August 1, 2009 (2009-08-01 ) (Saturday)
August 2, 2009 (2009-08-02 ) (Sunday)
One person is killed and 75 injured after an outdoor stage collapses at the
Big Valley Jamboree country music festival in
Alberta ,
Canada .
(CBC)
(CNN)
One person dies of
pneumonic plague and eleven of his relatives are quarantined in
Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture .
(People's Daily Online )
Three workers from the
Russian
Emergency Ministry are killed in
Ingushetia .
(Kyiv Post )
(RIA Novosti)
Nine families who have been living in
East Jerusalem since 1956 are evicted by force. (Previous reports of 'two families' are wrong.)
(Al Jazeera)
(AFP)
(BBC)
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760 , a
Twin Otter plane with 16 on board, disappears over
Papua ,
Indonesia .
(Japan Today)
(Bernama)
(AFP)
Two newly discovered works by
Mozart —a
prelude and
concerto movement—are performed in
Salzburg ,
Austria .
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
(Reuters)
A new strain of the virus that causes
AIDS is discovered in a woman from
Cameroon .
(MSNBC)
Chinese police detain a further 319 people over
unrest in the
Xinjiang region last month.
(Xinhua)
(Press TV)
(Reuters India)
Hundreds of firefighters on the
Spanish island of
La Palma in the
Canary Islands are continuing to battle
wildfires .
(The Times )
(The Telegraph )
At least 33 people die and several are injured as a bus flips over thrice in
Zimbabwe .
(BBC)
Around 2700 people are evacuated as 530 forest fires burn in
British Columbia ,
Canada .
(The Age )
(AFP)
A large
oil spill occurs in
Langesund ,
Norway , after a Chinese ship, the Full City , drifted aground.
(Stockholm News)
(The Local )
Former
Iranian
President
Mohammad Khatami criticizes the "
show trial " of
election protestors currently underway in the country.
(Press TV)
(The Independent )
The death toll from
sectarian clashes in northern
Nigeria rises to 700.
(This Day )
(CNN)
The
BBC obtains a photograph showing
Yusuf Mohamed , leader of the
Boko Haram sect, was alive when captured by the
Nigerian army.
(BBC)
The remains of
Michael Scott Speicher , the first
United States
Gulf War casualty, are located in the
Al Anbar Governorate desert.
(The Irish Times )
August 3, 2009 (2009-08-03 ) (Monday)
Bolivia becomes the first country in the history of
South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
(MercoPress)
Georgia accuses
Russia of trying to seize more of its territory as the anniversary of
the 2008 war between the two countries approaches.
(BBC) .
Several earthquakes, including
one of 6.9 magnitude , hit northwestern
Mexico .
(USGS)
(BBC)
Continental Airlines Flight 128 , from
Rio de Janeiro to
Houston , makes an emergency landing in
Miami after severe turbulence, injuring dozens.
(New York Daily News )
Evidence that
haggis was invented by the
English is unearthed.
(IOL)
(News.com.au)
Iran is reportedly ready to build a
nuclear weapon , according to Western intelligence services.
(The Times )
Barclays posts a profit of £2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008.
(Sky News)
Iran 's
Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term
presidency of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .
(BBC)
(Press TV)
(Reuters)
(Al Jazeera)
Water supplies in
Chifeng ,
Inner Mongolia ,
China , are cut off to over 580,000 people after contaminants caused the hospitalization of 4,125 people due to
gastrointestinal illness.
(Xinhua)
(Associated Press)
A town in
Qinghai , China, is sealed off after a second person dies of
pneumonic plague .
(Xinhua)
(The Times )
(Al Jazeera)
Somali pirates release a
Malaysian tugboat with 11
Indonesian crew after being held for more than seven months.
(Reuters)
(People's Daily )
(The Straits Times ) [
permanent dead link ]
The Washington Post newspaper in the
United States reports that officials are considering a plan to move
Guantánamo Bay detainees to a
prison camp .
(RTÉ) An
Australian radio show is axed and presenter
Kyle Sandilands sacked from a television show after a lie detector stunt sees a 14-year-old girl say she was
raped so her mother could claim
Pink tickets.
(Bangkok Post )
(BBC)
(CTV)
(The Guardian )
(Herald Sun )
(IOL)
185 people are killed in tribal clashes in
South Sudan .
(Associated Press)
(AHN)
(BBC)
The
death sentences of more than 4000 prisoners in
Kenya are commuted to
life imprisonment .
(BBC)
(Capital FM)
August 4, 2009 (2009-08-04 ) (Tuesday)
A
European Commission report finds that more than 50% of all
Europeans regularly surf the
Internet , up 33% in five years.
(Deutsche Welle)
Burundian police detain opposition leader and former journalist
Alexis Sinduhije at
Ruyigi in eastern Burundi, where he is accused of hosting an illegal meeting.
(IOL)
Pro-
government activist,
Lina Ron , surrenders to
Venezuelan authorities one day after attacking opposition television station
Globovisión .
President
Hugo Chávez condemns the attack, saying it helps his opponents brand him as a
tyrant .
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
Amos Kenan , Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright, novelist and leading intellectual of
Canaanism died at the age of 82 in
Israel , his funeral is scheduled for Thursday, August 6th, at a
kibbutz cemetery in central Israel.
(The Associated Press )
Former
United States
President
Bill Clinton arrives in
Pyongyang ,
North Korea , and secures the freedom of two
detained American journalists,
Laura Ling and
Euna Lee .
(BBC)
(Yonhap)
(KCNA)
(Al Jazeera)
(The Times )
(BBC)
Georgia
Police in
Australia foil a major terror operation involving a suicide attack on a military base understood to be
Holsworthy Barracks on
Sydney 's western outskirts.
(Sky News)
(The Age )
(The Hindu )
5,300 people flee flames which thousands of firefighters fight in
British Columbia .
(BBC)
(Canada.com)
(CBS News)
(National Post )
Bangkok Airways
Flight PG 266 crashes into a disused control tower at
Samui Airport on the island of
Ko Samui ,
Thailand , killing at least one person.
