September 1, 2007 (2007-09-01 ) (Saturday)
Dave Zabriskie , an American professional cyclist, defended his National Time Trial Championship by winning by 2 seconds in
Greenville, SC .
The
Church of Uganda , the
Anglican province of
Uganda , appoints a
bishop in the
United States ,
John Guernsey , deepening a split with the
Episcopal Church over the ordination of gay
priests and
bishops .
(BBC)
World Championships in Athletics :
American
athlete
Tyson Gay wins his third medal of the championship as part of the 100 metres
relay team after earlier winning
gold medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
(Reuters)
The
Sri Lankan Army captures territory near
Mannar from the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after a week of heavy fighting.
(AFP via Lanka Business Online)
Protesters in
Southeast Aceh try to stop the swearing in of the regent and deputy regent with riot police using
tear gas and
water cannon to disperse the crowd resulting in 26 people being injured.
(Reuters Alertnet)
In a stunning
college football upset,
Appalachian State defeated
#5-ranked
Michigan at
Michigan Stadium by a score of 34-32. This is the first time a team from the second-tier
NCAA
Division I FCS has defeated an
AP-ranked
Division I FBS opponent.
Armanti Edwards was the quarterback for the underdog Mountaineers.
(Ann Arbor News)
Eleven
World Wrestling Entertainment performers are suspended for suspected illegal
steroid abuse.
(Newsday)
Thousands of former military officers protest in
Yemen with Yemeni riot police firing bullets and
tear gas to disperse them.
(AP via CNN)
The
United Nations launches a food assistance program to assist
Iraqi
refugees in
Syria .
(AP via International Herald Tribune)
Two small planes collide during an
air show in
Radom ,
Poland resulting in the deaths of both pilots (Marek Dubkiewicz and Sebastian Chrząszcz).
(AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
The
National Assembly of Panama selects
Pedro Miguel González Pinzón as its President despite the fact that he is wanted in the
United States for an alleged murder of a
United States Army sergeant and the attempted murder of another. González has been cleared by a
Panamanian court of these charges.
(AP via the Guardian)
Iraq is to free up to 6,000
Sunni insurgents in an attempt at reconciliation by the Government.
(The Telegraph)
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French and
Spanish police foil an
ETA
car bomb plot and arrest the man who is alleged to be the organisations top bombmaker and his accomplices.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Iran 's supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appoints
Mohammed Ali Jafari to replace
General
Yahya Rahim Safavi as the leader of the
Revolutionary Guard .
(The Canadian Press via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
Former
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto promises to return to
Pakistan very soon.
(Daily Telegraph)
Archived 2007-11-23 at the
Wayback Machine
Idaho
Republican Senator
Larry Craig resigns from the
United States Senate effective 30 September following a guilty plea to a
disorderly conduct charge following his arrest in a restroom at the
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport .
(Wikinews)
2007 Ogaden conflict : International aid agency
Médecins Sans Frontières has accused
Ethiopia of denying it access to the country's eastern
Ogaden region.
(BBC News)
The
Second Tuareg Rebellion spreads rapidly as a
Malian army colonel has deserted to join a
Tuareg rebellion in the northern desert, taking with him nearly 60 fighters.
(Reuters)
New
gambling legislation comes into effect in the
United Kingdom , relaxing
advertising restrictions and extending opening hours.
(The Telegraph)
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Wayback Machine
Hurricanes and
tropical storms :
A bomb in the
Indian
state of
Assam kills one person and injures 12, with police suspecting the
United Liberation Front of Asom .
(AP via IHT)
Two people go missing and six people are injured following a boat accident at the mouth of the
Brisbane River in
Australia .
(ABC News Australia)
Kurds in northern
Iraq flee from
Iranian shelling aimed at
Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) positions.
(AP via Google)
Japan 's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister
Takehiko Endo refuses to resign over allegations that a group that he chaired received state subsidies illegally.
(AFP via Google News)
Envoys from the
United States and
North Korea meet in
Geneva to discuss normalising relations.
(BBC)
A
concrete and
steel fence is built in
Sydney to protect leaders attending the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting next week.
(BBC)
There has been a spike in
dengue fever cases in 2007 in
Malaysia with seventy-five people dying in the first eight months.
(Times of India)
2007 Greek forest fires : The
Prime Minister of Greece
Costas Karamanlis says that the fires are now under control after killing 64 people and causing
£ 800 million worth of damage.
(Press Association via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
New laws come into effect giving the
People's Republic of China more control over the selection of the
Dalai Lama .
(BBC)
Finland ceased all of its analog television transmissions in the terrestrial network as part of the
digital switchover .
(Wikinews)
Arizona's Stephen Drew and Seattle's Adrian Beltre hit for the cycle
September 2, 2007 (2007-09-02 ) (Sunday)
September 3, 2007 (2007-09-03 ) (Monday)
Peace talks in Finland aimed at ending sectarian violence in
Iraq end successfully, resulting in the "Helsinki Agreement".
(Wikinews)
The People's Republic of China charges
human rights activist
Yang Chunlin , who gathered 10,000 signatures to an
open letter opposing the
Beijing Olympics on human rights grounds, with attempting to subvert state power.
(AFP via Google)
Panama begins work on its
£ 2.7 billion
Panama Canal expansion project .
(The Scotsman)
Six expatriate
judges resign from the
Fijian legal system following disagreements with the military-appointed acting
Chief Justice
Anthony Gates .
(AAP via News Limited)
The
Financial Times reports that the
military of the People's Republic of China successfully
hacked into
The Pentagon 's computer network.
(Reuters)
Japan and
Chile sign a
free trade agreement .
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Mittal Steel completes the first part of its takeover of
Arcelor with
ArcelorMittal being listed on European
stock exchanges with the combined company becoming the world's largest
steel producer.
(CNN)
Tomás Medina Caracas (known by his
nom de guerre "Negro Acacio"), one of
FARC 's most important leaders and the liaison between this
Colombian
guerrilla and
Brazilian
drug dealers , is killed in action by Colombian
armed forces in
Guaviare .
(El Tiempo)
The
Israel Defense Forces announce plans for a force upgrade following problems in the
2006 Lebanon War and a perceived threat from
Iran .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Iraq War :
The
Rail Maritime and Transport Union threatens a three day strike on the
London Underground with last minute talks between the union and
Transport for London failing to prevent this outcome.
(Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
Myanmar 's National Convention finally completes 14 years of talks on a new
constitution in a military base north of
Yangon .
(AFP via Google)
Two groups from the
Terai region of
Nepal – the
Terai Army and the
Nepal People's Army – claim responsibility for bombs that killed two people and injured 30 in
Kathmandu yesterday.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon arrives in
Sudan to press for an end to violence in
Darfur .
(BBC)
European energy companies
Gaz de France and
Suez agree to merge in what would be a
privatisation of the French state-owned Gaz de France.
(The Telegraph) [
permanent dead link ]
Justice
Susan Kiefel becomes the third woman to serve on the
High Court of Australia .
(ABC News Australia)
Four
cargo ships carrying
methanol sink on the
Han River , the source of the water supply for
Wuhan , China, with environmental authorities monitoring
water quality .
(Shanghai Daily)
Sun Zhengcai , the Chinese Minister for Agriculture, states that China will clamp down on
foods tainted with illegal and excessive
chemicals .
(Reuters)
The interim Government of
Bangladesh arrests former
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Khaleda Zia and her son on
corruption charges.
(BBC)
APEC :
Jamaican voters go to the polls for the
Jamaican general election, 2007 .
(AP via IHT)
According to reports in Japanese media,
Takehiko Endo resigns as the Japanese Agriculture Minister due to involvements in illegal dealings in 1999.
(BBC)
Hurricane Felix
September 4, 2007 (2007-09-04 ) (Tuesday)
In a ceremony at
Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, priests chanted prayers in honor of the Russian Defense Ministry's 12th Main Directorate, which is responsible for the storage and maintenance of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
(The Moscow Times )
German authorities arrest three people for planning attacks on
Frankfurt and a United States military base in
Ramstein .
(Reuters)
A spokesman for
Idaho
Senator
Larry Craig indicates that the Senator is rethinking his decision to resign following his plea of guilty to "disorderly conduct" charges in
Minneapolis .
(New York Times )
Mattel and the
Consumer Product Safety Commission in the United States announces that it is recalling 700,000 Chinese-made toys on the grounds of excessive
lead paint making it the third recall in the past month.
(AP) [
permanent dead link ]
Klaxons win the
Mercury Prize for their album
Myths of the Near Future beating favourites
Amy Winehouse and the
Arctic Monkeys .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
A week-long
heat wave in
Southern California results in the death of 13 people and 500,000 people losing power in outages.
(Reuters) ,
(AP via Fox News)
Hurricane Felix :
Adventurer
Steve Fossett is reported missing over the
Nevada desert .
(CNN)
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson
Khaleda Zia expels party Secretary General
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and Joint Secretary General
Ashraf Hossain accusing breaching party discipline.
Former
President of Iran ,
Hashemi Rafsanjani is elected the chairman of the
Assembly of Experts
(AP) [
permanent dead link ]
The
Iraqi Supreme Court confirms the death sentence passed on
Ali Hassan al-Majid ,
Sultan Hashim al-Tai and
Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti .
(RTE)
2007 Lebanon conflict :
Lebanon 's Defense Minister
Elias al-Murr claims that at least 222
Fatah al-Islam militants were killed during the struggle.
(Reuters via News Limited)
2007 Pacific Hurricane season : Tropical Storm Henriette becomes Hurricane Henriette on its way to
Baja California .
(AP via Google)
The
United States Navy ,
Royal Australian Navy ,
Indian Navy , the
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and
Republic of Singapore Navy conduct exercises in the
Bay of Bengal ,
(BBC)
Israel threatens to cut off electricity, water and fuel supplies to the
Gaza Strip for hours if
Hamas launches rocket attacks.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The strike by
Rail Maritime and Transport Union employees on the
London Underground continued but the strike was called off later in the day after lengthy talks with
Transport for London .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
(The Daily Telegraph)
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Wayback Machine
Australian company
Zinifex and Belgian company
Umicore merge their
zinc
smelting operations to form
Nyrstar , the largest
zinc smelting company.
(AAP via Sydney Morning Herald )
Denmark 's intelligence service
arrests several people on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack.
(Reuters and AFP via Melbourne Herald-Sun )
The
Iranian military bombs villages in
northern Iraq , targeting
PEJAK militants.
(NYT)
Pakistan bombings:
APEC summit meeting:
Jamaica election: With all the votes counted, the
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is headed to victory with 31 seats compared to the incumbent
People's National Party (PNP) with 29 seats. The current Prime Minister,
Portia Simpson-Miller , is calling for a recount in marginal seats.
(Reuters)
A
Eurostar train sets a new record of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 39 seconds for rail travel between Paris and London, on the inaugural journey from
Gare du Nord to
St Pancras International on the new
High Speed 1 line.
(BBC)
September 5, 2007 (2007-09-05 ) (Wednesday)
Apple released a new selection of iPods, creating an "iPod touch," updating the "nano," and re-branding the "classic" iPods.
A battle between
Somali police and insurgents in
Mogadishu results in six casualties.
(AP via Google) [
permanent dead link ]
A
Congressional committee has voted to remove the President of the
Senate of Brazil
Renan Calheiros as a result of a corruption scandal.
(BBC)
Two candidates from
Rigoberta Menchú 's
Encuentro por Guatemala party are shot dead as part of a wave of
campaign -related violence that has claimed 50 lives.
(AP via the Guardian)
2007 Pacific hurricane season : Hurricane Henriette makes landfall near the port of
Guaymas in the
Mexican
state of
Sonora .
(ABC News America)
The
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown launches the
International Health Partnership consisting of the
World Health Organisation , the
World Bank , the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the governments of the
United Kingdom ,
Canada ,
France ,
Germany ,
Italy ,
the Netherlands ,
Norway and
Portugal .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Fred Thompson , a former
U.S. Senator and actor, announces that he is a candidate for the
Republican nomination in the
2008 presidential election .
(CanWest via National Post)
Judge
William Hoeveler places a stay on ex-
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega 's
extradition from the
United States to
France so that his defence can present a new appeal.
(BBC)
Lawyers for
U.S. Senator
Larry Craig (
R -
ID ) ask the
Senate Select Committee on Ethics to reject a complaint following a guilty plea to
disorderly conduct charges in
Minneapolis . The Ethics Committee rejects his plea.
(UPI)
(Fox News)
Reynaldo Francis , the Governor of
Nicaragua 's
North Atlantic Autonomous Region , estimates that the death toll from
Hurricane Felix has risen to at least 21. Since his statement, the death toll has risen to 38, with 80 people missing.
