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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Greece still burning people. have so far killed at least 56 people. •The Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam seeks to extract its •The fires threaten Olympia, the wounded from the Nahr al-Bared site of the Ancient Olympic Palestinean refugee camp. Games. •An Antonov plane carrying tin ore crashes in Kongolo in the Malaysian newspaper Katanga province of the suspended due to offensive Democratic Republic of the Jesus picture Congo. The Malaysian newspaper Makkal →Death toll at 62 as firefighters Osai has been placed under work to gain control •Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurdish governmental suspension from leaders sign a reconciliation deal. →Two people arrested publishing for a month, due to its •The equine influenza outbreak publication on Tuesday, August Six more arrests made in spreads in Australia threatening 21st of a picture of Jesus Christ search for killer of Rhys Jones the Spring Carnival including the holding a cigarette and a can of Six teenagers have been arrested Melbourne Cup. beer. for questioning in relation to the •Bird flu breaks out at a German Although the Tamil-language murder of Rhys Jones in the farm. Croxteth area of Liverpool on newspaper apologized on Wednesday evening. It brings the •Ludwig Scotty's government wins Thursday, August 23rd, saying that total number of arrests to nine. a landslide victory in the Nauruan a graphic artist had erred in parliamentary election, 2007 with downloading the picture from the René Harris as the only member Internet, some in Malaysia's Featured story of the Opposition to win a seat. minority religions drew a 72 hour Australia wide ban on comparison to the Jyllands-Posten •Seven more unexploded bombs horse movements Muhammad cartoons controversy are found in Hyderabad, Andhra A 72 hour travel ban has been that erupted in 2005 over a Danish Pradesh, India a day after the implemented paper's publication of cartoons bombings. after 16 that many Muslims felt insulted horses were •The Chief Minister of Andhra Islam and the prophet confirmed as Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy Muhammad. having Equine blames Pakistan and Bangladeshi Influenza. terrorists for the bombings. The altered picture has been traced by a blogger called •Twelve Taliban fighters die in Wikipedia Current Events "Gateway Pundit" to an April 2007 fighting on the Pakistan- post on a blog called "Religion •2007 Midwest flooding: Afghanistan border. Makes Me Laugh." The name of the Tornadoes hit parts of central and •A bridge is opened linking post where the altered image southeast Ohio as hundreds of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. appears is "Top Ten Reasons Why thousands of people in the Beer Is Better Than Jesus." Midwest are without power. •European Union countries send firefighters and equipment to •A series of explosions in It has been noted that this help fight hundreds of fires which Mogadishu, Somalia kills three apparently unwitting use of a

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Sunday, August 26, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 satirical Internet graphic bears a withdrawals of $20 or $10. sea state... Until the weather similarity to a 2001 news story in abates there really will not be able which protesters supporting Dozens of customers, mostly to do much in terms of salvage," Osama bin Laden were found to backpackers, exploited the he said. have unknowingly used an altered Kiwibank ATM with several people image of bin Laden that included a making up to 40 transactions. The 18-man crew - six officers and picture of Bert, the Sesame Street 12 sailors - of the New Zealand- muppet, by his side. Due to the complexity of the issue, built vessel have managed to the bank does not plan to attempt retrieve their belongings from the 2007/08 Bundesliga: Bayern to track down the customers who ship, and are now expected to be Munich vs. Hannover 96 got extra money, but they do plan transported to temporary Bayern Munich 3 to reimburse those who lost accommodation in local barracks in Hannover 96 0 money. Bulimba, Brisbane.

