At least 11 people, including 5 suspects, are killed and 15 others are injured on Sunday'sviolence inChina'sXinjiang region, raising the death toll to 20 over the weekend attacks inKashgar.(CRI)(The Guardian)
TheHSBC bank announces plans to cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 by 2013.(Reuters)
Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered inTaiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report.(Reuters)
The plans of cable entrepreneurJohn Malone to purchase book store chainBarnes & Noble may have hit a snag, especially over how to value the B&N eReader, theNook.(New York Post)
A judge rules thatDonald Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a U.S. Army veteran in his 50s who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq.(Huffington Post)
Heather Mills claims that aMirror Group journalist admitted hacking into her phone and listening to a message from then-boyfriendPaul McCartney -Piers Morgan has admitted to hearing it although he was not the journalist involved.(BBC)
TheVirginia Tech campus, site ofan April 2007 mass shooting, goes on lockdown as a precaution after reports of a man, possibly armed with a gun, on or near the campus were made by teenagers attending a camp there.[1]
The U.S.Federal Reserve announces it will keep interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" at least through mid 2013, though it makes no commitment for furtherquantitative easing.(Reuters)
2011 Syrian uprising:Syrian Navy gunboats fire heavy machine guns targeting waterfront districts inLatakia, as ground troops and security agents backed by armor storm several neighborhoods. Up to 26 people are killed.(Haaretz)(Ynet News)
Authorities in the north-eastern Chinese city ofDalian order a petrochemical plant, which producesparaxylene (PX), to be shut down and relocated, after tens of thousands of local residents protested through the streets on Sunday, fearing potential pollution. The protests resembled to a similar case, when citizens went on a protest "stroll" in the southeastern city ofXiamen in June 2007.(China Daily)(The Guardian)(The Atlantic)(The Wall Street Journal)
A lawyer claims that 25,000South Koreans will be suingApple Inc. in relation to alleged privacy breaches in relation to collection ofiPhone location addresses.(AP via MSNBC)
ATorontoImam is charged in relation to alleged sexual assaults and death threats committed against five victims over the course of three years.(Toronto Star)
Eight people are killed and dozens are injured in southernIsrael near theEgyptian border, after a string of terrorist attacks on a highway targeting two civilian buses and cars as well a military bus responding to the attacks.(Ynetnews)(New York Times)
Five people die on the first day of theBelgianPukkelpop festival when ahurricane hits the festival field. The rest of the festival is cancelled.
Law and crime
Arabbi in the U.S. state ofNew Jersey has been indicted for alleged sex crimes against two 13-year-old Israeli boys who were visiting the rabbi through a scholarship fund. The two boys had reported the abuse separately following their return.(Jerusalem Post)
U.S. retailing giantJ.C. Penney agrees with its largest shareholder,William Ackman, that Ackman will cap his shareholdings at 16.5 percent, while increasing his exposure through a "synthetic long position."(Dow Jones Newswire)
Striking Verizon Communications workers will return to work from a strike on the night of Monday, August 22, 2011, even without a formal contract.(Journal Star of Peoria)
The New York Times carries claims by anonymous sources that theBank of Japan is said to be considering a further easing of monetary policy, and the government ofJapan may intervene in markets to push the value of theyen down.(New York Times)
AnEgyptian protester removes theflag from theIsraeli embassy as thousands protest outside following the death of five policemen near the border.(AFP via Maan News)
A team ofAustralian andBritishgeologists claim to have the found the world's oldestfossils in theStrelley Pool rock formation in theoutback of the Australian state ofWestern Australia. According to the Monday, August 22Huffington Post online video and short article about them[3] they "are thought to be 3.4 billion years old. Some believe that the organisms could also have lived onMars, as at the time when they lived there was very littleoxygen onEarth, and Mars was known to have had both thewater andsulphur necessary to sustain the life forms."(New York Times)
In an audio message, Gaddafi urges the people of Tripoli to "purge the capital" even as fighters sweep through the city and take control of the symbolic Green Square, which is subsequently renamedMartyrs' Square.(Press TV)(TABNAK)
People celebrate their victory in the streets of Tripoli by sayingShahada, ending to 42 years of dictatorship.(TABNAK)
Large anti-Gaddafi protests take place, with some coming under fire from snipers perched on rooftops.(Yahoo! News)
France announces plans to host a summit on Libya as early as next week.(Reuters)
South Africa is reported to be involved in negotiations with Muammar Gaddafi's camp to offer him a place of refuge, though the government denies reports a plane has been sent for him.(Press TV)(The Daily Telegraph)
More than 900 people are released from Ain Zara jail inTripoli.(TABNAK)
17 rockets and mortars are fired fromGaza at southwestern Israeli cities. 2 people, one of them a nine-month-old baby, are hurt in the attack.(Arutz Sheva)
At least 19 people are feared dead inZimbabwe after a haulage truck and bus collide(Radio VoP)
TheRAF gives theRed Arrows clearance to fly again following Saturday's fatal crash at theBournemouth Air Festival, but cannot confirm if they will fly at similar events this year.(BBC)
The Federal Reserve announces that it will hold hearings on the proposed acquisition, byCapital One, ofING Direct, a potential $9 billion deal.(Reuters)
Danish Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen calls for Parliamentary elections to be held on September 15 - nearly two months ahead of the scheduled date.(Xinhua)
Dozens of dead bodies are found at theAbu Salim Hospital inTripoli which had been abandoned by medical staff earlier in the week when it came underheavy gunfire.(NPR)
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians attend events and tributes across Canada in honour ofJack Layton, as an unprecedentedstate funeral is held.(CBC News)
The Cabinet of former Prime Minister of JapanNaoto Kan resigns en masse following the election ofYoshihiko Noda as the presumptive Prime Minister.(Nikkei)
