September 1, 2009 (2009-09-01 ) (Tuesday)
European leaders remember the victims ofWorld War II at ceremonies marking the start of the conflict 70 years ago.(RTÉ) (BBC) (CBC) (Time ) (Japan Today) Muammar al-Gaddafi :President Tabaré Vázquez ofUruguay shuffles his cabinet, withGonzalo Fernández , drafter of all major legislation, moving from Foreign Affairs to Defence.(MercoPress) Formerheavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali visits the birthplace of his great-grandfather inEnnis ,Ireland .(RTÉ) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph ) (The Guardian ) Speaking inLima 'sEl Comercio Peruvian President Alan García ,Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says his country will continue to exportoil to theUnited States because it is "in interest".(MercoPress) Fiji is suspended from theCommonwealth of Nations , only the second full suspension in the organization's history.(BBC) (Times of India ) Alain Robert scales Tower Two of thePetronas Towers inKuala Lumpur ,Malaysia , using no safety equipment.(BBC) (Al Jazeera) (New Straits Times ) Theunemployment rate across theEurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%.(BBC) Chile 'sgovernment sets aside 4 billionpesos for the purchase of more fuel-efficient trucks for citizens through its “Cambia tu Camión ” (“Change your Truck”) program.(MercoPress) TheEuropean Union bans the manufacture or import of 100 wattincandescent light bulbs , beginning a phase-out in favour of energy-savingcompact fluorescent lamps .(BBC) ThePakistani Army claims to have killed at least 20 suspected militants in clashes across north-westPakistan .(BBC) An outbreak ofdiarrhoea inOrissa ,India , kills at least 26 people and hospitalises 237.(BBC) A ban onsamurai swords comes into effect inIreland in an effort to reduce increasing crime rates.(RTÉ) Ali Ben Bongo ,Pierre Mamboundou andAndre Mba Obame each declare victory in theGabonese presidential election .(Voice of America ) 91 countries agree to the first ever global treaty focused specifically on the problem ofIUU fishing .(MercoPress) (Associated Press) (UN News Centre) Documents released by theBritish government show that theUnited Kingdom gave in toLibyan demands that theLockerbie bomber be eligible for transfer home to serve his sentence there.(CNN) (Xinhua) ASri Lankan journalist is jailed for 20 years on charges of "inciting racial hatred" and "supportingterrorism " for writing articles critical of thegovernment's military operations.(The Independent ) AGuatemalan court sentencesFelipe Cusanero , an ex-paramilitary officer, to 150 years in prison for the forced disappearance of civilians in the 36-yearGuatemalan Civil War .(BBC) (Boston Globe ) (The Irish Times ) (Reuters) A plane carryingSouth African Deputy PresidentKgalema Motlanthe back from anAfrican Union summit inTripoli ,Libya makes an emergency landing on an unlit runway in northernCongo after missing a fuel stop.(IOL) Adiarrhea epidemic kills 34 people inEthiopia and infects more than 5,000, with 500 hospitalised inAddis Ababa in one day alone.(IOL) Saba threatens to secede from theNetherlands Antilles in a letter toDutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende .(NRC Handelsblad)
September 2, 2009 (2009-09-02 ) (Wednesday)
The66th Venice International Film Festival gets underway.(BBC) A helicopter carryingAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy disappears during a flight in southernIndia .(ArabNews) Iolu Abil is elected thePresident of Vanuatu during the third round of theVanuatuan presidential election .(RNZI) (Xinhua) Greek Prime MinisterKostas Karamanlis announces that he is to ask the president to dissolve parliament and calla general election for October.(BBC) Charles Gibson announces he will step down as anchor ofWorld News and retire fromABC in January 2010.Diane Sawyer will replace him at ABC World News.(ABC News) British energy companyBP says it has drilled one of the deepest wells ever in theoil andgas industry as it made a "giant" discovery in theGulf of Mexico .(MarketWatch) A 7.3 magnitudeearthquake occurs on at 14:55 local time on theIndonesian island ofJava , killing at least 32 people.(Yahoo News) (Jakarta Post ) (Reuters) Google 'sGmail service is hit by an outage affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users.(BBC) AChilean judge issues arrest warrants for 129 people for allegedly helping to purge critics of the country's former ruler GeneralAugusto Pinochet .(BBC) (Bernama) Twocar bombs explode inAthens andSalonika , damaging theAthens Stock Exchange and lightly wounding one woman.(RTÉ) (Reuters) (Athens News Agency) AnIraqi court sentences four security force personnel to death byhanging for their parts in abank robbery which left eight security guards dead.(BBC) (Press TV) ATaliban blast killsAfghan deputy chief of intelligence Abdullah Laghmani. The blast shakes the city ofMihtarlam , 60 miles (100 kilometers) east ofKabul inLaghman Province ; it kills several government officials and wounds several civilians.(ABC) TwoAmerican journalists held byNorth Korea for illegal entry admit to crossing the border but claim North Korean guards arrested them on theChinese side of the border and dragged them back into the country.(Reuters) Thedeath certificate ofAmerican pop star and entertainerMichael Jackson is amended to reflect his cause of death ashomicide via "injection by another".(BBC) Ennama Asfari , the co-president of aCommittee for the Respect of Freedoms inWestern Sahara , is jailed for four months for insulting a policeman.(IOL) Prime Minister ofBurkina Faso Tertius Zongo confirms least three people were swept away by floods and thousands are left homeless inOuagadougou and its suburbs.(IOL) A woman kills a man by jumping on top of him inBarcelona ,Spain .(IOL) SixteenSomalis drown after being forced overboard into theGulf of Aden .(IOL) Malaysia reverses a ruling which had bannedMuslims from attending aBlack Eyed Peas concert inKuala Lumpur .(BBC News) Two British boys planning to create a massacre in a high school inManchester are on trial after wanting to emulate theColumbine High School massacre .(BBC News) A 3,700-year-old wall is discovered in eastJerusalem .(BBC) (USA Today ) (CTV) (Xinhua) Miyuki Hatoyama ,Japan 's new first lady, speaks of riding aUFO toVenus , calling it "a very beautiful place" and "really green".(Reuters)
September 3, 2009 (2009-09-03 ) (Thursday)
September 4, 2009 (2009-09-04 ) (Friday)