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
(China Daily )
(RTÉ)
A
referendum on whether to extend
Mamadou Tandja 's
presidency for a third term is held in
Niger .
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
Gotland governor
Marianne Samuelsson is forced to resign after she was
taped arguing that a local businessman should be given favourable treatment.
(The Local )
UBS remains cautious about its prospects after client withdrawals spurred by protracted
U.S. tax litigation drags the
Swiss bank into another big quarterly loss.
(Reuters)
John Yettaw , detained in
Burma for making an uninvited visit to
Aung San Suu Kyi , is taken to hospital suffering seizures.
(BBC)
(AFP)
(CNN)
After a public demonstration in support, a
High Court judge in
Ireland orders the release of
Thomas Cook staff, including one woman who went into labour, who were arrested after occupying the company's premises on
Grafton Street ,
Dublin .
(The Irish Times )
(Reuters)
(RTÉ)
(The Times )
About 100
Algerians and
Chinese clash in
Algiers .
(Reuters India)
(BBC)
Nigerian
President
Umaru Yar'Adua orders an investigation into the recent
sectarian violence in the north of the country.
(NEXT)
(Reuters)
Opposition groups in
Iran call for further
protests ahead of
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's inauguration.
(Associated Press)
The trial of a
Sudanese woman accused of
public indecency after wearing
trousers is adjourned for a second time after police disperse protesters outside the court.
(IOL)
(Al Jazeera)
Kenyan
President
Mwai Kibaki commutes the sentences of more than 4,000 death row inmates to life imprisonment.
(IOL)
Nigerian airport officials release a
Ukrainian aircraft and its crew arrested in June with an arms cargo bound for
Equatorial Guinea .
(IOL)
August 5, 2009 (2009-08-05 ) (Wednesday)
The 40th
Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting opens in
Cairns, Australia .
(RNZI)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially
sworn in as
President of
Iran for a second term.
(Press TV)
(BBC)
The funeral of
Corazon Aquino , the
first female
President of an
Asian country and the
Philippines , takes place in the
Philippines .
(CNN)
Brazilian
President
Lula da Silva says his country is “now advising the
International Monetary Fund , IMF”.
(MercoPress)
Bolivian
President
Evo Morales expresses concern in
La Paz about the possibility that the “Pinochetistas” in
Chile and the “fascist right” in
Argentina could win the general elections in those countries and that it "would be very serious for
Latin American democracy and for
South America ".
(MercoPress)
Iraq 's
government announces that all
Bremer walls will be removed from
Baghdad within forty days.
(BBC)
11 men drown when a boat sinks on the
Nile near
Khartoum ,
Sudan .
(IOL)
Two
United States journalists,
Laura Ling and
Euna Lee , who had been
detained by
North Korea , return home with former
U.S. President
Bill Clinton .
(CNN)
Former
Madagascar leader
Marc Ravalomanana is hopeful that a relaunch of peace talks between the country's rival factions will bring progress toward a return of political stability.
(IOL)
A dog featured in an
American film called
I Love You, Man , which was named after assassinated
Egyptian
President
Anwar El Sadat , leads to a court case as
bloggers complain that their country has been insulted.
(BBC)
Fourteen people are
shot at a women's dance class in
LA Fitness gymnasium in
Collier Township ,
Pennsylvania ,
United States . Three women die, as does the gunman.
(BBC News)
Eight people are injured when an
Airbus A320 plane
catches fire on one of its engines at
Paris-Orly Airport . The fire is quickly brought under control.
(Reuters)
(BBC News)
Three more men are charged with plotting a
suicide attack on a military base in
Australia .
(BBC News)
Ireland 's
Health Service Executive threatens several pharmacies with
High Court injunctions if they do not adhere with their contracts to dispense drugs.
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
Part-nationalised UK lender
Lloyds Banking Group reports pre-tax losses of £4 billion for the first half of this year.
(Sky News)
Chansa Kabwela, the news editor of the The Post , goes on trial in
Zambia after being accused of distributing obscene images.
(BBC)
(IOL)
Police fire
teargas at protesters rallying in support of
Lubna al-Hussein , the
Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public.
(IOL)
A court in
Moscow opens a new trial into the murder of
Russian journalist
Anna Politkovskaya .
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
(AFP)
A
Chinese teenager sent to an
internet addiction rehabilitation camp is allegedly beaten to death by its counsellors.
(BBC)
(Global Times )
The
United States
White House defends its decision to award its
Presidential Medal of Freedom to former
President of Ireland
Mary Robinson .
(Irish Examiner )
(The Irish Times )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Austrian police probe the shooting of two adolescents who allegedly broke into a supermarket and died by police.
(Deutsche Welle)
An anthem sung by
FC Schalke 04 's fans draws
Islamic protests because of its reference to the
Prophet
Muhammad .
(BBC)
Romanians who fled
Belfast following
racist attacks return to
Northern Ireland .
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
Belgian Justice Minister
Stefaan De Clerck is under fire after three men with criminal records escape from a courthouse in Brussls. The escape follows the helicopter breakout of three inmates, including one of Belgium's most dangerous criminals, and the ladder breakout of six more convicts all in the space of twelve days.
(Deutsche Welle)
Former
Argentine
President
Fernando de la Rúa is indicted in a bribery case.
(MercoPress)
Former
Lieutenant Governor of the
Northern Mariana Islands
Timothy P. Villagomez is sentenced to seven years in prison for
political corruption .
(Sapain Tribune )
Thirty-three people are reported missing following the sinking of the
Princess Ashika
ferry in
Tonga .
(RNZI)
August 6, 2009 (2009-08-06 ) (Thursday)
64th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings
Supporters of
Iran 's opposition leader,
Mir-Hossein Mousavi , battle riot police as they hoot horns and take to the streets of
Tehran shouting "
Death to the dictator ".
