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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events 2007/08 German : Bayern has early forecasted to in relation to a triple murder in a stranglehold on championship become "catastrophic" Newark, New Jersey elementary after one-sided game Category 5 storm schoolyard. Bayern Munich won a lop-sided The National Hurricane Center in •North Korea launches a flood game against Werder Bremen 4-0 Miami is calling relief program to help the to remain at the top of the table Hurricane Dean hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday. "extremely left homeless. dangerous," Ribery’s moment of skill launched saying that the •An armed clash between two another counter-attack ended by storm is gaining strength and will Somali clans in the village of Altintop in the 79th minute, before likely become a Category 5 Goobo results in at least 16 substitute Andreas Ottl finished a storm. people being killed and 30 great Bayern performance with a injured. drive after 87th minute. Exclusive report on New •The Deputy Governor of Zealand's digital TV service Mogadishu Abdullahi Hassan Bayern Munich made 1 change to An exclusive, and Geney survives an assassination the side from the victory over special report by attempt after his car hits a Rostock, replacing freelance journalist, landmine. Marcell Jansen who is out nursing Gabriel Pollard, has an injury. switched •One person is dead, four people compiled the views flanks to free up the right-back are missing, after a fire at the from various politicians on New berth for Lell. Zealand's latest digital television Penhallow Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall. service, Freeview. Materazzi reveals slur he •Survivors of the 2007 Peru uttered at 2006 FIFA World Featured story earthquake flee the worst hit Cup areas as looting intensifies. Italy and Inter defender Wikinews interviews World Marco Materazzi revealed the slur Wide Web co-inventor Robert •Voters in the Maldives go to the he said to Zinedine Zidane at last Cailliau polls in a constitutional year's FIFA World Cup in Germany, Wikinews referendum to decide between a which led to Zidane's headbutting interviewed presidential or parliamentary of Materazzi and subsequent red Robert Cailliau, system of government. card for Zidane. co-inventor of the •Voters in Kazakhstan go to the WWW, on the polls for the Kazakhstani Materazzi said in an interview with history and future legislative election, 2007. the TV Sorrisi e Canzoni magazine of the Web. that the insult was: "I prefer the •Scientists announce that Pavlof whore that is your sister." The Volcano in Alaska is set to have a Interview is set to be released on Wikipedia Current Events huge eruption that could disrupt Monday. air traffic. • Sepat lands in , after nearly a million •A suicide bomber kills at least 15 Materazzi had mentioned people have been evacuated. people in the southern Kandahar previously that the insult involved province. Zidane's sister, but had never •Two more suspects are arrested given the exact words until now.

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Hurricane Dean forecasted to Jaimaca has opened all shelters at any given time. This is held by become "catastrophic" and Cuba has declared a "state of 80,000 fans of the Finnish hard Category 5 storm alert" in preparation for the storm. rock band Lordi, who had met in The National Hurricane Center in Helsinki for the band to give a Miami is calling Hurricane Dean A tropical storm warning remains brief free concert to celebrate their "extremely dangerous," saying in effect for the U.S. and Spanish victory at that year's Eurovision. that the storm is gaining strength Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The show culminated with all and will likely become a Category 80,000 joining in with the band on 5 storm. The storm's winds are At 5 a.m. EDT, the center of the winning song, Hard Rock currently clocked at 150 mph, Hurricane Dean was about 240 Hallelujah. classifying it as a Category 4 miles south-southwest of San hurricane. A Category 5 hurricane Juan, Puerto Rico, and 660 miles Plane flying from Cyprus to means the storm packs winds of east-southeast of Kingston, Istanbul, Turkey hijacked over 155 mph and has the Jamaica, and was moving west at A Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by potential to cause "catastrophic" 14 mph. However, the storm is Atlastjet Airlines and traveling damage. expected to pick up speed today. from Lefkosa (Nicosia), Cyprus to Istanbul, has been hijacked by two Dean is currently moving through Hurricane Dean could force NASA men claiming to be al-Qaeda the eastern Caribbean, and is to cut short Endeavour's flight. terrorists with bombs. heading towards the Dominican Mission management team Republic and Haiti. The storm is chairman Leroy Cain said, "We'd According to reports, the plane expected to hit Jamaica on really like to protect an option to landed at an airport in Antalya, Sunday, and then gain even more be able to end the mission on Turkey. At least 136 passengers power as it strikes Mexico's Tuesday." and 6 crew members were on the Yucatan Peninsula on Monday. plane, but most reportedly The Associated Press reports escaped. The hijackers were Dean could hit the mainland of the several deaths and significant releasing women from the front of United States on Wednesday. damage on the islands of St. Lucia, the plane, when most of the Therefore, officials in Texas and Dominica and Martinique. passengers and crew escaped Louisiana are currently making through the back. Two major preparations. Finland claims second world crewmembers and four passengers record for karaoke remain on the plane, Tuncay Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, Finland now holds the world record Doganer, president of Atlasjet, said the hurricane is an "imminent for the longest non-stop round of said. Doganer said that the threat," saying the state is karaoke singing. The country hijackers spoke Arabic among preparing for its arrival. Task already holds the record for the themselves, and the AP is forces have been put on alert, and largest number of karaoke singers reporting that the they are supply trucks and other resources at any given time. university students from Iran. are in position. The previous record was 145 The hijackers requested the plane Governor Kathleen Blanco of hours, as held by China. However, land in Tehran, Iran or Syria. Pilots Louisiana declared a state of in a karaoke bar in Kouvola, a landed the plane for refueling, but emergency yesterday so local small town on Finland's southern reports say that the pilots were governments can move forward coast, the record was surpassed among those who have been with emergency plans if necessary. on Wednesday, with the ultimate released or escaped. However, forecasters say there is goal being 240 hours non-stop. little chance of Dean moving Small plane makes crash toward Louisiana. Instead, the Finns travelled long distances to landing in Massachusetts, USA storm is expected to threaten participate at the event, which was A small plane crash landed in Mexico or Texas. broadcast live on the internet. heavy fog on the southeastern part of Nantucket Island near Low A hurricane watch has been issued The record goes alongside Beach Road in Massachusetts for Haiti from the Haiti/Dominican Finland's other record for karaoke, between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m. EDT Republic border to Port-au-Prince. that of the largest number singing (UTC-4).