The death toll in the2009 Java earthquake rises to 63.(CBC) (Xinhua) Ryan Tubridy takes over as host ofThe Late Late Show (Irish Examiner ) (The Irish Times ) Xinjiang Thousands of mourners from across southernIndia pay their respects to the dead chief minister ofAndhra Pradesh ,Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy .(BBC) SixGambian journalists jailed for criticisingPresident Yahya Jammeh are freed.(Gambia News) (UPI) (BBC) Looting occurs inPort Gentil ,Gabon , after riots broke out over a disputedpresidential election .(AFP) (BBC) (Al Jazeera) A court inBurma agrees to hear an appeal by detainedNational League for Democracy leaderAung San Suu Kyi .(The Guardian ) (Times of India ) (Jakarta Post ) North Korea announces it is in thefinal stage ofuranium enrichment , asRussia ,South Korea ,Japan and theUnited States express concern.(RIA Novosti) (Reuters) (Wall Street Journal ) (Yonhap) More than 90 people, among them at least 40 civilians, are killedwhen an American jetfighter called in by German troops attacks two fuel tankers hijacked byTaliban -insurgents inKunduz , northernAfghanistan .(The Daily Telegraph ) (BBC) Thearmed forces inMadagascar reject calls by opposition groups to take over the country's institutions for an interim period.(IOL) (Xinhua) (AFP) TheInternational Monetary Fund grantsZimbabwe aUS$ 500 million loan, its first to the country in 10 years.(The Herald ) (Business Day ) Temperatures in theArctic are at their highest for 2000 years, according to a new study.(The Daily Telegraph ) TheUnited States eases more restrictions onCuba , allowing unlimited family visits and telephone exchanges.(MercoPress) (CNN) (Washington Post ) TheBrazilian Senate condemnsVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez for his restrictions on the press, further delaying itsMercosur bid .(MercoPress) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to approve new settlements in theWest Bank before a building freeze.(New York Times ) (Ha'aretz ) [permanent dead link (Associated Press) Air India Flight 829 suffers an engine fire during pushback atChhatrapati Shivaji International Airport ,Mumbai . All 228 people on board successfully evacuate via emergency slides.(NDTV) TwoBangladeshi newspapers, theDaily Manab Zamin New Nation US websiteThe Onion Moon landings were faked.(BBC) FormerUS soldier Steven D. Green is sentenced to life inprison with no possibility of release for the murder of an Iraqi girl and her family.(Al Jazeera)
September 5, 2009 (2009-09-05 ) (Saturday)
TheG-20 finance ministers outline plans forbanking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions.(MarketWatch) (Reuters) At least 15 people, mostlyBulgarians , drown inLake Ohrid ,Republic of Macedonia , as atourist boat sinks .(MIA) (BBC) (Makfax) TheCommunist Party Chief inÜrümqi ,China , is removed from his post followingrecent protests over a series of stabbings withhypodermic needles .(Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Xinhua) Ireland 'sMinister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin travels toKhartoum for meetings with theSudanese government over thekidnapping of aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki nine weeks prior.(RTÉ) An oil deal and trade concerns withLibya were at one point considered as factors in theLockerbie bomber 's release,British Justice SecretaryJack Straw says in an interview.(CNN) Thousands of people attend rival demonstrations for or against the policies ofVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela,Spain ,Honduras and in other Latin American capitals.(BBC) (BBC video) (Associated Press) (El Universal ) Around 90 people are arrested in clashes betweenright wing anti-Islamic groups and anti-Fascist protesters inBirmingham ,England .(BBC) (Associated Press) (The Independent ) Grenada releases the last seven prisoners convicted in the murder ofGrenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop during the1983 coup , including former deputy prime ministerBernard Coard .(France 24) [permanent dead link
September 6, 2009 (2009-09-06 ) (Sunday)
September 7, 2009 (2009-09-07 ) (Monday)
September 8, 2009 (2009-09-08 ) (Tuesday)
Ashipwreck inSierra Leone leaves "scores" dead.(The New York Times ) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph ) (The Sydney Morning Herald ) Police inMilwaukee ,United States , arrest a man in suspicion of being the notoriousNorth Side Strangler , believed to have killed at least seven women between 1986 and 2007.(MSNBC) A colossalstatue ofApollo is discovered at aUNESCO World Heritage Site atHierapolis ,Turkey .(Discovery Channel) TwoNorwegians ,Joshua French andTjostolv Moland , on trial for allegedmurder andespionage , are found guilty on both counts and sentenced to death by aCongolese military tribunal.(Norway Post) Mobile network operators T-Mobile andOrange agree to merge theirBritish businesses.(BBC) Amagnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northernGeorgia .(BBC) (USGS) (The Georgian Times ) 35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in acoal mine inPingdingshan ,China .(BBC) (China Daily ) (Al Jazeera) Kenya replaces almost all of its senior police officers after they were blamed for deaths duringpost-election violence in 2007 and 2008.(Daily Nation ) (BBC) Sudanese journalistLubna al-Hussein is freed from one day in jail after being prosecuted for wearing trousers – the fine was paid by the Journalist Union.(Associated Press) (Al Jazeera) A storm, with rain, hail and winds of over 60 mph kills at least 14 people in northernArgentina and southernBrazil .(BBC)
September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09 ) (Wednesday)
US Representative Joe Wilson (R -SC ) interrupts PresidentBarack Obama 's health care speech to theCongress with an audible shout of "You lie!"(New York Times ) Aeroméxico Flight 576 , aBoeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off fromCancún , and forced to land atMexico City International Airport .(BBC News) Floods inIstanbul , the worst in 80 years, kill around 20 people and injure a further 20.(Today's Zaman ) (Reuters) TheDemocratic Party of Japan agrees to form acoalition with two other parties, theSocial Democratic Party andPeople's New Party .(Mainichi Shimbun ) (BBC) (Xinhua) South Korea accusesNorth Korea of deliberately releasing water from adam across theKorean Demilitarized Zone , in which six people died.(Xinhua) (Yonhap) (Associated Press) Iranian authorities close the offices of opposition leaderMehdi Karroubi , confiscating material.(Al Jazeera) (Press TV) A new series ofhypodermic needle stabbings occur inÜrümqi , northwesternChina .(China Daily ) (Press Trust of India) (Press TV) (The Straits Times ) The son of formerFilipino President Corazon Aquino ,Benigno Aquino III , announces his intention to run for the presidency.(The Philippine Inquirier ) (CNN) (The Australian ) North Korea holds celebrations to mark the 61st anniversary of its founding.(CBC) (The Straits Times ) Stephen Farrell , a journalist withThe New York Times Afghanistan after four days as a captive of theTaliban , but his Afghan colleague Mohammad Sultan Munadi is shot dead during the raid.(The Irish Times ) "Beatles Day" is celebrated worldwide as remastered versions ofThe Beatles 'albums are released, as well asThe Beatles: Rock Band (Newsday ) September 10, 2009 (2009-09-10 ) (Thursday)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the post-war treatment of celebratedWWII code-breakerAlan Turing , who was chemicallycastrated for havinghomosexual relations.