(BBC)
An
Indian court
sentences to death three people for carrying out
bombings that killed more than 50 people in
Mumbai in 2003.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The New York Times )
Malagasy crisis talks resume between interim leader
Andry Rajoelina , ousted president
Marc Ravalomanana and former presidents
Didier Ratsiraka and
Albert Zafy in
Maputo ,
Mozambique .
(IOL)
New Zealand ’s
Prime Minister
John Key says he believes
Fiji ’s self-appointed
Prime Minister
Commodore
Frank Bainimarama has given up on the
Pacific Islands Forum .
(RNZI)
Argentina ,
Brazil and
Bolivia express concerns whilst
Peru supports a planned accord by
Colombian
President
Álvaro Uribe to allow
United States troops to use several bases.
Venezuela announces trade measures against Colombia.
(BBC)
Brazil returns 1.500 tonnes of syringes,
condoms and dirty nappies which were sent from the
United Kingdom .
(MercoPress)
Micro-blogging website
Twitter is knocked offline by a
distributed denial-of-service attack targeted at a
Georgian blogger .
(RTÉ)
(CNN)
(BBC)
South African photographer
Neil Hartmann , accused of documenting
Namibia 's annual seal cull, is detained without charge for nearly seven hours less than a month after the arrest of two journalists.
(IOL)
A company manager claims that a 77-day occupation of a car plant by hundreds of laid-off workers in
South Korea has come to an end.
(BBC)
Japan 's first jury trial for more than 60 years ends with a man in his 70s being sentenced to 15 years in prison for
murder .
(ABC News)
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(The Independent )
(The New York Times )
Iran bans all pilgrimages to
Saudi Arabia during the
Islamic holy month of
Ramadan in an
attempt to contain the spread of
swine flu .
(BBC)
Hundreds of panic-stricken people queue at hospitals in
Pune ,
India , to be tested for swine flu following the
first death from the disease in that country.
(BBC)
The
Iraqi cabinet agrees a draft law to restrict
smoking in public places and ban
tobacco advertising.
(BBC)
President
Jacob Zuma names
Sandile Ngcobo as
Chief Justice of South Africa .
(IOL)
(Mail & Guardian )
Sonia Sotomayor is
confirmed by the
United States Senate as
Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court , replacing
David Souter .
(Reuters)
(CNN)
At least nine people are killed and several inhale fumes after a fire at a retirement home in
Melle ,
Belgium .
(BBC)
The Presidents of
Democratic Republic of Congo and
Rwanda ,
Joseph Kabila and
Paul Kagame , pledge to boost economic and security ties after a rare meeting.
(BBC)
Scientists say they have decoded the entire genetic structure of HIV-1—the main cause of
AIDS in humans.
(BBC)
News Corp. announces its intent to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites, including
The Times ,
The Sun ,
The Wall Street Journal ,
New York Post and
Herald Sun .
(BBC)
(The New Zealand Herald )
(Reuters)
At least 34 people are feared dead after their bus plunges into the
Indus River in
Pakistan .
(BBC)
The
Slender-billed Vulture , one of the world's most endangered birds and said to be rarer than the
Tiger , is twice successfully bred in
Haryana and
West Bengal .
(BBC)
August 7, 2009 (2009-08-07 ) (Friday)
The leaders of three
South African opposition parties urge
President
Jacob Zuma to withdraw his statement on the nomination of
Sandile Ngcobo to replace outgoing
Chief Justice
Pius Langa , calling it "unconstitutional".
(IOL)
Senator
Miguel Carrioza says the
Congress of Paraguay is not interested in considering the protocol for
Venezuela ’s incorporation to
Mercosur .
(MercoPress)
Mel Martinez ,
U.S. Senator from
Florida , announces his resignation.
(MSNBC)
Selvarasa Pathmanathan , the new leader of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , is detained in
Thailand .
(BBC)
According to both
Pakistani officials and Taliban insurgents,
Baitullah Mehsud , leader of the
Pakistani Taliban , was killed in a
drone strike.
(New York Times)
Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since
Mexico 's continuing
national crackdown on
the illegal drug trade .
(AP foreign-UK Guardian)
Ronnie Biggs , one of the participants of the
Great Train Robbery , is freed on medical grounds.
(UK Guardian)
Bomb attacks on a
Shia mosque and pilgrims at
Shreikhan village near
Mosul kill at least 36 people as
Iraq 's largest
Muslim community marks one of its biggest feasts, gathering in
Karbala to mark the birth of
Muhammad al-Mahdi .
(BBC)
August 8, 2009 (2009-08-08 ) (Saturday)
August 9, 2009 (2009-08-09 ) (Sunday)
August 10, 2009 (2009-08-10 ) (Monday)
In an open letter four
South African opposition leaders accuse
President
Jacob Zuma of abuse of power after his naming of
Sandile Ngcobo as
Chief Justice . The office of President Jacob Zuma responds by saying there was "nothing unconstitutional" in Zuma's action.
(The Times )
(IOL)
The
UNASUR summit opens in
Quito to discuss issues such as
Venezuela 's “ethics responsibility” clause,
Colombian military bases and the
Honduras
crisis .
(MercoPress)
At the funeral of Vice-President
Joseph Msika ,
President
Robert Mugabe lashes out at "racist" western countries, saying "
Zimbabwe need not be tied to any one corner of the world, least of all, to a corner of former imperialist and racist colonisers".
(The Times ) [
permanent dead link ] (IOL)
During a tour of
Africa ,
Hillary Clinton , the
United States
Secretary of State , attacks a
Congolese university student for asking about the opinion of her husband
Bill Clinton .
(IOL)
(New York Daily News )
(ABC News)
(The Guardian )
Ecuadorean
President
Rafael Correa is sworn in for a second term vowing to deepen his socialist “revolution”.
(MercoPress)
The interim government in
Honduras agrees to accept a delegation from the
Organization of American States to help solve the
political crisis in the country.
(AFP)
(CNN)
Pope Benedict XVI triggers a “scandalous poverty” debate in
Argentina , with
Buenos Aires
province governor
Daniel Scioli preparing to meet with all
Catholic bishops of his area.
