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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events new "business destinations" from Atlanta and Salt Lake City, Palestinian gunmen • Moussa Arafat, cousin of Yassir instead. Also 41 international assassinate ex-security chief Arafat and former Palestinian connections are to be maintained Former Palestinian security chief Authority security chief, is shot or expanded. Moussa Arafat, and killed by members of the cousin of the late Popular Resistance Committees. The changes took place due to the Palestinian difficult financial situation of the •The California State Assembly leader Yasser company, which suffered $10 Arafat, was passes a bill recognizing same- sex marriage in what some billion in losses since 2001, and assassinated at warned that they would file for his home in the consider to be a victory for gay rights advocates. Earlier this bankruptcy if unsuccessful in Gaza Strip after lowering costs. a half-hour shootout between a week the state Senate approved the measure; it now heads to the number of militants and Arafat's Palestinian gunmen bodyguards. desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger where there is assassinate ex-security chief California passes same-sex uncertainty whether he will sign marriage bill or veto the measure. The On Tuesday, the state legislation is the first passed by a of California passed a U.S. state legislature recognizing controversial new bill same-sex marriage. that would redefine •A report by an independent marriage as the union inquiry commitee criticizes between two people. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the U.N. Security Council in the has not revealed whether or not Oil for Food Scandal. he will veto the bill. Featured story US carrier Delta Air Lines cuts jobs, sells planes Linux installed on 2,460 Map of the Gaza Strip from The desktop computers in Italian World Factbook. The United States' third-largest schools airline operator, Delta Air Lines, A Linux computer Former Palestinian security chief will cut 1,000 jobs due to a operating system Moussa Arafat, cousin of the late planned service reduction at their was installed in all Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Cincinnati hub. The carrier also public and private was assassinated at his home in announced they will sell 11 of their schools of an the Gaza Strip after a half-hour Boeing 767-200 planes to an air- Italian province shootout between a number of cargo company, ABX Air Inc., since during the summertime. militants and Arafat's bodyguards. they are the least fuel-efficient The force, estimated to be up to a aircraft in the fleet. Wikipedia Current Events hundred men, overpowered Arafat's numerous bodyguards, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky •The first ever multi-party using assault rifles and grenades, International Airport lost 9 elections in Egypt are conducted, before directly assaulting the destinations, but the carrier said with incumbent President Hosni house. They dragged Arafat into there would be no inconvenience Mubarak expected to win a fifth the street, while still in his to passengers. Delta will fly to 20 six-year term. pajamas, where he was shot. He

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Thursday, September 8, 2005 Wikinews Page 2 was declared dead on arrival to conservative programming hospital. approach to major news stories - notably a sluggish response to The Popular Resistance coverage of the December 2004 Committees, or PRC, claimed South Asian Tsunami. This almost responsibility for the attack, as caused ABC to be declared well as the kidnapping of Arafat's bankrupt which would have caused son Manhal during the fighting. a huge rise in unemployment in Manhal Arafat is a senior security Australia as many people would official who has been described as have lost their jobs. one of his father's closest aides. A smaller ATR-42, designed to The PRC explained the killing of The Channel Nine network, that carry 40-50 passengers. Arafat as punishment for she now joins, is in a rebuilding corruption after normal Palestinian phase after coming under heavy The level indicated by the gauge security forces would not take ratings pressure in the past 12 was wrong, causing the pilot to action, describing it as "executing months. Long the dominant think that the plane needed less the will of God". commercial network in Australia, fuel that it did and less fuel than in 2005 it has seen numerous needed was loaded in the airport While holding no official position, changes in its executive ranks, of Bari. While in flight the airplane Arafat had been retained as a including the sudden resignation of ran of fuel, despite the gauge military advisor to current CEO David Gyngell. Channel Nine showing fuel was still available. President of the PNA Mahmoud also almost closed down which Abbas, after being removed from would also have