69,000 fans packed Allianz Arena Efforts to salvage Indonesian It is still hoped the ship can be and saw Bayern Munich naval vessel grounded off repaired in time for it to attend a maintained their perfect record on Queensland, Australia summit next month in Sydney, but Saturday with a 3-0 victory hampered by stormy weather this to be unlikely. A decision on against Hannover. Efforts to salvage the Indonesian whether to take her to Brisbane or naval vessel Arung Samudera from Gladstone for repairs is expected Once referee Thorsten Kinhöfer where she ran aground on the to be made on Monday. whistled for the opening kickoff, Sunshine Coast Queensland, have both teams played attacking style. been delayed due to poor weather Six more arrests made in Hannover answered a couple of conditions. search for killer of Rhys Jones headers from Martin Demichelis Six teenagers have been arrested with Hanno Balitsch's drive. The 35-metre, tri-masted vessel for questioning in relation to the was originally grounded on August murder of Rhys Jones in the Bayern Munich took the lead in the 23 in stormy weather at Inskip Croxteth area of Liverpool on 28th minute when Bastian Point, near Rainbow Beach. A Wednesday evening. The arrests of Schweinsteiger fed Luca Toni a salvage contractor has being the four males, aged 15, 16 and pass into the penalty box and brought in to rescue the stricken two aged 19, and two females, scored against Hannover vessel, her hull is intact and it is aged 15 and 18, bring to seven goalkeeper Robert Enke. believed the ship is in no imminent the number of people currently danger of breaking apart. held in custody, joining a 15-year- Bayern Munich sealed the victory old male arrested yesterday, and with 2 goals from Mark van However, the tall ship did drag its to nine the total number of arrests Bommel and Hamit Altintop in the anchors and break its rudder and so far. Five of the teenagers were 2nd half. centreboard during the beaching. arrested early this morning, while the other was arrested later in the On Sunday, Wolfsburg is at home Australian Navy Commander day. The arrests were all made in against Schalke and Eintracht Forbes Peters says that although the Croxteth and Norris Green Frankfurt is at home against Hansa salvage has been postponed until areas of Liverpool, the two females Rostock . early next week, the vessel will be together at the same location, the surveyed today by the salvage four males at separate locations. New Zealand ATM gives out firm. double the money Detective Superintendent David A Queenstown, New Zealand "To develop a plan for how they Kelly later said one of the 19-year- Automated teller machine (ATM) would salvage the vessel of the old males is being treated in that was incorrectly stacked beach, that's going to involve a hospital for minor injuries he allowed customers to double their tugboat pulling the thing off the suffered during the arrest, having money. A contractor incorrectly beach with a longline. fallen from a first-floor window stacked the NZ$10 note slot with trying to escape. Det Supt Kelly $20 notes, and vice versa. The "The trouble with actually also said the police would like to problem only affected small conducting the salvage will be the talk to a dark-haired woman in

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Sunday, August 26, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 particular, saying: "The woman the news broke a day later. fire departments put the current could potentially be a key witness. death toll at atleast 37, 9 of which We know from our inquiries there Debris of the aircraft have not yet were children. was a woman pushing a pram been found, as it crashed in a minutes before Rhys was killed remote area of the gorge, reports Since Friday morning, around 170 and we believe she will have said. Witnesses, however, told fires have been burning, many of passed within close proximity to Rustavi 2 TV via phone that they which are believed to be caused by the killer." He added that the killer saw a black smoke coming from arson. Authorities are calling the emerged from a housing estate the crash site. fires "criminal acts." Fire behind the Fir Tree pub and rode department spokesman Nikos around on his bicycle at the back The Georgian Interior Ministry has Diamandis said most of the fires of the pub for a few minutes confirmed the incident, saying that were started in entirely different before firing three shots, one of fire was opened at a plane that areas, and were started after dark. which hit Rhys, who had been intruded into the Georgian Some fires reportedly broke out in walking home alone after football airspace over the Kodori Gorge. It "lush greenery." practice, in the neck. said it was not clear whether it was a Russian or Abkhaz aircraft. Fire in Keratea, as it is seen from Police are still examining a bicycle Abkhaz forces were holding large Markopoulo Mesogaias found abandoned yesterday, but scale military maneuvers, involving have yet to find the murder at least two army helicopters and 27 deaths have been confirmed in weapon, said to be a black, long- two aircraft, near the Kodori Gorge Peloponnese, one of the hardest barrelled handgun. at that period of time. hit areas. Today, however, fires broke out near Athens. Chief Superintendent Chris Armitt The Russian air force branded as urged the local community to "one more provocative piece of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis "examine their consciences" and information" a Georgian media was to for an