(MercoPress)
The head of
Hyundai Asan , embarks on a mission to
North Korea to attempt to secure the release of a company worker.
(BBC)
Libya and
Chad sign
seven agreements to boost trade, security and political co-operation.
(IOL)
Negotiators gather in
Austria for informal talks aimed at unblocking a 34-year-old dispute between
Morocco and the
Western Sahara independence movement.
(IOL)
The head of
MI6
John Scarlett denies complicity in the alleged torture of
British detainee
Binyam Mohamed , as the
government rejects calls for an inquiry.
(BBC)
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
More than 350 new species—including 244 plants and 16 amphibians—are discovered in the
Eastern Himalayas .
(WWF)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Xinhua)
The
Fatah
Palestinian faction votes in leadership elections for the first time in 20 years.
(AFP)
(Al Jazeera)
A series of bombings in
Iraq kill 48 people and injure 231 in
Baghdad and
Mosul in continuing violence between Shiites and Sunnis in the area.
(CNN)
Ecuador ’s Health Minister
Caroline Chang says
South America ’s twelve nations have pledged to respect regional vaccine price ceilings to prevent businesses from exploiting fear of the A/H1N1 flu pandemic.
(MercoPress)
Two
Namibians and a
Chinese who are suspected in a corruption investigation involving a firm linked to the son of China's
President
Hu Jintao appear in a
Windhoek court asking to be released on bail.
(IOL)
August 11, 2009 (2009-08-11 ) (Tuesday)
President of
Costa Rica ,
Óscar Arias Sánchez is diagnosed with
Influenza AH1N1 but his condition is stable, according to official reports.
(ANSA)
(AP)
(MercoPress)
A court ruling in
Pretoria bars
President
Jacob Zuma from appointing a successor to axed prosecutions chief
Vusi Pikoli .
(IOL)
UNASUR leaders express fresh concerns over
Colombian plans to grant
United States troops access to its military bases but cannot agree on a declaration to formally condemn the proposals.
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez warns that "the winds of war are beginning to blow" across the region.
(MercoPress)
Former
Cuban
President
Fidel Castro calls Colombia "disloyal", saying the pending military deal with the United States could be used to attack other
Latin American countries.
(MercoPress)
(Granma )
A court in
Burma finds
Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of violating the terms of her detention, and sentences her to a further 18 months
house arrest .
(BBC)
(The Straits Times )
(The Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ] (Al Jazeera)
Rescue operations continue in southern
China and
Taiwan in the aftermath of
Typhoon Morakot .
(The Times )
(Taiwan News )
Two strong earthquakes hit
Asia ; a 7.6
magnitude
quake off the
Indian
Andaman Islands and a
6.5 magnitude quake in the
Tokyo area of
Japan , killing one and injuring dozens.
(Press Association)
(Associated Press)
(BBC)
A
German court sentences former
Nazi army commander
Josef Scheungraber to life in prison for his role in the murder of 10
Italians in
Tuscany in 1944.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ] (The Sydney Morning Herald )
Thousands of people worship a baby born with four arms and four legs in
Ramechhap ,
Nepal , revering him as the reincarnation of
Ganesh .
(The Guardian )
Kuwait foils an
al Qaeda -linked plan to bomb a
United States army camp and other "important facilities" in the country.
(The Irish Times )
(Reuters)
(BBC)
Nine corpses are recovered from a
Handlová coal mine following a
fire and explosion in
Slovakia .
(Irish Independent ) The government meets in emergency session and declares a day of mourning.
(TSAR)
Argentina 's Cabinet Chief
Aníbal Fernández comments on the
suspension of the debt-ridden
Primera División by saying that
football transmission should be free because it is not only a national passion but an industry that generates many jobs and activity.
(MercoPress)
Two members of the
Russian humanitarian organisation Let's Save the Generation are found dead in
Grozny ,
Chechnya .
(Al Jazeera)
(RIA Novosti)
(Press TV)
Police in
Pakistan register a criminal case with former
President
Pervez Musharraf over the latter's decision to detain judges in 2007.
(AFP)
(Indian Express )
(The Nation )
The
NASA
Spitzer Space Telescope finds evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star.
(BBC)
Russian
President
Dmitry Medvedev delays sending a new ambassador to
Ukraine after criticising its "anti-Russian" stance.
(AFP)
(Xinhua)
(ITAR-TASS)
A pilot flying from
England to
Ireland is airlifted to safety after his two-man aircraft crashes into the
Irish Sea near
Tuskar Rock .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
Swedish
Princess Madeleine announces her engagement to lawyer and longterm boyfriend Jonas Bergström, becoming the second royal in
Sweden to announce her engagment after
Crown Princess Victoria .
(Aftonbladet)
A
Russian woman is arrested after throwing a teacup at the
Mona Lisa portrait in the
Louvre ,
Paris .
(Irish Independent )
(CNN)
A passenger plane carrying 13 people, including nine
Australians , en route to
Kokoda , site of a hiking trail and famous
World War II battle, is reported missing over
Papua New Guinea .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Nepenthes attenboroughii , a new species of giant carnivorous plant, is discovered in the highlands of the central
Philippines .
(BBC) Two
Kenyans , two
French , a
Bulgarian and a
Belgian held captive since November 2008 are freed by their
Somali kidnappers.
(IOL)
August 12, 2009 (2009-08-12 ) (Wednesday)
At a meeting in
Caracas ,
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez and
Argentine
President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sign agreements expanding trade between their two countries.
(MercoPress)
It is discovered that the
Killer Whale creates and visits 'social clubs'.
(BBC)
Yemeni troops, backed by tanks and fighter aircraft, launch a
major offensive on the stronghold of
Shia fighters in northern Yemen.
(Al Jazeera)
Thirty people are killed in
Warrap state in southern
Sudan , in a resurgence of the
nomadic conflicts .
(IOL)
Russia 's navy is deployed to find the
MV Arctic Sea , a missing ship reportedly hijacked three weeks ago in the
Baltic Sea .