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Wikipedia Current Events spacecraft. FAA spokesperson Holly Baker said 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev was that the pilot who was flying with •Cuba's National Civil Defense announced as "ill and had been his wife made a hard landing at declares a state of alert for the relieved of his state post as Siasconset. following provinces: President" in a failed Soviet coup Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, attempt. Police cordoned off the area and Granma, Holguin, Las Tunas and 2003 – A car bomb destroyed the about a dozen emergency vehicles Camaguey. United Nations headquarters at responded to the incident. •NASA shortens a spacewalk Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Numerous residents reported a during the current Space Shuttle Brazilian diplomat Sérgio Vieira de loud noise which they mistakenly Endeavour mission so that the Mello and 21 others. believed to be an explosion. crew can prepare for a Tuesday August 19 is Qi Xi in the Chinese landing to avoid Hurricane Dean. lunar calendar (2007); Afghan The plane involved in the crash Independence Day; National had been fitted with a parachute, •President George W. Bush Aviation Day in the United States. which is designed to reduce the preapproves an emergency speed of an emergency landing declaration for Texas if Hurricane Quote of the Day and limit crash damage. The Dean hits the state. What we say is the truth is what plane's parachute had been •An Atlas Jet plane en-route from everybody accepts ... Psychiatry: deployed before the crash, Nicosia in Cyprus to Istanbul in it's the latest religion. We decide according to Lieutenant Jerry Turkey is hijacked. Some what's right and wrong. We decide Adams of the Nantucket police passengers were freed while the who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble department. plane refueled in Antalya in here. I'm losing my faith. southern Turkey. All 142 people ~ Madeleine Stowe as "Dr. Kathryn Both the pilot and his wife were escape unhurt while the hijackers Railly" in Twelve Monkeys taken to the hospital for surrender. observation. Serious injuries were Word of the Day •Pakistani President Pervez not reported. Musharraf says he will contend in the upcoming presidential A boat sinks in Egypt, dozens election "because the country About Wikinews missing needs him." We are a group of volunteer journalists Dozens of people could be missing whose mission is to create a diverse after a boat sank off the Nile river •Rescuers race to reach over 180 community where citizens from around south of the Egyptian town of Beni coal miners trapped in two the globe (including you) can Suef on Friday night, local police flooded mines in Shandong collaborate to report the news on a reported. province in China. wide variety of current events. By making our content perpetually •At least one person is dead and available for free redistribution and use, Wikipedia Current Events thousands evacuated as Typhoon we hope to contribute to a global digital commons. •A female German aid worker is Sepat hits . taken captive at gunpoint in Today in History Got news and no computer? Kabul. 1942 – World War II: Allied forces Call the Wikinews Hotline unsuccessfully raided the German- +1-866-653-4265 •Hurricane Dean has already occupied port of Dieppe, France in (toll-free in the U.S.) claimed three lives in the Lesser the Dieppe Raid, suffering over +1-202-742-5918 Antilles and is due to pass south (outside the U.S.) 3,000 casualties. of Haiti and the Dominican +44-871-218-6397 1953 – The government of Iranian Republic en route to Jamaica (U.K. / Europe) Prime Minister Mohammed where emergency shelters have Mosaddeq was overthrown in a License been opened. coup d'état and was replaced by This work is licensed under the Creative •Hurricane Dean is expected to Fazlollah Zahedi. Commons Attribution License. Articles intensify to a Category 5 1960 – Russian space dogs Belka published in this Print edition were hurricane. created by Wikinewsies. Other content and Strelka began to orbit the released under the GNU Free Earth aboard the Korabl-Sputnik-2 Documentation License.

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