New laws againstage discrimination in the workplace - officially titled the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 - come into force in theUnited Kingdom.(BBC)
Viktor Khristenko, theRussian Industry and Energy Minister, and Baktykozha Izmukhambetov, theKazakh Energy and Mineral Resources' Minister, sign an intergovernmental agreement creating a joint venture to process gas from theKarachaganak field in West Kazakhstan.Russian PresidentVladimir Putin said the agreement was the solution to "the energy problems of key partners, including those in Western Europe."(Interfax)
EADS delays delivery of theAirbus A380 jet for the third time in 16 months, due to wiring problems, with the first plane now expected in late 2007.(Bloomberg)
TheEuropean Union imposes an anti-dumping tariff on leather shoe imports from the Far East - 16.5% on imports fromChina and 10% on imports fromVietnam. China supplies about 1.25 billion pairs of shoes to the EU each year.(EUobserver.com)
TheDrudge Report alleges that one teen with whom Mark Foley engaged in cybersex during a House vote was 18 years old at the time of the communications.(Drudge Report)
German authorities uncover 51 skeletons from amass grave at the village of Menden-Barge in theSauerland region of the country, thought to be remains of victims ofNazi atrocities duringWorld War II.(BBC)
TheHouse Ethics Committee issued four dozen subpoenas to members of Congress and aides to discover who was aware of explicit exchanges between former representativeMark Foley and underage Congressional pages.(MSNBC)
President Bush has declared space to be essential to US defence in a new National Space Policy document. Not only has the United States declared that it has rights in space, but, if necessary, it will deny its adversaries access to space if those adversaries seek to impede those rights. The new policy was agreed upon in August but the document[1] was not released until 6 October. See Wikinewsn:US declares vital interest in space
Iraq's Environmental Secretary claims that 11 police officers have died offood poisoning in theWasit province of that country. Thegovernor of the Wasit province claims that no officers have died, but that several are in critical condition. It is unclear whether or not the poisonings were intentional.(Associated Press)
French lawmakers introduce a bill to criminalizeArmenian Genocide denial. The legislation would imprison offenders for one year and fine them up to€45,000.Turkey calls upon French legislators to vote against the bill. The Turkish Parliament is considering a bill that would criminalize denial of Frenchhuman rights violations inAlgeria.(TurkishPress)
Google officially announces that they will buy video sharing websiteYouTube forUS$1.65 billion.(BBC)
Iran's Supreme LeaderAyatollahAli Khamenei states that the country would pursue its right to developnuclear technology and will not suspenduranium enrichment as the West demands, declaring: "Our policy is clear, progress with clear logic and insisting on the nation's right without any retreat."(Reuters)
Iraqi police announce they have found a total of 110 corpses at locations acrossBaghdad in the previous 48 hours, thought to be more victims of insurgent death squads. In addition, a bomb planted under a car explodes in the city's southern district of Doura, killing 10 people.(CNN)(Reuters)
Amortar fired by insurgents landed on an ammunition dump atCamp Falcon U.S. military base on the outskirts ofBaghdad, causing a huge fire. At least 30 explosions were reported. There were no reported casualties.(Reuters)
Minutes from the United StatesFederal Reserve meeting held on September 20 predict a "modestly betterinflation outlook" due to a softening economy and lower energy prices. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady.(Fox News)
AUnited Nations report declares that abuse of children is "widespread and tolerated" in many parts of the world. A separate report by charitySave the Children states that more than a million children around the world are in prison.(BBC)
StCarlo Acutis, a 15 year old boy dies ofacute promyelocytic leukaemia in San Gerardo Hospital north of Milan, Italy. He is canonised on 7 September 2025 and has been referred to as the "patron saint of the Internet", "God's Influencer" and the "first millennial saint".
The New Zealand Auditor-General's report into2005 election funding is released.NZ$1.17 million dollars was unlawfully spent during the election by seven parties, more than half of it byLabour. Labour immediately promises to repay the money.(NZ Herald)
Workers begin demolishing the one-roomAmish schoolhouse inNickel Mines, Pennsylvania where five girls were shot to death and five others were injured.(Forbes)
Record Snowfall inBuffalo, New York and surrounding metro area leaves up to two feet of heavy wet snow, three people dead, damaged trees, and over 400,000 residents without power.[3]
Wal-Mart is ordered to pay $78 million in compensation to current and former employees for breaking labor laws in theU.S. state ofPennsylvania by forcing its employees to work through rest breaks and off clock.(USA Today)
TheUS government has rebuffedUK calls to close its controversial detention centre atGuantánamo Bay inCuba.(BBC)
Tony Blair has said he agrees with "every word" the new head of theBritish Army said on theIraq war that UK troops "exacerbated" security problems and should withdraw "sometime soon".(BBC)
Veterinarians are reported to usevasectomies to controlelephant overpopulation in Africa. At Kruger National Park, their numbers have doubled in the last decade.(North County Times)
Hawaii earthquake: A 6.7-magnitudeearthquake and a series of aftershocks hit theU.S. state ofHawaii at 7:07am local time, with anepicentre 9 miles (14 km) NNW ofKalaoa. 95% of power was lost throughout the state. Widespread structural damage onthe Big Island is being reported, but no major injuries and no fatalities as of yet. Airports are only accepting incoming flights.(CNN)(USGS)
SuspectedTamil Tiger rebels detonate a truck packed with explosives amongst a convoy of buses carryingSri Lankan Navy personnel in the country's northeast. Approximately 102 people are killed, and 150 people are wounded.(AFP via Yahoo! News)
Themilitary of Fiji issues an ultimatum to the government to drop legislation which would give an amnesty to the leaders of the2000 coup, or resign.(SMH)
RapperFabolous is shot at aManhattan parking garage, spurring a sequence of events that left him both hospitalized in stable condition and under arrest.
