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June 9, 2008 the Free-Content News Source That You Can Write! Page 1 June 9, 2008 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Large earthquake shakes farmers in poor countries and •A day of mourning is declared in Greece increasing humanitarian aid in Russia's Kaliningrad Region as According to the United States times of crisis. the death toll from Thursday's Geological ship explosion and fire reaches Survey (USGS), eight, with two missing. Buildings destroyed to slow an earthquake flooding in China lake with a magnitude Chinese troops today destroyed a Asbestos map of Eastern of 6.1 has struck variety of debris, Australia published Greece, killing at including An article published online in least two people wooden houses, Environmental Geology, an and injuring as part of an international journal of earth dozens. Many effort to slow sciences, identifies parts of eastern buildings are reported to be the flooding of a lake. Australia underlain by rocks with collapsed or severely the right geological conditions to Wikipedia Current Events host asbestos. According to the NASA's Phoenix spacecraft author, Macquarie University having trouble analyzing soil Robert Kubica wins the 2008 researcher Marc Hendrickx, there samples Canadian Grand Prix while driving is good news and bad news. NASA has stated that the Mars for the BMW Sauber team, Phoenix lander is having trouble becoming the first Pole to win a “The good news is that potential analyzing soil samples that its Formula 1 Grand Prix auto race, asbestos bearing rocks account for robotic arm is and giving BMW its first win as a only 0.2% of the land area of collecting. constructor. eastern Australia and most of the According to •At least two people have been outcrops are in remote areas." NASA, the killed as an earthquake rocked soil appears southern Greece, collapsing The main occurrence of potential to be too clodded to pass through buildings and causing panic. asbestos bearing rocks in eastern screens on the way to Phoenix's Australia is in serpentinite that •The government of Southern Thermal and Evolved-Gas occurs in narrow outcrop belts in Sudan withdraws its mediation Analyzer (TEGA). all the eastern states. Other efforts at the Juba talks between potential hosts include altered Uganda and the rebel Lord's UN summit results in pledge ultramafic rocks in central New Resistance Army. to mitigate food crisis South Wales (NSW), and A three-day United Nations (UN) •At least 37 miners go missing metamorphic rocks in northern summit, bringing after an underground gas Tasmania, western NSW and together leaders explosion in Ukraine. western Queensland (QLD). The from 181 countries, article also documents 78 •At least 7 people are killed in a has wrapped up occurrences of asbestos in eastern stabbing frenzy in Tokyo on the with a pledge by all Australia. Most of these are of 7th anniversary of the Osaka attending countries to address chrysotile asbestos but a small school massacre. the global food shortage crisis. number are of amphibole asbestos Key actions cited include doubling •In tennis, Rafael Nadal wins the including tremolite asbestos. the world's food production by men's singles title at the 2008 According to Mr Hendrickx 2030, providing resources for French Open. exposure to low levels of If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Monday, June 9, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 amphibole asbestos from University in Australia, hopes to when Kubica suffered a violent disturbance of natural sources has ascertain the geology of Naturally crash. David Coulthard was the been linked with mesothelioma Occurring Asbestos in eastern and best of Renault-engined cars elsewhere in the world. South Australia and aims to finishing third for Red Bull. discover if it has caused cases of The article also documents some the cancer mesothelioma in The race was thrilled after Adrian reported cases of disturbance of Australia. The project suffered a Sutil suffered his Force India car asbestos bearing rocks in eastern recent set back when historical failure and caused a safety car to Australia. Mr Hendrickx indicates medical records intended to be appear. This happened right before “The bad news is that some of the used to establish a link between the scheduled first pit-stops and 5 areas have been unwittingly NOA and mesothelioma cases drivers who were in the lead disturbed, mainly by using could not be located by the rushed to refuel themselves after asbestos bearing rocks as a source Australian government authority the pit lane became open. Still, the of material for road construction. responsible. Mr Hendrickx pit lane exit remained closed and In two cases, in QLD and NSW this indicates that current reporting of Robert Kubica with Kimi Räikkönen has resulted in affected roads mesothelioma cases to cancer (Ferrari) stopped in front of the undergoing remediation costing registries does not provide red sign. But Lewis Hamilton did millions of dollars. Another sufficient information