(AFP via the Philippines Inquirer) [
permanent dead link ] (Reuters via ABC)
The
World Bank launches its
Lighting Africa initiative, aiming to provide modern lighting by renewable or mechanical means to 250 million people in
sub-Saharan Africa who lack access to
electricity .
(AFP via Google)
The
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in the
United Kingdom allows the creation of
human -
animal
hybrid
embryos for research purposes in principle.
(AFP via Google)
Norman Hsu , controversial fund-raiser for the
U.S. Democratic Party , skips a bail hearing, prompting a new warrant for his arrest.
(LA Times)
Paul Gillmor ,
United States Representative from
Ohio's
5th congressional district , is found dead in his
Washington, D.C. apartment.
(AP via CNN)
The
Australian Government files appeal against court decision to set aside Indian doctor
Mohamed Haneef
visa cancellation.
The
Swedish
Minister for Foreign Trade
Sten Tolgfors becomes Defense Minister, succeeding
Mikael Odenberg who resigned after being overruled by the Finance Minister
Anders Borg in budget talks.
(Aftonbladet)
(TT)
Three suspects arrested on
terrorism charges yesterday appear before the
Federal Court of Justice of Germany in
Karlsruhe .
(AP via The Guardian)
War in Afghanistan :
Afghan and
U.S led coalition forces kill 20 insurgents while two Afghan policeman die in a bomb attack.
(AP via The Canadian Press) [
permanent dead link ]
Israeli tanks and bulldozers enter the
Gaza Strip in a limited operation against rocket launchers.
(AP via IHT)
Singapore jails the leader of the
Singapore Democratic Party
Chee Soon Juan for failing to pay a fine of
S$ 4,000 for trying to leave the city-state without permission.
(Reuters)
A group of 50
asylum-seekers held in an
Australian facility on
Nauru have started a
hunger strike .
(SBS and AAP)
Japanese and
North Korean envoys begin in
Ulan Bator ,
Mongolia to resolve long-standing differences.
(BBC)
Special prayers are said at the tomb of
Mother Teresa at her tomb in
Calcutta in honour of the tenth anniversary of her death.
(BBC)
The
Solomon Islands government rejects an extradition request by
Australia for Attorney-General
Julian Moti to face
child-sex charges.
(AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Pakistani police arrest approximately 50 supporters of former
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif 's
Pakistan Muslim League in
Punjab prior to his return to Pakistan next week.
(AFP via Google)
APEC
The
Military Times reports that a
United States Air Force
B-52 bomber carried six
nuclear warheads from
Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota , to
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana , in violation of rules concerning the handling of nuclear weapons. In addition, the bombs were not reported as missing from the Minot weapons inventory. The
squadron commander was relieved of his position, but
Representative
Ike Skelton says that his
committee would investigate the incident.
(New York Times) ,
(MSNBC) .
September 6, 2007 (2007-09-06 ) (Thursday)
Wikipedia 's English site is again blocked in the People's Republic of China, possibly due to upcoming
Communist Party Congress .
(PC World)
Iraq War : Four
US Marines are killed in
Anbar and three US Army soldiers are killed in
Nineveh province .
(Reuters)
United States District Court judge
Victor Marrero strikes down a key part of the
Patriot Act authorising
national security letters .
(AP via the Guardian)
Syria accuses
Israel of invading its
airspace on Wednesday and dropping ammunition. The operation, known as
Operation Orchard , is later speculated to be a raid on a
nuclear site being run in collaboration with
North Korean technicians, or a raid on a
Hizbollah convoy, a missile facility or a terrorist camp.
(The Independent)
(Guardian)
Democratic Party fundraiser
Norman Hsu is arrested in
Grand Junction, Colorado and charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
(NBC11 San Francisco)
Hurricane Felix : The death toll from Hurricane Felix in
Honduras and
Nicaragua rises to at least 98, with a high casualty level amongst
Miskito Indians who failed to evacuate. Thousands of houses have also been destroyed.
(CNN)
(Sky News)
An
Islamist website claims it will soon carry a new video of
al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden to mark the sixth anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.
(Reuters)
12 people, including 11
New Jersey public officials, are arrested by the
FBI on corruption charges. Among those arrested are
Mayor
Samuel Rivera of
Passaic and
Mayor
Mims Hackett of
Orange .
(CNN)
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits off shore of
Taiwan near the capital city
Taipei .
(Reuters)
(USGS)
Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal , undergoes
angioplasty operation after a heart attack.
British
RAF
Tornados intercept eight Russian
Tupolev Tu-95 bombers as they approach UK airspace.
(Sky News)
Italian tenor
Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for more than one year.
(BBC)
A study published by United States and
Czech researchers claims that there is a 90% chance that the object that caused the
Chicxulub crater in Mexico's
Yucatán Peninsula and probably led to the extinction of the
dinosaurs came from the
Baptistina family of
asteroids .
(Melbourne Age)
APEC
Fiji reintroduces
martial law .
(NZ Herald)
Madeleine L'Engle , author of the well-revered book
A Wrinkle in Time , dies in
Connecticut at age 88.
September 7, 2007 (2007-09-07 ) (Friday)
2007 Lebanon conflict : The
Lebanese Army declares victory after ending a three-month conflict with
Fatah al-Islam militants in
Nahr el-Bared .
(Jane's News)
Subtropical Storm Gabrielle forms southeast of the
Carolina coast in the
Atlantic Ocean .
(NOAA)
Two owners of a
New Orleans
nursing home are found not guilty of
negligent homicide concerning the death of 35 residents after
Hurricane Katrina .
(NYT)
Six detained Professors of the
Rajshahi University are suspended for their involvement in last month protests for restoring democracy in
Bangladesh .
At least 80 people have died and scores injured as a truck and trailers carrying
pilgrims plunges into a
gorge near the village of
Desuri Ki Naal in
Rajasthan ,
India .
(Al-Jazeera)
The pilot of a civilian
World War II
stunt plane dies while practicing at
Naval Air Station Oceana in
Virginia Beach, Virginia .
(AP via CNN)
Robert Mugabe , the
President of Zimbabwe , accused
Levy Mwanawasa , the
President of Zambia and Chairman of the
Southern African Development Community , of selling out his country to the Western world and plotting with foreign intelligence agencies during an SADC conference in August. President Mwanawasa later apologized to Mugabe, saying Mugabe had misunderstood an earlier comment.