(BBC News)
About 700 people missing in southern
Taiwan after
Typhoon Morakot are located alive.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Indonesian police say DNA tests show that a militant killed in a weekend raid was not
Noordin Mohammed Top , one of the region's most wanted men.
(BBC)
The
wreckage of an
Airlines PNG De Havilland Twin Otter 300 plane carrying 11 passengers and 2 crew is found near
Isurava ,
Papua New Guinea ; there are no signs of survivors.
(Al Jazeera)
(RNZI)
Gunmen shoot dead five
Pakistani
Muslim preachers outside a mosque in
Galkayo ,
Somalia .
(IOL)
(BBC)
Gregoire Ndahimana , a
Rwandan fugitive accused of
genocide and crimes against humanity, is arrested by a joint
Rwandan -
Congolese military operation.
(IOL)
(BBC)
An estimated 20,000 people march through
Noumea ,
New Caledonia , to denounce violent clashes by USTKE
trade unionists against
police .
(RNZI)
MV Princess Ashika
German
CDU politician
Vera Lengsfeld attracts controversy for displaying a photo of
Angela Merkel in a revealing gown without the authorisation of the
Chancellor .
(BBC)
Lubna al-Hussein , the
Sudanese woman facing forty lashes for wearing trousers in public, is prevented from leaving the country for a trip to
Lebanon , where she was to take part in a televised talk-show about women's issues.
(IOL)
(BBC)
Diego León Montoya Sánchez ,
Norte Valle Cartel leader, pleads guilty to drug,
murder and
racketeering charges.
(www.BackgroundNow.com)
The
Roman Catholic Church is expresses "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of
Italian
Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi .
(BBC)
Astronomers discover
WASP-17b , the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star.
(BBC)
August 13, 2009 (2009-08-13 ) (Thursday)
On an official visit to
Colombia ,
Mexican
President
Felipe Calderón offers his country’s mediation in the conflict between that country,
Ecuador and
Venezuela .
(MercoPress)
Ousted
Honduran
President
Manuel Zelaya praises
Chile for its “great image” as he meets its
President
Michelle Bachelet in
Santiago and says he expects the
United States to take "
more drastic actions " against the
de facto government of
Roberto Micheletti .
(MercoPress)
Eleven people, including four policemen, are killed in several separate insurgent attacks in
Russia 's
Republic of Dagestan .
(AFP)
At least 23 government soldiers and more than 20
Muslim extremists are killed in a day-long clash in the southern
Philippines .
(France 24) [
permanent dead link ]
Former
Afghan President
Burhanuddin Rabbani survives an
ambush by the
Taliban in the
Ali Abad District of
Kunduz province ,
Afghanistan .
(Voice of America ) [
permanent dead link ]
Supporters of
Guinea 's self-declared
President ,
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara , form a movement,
Dadis Must Stay , to call for him to be allowed to continue in office.
(BBC)
The
French and
German economies rebound, helping push the
Eurozone to the brink of economic recovery in the second quarter, delivering a further signal that the worst of the
global crisis may be coming to an end in
Europe .
(FT)
The
European Union will extend its sanctions on
Burma to cover members of the
judiciary responsible for the verdict in the trial of opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi .
(Reuters)
A rare signed copy of
Adolf Hitler ’s
Mein Kampf sells at the Mullock’s auction at
Ludlow Racecourse ,
Shropshire , for
£ 21,000 (
€ 24,400).
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
(Evening Herald )
(The Guardian )
(The New York Times )
(Toronto Star )
August 14, 2009 (2009-08-14 ) (Friday)
Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from
Islamabad to
Istanbul .
(BBC)
Hundreds of people protest in
Caracas , Venezuela, after journalists protesting a new education law were beaten the previous day.
(El Universal )
(Associated Press)
Malagasy peace talks break down when the armed forces reject one clause in the peace deal.
(IOL)
The
MV Arctic Sea , missing since late July, is reportedly found 400 nmi (740 km) off the
Cape Verde islands.
(BBC)
(The Times )
A
Canadian court orders the government to repatriate
Omar Khadr , the sole remaining Western citizen held in
Guantanamo Bay detention camp .
(The Star )
(Canadian Press)
At least 13 people have died after a
bus-train collision in
Iaşi County ,
Romania .
(Euronews)
(Le Figaro)
(Mediafax)
Paraguay ’s
government withdraws a bill approving
Venezuela 's incorporation to
Mercosur , fearing a defeat in
Congress could hurt relations between the two countries.
(MercoPress)
In an unexpected move,
Sudanese
President
Omar al-Bashir replaces
Salah Gosh , his country's chief of security and intelligence since the mid-1990s, with
General
Mohamed Atta al-Mawla .
(BBC)
The remains of over 2,000 people discovered in
Poland 's largest mass grave from
World War II are reburied in a military cemetery.
(ABC News)
(BBC)
(Boston Globe )
In
Montevideo ,
President of
Mexico
Felipe Calderón and
President of
Uruguay
Tabaré Vázquez sign a Strategic Association accord to strengthen political dialogue and bilateral trade relations.
(MercoPress)
After launching a major offensive attack on a suspected ASG training camp, the day-long clash in the Southern
Philippines resulted in 23 government casualties and 31 casualties from the
Abu Sayyaf Group .
(Philippines Government Portal)
Iranian reformists call for a probe of the
Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei and his ability to rule.
(Associated Press)
(BBC)
An archaeological excavation uncovers the foundations of the 17th-century
Smock Alley Theatre and several artefacts from theatrical performances in
Dublin .
(RTÉ)
Lynette Fromme , a former member of the
Manson family , is released after serving 34 years in prison.
(ABC News)
Lawyers for the
Lockerbie bomber ,
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi , say he is abandoning his second appeal against his conviction for the
December 1988 attack as
Scottish officials consider his request to be sent home to
Libya .
(MSNBC)
The
United Kingdom imposes
direct rule on the
Turks and Caicos Islands after an inquiry found evidence of
government corruption.
