trains collide in Nova Oguacu, a suburb of
Rio de Janeiro , killing at least eight and injuring 40.
(Bloomberg)
The
Torre Mayor in
Mexico City is evacuated after a car containing explosives is found in its carpark. Part of the building, Latin America's tallest, had also been evacuated the day before after police received an anonymous bomb threat.
(Bloomberg)
Waziristan War : Scores of Pakistani soldiers have gone missing near the Afghanistan border, amid claims from pro-Taleban militants that they have kidnapped the troops.
(BBC)
The
United Nations Headquarters building in
New York City is evacuated after vials containing the chemical agent
phosgene are discovered.
(CNN)
The
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of
Fatah claims its militants have fired a
missile into southern
Israeli city of
Sderot in response to Israeli raids on the
Gaza Strip . Israeli sources said the rocket landed on a building and caused damages and panic.
(Xinhuanet)
Scores of
Italians are arrested in a crackdown on the
'ndrangheta organised crime clans active in
Calabria .
(AP via CNN)
Cao Gangchuan , the Defense Minister of
People's Republic of China and
Masahiko Komura , Defense Minister of
Japan . meet and agree to strengthen exchanges.
(Xinhua)
The
Chinese Finance Minister,
Jin Renqing , resigns due to "personal reasons".
(BBC)
A report into the
Virginia Tech massacre criticises staff for not acting quickly enough after
Seung-Hui Cho 's first killings.
(BBC)
(Report)
The
Anglican Church of Kenya
consecrates two bishops from the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America after they left the Episcopal Church due to concerns that the Church was consecrating
gay bishops .
(BBC)
More than 450 people have been
arrested after protests in which police used
tear gas and
water cannons in
Chile 's
capital ,
Santiago .
(BBC)
Helping Angels was founded by
Poesy Liang .
August 31, 2007 (2007-08-31 ) (Friday)
The
British Royal Family , including
Prince Charles ,
Prince Harry and
Prince William , and
Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth , along with
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister
Tony Blair , and hundreds more, gather for a memorial service for
Diana, Princess of Wales , ten years after
her death , at Guard's Chapel in
London .
(BBC)
The
President of French Polynesia
Gaston Tong Sang loses a
vote of no-confidence and is forced to resign.
(AFP via News Limited)
A fuel spill pollutes
Puerto Rico 's southwest coast from the town of
Guanica to
Guayanilla Bay .
(AP via Fox News)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser
Norman Hsu surrenders to the
San Mateo County
sheriff 's office on a 15-year-old
felony
warrant .
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Twelve
Chileans including a
Catholic
priest are charged for alleged involvement in
death squads during the rule of General
Augusto Pinochet .
(BBC)
The
Mine Safety and Health Administration indefinitely suspends the search for six missing
coal miners trapped in the
Crandall Canyon mine in the U.S. state of
Utah .
(AP via Fox News)
National Board of Revenue (NBR) of
Bangladesh finds former premier
Khaleda Zia having bank accounts in several names but with the same address.
Canadian police arrest a man in
Toronto found with three
letter bombs in the boot of his car.
(ABC News Australia)
Hugo Chávez , the
President of Venezuela , states that he will meet with
FARC guerillas to mediate a dispute with the Government of
Colombia about the release of captives.
(Reuters Alertnet)
Provisional data from the
United Kingdom
Meteorological Office shows that the 2007 British summer was the wettest on record with five areas of
England on flood warning.
(BBC)
Mike Nifong , the prosecutor in the
2006 Duke University lacrosse case , is found in criminal
contempt of court for lying to a judge in the case and is sentenced to a day in jail.
(Associated Press via New York Times)
An explosion in
Ingushetia near the
Chechen border kills four
Russian police officers.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The U.S.
Kroger
supermarket chain recalls its "Southern-Style" and "Mustard"
potato salads due to concerns over
E. coli
bacteria .
(AP via CNN Money)
Thousands of people protest against the ruling
Hamas party in the
Gaza Strip .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Talks aimed at negotiating peace in
Iraq begin in
Finland .
(Wikinews)
Waziristan War : The
Pakistan government disputes claims by pro-
Taliban militants that they have captured 300
Pakistan Army soldiers stating that a
convoy of 100 soldiers has been trapped and they are working to relieve them.
(BBC)
Negotiators from 158 countries reach rough agreements on
greenhouse gas targets at a
United Nations
climate change conference.
(AP via Google News)
Republican Senator
John Warner announces that he will not seek re-election to the
United States Senate .
(Bloomberg)
Two
Egyptian students at the
University of South Florida are indicted for carrying explosive materials across
state lines with one indicted for
terrorism charges.
(AP via CNN)
The
Secretary-General of the United Nations orders an investigation into how hazardous material from
Iraq came to be in the
United Nations headquarters in
New York .
(Xinhua)
White House Press Secretary
Tony Snow resigns, effective September 14, 2007. Deputy Press Secretary
Dana Perino will replace him after his resignation is effective.
(AP)
A
tank truck crashes into four
minibuses in
Kisii ,
Kenya , resulting in at least 29 deaths and 30 injuries.
(AP via IHT)
The
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown and the
President of France
Nicolas Sarkozy threaten the government of
Sudan with sanctions over
Darfur .
(Reuters)
While
Greece brings the
2007 Greek forest fires under control, 8 people have died in 48 hours in
forest fires in northern
Algeria , six firefighters die in
Croatia and the village of
Les Useres in the
Valencia region of
Spain is evacuated.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
(Euronews)
Angry
Victorian farmers trap the
Premier of Victoria
John Brumby and Rural and Regional Development Minister
Jacinta Allan as well as advisers and media in a machinery yard outside
Colbinabbin , east of
Bendigo to raise concerns about the Government's water plans.
(Herald Sun)
War in Afghanistan
Malaysia celebrates 50 years of independence.