caused a huge After this conclusion by the Italian his position as security chief. rise in unemployment. National Security Flight Agency Palestinian officials have (ANSV) the Italian National condemned the attack, describing Channel Nine's interim CEO, Agency for Civil Aviation (ENAC) it as an attack on the authority of television veteran Sam Chisholm, has suspended Tunisian airline the government. has launched cost-cutting at the Tuninter's authorization to operate network. commercial flights in Italy. A There is no indication that this warning was also send to incident will affect the withdrawal Tunisian ATR-72 plane crash European Authority about what of Israeli settlers from the Gaza on 6 August caused by has happened asking that all fuel Strip and parts of the West Bank, incorrect fuel gauge gauges installed on ATR-42 amd scheduled to be completed in the ATR-72 be checked. next few weeks. Investigation of the crash into sea of a Tunisian airplane ATR-72 near Australian PM Howard under Australia's ABC head Levy Sicily on August 6, 2005 has fire over AU$1.40/L pump leaves for "Channel Nine" arrived at an astonishing prices conclusion. The wrong type of a Australian Broadcasting Company fuel gauge was installed in the Australian Prime Minister John (ABC) television head, Sandra aircraft. The gauge was designed Howard has been criticised for Levy, has quit to become the for another type of aircraft, the refusing to cut the fuel excise tax director of development for much smaller ATR-42. as petrol prices reach up to $1.40 "Channel Nine." AUD per litre in parts of the country. The criticism of Her new role is expected to focus Queensland Premier Peter Beattie on drama. has been particularly vocal, claiming that the government ABC managing director Russell simply does not want to lose the Balding said that Ms Levy had revenue the excise generates. The lifted audiences to "historically Queensland government unprecedented" levels. However, The ATR-72, a 74-passenger subsidises fuel in the state with Ms Levy came under fire during plane. GST revenue. her ABC tenure for an overly

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the new home for Cyril Neville and "The reality is they cream off a Morgan Freeman, whose home family, with the band playing there huge amount every day. He can fared well, is organizing an online September 9th. Family members do something about it if he really auction of celebrity items at cooking up Louisiana specials in wants to," Mr Beattie said. charityfolks.com, to benefit the the kitchen as well. American Red Cross Disaster Relief Mr Howard responded by Fund. New Orleans DirectNIC Offices, explaining the steep rise in petrol 'Outpost Crystal' visited by prices was due to current market Curt Schilling opened his home to 82nd Airborne trends and short-term a family of nine driven out of their repercussions of Hurricane New Orleans home. The Schilling Katrina. This was consistent with family will provide housing for the the statements by the Australian Fields for a year while their home Competition and Consumer in New Orleans is rebuilt and Commission, which explained the repaired. major reasons for the increase were Katrina and China's recent Some celebrities "graced" disaster embargo on refined petrol exports. zones with their presence in the days following Katrina. The Prime Minister also estimated that the Federal government Singer Macy Gray and television would lose billions in a cut of personality Phil McGraw visited A United State military truck rolls significant size. He estimated the Houston's Astrodome. through the streets of New government would lose at least Orleans beneath the offices of $380 million for every one cent Celebrities visiting New Orleans DirectNIC -- home of "Outpost reduction, which would increase as include singer Harry Connick, Jr., Crystal". drivers demanded a five to ten CNN's Anderson Cooper, actor cent cut. Jamie Foxx, singer Faith Hill, actor The offices of DirectNIC, a New Matthew McConaughey, singer Lisa Orleans based webhost and Celebrities contribute to Marie Presley, comedian Chris services provider, were visited by Katrina relief Rock, actor John Travolta, and The armed members of the 82nd Oprah Winfrey Show contributor Airborne Division during an After Hurricane Katrina passed Lisa Ling and interior decorator interview with Wikinews reporters across the United States, various Nate Berkus. Oprah Winfrey also Tuesday evening. DirectNIC has artists and media stars have leapt visited New Orleans, Houston, and been the home of "Outpost at a call to action. Mississippi. Crystal" -- an information dissemination effort involving Sean Penn actually went to Singer Fats Domino was missing hundreds of volunteers throughout Louisiana. After loading down a during the New Orleans flood but the world -- since Hurricane small boat with his entourage, it has since reached safety. Katrine wracked the United States was discovered one of