(Downing St) (CBC) (Reuters India) (The New York Times ) (The Daily Telegraph ) Libyan leaderMuammar al-Gaddafi says he will demand a permanent place in theUnited Nations Security Council forAfrica and compensation worth 777 trillion dollars for years of colonialism inNew York later this month.(IOL) AHong Kong court convictsDu Jun , a former senior banker atMorgan Stanley , in the country's largest insider trading case.(BBC) Gabon bars opposition leaders from leaving the country following recent riots over claims of fraud in the2009 presidential election .(BBC) Dubai 'sMetro System , the first mass transit system of the Arabian Peninsula, officially opens to the public as its firstmetro line is partially operational.(Al Bawaba) Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri steps aside inLebanon .(BBC) (Xinhua) At least five girls are killed and 30 other students injured in a stampede at a state-run school in theIndian capital,New Delhi .(ABC) (RTÉ) Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chávez recognizes Abkhazia andSouth Ossetia during a visit toRussia .(El Universal ) [permanent dead link (Reuters) Afghan journalists express anger over the killing of local reporterSultan Munadi during a rescue operation that saved his colleagueStephen Farrell .(RTÉ) British consul John Terry is murdered inJamaica .(Jamaica Gleaner ) (Times Online ) Greek militant groupRevolutionary Struggle threatens to attack the "golden boys" it blames for the economic crisis as it claims responsibility for theAthens stock market bombing.(RTÉ) Infootball ,Germany beatEngland 6–2 in theUEFA Women's Euro 2009 final, claiming their seventhEuropean title .(BBC) A boat with over 250 people on board capsizes in a storm off the coast ofSierra Leone , killing at least 8.(New York Times ) (Awareness Times ) (Al Jazeera) Supporters of the traditionalKabaka of Buganda ,Muwenda Mutebi II , riot in theUgandan capitalKampala after a move by the government to prevent him from visiting a local area, resulting in several deaths.(BBC) (IOL) (Press TV) September 11, 2009 (2009-09-11 ) (Friday)
The search and rescue effort following the2009 Sierra Leone shipwreck comes to end, with 90 confirmed dead and at least 100 others declared missing.(Reuters) In an interview withThe Wall Street Journal Libertas founderDeclan Ganley says thesecond Irish referendum on theTreaty of Lisbon is "profoundly undemocratic".(RTÉ) FormerTaiwanese President Chen Shui-bian and his wife,Wu Shu-chen , are both sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty ofcorruption .(Taiwan News ) (France 24) Zimbabwe 'sPresident Robert Mugabe condemns "bloody whites" for meddling in his country's affairs, specifically perceivedBritish andAmerican interference.(IOL) President Vladimir Voronin ofMoldova resigns.(Xinhua) Prime minister Jadranka Kosor ofCroatia andPM Borut Pahor ofSlovenia agree on an immediate end toSlovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession and further negotiation of theGulf of Piran border dispute between two countries.(Delo) (Deutsche Welle) (Malaysia Star ) AKenyan magistrate sentencesJon Cardon Wagner , anAmerican who founded the popular chain of coffee shops,Nairobi Java House , to 15 years of imprisonment for the statutory rape of three teenage Kenyan girls.(IOL) Sharon Commins, an aid worker kidnapped with aUgandan colleague inSudan , makes contact with her family inIreland for the first time in several weeks.(RTÉ) NASA 's Space ShuttleDiscovery Edwards Air Force Base inCalifornia ,USA .(BBC) Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announces the discovery of a vast gas field off the coast of his country, one of the world's largest finds.(BBC) (MercoPress) September 12, 2009 (2009-09-12 ) (Saturday)
September 13, 2009 (2009-09-13 ) (Sunday)
Russia announces that it will assistVenezuela in the building of a nuclear energy program.[1] At least 19 people die and 80 are missing after aferry sinks in theCongo River in theDemocratic Republic of Congo .(AFP via Google News) Kim Clijsters ofBelgium defeatsCaroline Wozniacki ofDenmark to win the2009 US Open Women's Singles .(New York Times ) Cork beatKilkenny in the final of theAll-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 .(RTÉ) Police arrest more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots inUganda 's capitalKampala , as the death toll rises to 14.(IOL) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", theG8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis.(BBC) GermanChancellor Angela Merkel appears with her main rival,Frank-Walter Steinmeier , in a TV debate, two weeks ahead of an election.(BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (The Guardian ) (Bangkok Post ) [permanent dead link (Miami Herald ) [permanent dead link Saudi Arabia 's veteran foreign ministerPrince Saud al-Faisal undergoes successful spine surgery in theUnited States .(Reuters) 38 people are killed in afire at adrug abuse clinic inTaldykorgan ,Kazakhstan .(Kazakhstan News) (AFP) (RIA Novosti) (IOL) Hundreds of people protest inHong Kong over alleged beatings of its journalists in mainlandChina coveringunrest inXinjiang .(RTHK) (BBC) (Straits Times ) At least 6 people die in a fall down an elevator shaft of a skyscraper under construction inHong Kong .(BBC) (IOL) (The New Zealand Herald ) [permanent dead link 4 people die and 3 are injured when a mud house collapses in floods atLazaret , a poor district of theNigerien capitalNiamey .(IOL) Two of the so-calledBermuda Triangle 's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.(BBC) Teeth and bones from a range of animals, includinghyenas ,deer andrhinos , are discovered byarchaeologists inside a cave inDevon ,England .(BBC) September 14, 2009 (2009-09-14 ) (Monday)
September 15, 2009 (2009-09-15 ) (Tuesday)
September 16, 2009 (2009-09-16 ) (Wednesday)
New documents disclose that novelistJ. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy forHis Majesty's Government in the run up toWorld War II .(The Daily Telegraph ) José Manuel Barroso is re-elected asPresident of the European Commission , byMembers of the European Parliament .(BBC News) (Angola Press) Yukio Hatoyama is sworn in as the 60thPrime Minister of Japan .(Asahi Shimbun ) (Radio Australia) Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announces thatChina is to invest 16 billionUS dollars to boost oil production in the country particularly along theOrinoco River as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on the US market.(MercoPress) Argentina formally accepts apologies from theSpanish government which admitted having committed a “protocol error” on allowing the presence of a delegation from theFalkland Islands in an international fisheries sustainability conference.(MercoPress) Kenya 's parliament nullifiesPresident Mwai Kibaki 's reappointment of Kenya's anti-corruption chief,Justice Aaron Ringera , who critics say has shown little interest in fighting graft.(IOL) TheEuropean Union casts doubt on last month's election results showingAfghan PresidentHamid Karzai winning the presidential election outright in the first round.