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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

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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. Podium dockyard said a gas burner applied areas. was concluded by the other Derbi to the roof of a fuel tank to heat rider Pol Espargaro and the and therefore loosen its bolts had Buildings destroyed to slow Hungarian Gabor Talmacsi on triggered the disaster. flooding in China lake Aprilia. Chinese troops today destroyed a Today is an official day of variety of debris, including wooden Eight dead and two missing mourning for Kaliningrad Region to houses, as part of an effort to slow after cargo ship fire in mark the deaths. the flooding of a lake. A lake had Kaliningrad, Russia formed after the large earthquake Eight people are dead and two Large earthquake shakes that hit Jiangyou, and troops are more are missing and presumed Greece now trying to subside the water dead after an explosion and fire on According to the United States flow to contain flooding. They are a cargo ship undergoing repairs at Geological Survey (USGS), an doing this with the intention of a naval dockyard in Kaliningrad, earthquake with a magnitude of forming a spillway, which aims to Russia. 6.1 has struck Greece. The divert the continuing flow of water epicenter was recorded 20 miles from the heavily populated areas. The container ship MV Yenisey was away from the city of Patras, and the scene of an explosion while in 125 miles away from Athens, the The Tangjiashan Lake formed drydock at about 3:00 p.m. Greek capital. The earthquake when a large earthquake hit China Moscow time (11:00 GMT). Ten occurred soon after 12:00 UTC last month and it has continued to people were missing after the today, according to the Athens expand despite efforts to halt its explosion. It was confirmed today Geodynamic Institute. The USGS growth. that the eighth body has been originally reported the quake as a recovered, and the remaining two magnitude 6.5. Police have remained on high alert are thought to be dead as well. since China was hit by the Sichuan Three more were injured. There have been reports of at least earthquake, which has resulted in two people killed and 37 injured. thousands of deaths. Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo, There has also been damage to acting as a navy spokesperson, property and mobile phone Argentina defeat Scotland said "Each family of the victims of networks which are being 21-15 in rugby test match the fire on the Yenisey civilian overloaded. There are also reports The Argentine national rugby team

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, June 9, 2008 Wikinews Page 4 has defeated the Scottish New Zealand centre Conrad Smith Research Institute (ITRI) and equivalent 21-15 in a home rugby commented that "There was one Taiwan High Speed Rail test match. point there are the end when one Corporation (THSRC) started an of the Irishmen went down that experiment on Mobile WiMAX Chris Patterson scored three both teams were running around technology for the THSR. It's the penalties in the first half, but an in circles doing their own thing (to first-ever WiMAX experiment on Alvaro Tejeda try on his debut left keep warm). I just looked around high speed rails in the world. Argentina's Pumas 10-9 at the end and thought 'this is stupid'." Industrial companies including of the first half. Paterson, who won Nippon Telegraph and Telephone his 87th cap at the match, then Graham Henry, All Black coach, Broadband Platform Inc., Nippon put Scotland in front with two said that he felt the match had Telegraph and Telephone, Corning more penalties, but Argentina's been "a lottery." Incorporated, and ZyXEL are Gonzalo Todeschini followed up confirmed to provide solutions in with the same for Argentina to put South Africa defeat Wales this first-ever experiment. them back in the lead. The final 43-17 in rugby test match points were also for Argentina, The South African national rugby "THSR is a must-have with London Irish centre Gonzalo team has defeated the Welsh transportation way for the public Tiesi scoring a try in injury time. equivelant 43-17 in a hame rugby besides of inter-city buses and test match at Bloemfontein. railways in Taiwan." stated THSRC. The teams will play a second test "There are three critical difficulties at Buenos Aires next weekend. South Africa scored four tries to that this experiment should be defeat current Six Nations overcome: 'Speed of the THSR', New Zealand defeat Ireland champion Wales. Conrad Jantjes, 'Base station construction inside 21-11 in rugby test match Jean de Villers, Pierre Spies and the rails', and the most important The New Zealand national rugby Percy Montgomery all scored tries, one - 'Internet connection on team has defeated the Irish Montgomery having been tunnels'." stated ITRI. equivelant 21-11 in a home rugby substituted on in the second half. test match at Wellington's Westpac Welsh tries were scored by Jamie "If this [difficult] experiment can Stadium. New Zealand has not lost Roberts and Shane Wiliams and all be succeeded, Taiwan will become to Ireland for 103 years, with one remaining points came from the first nation to provide the draw being the closest Ireland conversions and penalties. Internet connection on high speed have come to a victory. rails in the world." said by Moses Stephen Jones converted a try for Yen, Director of Exhibition The score was tied at 11-11 with Wales, while Butch James Department of Taiwan External 20 minutes remaining in what was converted all of South Africa's. Trade Development Council. New Zealand's first match since After CJ van der Linde and Richard exiting the World Cup. However, Hibbard got into a fight, both men Woman robs pawn shop by New Zealand's All Blacks were able were sent off. It was the first swallowing stolen goods to break through Ireland's match in charge for new South On May 27, 2008, in Salt Lake defences to score a victory. Africa coach Peter de Villiers. City, Utah, a woman stole two 14- karat gold bracelets from a pawn Conditions at Westpac were Wales captain Ryan Jones later shop by swallowing them, as unusually bitter for the match. "I explained his team's defeat. "We shown by a surveillance tape. The don't know if I've played in much made too many mistakes. South bracelets were worth US$2000 colder than that," said Irish Africa capitalized whenever we lost each according to the pawn shop. captain Brian O'Driscoll, and possession, but we have no similar thoughts were echoed from excuses," he said. The clerk noticed the bracelets All Black counterpart Richie were missing minutes after she McCaw. "It's probably the coldest ITRI to challenge the had swallowed them and asked the game I've ever played in. I've infrastructure of WiMAX on woman for an explanation. She never got cold out on the field but High Speed Rails of Taiwan responded, "You can search me." after half-time I was shivering. It To challenge the possibility of The bracelets were not found. It was nasty." WiMAX connection on high speed was only clear who the thief was rails, Industrial Technology after the shop reviewed the