(BBC)
(Turks and Caicos Sun )
At least 13 people are killed and at least 85 are injured in a fierce gun battle in
Gaza .
(BBC)
United States senator
Jim Webb arrives in
Burma for talks with General
Than Shwe .
(Associated Press)
(Bangkok Post )
A
University of Glasgow study suggests
Asians may view faces differently from others.
(BBC)
August 15, 2009 (2009-08-15 ) (Saturday)
Hamas police claim to have killed
Abdel-Latif Moussa , head of the
Islamic group
Jund Ansar Allah in a
shootout .
(The New York Times )
(Petra) [
permanent dead link ]
Hong Kong posts 3.3% growth over its previous quarter, far exceeding predictions, signaling an end to its recession.
(The Straits Times )
Colombia claims to have completed talks with the
United States to allow US troops to use seven of Colombia's military bases.
(BBC)
Japan expresses remorse for its actions in
World War II on the anniversary of its
1945 defeat , but former
Prime Ministers
Junichiro Koizumi and
Shinzo Abe visit the
Yasukuni Shrine , a
controversial war shrine seen as a symbol of its past militarism.
(The Straits Times ) [
permanent dead link ] (Mainichi Daily News )
Former
President of
Zambia ,
Frederick Chiluba , awaits the verdict in his trial into his criminal case for being accused of plundering the national economy during his decade-long rule.
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
MV Arctic Sea
A
suicide bomb attack occurs outside the
NATO headquarters in
Kabul ,
Afghanistan , killing at least seven and injuring 100.
(The Times )
(Xinhua)
(RTHK)
A
prison riot in the
Mexican state of
Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(Press TV)
Italian
Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi speaks at a news conference to say his country will crack down on organised crime over the next four years.
(The Straits Times )
Burma is to free detained
American
John Yettaw , who appeared uninvited at
Aung San Suu Kyi 's home, after a meeting with US Senator
Jim Webb .
(BBC)
(The Straits Times )
(The Telegraph )
A blaze in a tent in
Kuwait , where a wedding party is held, kills 43 women and children. The ex-wife of the groom confesses to starting the fire.
(Al Jazeera)
August 16, 2009 (2009-08-16 ) (Sunday)
August 17, 2009 (2009-08-17 ) (Monday)
August 18, 2009 (2009-08-18 ) (Tuesday)
August 19, 2009 (2009-08-19 ) (Wednesday)
August 20, 2009 (2009-08-20 ) (Thursday)
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi , convicted of the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie in 1988, is released on compassionate grounds due to terminal cancer, and boards a flight to
Libya .
(BBC)
A
bicycle bomb explodes near a restaurant in
Baghdad , killing two people.
(Yahoo! news)
18 prospectors are killed overnight in a diamond mine in
Kasai province in central
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
(IOL)
A line of severe thunderstorms rolls through
Ontario ,
Canada , spawns over 18 tornadoes in one day which has been declared to be the
largest tornado outbreak in Canadian history , at least four F-2 tornadoes were confirmed, including one touching down in the town of
Durham, Ontario , northwest of Toronto where at least one person was killed, and the other in a
Toronto suburb of
Vaughan, Ontario where over 600 homes were damaged or destroyed.
(CTV)
Switzerland 's president,
Hans-Rudolf Merz , apologizes to the
Libyan government for last year's arrest of a son of Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi .
(MSNBC)
Elizabeth Ramos and Louis Williams, owners of defense contracting company Technical Logistics, admit to bribing an employee of the
U.S. Navy 's
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in exchange for defense contracts.
(UPI)
For the first time video ads will appear in a magazine, using a screen similar to a cell phone that can store 40 minutes of video.
(BBC)
August 21, 2009 (2009-08-21 ) (Friday)
Argentina 's
association football
championship kicks off after
President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner puts it on the state payroll to avoid a financial crisis.
(MercoPress)
Brazil becomes
Chile 's third largest trading partner, displacing
Japan , according to recently released government trade figures.
(MercoPress)
South African
President
Jacob Zuma makes a pilgrimage to a former anti-
apartheid guerrilla camp in
Angola where he lays a wreath and pays tribute to fallen comrades.
(IOL)
The presidents or heads of state of five nations, including
Seretse Ian Khama of
Botswana and
Robert Mugabe of
Zimbabwe , along with ministers and musical troupes gather at the
cricket stadium in
Oranjemund ,
Namibia , for a welcoming ceremony at the conclusion of explorer
Kingsley Holgate 's latest expedition, which took him through nine countries.
(IOL)
William Calley , the former US army officer found guilty of organizing
mass killings in the Vietnamese community of
My Lai during the
Vietnam War makes a public apology.
(NPR)
A missile fired from a
U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest
Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in
Afghanistan .
(Associated Press)
Four policemen are killed after 4
suicide bombs on
bicycles detonate in
Grozny ,
Chechnya .
(RIA Novosti)
(AFP)
(Al Jazeera)
A
North Korean delegation arrives in
South Korea to mourn the death of former South Korean
President
Kim Dae-jung .
(Al Jazeera)
(Yonhap)
(China Daily )
20 people are killed and 40 injured after
clashes between pro-government and
Islamist forces in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia .
(Bloomberg)
A
rockfall on a beach in the
Algarve ,
Portugal , kills 5 holidaymakers and injures several others.
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(euronews)
Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of
marijuana ,
cocaine ,
heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
(The Times of India )
(Al Jazeera)
U.S. President
Barack Obama condemns
Lockerbie bomber
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 's homecoming in
Libya .
(CNN)
A 34-year-old
Tunisian woman from
Gafsa , thought to have been
pregnant with 12 babies and whose story had attracted international attention, is determined to have been the victim of a
phantom pregnancy .
(IOL)
László Sólyom ,
President of Hungary was
declared unwelcome by
Slovakia and was not allowed to step on Slovak soil to attend an unveiling of a statue depicting
King Saint Stephen , first
King of Hungary .