(AllAfrica)
United States District Court judge
Royce Lamberth orders
Iran to pay
$ 2.6 billion to victims and families in the 1983
Hezbollah
bombing of a
United States Marine Corps barracks in
Lebanon that claimed 241 American lives.
(CNN)
The
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego agrees to pay
$ 198.1 million to settle 144 claims of
sexual abuse by clergy.
(AP via IHT)
Hurricane Felix (2007) : The death toll from Hurricane Felix rises to at least 130 in
Nicaragua and
Honduras .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
The
Polish
Sejm votes to dissolve itself, causing
early parliamentary elections in October 2007.
(BBC)
Global
Stock Markets fall sharply amid
recession fears after the release of a report that shows a surprise decline of the
US
workforce in August, for the first time in four years.
(BBC)
The
Indonesian Supreme Court rejects an appeal by
Bali bomber
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim .
(News Limited)
United States District Court judge
William Hoeveler refuses to block the
extradition of former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega to
France to face charges.
(Reuters)
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann :
Portuguese
police believe that
Kate McCann and Gerry McCann may be involved in their daughters possible death with both parents being named as suspects.
(BBC)
(The Telegraph)
Archived 2008-03-09 at the
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The
United States is investigating a
video which it has obtained, to see if the claims that the man on it is
Osama bin Laden are genuine. If they are found to be, it will have been the first time he has been seen since October 2004.
(BBC)
The
BBC reports that investigations into a recent outbreak of
foot and mouth disease has identified five breaches of
biosecurity at the
Pirbright site of the
Institute for Animal Health .
(BBC)
Voters in
Morocco go to the polls for the
Moroccan parliamentary election, 2007 .
(BBC)
APEC :
2007 Pacific typhoon season : Typhoon Fitow passes over
Tokyo with one casualty occurring in
Nagano Prefecture last night.
(Bloomberg)
Stephenson King becomes the
Prime Minister of Saint Lucia after
John Compton dies.
September 8, 2007 (2007-09-08 ) (Saturday)
September 9, 2007 (2007-09-09 ) (Sunday)
The Lancet publishes a
placebo controlled
double blind study linking
food additives to
hyperactivity . (
Science Daily )
Kevin Everett of the
National Football League 's
Buffalo Bills suffers a life-threatening
spinal cord injury in a game against the
Denver Broncos . The surgeon who operated on him says Monday Everett is unlikely to walk again, assuming he survives. (
(CBS News) )
A lorry carrying
dynamite crashes and explodes near
Sacramento in the
Mexican state of
Coahuila ; scores of people are injured and 37 are killed, including three local reporters covering the story.
(BBC)
South African police arrest
Helen Zille , the leader of the
Democratic Party and
Mayor of Cape Town , while she was taking part in an anti-drug protest at the
Cape Flats
slum area.
(Mail & Guardian )
An
earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hits near the north coast of
Colombia .
(Reuters Alertnet)
Israeli police arrest eight men originally from the former
Soviet Union accused of forming a
neo-Nazi cell.
(Scotsman)
2007 U.S. Open :
Roger Federer of
Switzerland defeats
Novak Djokovic in the final of the men's singles in straight sets 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4.
(Bloomberg)
Five thousand
Algerians protest in
Algiers after two recent suicide bomb attacks.
(Reuters)
Voters in
Guatemala go to the polls in the
Guatemalan general election, 2007 .
(AFP)
Jamaican
Asafa Powell set a new
men's world 100 meters record of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix at
Rieti ,
Italy .
(CNN)
At least 15 dead and many injured when a
flyover under construction at Panjagutta junction,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh ,
India collapsed.
Wikinews
The
President of Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai is forced to cut short a speech in
Kabul after gunfire is heard outside.
(Reuters)
A
landslide in
West Bengal ,
India kills seven people; over 500 houses buried or damaged.
Pakistan
Tropical Storm Gabrielle makes landfall near the
Cape Lookout National Seashore in
North Carolina ,
United States , and hooks over
Cape Hatteras before returning to the Atlantic as a tropical depression, bringing much-needed rain to coastal North Carolina as well as some
beach erosion .
(CNN)
APEC Australia 2007 :
September 10, 2007 (2007-09-10 ) (Monday)
September 11, 2007 (2007-09-11 ) (Tuesday)
Bruce Golding is sworn in as Prime Minister of
Jamaica following the victory of his
Jamaica Labour Party in the parliamentary elections.
(Jamaica Gleaner News)
Chinese and US safety officials sign an agreement banning the export of
toys with
lead paint to the
United States .
(Canadian Press via Google) [
permanent dead link ]
Burger King announces that it would limit
advertising to children younger than 12 to foods that meet strict nutritional guidelines.
(Reuters)
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann :
Portuguese police refer the case to the public prosecutor.
(News Limited)
Doctors say injured
National Football League player
Kevin Everett has moved his arms and legs and, contrary to earlier predictions, is likely to recover his ability to walk.
(AP via WHAM-TV) [
permanent dead link ]
Ethiopia celebrates the start of a new
millennium under a modified
Julian calendar .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
The
World Health Organisation confirms that the
Ebola virus has resurfaced in the
Democratic Republic of Congo .
(NYT)
Belgian police arrest two leaders of the
Vlaams Belang party,
Frank Vanhecke and
Filip Dewinter , as well as dozens of party supporters during a banned march in
Brussels against the "
Islamisation of
Europe ".
(BBC)
Russia claims to have tested the world's most powerful
vacuum bomb , nicknamed
Father of All Bombs after the
MOAB , with yield equivalent to a small
nuclear weapon .
(ABC News Australia) Bomb's military name, place and time of the test are not revealed.
Lenta.ru (in Russian)
Lawyers for former
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif file a petition in the
Supreme Court of Pakistan against his deportation to
Saudi Arabia .
(AP via Fox News)
Roman Catholic
archbishop and critic of
Robert Mugabe
Pius Ncube resigns as a result of a
sex scandal set up by Zimbabwe's intelligence agency.
(Times Online)
Suicide bomber kills 18 in
Dera Ismail Khan of
Pakistan .
Sri Lanka 's military claims a major victory against
Tamil Tiger rebels , saying it has sunk three vessels carrying war equipment.