(Reuters) TheWorld Meteorological Organisation says thehole in theOzone layer is smaller than in 2008.(AFP) China says it has foiled a possible terrorist attack inXinjiang , detaining six people.(Xinhua) (The Straits Times ) (UPI) TheSomalian Islamist groupAl-Shabaab call for reinforcements after aU.S. raid killed its leaderSaleh Ali Saleh Nabhan .(Reuters) Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic inMexico .(Associated Press) (CNN) Kenya begins moving the first residents out ofslums in the capitalNairobi , as part of a plan to clear allshanty towns over the next two to five years.(BBC) (Associated Press) (Capital FM) 21 people are injured, three seriously, after a collision involving aLuas tram and a double-decker bus onO'Connell Street inDublin , the worst ever accident involving the city's trams.(The Irish Times ) (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph ) (The Canadian Press) TheTEAMS cable system , providing high speedbroadband toEast Africa for the first time, is poised to go live.(BBC) Egyptian border guards shoot dead two sub-Saharan migrants, bringing to at least 14 the number killed this year as they try to cross illegally intoIsrael .(IOL) A lightning bolt kills five children at their school inBamali ,Cameroon , as they are preparing to begin their school day.(IOL) September 17, 2009 (2009-09-17 ) (Thursday)
A seniorIrish Catholic bishop saysRoman Catholics can vote "Yes" in the country'ssecond referendum on theTreaty of Lisbon "in good conscience".(BBC) At least 87 refugees are killed after anarmy air raid on a camp for displaced people in'Amran Governorate , northernYemen .(BBC) (Saba) (Bernama) (Al Jazeera) ThePresident of France Nicolas Sarkozy saysEuropean Union leaders agree to impose a cap onbanker pay.(AP via Google News) ThePrime Minister of the Czech Republic ,Jan Fischer , says thatPresident Barack Obama told him that theUnited States is abandoning plans for amissile shield based inPoland and theCzech Republic .(AP viaHouston Chronicle ) (RIA Novosti) Two large explosions hit the main base ofAfrican Union peacekeepers inMogadishu ,Somalia .(AP viaChicago Star-Tribune ) [permanent dead link (Xinhua) Shia insurgency in Yemen : More than 80 people are killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northernYemen .(BBC) A number of children are injured inan attack at the Carolinum secondary school in theBavarian town ofAnsbach .German police arrest a man.(BBC) (RTÉ) Colombia says it would consider quittingUNASUR if the bloc does not agree to debate issues related todrug trafficking ,terrorism and arms purchases.(MercoPress) Ethiopia 'sPrime Minister Meles Zenawi denounces anInternational Crisis Group (ICG) report that warns his country could descend into ethnic violence ahead of its first national election since a 2005 poll triggered deadly street clashes.(IOL) A largecar bomb attack in the centre ofKabul ,Afghanistan , kills sixItalian ISAF soldiers.(BBC) (Adnkronos) Egypt 's topIslamic authority,Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa , defends women's rights to wear trousers in public following the high-profile court case in neighbouringSudan where women, includingLubna al-Hussein , wereflogged for dressing in the garments.(IOL) Seven explosions hit theBurmese city ofYangon with no casualties.(Bangkok Post ) [permanent dead link (Times of India ) Indonesian police confirm the death of their most wanted man,Noordin Mohammed Top , who was suspected of involvement in the2009 Jakarta bombings and theBali bombings in 2002.(Jakarta Post ) (Al Jazeera) (CNN) United Nations Under-Secretary General forPolitical Affairs Lynn Pascoe begins visiting camps holding displacedTamil refugees in northernSri Lanka .(Colombo Page ) (BBC) (AFP) Venezuela andChina agree a$ 16 billion oil exploration deal allowing China to drill in theOrinoco basin.(Bloomberg) (MarketWatch) (Al Jazeera) The ruling Burmesejunta defends its decision to bar opposition leaderAung San Suu Kyi from attending her appeal hearing.(Straits Times ) (Gulf News) [permanent dead link (Philippine Star ) [permanent dead link Four more people are found guilty and jailed for carrying outattacks with syringes in the westernChinese province ofXinjiang .(BBC) TheNational Assembly of Kenya passes abill to reduce the number of ministries from 40 to 24.(BBC) September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18 ) (Friday)
Two people are killed and eight are hurt when a man confronted by police for scrawling graffiti at aMexico City Metro station opens fire on passers-by.(CNN) (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald ) Amine blast inRuda Śląska ,Poland , kills at least 13 miners and hospitalises at least 30 more. The country's worst mining disaster since 2006, two days of national mourning are declared the following day.(BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The Irish Times ) Hong Kong sentences formerMorgan Stanley managing directorDu Jun to seven years in prison for hisinsider trading conviction in its most high-profile case.(BBC) International Quds Day :30,000Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by thedumping of toxic waste by Trafigura , which, according to theUnited Nations , has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by aLondon -based oil firm is not enough.(BBC) Solidarity co-founder and formerPresident of Poland Lech Wałęsa (in favour) andUnited Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leaderNigel Farage (against) arrive inIreland to campaign over the country'ssecond referendum on theTreaty of Lisbon .(Euronews) (The Irish Times ) (The Times ) Burma :The first everGlobal Irish Economic Forum , modelled onSwitzerland 'sWorld Economic Forum , begins inFarmleigh inDublin 'sPhoenix Park .(The Belfast Telegraph ) (The Irish Times ) (RTÉ) (Forbes) (Reuters) TheBrazilian government announces a plan to bansugarcane farming in theAmazon Rainforest and indigenous areas.(Latin American Herald Tribune ) (BBC) North Korean leaderKim Jong-il tells a visiting envoy ofChinese President Hu Jintao he is willing to engage in talks on his country's nuclear programme.(BBC) (Yonhap) Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez calls for an integratedMercosur with a greater number of countries to make it more competitive overseas, but also demands greater balance inside the group among members.(MercoPress) Sri Lanka announces it will rehouse displacedTamil refugees within the next four months.(Associated Press) TheForeign and Commonwealth Office confirms that servingPSNI officers provided training to theLibyan police force in the past twelve months.(RTÉ) Two people are killed and a further 12 injured in a stabbing attack inBeijing .(China Daily ) (Associated Press) (China Post ) At least 33 people die as a result of asuicide bomb attack inKohat in theNorth West Frontier Province ofPakistan .(RTÉ) (AP via Google News) (BBC) (IOL) Nicola Roxon , theAustralian Minister for Health and Ageing , says that theTherapeutic Goods Administration has approved an Australian-madeswine flu vaccine .(AP via Fox 59) [permanent dead link TheRaptorex kriegsteini Tyrannosaurus rex China .(The Daily Telegraph ) (The Washington Post ) (The Guardian ) TheAfrican Union says atwin bombing that killed 17 peacekeepers on its base inMogadishu ,Somalia , was conducted inUN marked cars.(CNN) (IOL) Michel Bagaragaza , former head ofRwanda 's tea industry, pleads guilty to complicity in the 1994 genocide, altering his original not guilty plea.(BBC) Singapore 's best-known watercolour artist,Cultural Medallion recipientOng Kim Seng , donates eight works to the country's new national art gallery.(The Straits Times ) September 19, 2009 (2009-09-19 ) (Saturday)
