The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins the 2008 legislative election. (Reuters via The New York Times)
Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray to win the U.S. Tennis Open for a record-breaking fifth consecutive time. (Fox Sports)
Washington Mutual, the largest savings and loan in the United States, ousts Chief Executive Kerry Killinger as a result of losses incurred as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
A landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a warehouse in Linfen in Shanxi province, China, killing at least 26 people and injuring others. (Canadian Press)
Hurricane Ike makes landfall near Banes, Cuba, and weakens. (AP via Biloxi Sun Herald)
The US military is to 'review an inquiry' into an air raid on a village in Herat province, Afghanistan, after a new video evidence emerged indicating 'scores of civilian deaths'. The US air raid in Afghanistan left up to 90 people dead, 'many of them women and children', the Afghan government and the UN said. However, US officials claimed earlier that 'no more than seven civilians died'. The bodies of 'at least 10 children and many more adults' appear in two videos made with cell phones in the Afghan village Azizabad after the raid. (BBC News) (AP)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and President of France Nicolas Sarkozy announced after talks in Moscow that an agreement to pull Russian forces from Georgia within a month has been reached. The agreement has become possible as EU will send 200 civilian monitors to the area and guarantee that Georgia signs a pledge to not use military force in Abkhazia and South Ossetia again. (Reuters) (The Globe and Mail)
- 'Senior US soldiers and two military contractors' were training 80 Georgian special forces serviceman only 'month prior' these commandos entered South Ossetia on the night of August 8. MPRI, one of the contractors, is known also for training the Croatian military in 1995 'prior to their invasion of the ethnically-Serbian Krajina region, which led to the displacement of 200,000 refugees'. However, 'there is no evidence' that the contractors or US military knew these commandos 'were likely be used in the assault on South Ossetia'. (Financial Times)
Three British Muslim men are found guilty of conspiracy to murder relating to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot. (The Times)

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UNITA accepts defeat in the Angolan legislative election, 2008, the first parliamentary elections in Angola in 16 years, in which the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins more than 80% of the votes. (BBC)
Al Franken wins a primary election for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to challenge incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate election. (AP via Google News)
The military of Sri Lanka declares 12 of its soldiers and one policeman killed in a suicide attack by the Tamil Tigers in Mullaittivu. (BBC News)
Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi states that the governing United Malays National Organization (UMNO) will punish Ahmad Ismail, a party official, for a series of statements he made about Malaysia's ethnic Chinese population. (Wall Street Journal)
The United Nations decides to withdraw aid workers from Tamil Tiger-held areas of Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
Hurricane Ike makes its second landfall on Cuba, near San Cristóbal, north of the Isle of Youth, on its way into the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN)
A Thai court rules that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej must be removed from office for receiving payment for appearing on a television cooking show. (AP via Google News)
US President George W. Bush pledges 4,500 troops to Afghanistan over the next few months and orders 8,000 troops currently stationed in Iraq to be home by February. (CBC News)
Apple Inc. unveils the revamped iPod line-up including the redesigned, fourth-generation iPod Nano. (Reuters)
Georgian opposition members demand President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation. Saakashvili believes he will "survive the crisis politically". (Washington Post)(Newstin)

September 10, 2008 (Wednesday)

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United States presidential election, 2008: Former Republican candidate Ron Paul endorses third-party candidates Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader, calling the two-party system a "charade."(Los Angeles Times)
President of Bolivia Evo Morales expels the United States ambassador, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly encouraging anti-government protests. (CBS)
OPEC announces it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day; prices rise accordingly. (AP via Google News)
U.S.-based financial services company Lehman Brothers announces a third-quarter loss of $4.9 billion and plans to sell assets. (CNN Money)
The European Commission predicts the U.K., Germany, and Spain 'to fall into recession'; the outlook for rest of the Eurozone is gloomy. (BBC News)
The Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reports North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a serious health problem. (AFP via Google News)
- Western intelligence officials say Kim Jong-il might have suffered a stroke.(BBC News) (NPR), which North Korea denies. (Reuters)
CERN successfully circulates a beam through the entire Large Hadron Collider for the first time. (Wired) (Wired)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- Some members of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs have expressed disagreement with Georgia's actions in the war: 'The recent fighting [...] was started by Georgia. The Georgians broke the truce, not the Russians' said Dana Rohrabacher, Senior Republican. (RT via YouTube) (RT)

September 11, 2008 (Thursday)