emergency meeting take a stand against gang culture. report that a Russian warplane of the senior ministers in the He said: "We understand that was shot down on Friday over the country's capital, Athens. people are concerned about giving Kodori Gorge in Georgia's Karamanlis said, "This is a day of information to the police, we breakaway Abkhazia region. national mourning...I wish to understand that people are express my deep grief over the frightened, that's natural." He "It is one more provocative piece lost lives...We are fighting against added that the police "have not of information directed against heavy odds, on many fronts and had the level of information about us," air force spokesman under particularly tough those key issues that we would Alexander Drobyshevsky told conditions." expect and that we want" and Interfax. "I state once again that reassured members of the public no aircraft of the air force of the Greece's government yesterday that any witness who came Russian Federation has violated asked its European Union allies for forward would be protected, the border with Georgia. All air help. About 30 countries are saying anybody with information force aircraft are currently on offering support, according to an must "stand up and be counted". airfields, and the pilots are having EU statement. a rest," he said. "If one analyzes Unidentified plane reportedly all Georgian statements about air Some helicopters and airplanes, shot down in Kodori gorge space invasions, all of them are which were to drop water on the A military plane flying over the launched at night, strange as it is," fires, continued to be delayed by Kodori Valley has been shot down, Drobyshevsky added. The Abkhaz strong winds. some residents of the Kodori side has also denied it. Gorge told Georgia's Rustavi 2 Explosions in Hyderabad, India television by telephone on Friday Forest fires burn on in Greece; Two explosions have been reported evening. After several shots were death toll nears 50 in the southern Indian city of fired at the plane, it lost control In southern Greece today, huge Hyderabad, killing some 40 people. and fell in a hard-to-reach area, forest fires continue to burn on It was reported the two blasts they said. The incident, reportedly, destroying homes and causing rocked a park and a popular eat- occurred late on August 23, but severe damage to the region. Local out in Hyderabad on Saturday

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Sunday, August 26, 2007 Wikinews Page 4 evening within a gap of 15 2-0 lead in the three match series, disease. Additional restrictions minutes. with the final match to be played have been place on people and tomorrow in . equipment in NSW with exclusion The injured, a total of 350, have zones around the quarantine been taken to nearby hospitals. 72 hour Australia wide ban on stations. Breaches of these Both the areas have been horse movements restriction could result in fines of evacuated. The Honourable Peter McGauran, up to A$44,000 and/or Federal Minister for Agriculture, imprisonment for up to 12 months. The first explosion took place at has issued a 72 hour Australia Lumbini Park near the state wide travel ban on all Equine horse The normally unrestricted travel of secretariat at around 2000 hours species. The ban followed horses between Australia and New and another at Gokul Chat confirmation that 16 horses from Zealand has been suspended and Bhandar 15 minutes later, they two separate Sydney locations New Zealand authorities are said. A laser show was going on at have been infected with Equine checking all horses that have Lumbini Park when the blast Influenza. This follows earlier entered the country since the occurred. restrictions placed on horses in beginning of August. New South Wales (NSW). South African team in Trains collide in Serbia, two 2007 - 2nd ODI Mr McGauran said "There will be a dead South Africa have beaten 72-hour ban on all race meetings Two trains collided on the Serbian Zimbabwe by eight in the for both thoroughbreds and Belgrade – Novi Sad railway line second One-Day International of harness..." yesterday evening, leaving two the series at , engine drivers, Živko Topalović and Harare, Zimbabwe. "In addition there will be an order Milan Ivančević dead and five for standstill for all horses under injured. Doctors at the Novi Sad Zimbabwe lost the toss and were licensed persons. Also, an appeal clinic said that five were injured put in to bat first. Despite losing to all those with ponies, and that all five, said to be Serbian opener cheaply, recreational horses or work horses Railways workers, have suffered and not to leave their properties..." serious, but not life-threatening added 44 and 43 runs respectively, injuries in the crash. followed by a partnership of 84 Equine flu was first detected in a runs from Stuart Williams (54) and stallion at Eastern Creek Earlier in the evening, Stojan Stuart Matsikenyeri (52) to record Quarantine station after arriving Suknović of the Novi Sad fire a competitive score. Zimbabwe's from the northern hemisphere. brigade, who took part in the innings finished after fifty overs at There are 80 horses currently in rescue efforts, said the accident 247-7. Of the South African quarantine at either Eastern Creek occurred after 6 p.m. yesterday bowlers, Dale Steyn took 3-65 and in New South Wales or at the evening, near Sremski Karlovci in Morne Morkel took 2-39. Spotswood quarantine station in Vojvodina. Victoria. These horses are Graeme Smith and Herschelle thoroughbreds brought into "An engine and a freight train Gibbs shared an opening Australia for the spring breeding collided," he confirmed. partnership of 174 runs as South season. Horses currently in Africa cruised towards the 248 run quarantine are expected to be held Emergency teams are working target. Smith, the South African for another 30 days. intensively on removing the , fell just short of a century wrecked engines from the line in when he was caught behind off the The movement ban caused the order to provide suitable of his Zimbabwean cancellation of race meeting across conditions for the resumption of counterpart . Gibbs the country, resulting in losses of traffic. went on to score 110 runs from tens of millions of dollars. 