(BBC)
August 22, 2009 (2009-08-22 ) (Saturday)
August 23, 2009 (2009-08-23 ) (Sunday)
Tens of thousands of people in the
Baltic states mark the twentieth anniversary of the '
Baltic Way ' - when two million people formed a human chain to protest against
Soviet Union rule.
(Aljazeera) ,
(Guardian) ,
(Baltic Times) .
Tens of thousands of people protest against a new law which gives
women equal rights in
marriage in
Bamako ,
Mali .
(BBC)
(Afrique en ligne)
26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and ships in the
Suez Canal on behalf of
Lebanon 's
Hezbollah group go on trial in an
Egyptian security court.
(IOL)
(BBC)
Thousands of people are evacuated as
forest fires reach the outskirts of the
Greek capital,
Athens .
(Associated Press)
(BBC)
(Daily Mail )
(RTÉ)
North Korean envoys meet the
South Korean
President
Lee Myung-bak for the first time since he took office.
(Al Jazeera)
(Yonhap)
A new picture of
Fidel Castro is published in the
Juventud Rebelde state-run newspaper, apparently showing
Cuba 's ailing former leader in much better health.
(BBC)
(CNN)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ] (Reuters Africa)
Afghan
President
Hamid Karzai 's main rival
Abdullah Abdullah alleges fraud in the
presidential election .
(Xinhua)
(The Guardian )
(The Times of India )
Yemeni troops claim to have killed more than 100
Shia rebels in the past two weeks, including two leaders, but the rebels deny their leaders,
Mohsen Saleh Gawd and
Salah Jorman , are dead and no independent confirmation is made available.
(BBC)
A leak at an offshore
oil rig that caused a large
oil spill off the coast of
Australia "could take weeks" to be plugged.
(Associated Press)
(The Australian ) [
permanent dead link ]
A severe drought in northern
China leaves 5 million people short of
water and damages 8.7 million hectares of
farmland .
(The Straits Times )
(Press Trust of India)
(China Daily )
England reclaim
The Ashes with a 2-1 series win over
Australia .
(BBC)
Iraq broadcasts a video of former police chief
Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim , a
Saddam Hussein loyalist, confessing to
orchestrating a truck bombing at the finance ministry , the first of two bombings that killed 95 people and maimed hundreds more in
Baghdad on 19 August.
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(Straits Times )
ZANU-PF party members walk out of a meeting of
Zimbabwe
cabinet members to review the work of a unity government it has formed with its opponents, over charges of
electoral fraud .
(Reuters Africa)
Honduras 's
Supreme Court rejects a
Costa Rica -brokered deal to restore ousted
President
Manuel Zelaya to power and orders his arrest if he returns.
(BBC)
Stefania Fernandez of
Venezuela was crowned
Miss Universe 2009 by her compatriot
Dayana Mendoza , the first in the history. She was crowned at the
Atlantis Paradise Island ,
Nassau ,
The Bahamas .
August 24, 2009 (2009-08-24 ) (Monday)
According to court documents, the
Los Angeles County
coroner 's preliminary assessment is that
Michael Jackson 's death was caused by an overdose of the
anesthetic
propofol .
(Reuters)
The district court in
Stockholm orders
BitTorrent tracker
The Pirate Bay 's largest
ISP , Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic.
(CNET News)
Sweden 's
TeliaSonera AB announces cash offers worth around $687.7 million in total for shares it doesn't already own in
Baltic operators
Teo LT and
Eesti Telekom .
(The Wall Street Journal )
Former
Cuban leader
Fidel Castro appears on
television for the first time in more than a year.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
Thieves kill an endangered
Sumatran Tiger in an
Indonesian zoo and steal its body, leaving its
intestines behind.
(BBC)
(Jakarta Globe )
Ireland 's
Green Party and
gay rights organisations defend plans to introduce
civil partnerships for
same-sex couples following criticism of the move by
Cardinal
Seán Brady ,
Archbishop of Armagh and
Primate of All Ireland .
(The Irish Times )
China is to try 200 people suspected of their involvement in the
Ürümqi riots last month.
(GBC)
(Associated Press)
(Press TV)
Two mass graves containing the remains of
communist soldiers dating from the
Vietnam War are discovered in central
Vietnam .
(The Straits Times )
(China Daily )
A
Malaysian
Muslim woman,
Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno , who was convicted of drinking
alcohol , is granted a
reprieve until after
Ramadan .
(Al Jazeera)
(Bernama)
(Xinhua)
(IOL)
Scottish
Justice Secretary
Kenny MacAskill defends his decision to release the man convicted of the
Lockerbie bombing ,
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi .
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(Al Jazeera)
(Xinhua)
Kenya 's fifth national
census takes place.
(KBC) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
(The Nation )
(Associated Press)
Captain
Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a
military coup in
Guinea , refuses to rule out standing for
President , after previously promising not to.
(BBC)
(AFP)
(IOL)
At least 200 children are killed and around 900 hospitalised by
Japanese encephalitis in
Uttar Pradesh ,
India .
(BBC)
Baitullah Mehsud is confirmed dead by leaders of Pakistan's
Taliban .
(Associated Press)
August 25, 2009 (2009-08-25 ) (Tuesday)
At least 40 people are killed and 57 wounded in a car bomb explosion in
Kandahar , southern
Afghanistan .
(Reuters)
(BBC)
(The New York Times)
(Aljazeera)
British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown repeats that the
British Government played no role in the release from prison of
Lockerbie bomber
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi , it being a matter for the
Scottish Government .
(Daily Telegraph)
The
Malaysian
opposition party
PAS defeats the
government party
UMNO in the by-election at
Permatang Pasir ,
Penang .
(Bernama)
A suicide bombing in
Mesker-Yurt ,
Chechnya , kills three police officers.
(Yahoo! news)
(BBC News)
Madagascar 's political rivals meet for a second round of talks in
Maputo ,
Mozambique .
(Reuters Africa)
South Korea launches its first space rocket,
Naro-1 , but fails to put the
STSAT-2A satellite into the planned orbit.