(Reuters)
Turkish police foil a bomb attack in
Ankara .
(Reuters)
OPEC meets to discuss proposals for a minor increase in oil output proposed by
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. The meeting decided to increase output by 500,000 barrels a day.
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ] (CNN)
Police in the
Philippines arrest seven militants suspected of plotting to bomb tourist and shopping locations in the southern Philippines.
(AP via IHT)
The
European Union decides the
United Kingdom can continue to use
imperial measurements for the foreseeable future.
(BBC)
At least 66
Israeli troops are wounded when a
Qassam rocket from
Gaza Strip hits an
Israeli Defence Forces training base in
Southern Israel .
(BBC)
(Haaretz)
The
Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper rules out sending further troops to
Afghanistan .
(ABC News Australia)
September 11, 2001 attacks commemoration
Kanye West releases his 3rd studio album
Graduation .
September 12, 2007 (2007-09-12 ) (Wednesday)
Burj Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates reaches 555.3 metres, surpassing the 553.3 metre
CN Tower in
Toronto, Ontario
Canada as the
world's tallest free-standing structure on land , which it had been since
1976 . The building is due for completion
2008 with a final projected height of 818 metres.
(Bloomberg)
(Yahoo)
(CNews)
(PressTV)
Russian President
Vladimir Putin fires the chief of the
Russian Navy
Vladimir Masorin , and appoints in his place the commander of the
Russian Northern Fleet ,
Vladimir Vysotsky .
(The Moscow Times) [
permanent dead link ]
Airstrikes and
Afghan army gunfire kills more than 45
Taliban insurgents on the first day of
Ramadan .
(The Canadian Press) [
permanent dead link ]
Bombardier Aerospace orders the grounding of at least 40 percent of its
Q-400
turboprop following recent incidents in
Scandinavian Airlines aircraft in
Denmark and
Lithuania .
(Associated Press) [
permanent dead link ] (Wikinews)
Somali Islamists and opposition leaders meeting in
Eritrea have joined forces in a
new alliance to overthrow
Somalia 's transitional government.
(BBC)
A new case of
Foot-and-mouth disease in the
UK was confirmed after it was assumed that the
outbreak of 2007 had been under control.
(BBC)
A major
earthquake with a magnitude of 8.4
occurs off the west-coast of the island
Sumatra ,
Indonesia . Sea level readings indicate a
tsunami might follow and a tsunami watch is put in place for the whole of the
Indian Ocean .
(AP)
(PTWC/NOAA/NWS)
(Reuters)
Vladimir Putin sacks
Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet and nominates
Viktor Zubkov as his replacement.
(Reuters)
Thousands of ex-soldiers are rioting in the
People's Republic of China in the cities of Baotou, Wuhan, and Baoji, breaking into cars, destroying classrooms, and setting fires. The riot is the largest protest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.
(TIME)
A
cholera
epidemic occurs in northern
Iraq with 7,000 infected and 10 deaths so far.
(NYT)
Anna Bligh is endorsed as the next
Premier of Queensland by the
Queensland
Labor Party
caucus with
Paul Lucas as her deputy.
(ABC News Australia)
Former
President of the Philippines
Joseph Estrada is found guilty of
corruption in his
6-year trial and sentenced to Life Imprisonment.
(BBC)
Shinzo Abe , the current
Prime Minister of Japan , announces his resignation after failing to win popular support in the aftermath of ruling Liberal Democratic Party's defeat in Upper House elections in July. The resignation comes into effect
with the election of his successor in an LDP party conference on 19 September 2007.
(Forbes)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season
September 13, 2007 (2007-09-13 ) (Thursday)
Miami police shot dead in an exchange of fire a man suspected of the murder of one police officer and the shooting of another three officers hours earlier.
(CNN)
Google sponsors a
US$ 30 million
spaceflight contest to land a robotic lander on the
moon and beam back a
gigabyte of images and videos to
earth .
(AP via Topix)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season : Tropical Storm Ingrid forms in the
Atlantic Ocean 800 miles from the outer
Caribbean islands.
(Bradenton Herald) [
permanent dead link ]
Ethiopia will deploy 5,000 troops as part of a joint
United Nations -
African Union mission in the
Darfur region of
Sudan .
(Sudan Tribune)
After deliberating for 22 years, the
United Nations General Assembly adopts the non-binding
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ; 143 countries vote in favour, while 11 abstain and
Australia ,
Canada ,
New Zealand and the
United States vote against.
(BBC)
At least fifteen
Pakistani Army soldiers die in a bombing at their mess at the
Tarbela Ghazi base north of
Islamabad .
(CNN)
Pakistan
Cabinet unanimously decides to re-elect President
Pervez Musharraf in uniform from the present assemblies.
2007 Formula One Season : The
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) fines the
McLaren
Formula One team
$US 100 million and removes all its points in the
Constructors' Championship .
(AFP via News Limited)
Alexis Debat , a consultant for
ABC News and writer at
The National Interest , alleged expert on
terrorism , is forced to resign after
Rue 89 revealed that he made two bogus interviews, one with
Barack Obama and another with
Alan Greenspan .
(Washington Post)
(Rue 89)
(Rue 89)
Rita Verdonk , a controversial and popular
Dutch politician, is expelled from the
VVD .
(Expatica Netherlands) [
permanent dead link ]
Iraq War :
2007 Atlantic hurricane season :
Shinzo Abe is hospitalised the day after his resignation.
(Al Jazeera)
September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes
September 14, 2007 (2007-09-14 ) (Friday)
September 15, 2007 (2007-09-15 ) (Saturday)
Wildfires force the evacuation of thousands of residents of
San Bernardino and
San Diego Counties in the U.S. state of
California .
(AP via Fox News)
The
Washington Post reports that the
NATO -led Coalition Force in
Afghanistan intercepted a shipment of
Iranian arms intended for the
Taliban .
(UPI)
A bus crash in the western
Mexican
state of
Nayarit kills at least 18 and injures 13. Many of the passengers were from a flight from
Phoenix, Arizona ,
United States , to
Guadalajara, Jalisco , that was forced to divert to
Puerto Vallarta .
(Canadian Press) [
permanent dead link ]
Over 190
anti-Iraq War protesters are arrested outside the
United States Capitol .
(AP) [
permanent dead link ]
A
helicopter registered in the name of former
World Rally Championship champion
Colin McRae crashes killing four people near McRae's home in
Scotland .