them had Gulf Coast last Monday. neglected to seal a hole in the New Orleans who were out of town bottom. Penn was wearing a white during the Hurricane included Armed police and military are vest rather than a life vest while rapper Juvenile, who left New currently patrolling the devasted bailing. After the motor wouldn't Orleans before the storm, Dave city to protect residents and start, the crew paddled down a Pirner, who was visiting his property. While New Orleans flooded New Orleans street. Minneapolis hometown, and Mayor, C. Ray Nagin, has ordered Bystanders jeered at whether any Master P, whose family members a "forced" evacuation of the city, it victims could fit aboard the are missing. is not apparent yet whether these crowded craft. No report on rescue orders are being executed by law stunts. Local authorities had Family of Neville Brothers have enforcement agencies. DirectNIC previously been criticized for not relocated to Round Rock, Texas, a personnel indicate that they will be allowing volunteer boaters in to small city adjacent to Austin. allowed to stay as they constitute help. Threadgill's World Headquarters is part of the recovery effort of the

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, September 8, 2005 Wikinews Page 4 city. widely varying temperatures than This article contains first-hand A least nine people are reported had been expected. Sections of journalism by a Wikinews to be killed in the incidents. There Saturn's F ring were also Reporter. are also many injured, some of recognised as breaking apart and them seriously. Up to a dozen reforming, depending on the California passes same-sex rescue helicopters immediately location of one of Saturn's moons. marriage bill rushed to the scene from all over the Swiss alps. The rings, which are now iconic to On Tuesday, the lower house or Saturn, and known to be common State Assembly of the State The work was made to make the to all Jovian planets in general, Legislature of the US state of infrastructure more secure after were first observed in 1610 by California passed a controversial an incident that happened when a Galileo. The rings have recently new bill that would redefine low-flying US marine plane cut become a subject of scientific marriage as the union between through a cable killing 20 people interest to modern astronomers two people, as opposed to a man in 1998. This incident will bring who believe they are similar in and a woman. The California State into question if those policies structure to the dust which orbited Senate, the upper house, had saved lives or need to be recast in the Sun, in a similar pattern, and already acceded to this. light of this tragedy. formed the planets some 4.5 billion years ago. A critical swing vote came from Astronomers find changes in Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) of Saturn's rings This, and other Cassini-related Orange County, the second largest discoveries, were discussed at a California county, which is meeting of the American predominantly conservative. He Astronomical Society's division of was ushered on by Senator Joe planetary sciences on Monday. Dunn of the same constituency. The voting predominantly followed Award show producers try party lines, with no Republican Emmy Idol supporting the bill and few Democrats opposing it. The Primetime Emmy Awards will have a unique twist for 2005, as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Saturn as observed by Cassini- television celebrities will sing the has not revealed whether or not he Huygens on March 27, 2004 themes of classic series. Similar to will veto the bill. the format of reality shows like Astronomers have discovered that American Idol and Rock Star: Chopper knocks Austrian Saturn's D ring, the innermost of INXS, the audience will be able to gondola off cables, killing nine Saturn's 15 rings, has grown vote on their favorite performance dimmer in the past 25 years and during the initial broadcast of the On Monday, a helicopter sections have moved up to 125 show. accidentally dropped a concrete miles inward toward the planet. block weighing nearly 1,500 This discovery was made after The ceremony's executive pounds when it was flying it up to astronomers compiled results producer, Ken Ehrlich, said to the an Austrian mountain for a "ski predominantly from the Voyager 2 press that "There are certain resort construction project". The spacecraft, which passed Saturn television theme songs that are concrete block struck a cable in 1981, and the Cassini-Huygens nearly as memorable as the shows holding a gondola, the one that probe which entered Saturn's connected to them." suffered all of the causalities, orbit last year. although other gondolas reported Billionaire American business people suffering injuries from the Other rings were found to be executive Donald Trump, of reality jolt. The car that was hit fell quite rotating slower than had show The Apprentice, will some distance to the ground, up to previously been estimated with accompany the high-pitched voice hundreds of meters. Two more computer models. It was also of actress Megan Mullally, singing cars started tilting as some people discovered that the matter the Green Acres theme. R&B were flung out from these cars. composing the rings is of far more singer Macy Gray will be joined by