100 balls and South Africa reached UK company "seriously the target with just under eleven Equine flu is highly contagious considering" GPS tracking overs to spare. though it is not infectious to devices in school uniforms humans. Though skin, clothing and The leading supplier of school South Africa have an unassailable equipment can transmit the uniforms in the United Kingdom,

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Lancashire-based manufacturer week Essex firm BladeRunner announcements were made and Trutex, has announced it is revealed it was selling stab-proof there has been no confirmations of "seriously considering" including school blazers to parents his death. GPS tracking devices in future concerned about violence against ranges of its uniform products their children. The blazers were Castro turned 81 on August 13 after conducting an online survey outfitted with Kevlar, a synthetic and shortly after, reports began to of both parents and children. fibre used in body armour. It has circulate that his health was on a already received orders downward track, but the Cuban “As a direct result of the survey, internationally, including Australia. government states that Castro is we are now seriously considering doing well. incorporating a [tracking] device If the Trutex tracking devices go into future ranges" said Trutex ahead, it is unclear where in the "Fidel is doing very well" and is marketing director Clare Rix. uniform they will be located. "disciplined in his recovery process," said Felipe Perez Roque, The survey questioned 809 Quebec City mayor dies Cuba's Foreign Minister in a parents and 444 children aged 9 to unexpectedly statement to the press. 16. It showed that 44% of parents Quebec City Mayor Andrée were worried about the safety of Boucher was pronounced dead on Today in History pre-teen children, and 59% Friday at age 70. She was found 1071 – Byzantine-Seljuk wars: wanted tracking devices installed unconscious at her home from Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan in school apparel. 39% of children what was reported to be heart captured Byzantine Emperor aged 9 to 12 were prepared to failure, although the cause of Romanos IV at the Battle of wear clothing with tracking devices death is expected to be confirmed Manzikert. in them, while teenagers were by autopsy. Jacques Joli-Coeur was 1346 – Hundred Years' War: notably less enthusiastic and more designated interim mayor. English forces established the wary of what Trutex has admitted military supremacy of the English they see as a "big brother" Boucher became Quebec City's longbow over the French concept. mayor in 2005. She previously combination of crossbow and served as mayor of the nearby armoured knights at the Battle of However, Trutex has claimed the community of Sainte-Foy. Crécy. tracking devices would bring about 1748 – The first Lutheran worthwhile benefits, including Tributes were issued by Quebec denomination in North America, being a valuable resource for Premier Jean Charest, Canadian the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was parents who wanted to keep a Prime Minister Stephen Harper, founded in Philadelphia, close eye on where their children national opposition leader Pennsylvania. were at all times. Stéphane Dion, NDP Leader Jack 1789 – French Revolution: The Layton, and politician and former Declaration of the Rights of Man "As well as being a safety net for Quebec City broadcaster André and of the Citizen, defining a set of parents, there could be real Arthur, a frequent critic of Boucher. individual and collective rights of benefits for schools who could the people, was approved by the keep a closer track on the Rumors say Cuban President National Constituent Assembly at whereabouts of their pupils, Fidel Castro has died Versailles. potentially reducing truancy levels" Rumors began circulating today in 1968 – The U.S. Democratic says Rix. Miami, Florida that Fidel Castro, Party's National Convention began the President of Cuba, may be at the International Amphitheatre Each year, Trutex supplies 1 million dead. The rumor has been in Chicago, sparking four days of blouses, 1.1 million shirts, reported to have started on Wall peaceful–to–violent clashes 250,000 pairs of trousers, 20,000 Street in New York City. between anti–Vietnam War blazers, 60,000 skirts and 110,000 protesters and police. pieces of knitwear to the UK. PerezHilton.com was the first to August 26 is Heroes' Day in the "break" the news, saying that an Philippines and Ghost Festival in It is not the first company to official announcement on Castro's the Chinese calendar (2007). manufacture school uniforms with death would be coming at 2:00 a central focus on child safety; last p.m. (local time), but no

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