(AFP via News Limited)
The new
cruise ferry
Color Magic was christened in
Kiel .The ship is the largest cruise ferry in the world.She was christened by the
German actress
Veronica Ferres .
Sierra Leone 's ruling
People's Party seeks an
injunction against the National Electoral Commission publishing further results of the
2007 general election with results published so far showing Opposition candidate for president
Ernest Bai Koroma in the lead.
[(BBC)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season : Tropical Storm Ingrid weakens to a
tropical depression .
(CNN)
At least 10 people are killed and 15 wounded in a
suicide bombing outside a
Baghdad
bakery as residents prepared to break their
Ramadan
fast .
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Floods in
Ghana displace 260,000 people with similar problems in
Mali and neighbouring countries in
West Africa .
(SAPA-DPA via Independent Online South Africa)
The
Australian Labor Party holds the seats of
Williamstown and
Albert Park in the
Victorian Legislative Assembly as
two by-elections are held .
(ABC News Australia)
Melting
sea ice in the
Arctic Ocean opens up the
Northwest Passage between
Europe ,
Asia and
North America .
(Reuters via News Limited)
Negotiations between
General Motors and the
United Automobile Workers continue in
Detroit, Michigan past the deadline with a
strike to start if negotiations fail.
(NYT)
September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes : The death toll rises to 21 with 88 people injured.
(Reuters)
Nineteen people are killed in
Sri Lanka as a result of a roadside bomb and fighting between the
Sri Lankan Army and the
Tamil Tigers .
(AP via IHT)
Zhao Yan , a
Chinese journalist working for the
New York Times , is released from
jail in China after serving a three year sentence for "leaking state secrets".
(BBC)
Impact of
Meteorite at Carancas in Peru.
September 16, 2007 (2007-09-16 ) (Sunday)
The Sopranos wins the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in the
Primetime Emmy Awards .
(Sydney Morning Herald)
O.J. Simpson is charged with six
felonies in relation to an alleged
armed robbery of
sports memorabilia from a
Las Vegas hotel room.
(New York Times)
A third case of
foot and mouth disease is identified but not confirmed by
United Kingdom government vets on a farm near
Chertsey ,
Surrey .
(Times Online)
An
Iraqi police colonel is gunned down in
Afak , the third government official killed in that Iraqi town.
(CNN)
Michael B. Mukasey , a retired federal judge from
New York , will be nominated to replace
Alberto Gonzales as
United States Attorney General and
President Bush will announce his selection on Monday.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Andrei Lugovoy , the former
KGB agent accused by British authorities of murdering
Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope in
London last November, says he will run for
parliament on the party list of the
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia .
(The Washington Post)
Flight OG 269 crashes while trying to land in heavy rain at
Phuket International Airport in
Thailand with reports of 88 deaths and at least 20 people seriously injured.
(AP via IHT)
Colin McRae and his son are confirmed dead in the helicopter crash in Scotland.
(Sunday Times)
The
Election Commission of Pakistan amends Presidential Election Rules 1988 ahead of the elections so that Article 63 of the
Constitution no longer applies to the
President .
The
Iraqi parliamentary bloc controlled by militia leader
Moqtada al-Sadr announces that it will abandon the party led by Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki .
(LA Times)
Chinese authorities recall tainted
leukemia drugs blamed for leg pains and other problems.
(FOX)
Greek voters go to the polls for the
Greek legislative election, 2007 . The ruling New Democracy Party wins the election, with 98% of the votes counted, gaining 41.9% of the vote and 152 seats over 38.1% and 102 seats for the socialist PASOK party. The Communist Party wins 8.1% and 22 seats, over 5% and 14 seats for Radical Left Coalition and 3.7% and 10 seats for Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), a Far-Right party.
(ERT) [
permanent dead link ] (AFP)
September 17, 2007 (2007-09-17 ) (Monday)
Andrew Meyer , a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate, is
apprehended by five police officers and
tasered while allegedly having interrupted a speech by
U.S. Senator
John Kerry .
(The Miami Herald) [
permanent dead link ]
Bernard Kouchner , the
French Foreign Minister , warns of the possibility of war over
Iran's nuclear program .
(BBC)
Iraq and the
United States have pledged a "fair and transparent" investigation into a gunfight involving private security firm
Blackwater Security that left eight people dead in
Baghdad .
(BBC)
Ernest Bai Koroma is sworn in as the
President of Sierra Leone after winning a
run-off election held 10 days ago.
(ABC News Australia)
Hillary Clinton , a candidate for the
Democratic Party 's nomination in the
2008 United States presidential election , announces a proposal for a
universal healthcare plan.
(Reuters)
President
George W. Bush nominates
Michael Mukasey to replace
Alberto Gonzales as the next
Attorney-General of the United States .
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Microsoft loses its appeal against a
European Union
antitrust ruling forcing it to pay a 497 million
euro fine.
(Bloomberg)
The
Supreme Court of Pakistan hears petitions as to whether
Pervez Musharraf should remain as head of the
Pakistani Army while serving as the
President of Pakistan .
(BBC)
2007 Pacific typhoon season : The death toll from Typhoon Nari in
South Korea rises to nine.
(AFP)
A new species of
bat , the
Mindoro Stripe-Faced Fruit bat , is discovered on
Mindoro Island in the
Philippines .
(AFP)
Flight OG 269 crash:
Greek conservative Prime Minister
Costas Karamanlis early Monday declared victory in
Sunday's general elections after early results gave his ruling
New Democracy party a lead of over four percent over the opposition
Pasok socialists .
(AFP)
Incumbent parties lose two of three
by-elections in
Canadian federal
parliamentary ridings in
Quebec .
Thomas Mulcair takes the
Liberal stronghold of
Outremont , bringing the
New Democratic Party its second-ever victory in Quebec.
Conservative
Denis Lebel takes the
Bloc -held riding of
Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean , while
Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac holds
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot for the
Bloc Québécois .
(CBC)
September 18, 2007 (2007-09-18 ) (Tuesday)
A supposed
meteorite impact in Peru leads to hundreds of nearby villagers falling ill from still unknown causes.
(Reuters)
Nuclear program of Iran : The
United States is drafting a
United Nations Security Council resolution calling for
sanctions against
Iran prior to discussions amongst the five permanent members.
(AFP)
The
United States Federal Reserve cuts a key short-term
interest rate by a half-percentage point, resulting in a
stock market rally.