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Gary Dourdan of CSI: Crime Scene people from New Orleans to many Federal assistance for the Investigation, as they sing "Movin' destinations throughout the evacuees in Utah. On Up", the theme to All in the United States, including Utah. Family spin-off sitcom The After arriving in Utah, one evacuee Jeffersons. In addition, Utah Air National said "I want to thank the people of Guard relief missions transporting Utah for their hospitality and for William Shatner of Star Trek: The food and other supplies to New restoring my faith in America." Original Series and opera singer Orleans relief efforts have also Another evacuee said "it seems Frederica von Stade will perform been returning with people in the like heaven, looking at the the theme from Star Trek. Shatner cargo areas of the airplanes on mountains and getting a breath of is notorious for his musical return flights. "In keeping with fresh air and saying, 'Thank God recordings, which many criticize, our mission to assist in the we made it.'" as he typically speaks the lyrics security and safety of our instead of singing them, typically homeland, we stand trained, Not all evacuees were pleased with as an exaggerated interpretive ready, and able to respond to the the move to Utah. "I knew where reading. However, the Star Trek call to assist our fellow citizens in Utah was, but nobody told me theme does not require any Louisiana, Mississippi and that's where we were going. singing other than that of the elsewhere," said Maj. Gen. Brian Nothing personal. It's nice. But I female opera singer. Tarbet, Utah National Guard don't know anybody here," said Adjutant General. Bergeron, among the first batch of Kristen Bell of the series Veronica 152 evacuees to arrive at the Mars will perform the theme to The people on board the airplanes Camp Williams Utah Army National Fame, solo. had no idea where they were Guard training site. going. In one case the airplane The show will be again hosted by was headed to San Antonio and at The Utah chapter of the American talk show host and comedienne the last minute while still airborne Red Cross has been training Ellen DeGeneres. In honor of the the destination was changed to volunteers over the Labor Day victims of Hurricane Katrina, all Utah. Peter Coroon, Salt Lake weekend, and according to one Emmy presenters and performers County Mayor: "Some of the official they have been will be given magnolias, the state people look dazed. Some of them overwhelmed with community flower of both Louisiana and are just happy to be out of where support to help the evacuees. The Mississippi. Information will be they were. Some of them are line of volunteers to recieve the given out during the broadcast on eager to find their loves ones training helping those at Camp how viewers can donate to relief they've been separated. Some of Williams was litterally out of the efforts. them weren't sure where they door at the Red Cross offices were going when they left New today. One volunteer, Kayelynn The Emmys will be broadcast Orleans." Wright said, "The last couple of September 18th, 2005. days we’d talked about it and said, Governor John Huntsman, Jr. 'What can we do?' So when I saw U.S. state of Utah begins to utilized surplus state funds by it (a call for volunteers) last night, accept evacuees from declaring a state of emergency to I called (my neighbor) this Hurricane Katrina begin efforts housing and clothing morning and said, 'We gotta go!'" people coming to Utah, however The Red Cross has asked that you Evacuees from New Orleans some of this will likely be contact the local office if you plan arrived on Sunday and have reimbursed by the Federal on volunteering or donating any continued to come to Utah, Government at a later date. He new clothing and other items to utilizing the facilities at Camp announced that Utah was willing help the evacuees. Williams, the training facility for to take up to 1,000 people at the Utah National Guard, to house shelters in Utah, and that amount Volunteers from The Church of the incoming people. Flights from was later increased to over 2,000. Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints New Orleans to Salt Lake City On Monday, President Bush on Saturday gathered at the LDS International Airport provided by signed an executive order Humanitarian Center in Salt Lake JetBlue Airways under a contract granting the emergency to assemble more than 50,000 from FEMA have been shuttling declaration in Utah to provide hygiene kits for hurricane victims.

