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• Amama Mbabazi, the Security Minister ofUganda, warns theDemocratic Republic of the Congo, that Uganda would consider re-entering the DRC if recent raids did not stop.(AllAfrica)
• AnAir Moorea airplanecrashes in Moorea bound forTahiti with at least 12 casualties. Initial reports indicate that all 20 passengers may have died.(News Limited)(ABC News Australia)
• Democratic candidates in theUnited States presidential election appear in a televised forum sponsored byHuman Rights Campaign Foundation and focusing ongay andlesbian issues.(CNN)
• Two more bodies have been recovered at the site of theI-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse inMinneapolis, Minnesota.(Reuters)
• A blaze at theCinecittà film studio complex inRome burns down several buildings.(ABC News Australia)
• Stephen Harper, thePrime Minister of Canada tours theArctic regions ofCanada to assert wider claims ofsovereignty over the region following a recent claim byRussia to theNorth Pole.(BBC)
• China temporarily bansexports from twotoy manufacturers whose products were banned or recalled in theUnited States and other countries.(AP via the Washington Post)
• Charges against twoUnited States Marines accused of involvement in the killing ofIraqis in 2005 are dropped.(CNN)
• BNP Paribas announced that it could not fairly value the underlying assets in three funds as a result of exposure to U.S. subprime mortgage lending markets. Faced with potentially massive (though unquantifiable) exposure, the European Central Bank (ECB) immediately stepped in to ease market worries by opening lines of €96.8 billion (then US$130 billion) in low-interest credit.

(New York Times - 9 August 2007)

• TheDow Jones Industrial Average falls by nearly 400 points due to credit worries.Canadian andEuropean stocks also fall. TheEuropean Central Bank,United StatesFederal Reserve andBank of Canada all inject money into their credit markets to ease concerns.(Market Watch)
• TheSouth CarolinaRepublican Party moves itsprimary election date forward toJanuary 19.(AP via the Guardian)
• The death toll from the2007 South Asian floods rises to 2000.(AFP via News Limited)
• Two trains collide inZimbabwe.(ZimDaily)
• India celebrates 65th anniversary ofQuit India Movement.
• ThePresident of ZambiaLevy Mwanawasa suspends the head of theDrug Enforcement CommissionRyan Chitoba for alleged misappropriation of money confiscated from criminals.(BBC)
• Twelve people are killed by suspectedUnited Liberation Front of Asom separatist gunmen in two different incidents inAssam.(AP via Forbes)
• SuspectedAbu Sayyaf militants ambushPhilippines Government troops on the island ofJolo, killing nine. More than 50 people died in fighting during the day between the army, Abu Sayyaf and elements of theMoro National Liberation Front.(AP via International Herald Tribune)(BBC)
• East Timor
  • A standoff occurs atDili Airport as to whether jailed former Government MinisterRogerio Lobato can leaveEast Timor for medical treatment inMalaysia.(ABC News Australia)
  • Mobs burn hundreds of houses in pro-Fretilin areas betweenViqueque andBaucau in protest at the appointment ofXanana Gusmão as thePrime Minister of East Timor with 60 people arrested in Baucau
• TheNational Assembly of Mauritania adopts legislation criminalisingslavery.(AFP via News Limited)
• ThePresident of PakistanGeneralPervez Musharraf pulls out of a meeting with thePresident of AfghanistanHamid Karzai and tribal leaders inKabul over fighting theTaliban.(CNN)(BBC) He is also resisting pressure to institute astate of emergency, insisting that theplanned parliamentary election in October must proceed as scheduled.(Reuters via Yahoo! News)
• Two ofAustralia's largest regional banks,Bendigo Bank andAdelaide Bank, agree to merge.(AAP via The Sydney Morning Herald)