(CNN Money)
Bangladeshi
cartoonist
Arifur Rahman is detained on suspicion of disrespecting
Muhammad . The Interim Government confiscates copies of the
Prothom Alo newspaper issue in which Muhammad is
caricatured .
China confirms a
bird flu outbreak in
Guangzhou .
More than 1,000
Buddhist
monks march peacefully in
Myanmar as part of a wave of anti-government protests. The marches are dispersed using
teargas .
(CNN) ,
(Xinhua)
The
Bank of England injects £4.4 billion of liquidity into the U.K. Financial System as a response to the
Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis , after £2 billion of deposits are removed from the
Northern Rock bank in the three days after it applied for emergency funding from the Bank.
(BBC)
Russia claims to have killed top
Dagestani militant
Rappani Khalilov along with another militant in a day-long battle.
(AP via IHT)
North Korea denies allegations that it is helping
Syria to develop a
nuclear weapons facility.
(BBC)
Australia , the second largest
wheat exporter in the world, cuts its forecast production by 30 per cent due to an ongoing drought.
(BBC)
2007 Pacific typhoon season : Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from
Shanghai ,
China as Typhoon Wipha approaches.
(Reuters, AFP via News Limited)
The son of
Philippine House Speaker
Jose de Venecia Jr. , Jose "Joey" de Venecia III, disclosed in a
Senate inquiry that
First Gentleman
Mike Arroyo is the "mystery man" behind the controversial $ 329-million
broadband contract with
ZTE Corp. in
China .
(Inquirer)
O. J. Simpson is charged with several
felonies in
Las Vegas, Nevada .
(Reuters)
In Japan, the event "Nice Boat" occurred on all Japanese TV's replacing the final episode of the anime, "School Days".
September 19, 2007 (2007-09-19 ) (Wednesday)
Abbas El Fassi , leader of the
Istiqlal Party , is appointed
Prime Minister of
Morocco by
King
Mohammed VI following the resignation of
Driss Jettou and his cabinet.
France calls for a joint force of
United Nations and
European Union peacekeepers in parts of
Chad and the
Central African Republic bordering the
Darfur region of
Sudan .
(AFP)
2007 Pacific hurricane season : Hurricane Ivo forms off the coast of
Baja California .
(AP via The Globe and Mail)
The
United States Senate fails to pass a bill providing more home leave to
United States troops in
Iraq with the necessary 60 percent margin with 56 for and 44 against.
(Reuters)
Four
fossil
skeletons of early
human ancestors are discovered in
Georgia .
(NYT)
The
United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice cautions the
International Atomic Energy Agency that it "is not in the business of diplomacy."
(CNN)
José Mourinho , manager of
Chelsea Football Club , leaves the club by mutual consent.
(BBC)
Six hundred thousand people are made homeless by
floods in
Africa with at least 270 deaths with more rain expected.
(ABC News Australia)
Nevada authorities call off the search for missing
US adventurer
Steve Fossett two weeks after he goes missing.
(Sky News Australia)
Prime Minister of
Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls for a change to the country's
Constitution to end the ban on the wearing of
headscarves in universities.
(AP via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
Due to increasing rocket attacks aimed at Israeli civilians, The
Government of Israel declares the
Palestinian -controlled
Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", and announces plans to cut utilities to the territory.
(Guardian Unlimited)
U.S. Congressman
Henry Waxman , chairman of the
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , announces that he will begin an investigation into the activities of
Howard Krongard , Inspector General of the
State Department . Krongard has been accused of interfering with investigations into corruption involving fraud in the building of the new
United States Embassy in Iraq , the smuggling of illegal weapons into
Iraq by
Blackwater USA employees, and the activities of former chairman of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors ,
Kenneth Tomlinson , in the use of his office for personal gain.
(VOA) [
permanent dead link ]
The Deputy Commander of the
Iranian Air Force claims that
Iran has plans to retaliate if attacked by
Israel .
(RIA Novosti)
A
car bomb in
Beirut kills
Lebanese legislator
Antoine Ghanem of the Christian
Phalange party and at least seven others.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Coalition parties and
Maoists meet at
Nepal
Prime Minister
Girija Prasad Koirala 's official residence to resolve the political deadlock.
War in Afghanistan : Coalition forces led by the
British Army launch a major offensive in
Helmand province.
(BBC)
Officials from a
UN -backed
genocide tribunal detain
Nuon Chea , the most senior surviving member of the
Khmer Rouge regime.
(BBC)
Republican lawmakers block the United States Senate from taking up a bill to grant
voting rights to
Washington DC .
(Washington Post)
2007 Pacific typhoon season :
Typhoon Wipha (Goring) makes landfall in eastern
China before weakening to a Category 2
typhoon as it heads inland.
(Reuters)
At least five people are killed and three are missing according to the
Xinhua newsagency.
(News Limited)
September 20, 2007 (2007-09-20 ) (Thursday)
A police officer in
Warren ,
Ohio , is caught on camera using a
taser on a woman while she was
handcuffed .
(ABC7 Chicago)
The
Election Commission of
Pakistan sets October 6, 2007 as the date for the
Presidential Election .
Iran :
American
cyclist
Floyd Landis is officially stripped of his win in the
2006
Tour de France and banned from competition for two years after an arbitration panel finds him guilty of
doping during the 2006 Tour. He has 30 days to appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport .
(AP via ESPN.com)
Osama bin Laden calls on the people of
Pakistan to rise up in a "holy war" and overthrow
President
Pervez Musharraf .
(BBC)
Tens of thousands of people, including
Howard University students and
NAACP members, arrive in the
U.S. city of
Jena, Louisiana , to protest in support of
six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
(Washington Post)
CNN reports that
Iran has released Iranian-
American
social scientist
Kian Tajbakhsh .
(CNN)
Al Qaeda 's Deputy Leader
Ayman al-Zawahri claims that the
United States is being defeated in
Iraq ,
Afghanistan ,
Somalia and
North Africa .
(AP via Topix)
Qian Xun Xue case : Questions are asked in the
New Zealand parliament as to why Nai Yin Xue was able to leave the country with his daughter despite a
court order .
(News Limited)
A total of 24 people are arrested after a
riot in
Aurukun, Queensland ,
Australia .
(News Limited)
A fire breaks out at the
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in
Niigata ,
Japan , which has been closed since a fire in July.
(BBC)
The
Canadian dollar briefly reaches parity with the
American dollar for the first time since
1976 .