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Plastic bags were stuffed with Governor Mitt Romney stressed reasons. toothbrushes and toothpaste, that he wanted to give it a combs, soap, washcloths and hand comfortable, non-hostile Sony breaks UK launch sales towels. The supplies will be atmosphere. record with PlayStation shipped to a church-owned Portable storehouse Georgia for Upon touching down at Otis Air distribution. National Guard Base, Massport officials will issue identification Transportation requests are also cards, create case files for them being honored by the Utah state and ask the evacuees to provide government, and evacuees are personal information which will go having transportation to anywhere into to a database to be shared in the United States paid for at with other states that are taking The Sony PlayStation Portable state expense. In addition, a small evacuees. went on sale in the UK on amount of extra money is being Thursday, September 1. In the donated directly to each family to The agencies that will be on hand three days following the release, help with immediate expenses. are, the Massachusetts more than 185,000 PlayStation The Utah Transit Authority has Emergency Management Agency, Portables were sold. This sets a already established a regular the American Red Cross and the new sales record on game municipal bus service between Salvation Army. These agencies consoles. The record was Camp William and downtown Salt will coordinate volunteers, who previously held by Nintendo, who Lake City, which will begin formal must commit themselves to five sold 87,000 Nintendo DS service starting tomorrow days of volunteer efforts, and handhelds the first three days morning. they must be able to transport after its release. The PlayStation themselves to the camp. Romney Portable is being sold for £179 in Massachusetts to set up has asked for donations from the the UK. "village" for Katrina evacs community. Twenty of the 24 games launched The US state of Massachusetts is Evacuees will be assigned housing with PlayStation Portable are in the turning a portion of Camp by groups. There could be the top 40. PlayStation Portable Edwards, an active Cape Cod barracks for single men, another games also occupy nine of the top military base, into a "village" for for single women, and then space 10 slots on the sales charts. The 2,500 evacuees of Hurricane for elderly and families with game Ridge Racer was the most Katrina, as part of Operation children. Visitors will not be popular, with one in every five Helping Hand. allowed. people buying both the PlayStation Portable and Ridge Racer at the The temporary shelter on the The school superintendent for the same time. Massachusetts Military Reservation township of Bourne, Ed LaFleur, will have a population the size of will work on enrolling the children Sony's main competitors in the Truro, Massachusetts and will of evacuees into Cape Cod handheld gaming console market include an active mayor and a schools. Romney met yesterday are Nintendo with the Nintendo DS system of government that will be with leaders of the Blake and Nokia with the nGage. Like like a town council Churches Alliance who will make Nintendo and Nokia, Sony is available chaplains and counselors marketing the device as being able However, the shelter will face for the evacuees. to do more then just play games. security demands different from The PlayStation Portable can play the fifteen Cape towns because Romney spent Monday night specially created versions of poular Cape Edwards is an active base asking for the State House to pass movies and surf the Internet used for training exercises. a $25 million emergency spending wirelessly. Sony expects to sell a Security will be overseen by the bill to pay the initial costs of the million PlayStation Portables in the Massachusetts National Guard, facility. UK before Christmas. with help from the Massachusetts State Police and the County The arrival time of the evacuees Sheriff's office. Massachusetts has been postponed, for unknown

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