A six-nation eastAfrican regional bloc consisting ofDjibouti ,Ethiopia ,Kenya ,Somalia ,Sudan andUganda urges global sanctions onEritrea for backingIslamist rebels in neighbouring war-torn Somalia.(IOL) Two men are arrested inDenver ,Colorado ,United States , as part of anFBI terror probe.(AP via Google News) Attacks by rebels inYemen are reported despite aceasefire .(CNN) (Saba) (BBC) Pro andanti government protestors demonstrate in theThai capitalBangkok and near thePreah Vihear Temple along the border withCambodia .(Bangkok Post ) (BBC) (Xinhua) Agay pride march inBelgrade ,Serbia , is called off after police andPrime Minister Mirko Cvetković tell organisers they could not guarantee its safety.(BBC) (The Times of India ) (ABC News) Anearthquake measuring 5.8 on theRichter scale occurs off the coast ofBali inIndonesia .(BBC) DNA tests confirm thatIslamist bomber Noordin Mohamed Top is dead.(BBC) Treaty of Lisbon :Four people are seriously injured in a bear attack inTakayama ,Gifu Prefecture ,Japan .(BBC) Pakistani police raid a localsecurity firm that provides security for theUnited States embassy for illegal weapons possession.(AP viaHouston Chronicle ) TheGerman government raises its terrorism alert level afteral Qaeda posted a video on the Internet threatening attacks inGermany based on the outcome of this month's elections.(CNN) TwoGerman ships become the first Western commercial vessels to navigate theNorthern Sea Route .(BBC) SingerVera Lynn , aged 92, becomes the oldest artist to obtain a number onealbum in theUnited Kingdom .(The New York Times ) France 's government holds emergency talks with farmers to avert protests over falling dairy prices.(BBC) Pope Benedict XVI announces he is to hold a special meeting ofRoman Catholic bishops to discuss the concerns and challenges of the Church in theMiddle East in October 2010.(The Irish Times ) Nigeria 's government asks cinemas to stop showing the science fiction film,District 9 (BBC) Hundreds ofparachutists from theUnited States , theUnited Kingdom and theNetherlands commemorate the 65th anniversary ofOperation Market Garden nearArnhem , the Netherlands.(The Sydney Morning Herald ) Becky Simmons becomes the firstGuernsey -born person to swim theEnglish Channel .(The Guernsey Press ) September 20, 2009 (2009-09-20 ) (Sunday)
September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21 ) (Monday)
A trial against formerPrime Minister ofFrance Dominique de Villepin , over theClearstream affair , begins inParis .(BBC) (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph ) (The Guardian ) Legislative elections inMacau attract a higher turnout than usual and strengthen the democratic minority.(BBC) (Radio Australia News) OustedHonduran President Manuel Zelaya returns to his country, almost three months after the coup which overthrew him. He seeks shelter in theBrazilian embassy inTegucigalpa . Interim presidentRoberto Micheletti orders a 26 hourcurfew and shuts down the airport as a result of the demonstrations sparked by Zelaya's return.(BBC) (MercoPress) (AP via Google News) ,(AP via Google News) (Reuters) A6.1 magnitude earthquake occurs in easternBhutan and is felt in northeastIndia ,Tibet andBangladesh , leaving at least 10 dead.(Earth Times) (CNN) (Indian Express ) (BBS) (Malaysia Star ) A passenger train is intentionally derailed nearCraiova ,Romania , injuring many people.(Roumanie.com) New clashes break out in theDarfur region ofSudan .(BBC) (Taiwan News ) South African President Jacob Zuma admits disagreements do exist between theANC and the trade union federation (COSATU )—one of its main political partners.(BBC) Italy holds astate funeral for six soldiers killed inAfghanistan last week.(Associated Press) (Adnkronos) Russia 's firstPresident Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a "golden cage", his phone tapped and theKremlin controlling visitors, a colleague reveals.(The Irish Times ) Sir Alex Ferguson ,Gary Lineker andFabio Capello are among 1,000 guests at a memorial service held for the recently deceasedfootball manager Sir Bobby Robson .(The Times ) (The Sydney Morning Herald ) (USA Today ) Most of the world's majorriver deltas are sinking, includingColorado ,Nile ,Pearl ,Rhone andYangtze , increasing the flood risk faced by ½ a billion people, scientists report.(BBC) New figures released by the Japanesegovernment indicate one in four women are aged 65 or over for the first time.(Japan Today) (Mainichi Shimbun ) (AFP) Lou Nuer militiamen kill more than 100 civilians and security force members in an attack inSudan 'sDuk Padiet inJonglei , the latest in a series of ethnic clashes.(BBC) A judicial official says a 51-year-old man has confessed to sending threatening letters containing bullets toPresident of France Nicolas Sarkozy and other prominent figures.(IOL) Inswimming , Lisa Cummins becomes the firstIrish person and the 20th person ever to complete a two way crossing of theEnglish Channel .(RTÉ Sport) (The Irish Times ) (Kent Online) Adidas andPuma end their 60-year-old feud.(BBC) SingerJade Ewen is confirmed as the new member ofinternationally successful girlbandSugababes , replacing the only original memberKeisha Buchanan .(Daily Mail ) Massimo Busacca , a high-profileSwiss football referee who officiated the2009 UEFA Champions League Final and was expected to take part at the2010 FIFA World Cup inSouth Africa , is suspended "immediately" for waving his middle finger at fans during a match.(BBC) Rescuers scour the sea off theMorocco coast for dozens ofAfrican migrants who are missing and feared dead after their boat capsized in an accident that kills eight others.(IOL) (ABC) (Xinhua) September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22 ) (Tuesday)