Twometro trainscollide inRome, killing at least two people and injuring about 120 others.(BBC)
Tamil Tiger rebels are suspected to be responsible for attacks on aSri Lankan navy base and an adjoining port in the southern city ofGalle, police and military officers claim.(CNN)
Chilean police detain 366 high school student protestors inSantiago, and use tear gas and water cannons to disperse their one day strike which called on the government to reform the education law, originally enacted underAugusto Pinochet.(Deutsche Presse-Agentur)
AnUzbek militaryAntonov An-2 aircraft crashes nearTashkent,Uzbekistan, killing all of the 15 people on board. The Uzbek Emergency Ministry says the pilots lost control of the plane while trying to land.(BBC)
TheDow Jones Industrial Average index closes at a record high just above 12,000 points in today's trading, as investors welcome the latest batch of corporate earnings.(The Australian)
OPEC agrees to reduce its output by 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m3/d), its first cut for more than two years, to halt falling oil prices.(USA Today)
The Indian conglomerateTata Group agrees to buy Anglo-Dutchsteel firmCorus in the largest ever Indiantakeover of a foreign company.(NDTV)
Ethiopia expels twoEuropean Union diplomats for allegedly trying to smuggle two fugitives intoKenya. The European Union criticises the expulsions as "totally unacceptable."(BBC)
Though given three days to leaveSudan for blogging on recent government defeats in theDarfur conflict, UN envoyJan Pronk left the next day when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan recalled him to New York for consultations.(BBC)
The government ofNiger announces that due to "difficult relations with indigenous rural populations," the country's 150,000Mahamid Arab refugee population who have lived in Niger since having fledChad two decades earlier, will be deported back to Chad.(Reuters)[permanent dead link]
Fifteen people die and 400 are admitted to hospital inPskov,Russia, after consuming alcohol suspected of being tainted with medicinal drugs or chemicals.(Reuters)[permanent dead link]
ExxonMobil Corp., the world's largestpetroleum extracting company, says its third-quarter net income rose toUSD $10.5 billion from $9.92 billion as crude prices rise to an all-time high. This is the second highest quarterlyprofit figure for aUnited States company.(Bloomberg)
AGerman minister claims that twoIsraeli fighter jets fired two shots over a German naval peacekeeping ship near the Lebanese coast. Israel denies the jets fired.(Times)
The Sims 2 Pets is released inAustralia and is announced that AU$1 will be donated from every game for the first 50,000 games sold to theRSPCA
Australia's seniorMuslim cleric SheikhTaj El-Din Hilaly is barred from preaching for three months after his controversial speech comparing women who did not wear thehijab to "uncovered meat".(BBC)
A controlled explosion is carried out by an Army Bomb Disposal squad onDublin'sO'Connell Street after a security alert on anAircoach bus, although no explosive material was found. Traffic in the city has been severely affected.(RTÉ)
TheFord Taurus rolls off the assembly line for the last time. The Ford plant in Atlanta, USA, closes and 2,000 employees are all laid off.MSNBC
Cuban television shows images of convalescing leaderFidel Castro walking and reading the day's newspapers showing that he is recovering from his emergency surgery in July.(Reuters),(BBC)
Violence breaks out during street protests inBangladesh, causing the deaths of at least 9 people, as confusion continues over who will take over governing the country from former Prime MinisterBegum Khaleda Zia.(Reuters)[permanent dead link]
SpecialistAhmed Qusai al-Taayie, anIraqi American United States Army soldier currently listed as missing in action in Iraq, is reported to have married an Iraqi citizen, against U.S. military regulations.(MSNBC)
California authorities arrest a man who is suspected of intentionally starting two wildfires this summer and is considered a person of interest in the Esperanza Fire.
ThePrince of Wales’s controversial visit today to amadrassa in thePakistani town ofPeshawar, borderingAfghanistan has been cancelled over fears for his safety, after calls byIslamic leaders for revenge for a Pakistani airstrike that destroyed another religious school about 60 miles away.(The Times)
The Lebanese army issued a statement saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery atIsrael Air Force warplanes as they flew oversouth Lebanon.(Haaretz)