(CBC)
September 21, 2007 (2007-09-21 ) (Friday)
September 22, 2007 (2007-09-22 ) (Saturday)
September 23, 2007 (2007-09-23 ) (Sunday)
September 24, 2007 (2007-09-24 ) (Monday)
The
India national cricket team wins the
2007 ICC World Twenty20 beating arch rival
Pakistan by 5 runs.
(Rediff.com)
Menachem Mazuz , the
Attorney General of Israel , orders a criminal investigation into the purchase of a house by the
Prime Minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert .
(Reuters)
The
President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at
Columbia University stating that
Americans should look into "who was truly involved" in the
September 11, 2001 attacks , defending his right to denial of the
Holocaust , and denying the existence of
gay Iranians .
(CNN)
The
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon called for a new commitment by world leaders on
climate change at a special
United Nations session to discuss climate change.
(Bloomberg)
Members of the
United Automobile Workers
Union walk off their jobs at
General Motors plants across the
United States as union and company officials fail to reach agreement on a new
contract .
(NYT)
President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend
Brazil 's record on global
climate change when he addresses the
United Nations General Assembly this week.
(Reuters)
Brazil's stock market rises to a record 58,393.75 points and the country's currency, the
real , gains 0.11 percent to 1.867 per
U.S. dollar .
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Former
Pakistan
Prime Minister ,
Benazir Bhutto , arrives in
Washington beginning her last visit to
United States before ending her self-exile.
Several
tornadoes affect parts of
Great Britain , causing severe damage.
(Sky News)
Eyewitnesses say the number of people demonstrating in
Rangoon was as high as 100,000 as the biggest
Burmese anti-government protest in twenty years continues.
(BBC)
September 25, 2007 (2007-09-25 ) (Tuesday)
September 26, 2007 (2007-09-26 ) (Wednesday)
September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27 ) (Thursday)
The
Corruption Perceptions Index , a survey by
Transparency International , is conducted into the most and least
corrupt countries in the world, ranking 180 countries.
(Wikinews)
(Globe and Mail)
Israeli forces pull back from the Northern
Gaza Strip after a two day raid that was prompted by the firing of
Qassam rockets and mortar shells into
Israel . The raid left 11
Palestinians , including
civilians and members of
Hamas and the
Army of Islam , dead and 20 wounded.
(NYT)
The spacecraft
Dawn is launched by
NASA on a mission to explore mainbelt asteroids
Vesta and
Ceres .
(Spaceflightnow.com)
South Africa 's
National Prosecuting Authority issues an
arrest warrant for
Interpol chief
Jackie Selebi .
(BBC)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season :
Lorenzo strengthens into a
hurricane and makes landfall on
Mexico 's
Gulf coast.
(AP via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
The Third Circuit Court of Appeal in the
U.S. state of
Louisiana rules that
Mychal Bell should not have been tried as an adult in the
Jena Six case, and he is released on a
$ 45,000
bail bond .
(Reuters)
Donor countries promise
$ 9.7 billion to
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria .
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Four employees of the
International Red Cross , including two foreigners, are abducted in
Afghanistan 's
Wardak province .
(BBC)
President of Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf files nomination for the upcoming
Pakistan
Presidential Election to be held on October 6, 2007 election without his army rank.
(Reuters)
A new round of talks aimed at ending
North Korea's nuclear program starts in
Beijing .
(BBC)
2007 Burmese anti-government protests :
September 28, 2007 (2007-09-28 ) (Friday)
September 29, 2007 (2007-09-29 ) (Saturday)
A bomb
explodes in
Malé , the capital of the
Maldives , injuring 12 tourists.
(BBC News)
President of
Pakistan Muslim League (N) says former Pakistan President
Nawaz Sharif will make a comeback to
Pakistan after
Ramadan .
2007 Burmese anti-government protests :
Shortly after his scheduled arrival at
Yangon , it was reported that
Ibrahim Gambari , the UN Secretary-General's special adviser on Burma, had arrived in
Naypyidaw to talk with the junta leaders.
(Mizzina News)
There are reports that
Htoo trading company, owned by junta loyalist business tycoon
Tay Za , has shut-down its operations after giving two months salaries to its staff.
(Mizzima News)
Iran declares the
US Army and
CIA , "terrorist organisations", countering claims by America about their own armed forces.
(BreakingNews.ie)
Robert Levy ,
mayor of the
U.S. city of
Atlantic City, New Jersey , disappears on after being found to have embellished his
Vietnam War record.
(Reuters)
The
Geelong Football Club wins the
2007 AFL Grand Final at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground in
Melbourne, Australia by a record 119 points, the first win for the club since
1963 .
(BigFooty (part of The Age))
September 30, 2007 (2007-09-30 ) (Sunday)
General
Sonthi Boonyaratglin , who helped depose
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra in the
2006 Thai coup d'état , resigned as head of the
Council for National Security .
(BBC)
Former
World Chess Champion
Garry Kasparov is selected
Presidential Candidate for
Other Russia in the
2008 presidentials .
(AP) [
permanent dead link ]
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007 :
The
Topps Meat Company recalls 21,700,000 pounds (9,800 t) of frozen
beef
patties because of potential contamination with
E. coli E. coli have been reported in the
Northeastern United States .
(NYT)
2007 Burmese anti-government protests :
Indian player
Viswanathan Anand wins the
World Chess Championship 2007 at
Mexico City to become the new
world champion .
(NYT)
Lewis Hamilton wins the 2007
Japanese Grand Prix to take a 12 point lead in the
2007 Formula One season World Championship with 2 races remaining.
(BBC)
With the help of the
New York Mets completing one of the most improbable collapses in baseball history, leading the
National League East division by 7 games with 17 games to play at one point, the
Philadelphia Phillies defeat the
Washington Nationals to win the 2007 National League East title.
(Yahoo! Sports)
U.S.
college football : The new
AP Poll results are released, with nine of the ten ranked teams that lost this past weekend either dropping further down the list or out of the poll completely.
LSU rose to #1 for the first time since
1959 ,
Kentucky and
Boston College rise into the Top Ten for the first time since
1977 and
1992 , respectively, and
South Florida ascends into the Top Ten for the first time ever.
(AP via Yahoo! Sports)
A dormant
volcano erupts on
Jabal al-Tair , a
Yemeni island in the
Red Sea .
(BBC)