AmericanMesac Damas is extradited fromHaiti to stand trial for the murders of his six family members inFlorida ,United States .NBC-2 Amid-air collision destroysIran 's onlyAWACS equipped aircraft, anIlyushin Il-76 MD. (Debka ), (Defensenews ) A gang ofracist youths are sent to jail for a string of attacks on foreigners inMoscow ,Russia , in 2008.(BBC) U.S. President Barack Obama calls for the resumption of theMiddle East peace process in meetings with thePrime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and thePresident of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas .(Voice of America) Honduran soldiers break up protests outside theBrazilian embassy inTegucigalpa in support of deposedPresident Manuel Zelaya , who is staying inside.(BBC) (MercoPress) Several people are killed aftera bus comes off a road and slides down an embankment into a river east ofDüsseldorf ,Germany .(BBC) (Taiwan News ) (RIA Novosti) Casualties and 25 deaths are feared in a gun battle betweenMaoist rebels and supporters of the rulingCommunist Party in theIndian state ofWest Bengal .(BBC) (Press Trust of India) New figures reveal that for the first time since 1995 more people emigrated fromIreland than immigrated there, with a growth of more than 40% from January–April 2009. Most of the emigrants areEastern European or Irish nationals.(RTÉ) French riot police detain 278migrants inCalais in an operation to dismantle the "jungle" camp.(France 24) (BBC) (Straits Times ) China bans foreigners from enteringTibet , ahead of the60th anniversary celebrations of the People's Republic.(Straits Times ) (Australia Network News) Taiwan shows a documentary onUyghur leaderRebiya Kadeer , as the website of theKaoshiung Film Festival is hacked.(Central News Agency) [permanent dead link (China Daily ) (The Guardian ) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads forNew York to attend theUnited Nations General Assembly .(Xinhua) An Iranian military airplane crashes during a military parade inTehran .(AP via Houston Chronicle) (ABC) ASpanish doctor, identified as AM, is sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the death of the formerFirst Lady ofNigeria ,Stella Obasanjo .(BBC) Ireland 'sNational Ploughing Championships , the largestploughing championship in the world and the largest outdoor agricultural event inEurope , begins inAthy ,County Kildare .(RTÉ) (Irish Independent ) (The Irish Times ) Attorney General for England and Wales Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal , is fined £5,000 after being found to have employed a housekeeper who was not legally allowed to work in the UK.(BBC) For the first time in at least ten years, allUnited States embassies and consulates inSouth Africa are closed following an unspecified "security threat".(BBC) (Bernama) (Associated Press) TheNew Zealand dollar soars to a 13-month high against both theU.S. dollar andeuro .(The New Zealand Herald ) Bayo Ohu , the assistant news editor of theNigerian dailyThe Guardian Lagos .(The Guardian ) Official government figures indicate themurder rate inSouth Africa has fallen, thoughrobberies andsexual offences are on the increase.(AFP) (IOL) Chinese President Hu Jintao tells aU.N. summit onclimate change thatChina will reducegreenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on clean energy sources in coming years.(CNN) The2009 Pacific Mini Games opens inRarotonga ,Cook Islands .(RNZI) (Scoop.co.nz) Formerworld number 1 tennis playerJustine Henin announces that she is ending her year-long retirement from the sport.(AP via ESPN) The U.S.Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except formenthol cigarettes .(The New York Times ) Sixteen people go on trial inVietnam accused of committing fraud over the foreign adoption of more than 250 babies.(BBC) (The Daily Telegraph ) (Miami Herald ) [permanent dead link Rescue teams scour easternBhutan after at least 11 people are killed by an earthquake which struck the region.(BBC) Security is tightened acrossGermany after the emergence ofal-Qaeda videos threatening attacks if troops are not withdrawn fromAfghanistan .(BBC) Cities around the world celebrateWorld Car Free Day .(The Washington Post ) September 23, 2009 (2009-09-23 ) (Wednesday)
The cities ofCanberra ,Sydney andBrisbane inAustralia are covered by adust storm , the worst in at least 70 years. Aviation inNew South Wales is disrupted.(The Australian ) (ABC News) (The Canberra Times ) Achimney collapse inKorba in theIndian state ofChhattisgarh leaves at least 15 workers dead and at least 50 feared trapped.(BBC) TheLibyan government pitches a tent in suburbanNew York on land rented fromDonald Trump that leaderMuammar al-Gaddafi may use for entertaining, but local officials order workers to stop the construction, saying it "violated several codes and laws of the town ofBedford ".(The Sydney Morning Herald ) (The Times ) (BBC) (South China Morning Post ) (The New Zealand Herald ) [permanent dead link Prime Minister ofBhutan Jigme Thinley describes an earthquake which hit the Himalayan kingdom on Monday as "one of the biggest disasters in recent times".(BBC) Gay activists inSouth Africa welcome a life sentence for a man involved in the gang rape and murder oflesbian football starEudy Simelane , one of the first women to openly live as a lesbian in her community ofKwaThema .(BBC) FormerPresident of Cuba Fidel Castro praises currentPresident of the United States Barack Obama for his speech before theUnited Nations General Assembly for admitting it had been slow to act on climate change but urges that the American capitalist system is incompatible with a clean planet.(BBC) One of the busiest border crossings betweenMexico and theUnited States atSan Ysidro is closed for hours after a gun battle between US agents and suspected human traffickers.(BBC) (The Washington Post' ) (Herald Sun ) AScottish £1 banknote, dated 1836, sells for a world record £9,000 price at auction.(BBC) Swedish police hunt for robbers who used a stolen helicopter to raid a cash depot inStockholm .(RTÉ) (BBC) A report carried byThe Sydney Morning Herald Australia is poised to be the world's fastest growing industrialised nation over the next four decades, reaching a population of 35 million by 2050.(The New Zealand Herald ) TheBundespolizei investigate whether a string of letters from thefar-right NPD party to politicians fromimmigrant backgrounds have incitedracial hatred .(BBC) (Deusche Welle) A court inTanzania sentences three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-oldalbino boy,Matatizo Dunia , to steal parts of his anatomy. It is thecountry's first conviction for this offence.(BBC) A man is shot dead in a clash between police and supporters of oustedHonduran President Manuel Zelaya , believed to be the first death since his return to the country.(RTÉ) Indian villagers accuse the actressJulia Roberts of interruptingNavratri .(BBC) India successfully launches seven satellites in a single mission one month after its inauguralMoon mission is aborted. Included are six smaller satellites fromGermany ,Switzerland andTurkey .(BBC) (IOL) [permanent dead link Julio Alberto Poch , aTransavia commercial airline pilot, is arrested inSpain over his alleged role inArgentina 's 1976–1983 "Dirty War ".(BBC) (The Guardian ) (The Times ) (Miami Herald ) [permanent dead link (Reuters) In his firstUnited Nations appearance,Libyan leaderMuammar al-Gaddafi calls for reform of theSecurity Council and chastises the Council for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars since the U.N. was founded in 1945.