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Ayman al-Zawahiri, number two leader of al Qaeda, questions Abu Ayyub al-Masri's ability to lead al Qaeda in Iraq, and accuses that organization's umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq, of lying to the media about its activities. (CNN)
Prices for oil fall (CNN Money), and wholesale prices for gasoline rise sharply. (CNN Money)
2008 unrest in Bolivia:
- Fresh violence in Bolivia stokes civil war fears. (Times of India)
- The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez gives the United States ambassador 72 hours to leave Venezuela in part to show solidarity with the President Evo Morales who recently expelled the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, accusing the U.S. of supporting protests against Morales. (AP via Google News)
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, claims that a power sharing agreement has been reached with the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe. (BBC News)
Officials order the evacuation of Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas before Hurricane Ike makes landfall later in the week. (USA Today)
President George W. Bush is reported to have authorized United States special forces to conduct operations against insurgents inside Pakistan without seeking approval from the Government of Pakistan. (CNN)
A new survey of residents of 17 countries by WorldPublicOpinion.org indicates that an average of 46 percent believe that Al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks of 2001. (Al Jazeera) (Voice of America News) (UPI) (Reuters)
Two Russian Air Force Tu-160 bombers arrive in Venezuela to carry out training flights over a course of several days. (BBC News)
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Ternate, Indonesia, followed by a 7.2 magnitude quake near Hokkaido, Japan. (BBC News)
Forty people go missing in the northern Indian state of Bihar after a boat capsizes in the Harohar River. (AP via Google News)
A fire occurs in the Channel Tunnel and the tunnel is closed until further notice. (BBC News)
The Pentagon Memorial in Washington, DC, dedicated to the 184 people who died in the attack on the building on September 11, 2001, is opened to the public. (ABC News)

September 12, 2008 (Friday)

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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501: Fifty years after the airliner vanished over Lake Michigan, it is claimed that human remains washed ashore and were buried without the relatives' knowledge in an unmarked mass grave.(Detroit Free Press)
2008 unrest in Bolivia
- Bolivia declares martial law in the department of Pando following days of clashes between supporters of the national and local governments. (AFP) (BBC Mundo)
- Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tells the incoming U.S. ambassador not to present his credentials in a show of solidarity with Bolivia and Venezuela. (Reuters)
The collapse of the United Kingdom's third largest tour operator XL Leisure Group, leaves over 85,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad. (BBC)
Twenty Four people die in Chatsworth in Los Angeles, California following a collision between a Metrolink passenger train and a Union Pacific freight train. At least 135 people were also injured in the accident. (Los Angeles Times) (San Francisco Chronicle)

A car bomb in the mainly Shiite town of Dujail in Iraq kills at least 32 people and injures another 43. (AP via CBS News)
The Thai People's Power Party agrees not to renominate ousted Prime Minister of Thailand Samak Sundaravej for the position following objections from the other members of the coalition. (AP via ABC News America)
The Pakistan Army claims that at least 30 militants and 2 soldiers have been killed in fighting in the Bajaur region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. (AP via Google News)
The Malaysian government arrests the editor and prominent blogger activist Raja Petra Kamarudin of the Malaysia Today website, a journalist from Sin Chew Jit Poh and opposition politician Teresa Kok under the Internal Security Act. (BBC) (Malaysiakini) (TheStar Online)
The United States-led coalition claims to kill at least 10 militants in fighting in Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark calls an election for November 8. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is said by Chinese authorities to be suffering irregular convulsions following a stroke which kept him from attending the country's 60th anniversary celebration. Chinese authorities believe his long-term ability to govern will be impeded. (AFP via Google News)
The Constitutional Court of Spain rules that the Government of the Basque Country could not call a planned referendum on working towards self-determination as only the Government of Spain could call such a vote; the Basque Government said it would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. (IHT)

September 13, 2008 (Saturday)

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The death toll from the 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles rises to 24 with more fatalities expected. (Reuters)
Five explosions rock various places in Delhi, killing at least 30 people. (India Times)
Hurricane Ike:
- Hurricane Ike makes landfall in the United States at Galveston, Texas, as a Category 2 hurricane. (Bloomberg)
- Hurricane Ike weakens to a tropical storm over eastern Texas. (National Hurricane Center via Nola.com)
- President George W. Bush declares that Texas is a disaster zone. (BBC News)
- As many as one million Haitians become homeless due to hurricanes. (BBC)
Abullah Wardak, the Governor of the Lowgar Province of Afghanistan, is assassinated in a car bomb. (AFP via Google News)
A mudslide caused by an illegal mine in Shanxi province in China kills 254 people. (Xinhua News Agency)
A bus crashes into a 100 m gorge in Sichuan, China, killing 51. (Zee News)
The All Blacks defeat Australia (28–24) to win the 2008 Tri Nations Series at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia. (The Age)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- Russians troops leave west, but remain in Georgia. (AP via Google News)
- UNHCR: around 192,000 people were forced to flee their homes in South Ossetia and Georgia during the four-day war of Georgia with South Ossetia and Russia. Around 35 thousand of them left South Ossetia shortly before August, 8th for North Ossetia, Russia, others were forced to relocate during the conflict. (Press Trust of India)
- A US Defense Department team to arrive in Georgia. (Rustavi 2)
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that Abkhazia and South Ossetia cannot legally join the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) due to their status, local press reported. (Xinhua)
- Western countries are pledging substantial aid to Georgia – as much as 3.5-4 billion dollars in grants and loans. (RP)
- Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has arrived in the village of Koda and to supervise rehabilitation works of ten blocks, owned by the Georgian Defense ministry, in which the IDPs from South Ossetia will be temporarily settled there. (Ru