about past not. He crashed hard into the back example in Orange in central NSW residential and occupational of Räikkönen and jammed the exit involved 60,000 m3 of rock being histories of patients to be of use in for the drivers behind. This cleared crushed for aggregate during the linking mesothelioma to NOA and the cards for BMW team to win the development of a new business that new epidemiological studies race. park before the asbestos content are required if this link is to be was realised. Air quality further explored. The pace car also gave the lucky monitoring undertaken in similar chance for Toyota drivers, who situations eslewhere indicates The article “Naturally occurring were not very competitive in exposure to low levels of respirable asbestos in eastern Australia: a qualifying on saturday, starting asbestos fibres is possible from review of geological occurrence, 11th and 14th. Timo Glock made disturbance of asbestos in rocks disturbance and mesothelioma up 4th after holding Felipe Massa and soils in such circumstances.” risk” can be accessed online from (Ferrari) pushed him from behind. Environmental Geology, a Springer Jarno Trulli could also finished in Mr Hendrickx suggests the publication. front of Massa, but Timo braked specialised geological maps hard on his teammate and Jarno published as part of the study will Robert Kubica wins 2008 was forced to let Massa pass him. help planning authorities and land Canadian Grand Prix owners avoid future “accidental” or Pole Robert Kubica won the FIA Rubens Barrichello (Honda) unplanned disturbance of asbestos Formula One 2008 Grand Prix du finished 7th. Heikki Kovalainen bearing rocks. “Understanding the Canada at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, (Vodafone McLaren Mercedes) geology of asbestos in Australia is Ile Notre Dame, Montreal, Canada. pushed hard on Sebastian Vettel an important step in preventing He and his teammate Nick Heidfeld but German kept his position and disturbance of asbestos bearing made a double for BMW Sauber scored 1 point for Toro Rosso. rocks, particularly those containing team for the first time in history of amphibole asbestos, that could this sport. It should be noted that Kubica won lead to future health problems. the race after he finished second in With the publication of the map in Peter Sauber first started building the previous Monaco GP won by this article planning authorities can sport cars in 1970. His team made Hamilton. Kubica now leads the no longer claim they were ignorant it's Formula-1 debut in 1993. The drivers' championship with 42 of the locations of potential team was handed over to BMW points, chased by Hamilton and asbestos bearing rocks in eastern after 2005 and now it's team Massa with 38 points both, Australia”. principal is Mario Theissen. Räikkönen with 35 points and Heidfeld with 28. BMW Sauber now Mr Hendrickx's research, in the Nick Heidfeld also came second in stayed close to Ferrari in Graduate School of the the previous year race won by constructors' standings with 70 Environment at Macquarie Lewis Hamilton. It was a race points, gap of 3 to Ferrari. Team If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, June 9, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 McLaren is now a distant third with vessel will be paid more than a of families trapped inside the 53 points. million rubles." This makes their rubble of homes and businesses. compensation roughly equivelant Dani Pedrosa wins 2008 to US$43,000. The control tower at Andravida Catalan MotoGP airport is reported to have Spanish rider Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Dygolo said that the dockyard, in sustained serious damage and has Honda) wins a 2008 MotoGP round the closed military town of been abandoned. Many buildings on the Catalunya Circuit, Spain. Baltiysk, near Kaliningrad, had and homes are said to be severely This became his second victory of been leased to the Yenisey's St damaged or collapsed. the season. Petersburg owner, a private company, who were conducting The tremors from the earthquake He was chased by both Valentino the work themselves. He said an were noticeable in large parts of Rossi (Yamaha) and Casey Stoner investigation has been launched by Greece, including Athens, but the (Ducati), battling each other, the navy led by top admiral shaking could be felt as far away allowing the Spaniard to make a Vladimir Vysotsky. as Italy. comfort gap. Vysotski himself has indicated that A nationwide mobilisation of civil 250cc winner became the Italian serious safety legislation breaches defence and fire brigade units Marco Simoncelli (Gilera), who concerning welding regulations by commenced after the natural overtook the pole-sitter Alvaro both the vessel's owner and the disaster. Bautista (Aprilia). naval dockyard's bosses. He did not go into details, but RIA Novosti Finally, schools were also ordered Mike Di Meglio (Derbi) became the claimed that a source at the closed on Monday in the affected winner in the 125cc class.
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