(MSNBC) China relaxes travel curbs forGuangdong residents visitingMacau .(The Straits Times ) Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to call onSri Lanka to free hundreds of thousands of displaced people detained in camps since the island's civil war ended.(The Straits Times ) APolish court awards €7,400 damages toAlicja Tysiąc , likened to a child killer andNazi war criminal byCatholic magazineGość Niedzielny abortion .(BBC) Germany 's firstnudist hiking trail opens.(Der Spiegel ) (The Sydney Morning Herald ) (Reuters) (MSNBC) ABBA ,Genesis ,Kiss ,LL Cool J ,Red Hot Chili Peppers andThe Stooges are amongst several acts nominated for theRock and Roll Hall of Fame .(Rolling Stone ) (CBC) (Billboard ) The multi-billion dollarKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology , boasting one of the world's fastestsupercomputers , opens nearJeddah inSaudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to compete in science and technology internationally.(BBC) September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24 ) (Thursday)
Treaty of Lisbon :The2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit commences with two dozen world leaders in attendance. Sixteen members ofal-Qaeda , five of whom have been sentenced to death, are at large after escaping from prison north ofBaghdad .(BBC) India 'sChandrayaan-1 probe discovers large amounts of water on theMoon .(Press Trust of India) (Financial Times ) (Xinhua) (The Australian ) (The Guardian ) TheUnited Nations Security Council , headed by world leaders, unanimously approve Resolution 1887 to prevent the proliferation ofnuclear weapons .(BBC) (China Daily ) (New York Times ) (Associated Press) (Hindustan Times ) Thailand and the U.S. Army announce a breakthrough of aHIV /AIDS vaccine, after trials find it can reduce infection by 31%.(Thai News Agency) (Bernama) (Xinhua) (BBC) (CNN) Arthur's Day : The 250th anniversary of the signing of a lease byArthur Guinness fora brewery at St James's Gate inDublin . Events organised byDiageo get underway in Dublin,Kuala Lumpur ,Lagos ,New York andYaoundé .(RTÉ) (The Irish Times ) (Philadelphia Inquirer ) (Sky News) The last survivingOttoman ,Ertuğrul Osman , dies inIstanbul at the age of 97.(BBC) (Today's Zaman ) NineNorth Koreans enterDenmark 's embassy in theVietnamese capitalHanoi to seekpolitical asylum .(BBC) (Taiwan News ) (New York Times ) An online petition is launched afterPresident ofThe Gambia Yahya Jammeh threatens to kill human rights workers that "destabilise" the country.(BBC) (Newstime Africa) Australia begins clearing up after itsworst dust storm in seven decades , which smotheredSydney and brought transport to a standstill.(BBC) TheUnited Kingdom 'slargest haul ofAnglo-Saxon treasure, a collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces comparable to theBook of Kells , is discovered buried beneath a field inStaffordshire .(BBC) (The Guardian ) (The Times ) (The Daily Telegraph ) (The Independent ) (RTÉ) (Malaysian Sun ) (The Australian ) [permanent dead link (Sky News) TheNews of the World Daily Mail Fabio Capello , the manager ofEngland 'snational football team , after printing pictures of him and his wife Laura resting inmud-baths on anItalian beach.(BBC) South Korea agrees to develop 1,000 km2 (386 sq miles) of farmland inTanzania .(IOL) (BBC) (The Korea Herald ) A painting worth up to 3 millioneuros bysurrealist artistRené Magritte is stolen by thieves at a museum inBrussels .(The Times ) (AFP) DetainedBurmese National League for Democracy leaderAung San Suu Kyi welcomes a newUnited States policy shift which would engage with the Burmesemilitary government .(Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Guardian ) (Bangkok Post ) [permanent dead link A court inTaiwan rejects formerPresident Chen Shui-bian 's appeal to be released on bail.(Associated Press) (Bangkok Post ) [permanent dead link TheTanzania Albino Society (Tas) calls for themen found guilty of killing an albino boy inTanzania to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.(BBC) Bobby Cox , manager of the professionalbaseball teamAtlanta Braves , announces he will retire at the end of the 2010 season.(AP/FOX Sports) Governor Deval Patrick ofMassachusetts chooses formerDemocratic National Committee chairmanPaul G. Kirk, Jr. to replace formerSenator Teddy Kennedy on a temporary basis, until elections can be held to choose a permanent replacement to fill the remainder of Kennedy's term.(Houston Chronicle ) 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit :Tongan Loloahi Tapui , the housekeeper ofAttorney General for England and Wales Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal , is arrested alongside her husband over alleged immigration offences.(BBC) Five deaths occur inTurkey as a result of flash floods.(Xinhua) (Reuters) (BBC) Nigerian politicianWaje Yayok , third in command inKaduna State , is kidnapped.(BBC) Melting ice is pouring offGreenland andAntarctica into the sea far faster than was previously realised because of global warming, new research shows.(Irish Independent ) September 25, 2009 (2009-09-25 ) (Friday)
Photographs ofSpanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family are published in theUnited States and subsequently published on the front pages of newspapers in his home country. A controversy occurs as many Spaniards have never before seen the children of the intensely private Prime Minister.(The Guardian ) Poland approves a law makingchemical castration mandatory forpaedophiles .(Reuters) Four people are charged inGreece over recent bombing attacks, in the first arrests brought against suspected terrorists in several years.(IOL) (Canadian Press) Nigerian MPs ask the government to investigate the status ofChinese citizens living in the country, after allegations that Nigerians in China have been mistreated.(BBC) The trial of formerIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges begins inJerusalem . He is the first ever Israeli Prime Minister to be brought to trial.(BBC) (RTÉ) Iran reveals to theUnited Nations nuclear watchdog the existence of a seconduranium enrichment plant, facing accusations of secret building projects fromGordon Brown ,Barack Obama andNicolas Sarkozy .(BBC) (Haaretz ) (RTÉ) Lawyers for the formerPrime Minister of France ,Dominique de Villepin , say they will suePresident Nicolas Sarkozy for having called him "guilty" of the "Clearstream " affair and violating the principle ofpresumption of innocence .(BBC) At least two people are killed and fifteen injured in a blast at a fireworks shop inSanto André ,Greater São Paulo ,Brazil .(BBC) (Xinhua) (Ria Novosti) Hundreds of people queue inBirmingham ,United Kingdom , to see part of theStaffordshire hoard .(BBC) Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning allcommercial shark fishing in its waters.(BBC) (The Times ) (UPI) Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interimU.S. Senator fromMassachusetts , succeeding the lateTed Kennedy .(Roll Call ) September 26, 2009 (2009-09-26 ) (Saturday)