(BBC News)
(The Korea Times)
(Yonhap)
U.S. President
Barack Obama nominates
Ben Bernanke for his second term as
chairman of the
Federal Reserve .
(Bloomberg)
A bomb in
Afghanistan kills four American soldiers, making 2009 the deadliest year for foreign troops since the
2001 invasion .
(BBC)
A gas explosion at a coal mine in
Shanxi ,
China , kills at least 14 people.
(China Daily)
(BBC)
The United States
budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded.
(BBC)
42 people are injured after a car bomb explodes at a crowded restaurant with government officials in
Narathiwat , southern
Thailand .
(Bangkok Post) [
permanent dead link ] (The Age)
Syria and
Iraq recall their ambassadors over a dispute following the recent
bombings in
Baghdad last week.
(The Daily Star Lebanon)
(Al Jazeera)
(Syrian News Station)
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez announces plans to break off diplomatic relations with
Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to allow
U.S. troops access to its military bases.
(CNN)
The Morris Fire begins near Morris Dam in the
Angeles National Forest . This fire is thought to have been caused by arson and is the first in a series of
wildfires to burn through Southern California in 2009.
August 26, 2009 (2009-08-26 ) (Wednesday)
August 27, 2009 (2009-08-27 ) (Thursday)
English youth
Michael Perham , aged 17 years, 5 months, becomes the youngest person to complete a solo
circumnavigation of the world by
sailboat , breaking the previous record by two months.
(Reuters)
South African
President
Jacob Zuma is to visit
Zimbabwe for talks on the power-sharing government.
(The Herald )
(IOL)
(AFP)
Taiwan approves a visit by the
Dalai Lama to comfort the victims of
Typhoon Morakot .
(Taiwan News )
(Times South Africa ) [
permanent dead link ] (Al Jazeera)
(Xinhua)
Mali 's
parliament is to review a law giving women greater rights after thousands of
Muslims protested the proposed law.
(BBC)
(AFP)
The
United Nations
Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights,
James Anaya , says the
Australian government intervention in
Aboriginal areas is "discriminatory".
(The Australian )
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
Colombia files a complaint about
Venezuela with the
Organization of American States , saying the country has been interfering in its domestic affairs.
(MercoPress)
(BBC)
Thousands of people flee fighting between
government troops and ethnic rebels in northeastern
Burma .
(Bangkok Post )
(AFP)
(Australia Network News)
The head of the
joint United Nations–African Union force in
Darfur , Martin Agwai, says the
war in the region is over and is now only suffering low-level disputes.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Sri Lanka dismisses a video purporting to show violence by its
Armed Forces against
Tamils .
(The Guardian )
(CNN)
(SLBC)
South Korea proposes regular reunions of families separated by the
Korean War to
North Korea .
(Yonhap)
(Times of India )
(Associated Press)
Judges at the
Supreme Court of
India agree to make their financial assets public.
(BBC)
(Press Trust of India)
The
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passes its first law on the
People's Armed Police , giving it statutory authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies.
(China Daily )
(IOL)
(The New York Times )
Russia deploys an
S-400 anti-missile
defence system close to its border with
North Korea .
(The Guardian )
(Tehran Times )
A
suicide bomber hits a
Pakistani security checkpoint at the main border crossing for convoys ferrying
NATO supplies into
Afghanistan , killing at least 18 border guards.
(MSNBC)
August 28, 2009 (2009-08-28 ) (Friday)
A suicide bomber lightly wounds Prince
Muhammad bin Nayef , deputy
interior minister of
Saudi Arabia , in his
Jeddah office.
(Associated Press)
(NY Times )
(The Washington Post )
Reading Rainbow , the third longest-running children's show on
United States public-service television network
PBS , ends its 26-year run.
(NPR) The detailed
chemical structure of a single
molecule has been imaged for the first time. The physical shape of single
carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using
similar techniques , but the new method even shows up
chemical bonds .
(BBC)
The
United Nations warns that
poultry farms could become infected with the
H1N1 virus , following the discovery of the
virus in
turkeys in
Chile last week.
(BBC)
According to declassified documents released this week, a
survival manual produced by
Transport Canada was used by
U.S. interrogators to set limits on
dousing
detainees with cold water as a form of
water torture .
(CBC) [
permanent dead link ] (CTV) [
permanent dead link ]
Japan 's
unemployment rate reaches a record high of 5.7%.
(BBC)
Iceland 's
Althing votes in favour of repaying more than
US$ 5 billion owed to the governments of the
Netherlands and the
United Kingdom as a result of the
collapse of the Icesave bank .
(BBC)
The
Los Angeles County
coroner rules that
American entertainer and musician
Michael Jackson 's
death was a
homicide caused by acute
intoxication from the
drug
propofol .
(Reuters)
Prime Minister of
Italy
Silvio Berlusconi launches
legal action against
French weekly
Nouvel Observateur ,
Spanish newspaper
El País , and
Italian newspaper
La Repubblica , and has authorized his attorneys to prepare cases against
British newspapers, charging the newspapers with
libel .
(Reuters)
King
Mohammed VI of Morocco is hospitalized for five days for treatment of a
rotavirus and
dehydration .
(Monsters & Critics )
Clashes between rebels and
government troops in the
Kokang region of northeastern
Burma continue, with around 30,000 refugees fleeing across the border to
China .
(China Daily )
(The Times )
(Reuters)
United Nations diplomats confirm the
United Arab Emirates seized a
North Korean ship carrying weapons to
Iran , in violation of
Security Council
Resolution 1874 .
(Financial Times )
(AFP)
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for opposition leaders to be punished over
election protests which occurred earlier this year.
(Al Jazeera)
(Press TV)
NASA launches the
Space Shuttle
Discovery STS-128 ) for a resupply and crew rotation mission to the
International Space Station . The mission will also deliver the
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. This is Discovery's 37th flight and will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first flight during the mission.
(AFP)
(Chosun Ilbo )
Oasis (band) band breaks up
August 29, 2009 (2009-08-29 ) (Saturday)
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