September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27 ) (Sunday)
Turkey announces it is to establishformal diplomatic relations withArmenia on October 10.(The Hurriyet ) (BBC) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown denies rumours concerning his health as theBritish Labour Party gathers for its conference inBrighton , expressing his amazement withAndrew Marr of theBBC for questioning him live on television.(The Times ) (The Daily Telegraph ) InGermany theChristian Democrats and theLiberals win thefederal election and announce their intention to form a new government withAngela Merkel asChancellor . TheSocial Democrats concede defeat.(Der Spiegel ) (The Daily Telegraph ) (Al Jazeera) TheSocialist Party win thePortuguese legislative election to elect members of theAssembly of the Republic , with 36.6% of the vote.(euronews) (The Independent ) (Trend News Agency) SecondSouth America-Africa Summit (ASA) onIsla Margarita : Film directorRoman Polanski is arrested inZurich on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant.(BBC) (Angola Press) Afghan Energy MinisterIsmail Khan survives a roadside blast which kills four people and wounds seventeen outside a school inHerat .(BBC) (Times of India ) The death toll fromTropical Storm Ketsana rises to 73, with more than 300,000 people displaced.(Philippine Inquirer ) (BBC) (China Daily ) TheSwiss multinationalNestlé is buying milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife ofZimbabwe 'sPresident Robert Mugabe , according toEngland 'sThe Sunday Telegraph (BBC) American General Stanley McChrystal , Commander of theInternational Security Assistance Force , formally requests more troops for theWar in Afghanistan .(BBC) TheAmerican television seriesFamily Guy Venezuela due toan episode promoting thelegalization and use ofmarijuana .(BBC) Iran 'sRevolutionary Guards test fire several short-range missiles – theFateh-110 and Tondar-69.(Press TV) (Chosun Ilbo ) (The Independent ) (Xinhua) Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi tells a rally inMilan about his encounters withPresident of the United States Barack Obama , saying: "What's his name? Some tanned guy... Ah, Barack Obama!", also commenting on his wifeMichelle : "You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach because the wife is also tanned".(IOL) (The Daily Telegraph ) Honduras issues a 10-day deadline toBrazil asking it to decide the status of deposedPresident Manuel Zelaya , who is residing in its embassy in the capitalTegucigalpa .(CNN) (Reuters) Discworld Terry Pratchett , who hasAlzheimer's disease , criticises new guidelines onassisted suicide .(BBC) An award-winning essay written byPaul McCartney as a 10-year-old for thecoronation ofElizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered inLiverpool 'sCentral Library for more than 50 years.(BBC) (The Guardian ) (CBC) (NME ) (The Sunday Times ) Four people injured in aSouth African plane crash inDurban on Thursday are still recovering in hospital.(IOL) September 28, 2009 (2009-09-28 ) (Monday)
Iranian students at theUniversity of Tehran demonstrate against the government on the first day of the new academic year.(BBC) (New York Times ) (Reuters India) Opponents of theTreaty of Lisbon question theEuropean Commission on deliberate interference in theIrish referendum campaign in order to secure its desired "Yes" vote, suggesting that the Commission has broken the law.(EU Observer ) (The Irish Times ) Libyan leaderMuammar al-Gaddafi andVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez sign eight accords inCaracas following the weekend's second ASA summit.(Latin American Herald Tribune ) (Xinhua) The death toll in theworst flooding in thePhilippines for forty years reaches 140 as the capitalManila is "overwhelmed".(The Guardian ) (The Times ) (The Daily Telegraph ) Roman Polanski officially challenges his proposedextradition fromSwitzerland to theUnited States to facechild sexual abuse charges stemming from a 1977 incident.(AP via Yahoo! News) Japan 'sLiberal Democratic Party electsSadakazu Tanigaki to replaceTaro Aso .(BBC) (Taiwan News ) (Xinhua) Those in power inHonduras empower police to quash "unauthorised" gatherings asPresident Manuel Zelaya calls on his supporters to march on the three-month anniversary of his fall, saying it will be "the final offensive".(The Guardian ) AnEldoret operation commences to close downKenya 's largest camp for people forced to flee their homes during the2007–2008 Kenyan crisis ethnic violence.(BBC) President of the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir saysSudan is at a "historic crossroads" which will lead to a split from the north.(BBC) (Voice of America) Australia 's12 Apostles natural landmarks continue to crumble.(The Times ) Little Cumbrae ,Scotland is converted into anashram .(BBC) Charges of plotting to toppleRobert Mugabe againstJestina Mukoko , a prominentZimbabwean rights activist, are thrown out after the Supreme Court rules she had been tortured while in custody.(BBC) (The New York Times ) Grégoire Ndahimana , a former mayor accused of taking part in the 1994Rwandan genocide, pleads not guilty at aUnited Nations tribunal.(The Guardian ) (BBC) (The Age ) Chinese Civilisation Revisited Chinese history which is outlawed in China, goes on sale inHong Kong .(BBC) (AsiaOne) A police officer who served at theG20 demonstrations in London in April 2009 is to face a charge of assaulting a woman with a baton after becoming involved in a confrontation at a vigil forIan Tomlinson .(The Times ) (The Daily Telegraph ) Spain 'sPablo Pineda wins the best actor award at theSan Sebastián International Film Festival , the first actor withDown's syndrome to win an international film award.(BBC) (Think Spain) (Latin American Herald Tribune ) Art historian Henry Adams claimsabstract impressionist Jackson Pollock camouflaged his signature as a "hidden message" inside his famous 1943Mural .(The Daily Telegraph ) North Korea revises itsconstitution , removing all references tocommunism , while mentioninghuman rights for the first time, as well as statingKim Jong-il as its "Supreme Leader".(RTHK) (Associated Press) (Korea Times ) (Reuters) At least 58 people are killed at a largeopposition rally inGuinea againstMoussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a coup last year.(BBC) (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera) The interim government inHonduras raids two media outlets critical of the government, and suspends othercivil liberties for 45 days.(BBC) (Associated Press) (Al Jazeera) Oxfam launches an emergency appeal for £9.5 million forEthiopia and otherEast African countries to fight the worst drought in a decade.(BBC) FormerPeruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleads guilty to bribery and illegal phone-tapping of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians.(BBC) September 29, 2009 (2009-09-29 ) (Tuesday)
September 30, 2009 (2009-09-30 ) (Wednesday)