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, June 9, 2008 Wikinews Page 5 surveillance footage. Washington University located in Kingsford Smith and his crew St. Louis, Missouri. Arvidson is the landed their Southern Cross Norma Porchas-Robles, 41, who Phoenix team's science lead aircraft in Brisbane, completing the had been a regular customer at researcher for Saturday and first ever trans-Pacific flight from the shop for over four years, has digging czar for Phoenix's mission. the United States mainland to been charged with retail theft and Australia. will appear in court June 19. The NASA also plans to use a shaker June 09 is Shavuot (Judaism, pawn shop, however, must inside the TEGA to shake any 2008); St. Colmcille's Day in continue to do business with her, material or samples longer than Ireland as she had pawned several items previously planned in an attempt which have not yet been sold. to break up the larger particles Quote of the Day and clumps. Phoenix already Be a clown, be a clown, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft utilized this method on Friday June All the world loves a clown. having trouble analyzing soil 6, shaking the soil for five minutes Act the fool, play the calf, samples before dumping it onto the screen. And you'll always have the last NASA has stated that the Mars NASA plans to tell Phoenix to laugh. Phoenix lander is having trouble shake the material a little longer in ~ Cole Porter ~ analyzing soil samples that its order for the soil to be tested. robotic arm is collecting. According Word of the Day to NASA, the soil appears to be too While scientists ponder ways to fix iota n clodded to pass through screens the issue, TEGA will not be 1. Name for the ninth, and on the way to Phoenix's Thermal analyzing any samples. Instead smallest, letter of the Greek and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA). Phoenix is expected to have alphabet. completed tasks today such as 2. A jot; a very small, Images taken by the lander's horizontally extending a trench inconsiderable, quantity. camera shows that the robotic arm where the lander dug two practice has dumped a large portion of soil scoops earlier this week, and About Wikinews over the TEGA, but it failed to taking additional images of a small We are a group of volunteer journalists register any soil which might have pile of soil that was scooped up whose mission is to create a diverse passed through the screens and dropped onto the surface community where citizens from around leading into the analyzer. The during the second of those practice the globe (including you) can screen is designed to let through digs. collaborate to report the news on a particles up to one-millimeter wide variety of current events. By (0.04 inch) across while keeping Today in History making our content perpetually available for free redistribution and use, out larger particles, in order to 68 – Roman Emperor Nero we hope to contribute to a global digital prevent clogging a funnel pathway committed suicide after he was commons. to a tiny oven inside. An infrared deposed by the Senate. beam crossing the pathway checks 1310 – Italian artist Duccio's Got news and no computer? whether particles are entering the Maestà with Twenty Angels and Call the Wikinews Hotline instrument and breaking the Nineteen Saints, a seminal artwork +1-866-653-4265 (toll-free in the U.S.) beam. It is now believed that the of the early Italian Renaissance, +1-202-742-5918 particles are either too large to was unveiled and installed in Siena (outside the U.S.) pass through the screen, or the Cathedral in Siena, Italy. +44-871-218-6397 soil is too clumpy. 1772 – In an act of defiance (U.K. / Europe) against the Navigation Acts, License "I think it's the cloddiness of the American patriots led by Abraham soil and not having enough fine Whipple attacked and burned the This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Articles granular material. In the future, British schooner HMS Gaspée. published in this Print edition were we may prepare the soil by 1856 – Mormon pioneers began created by Wikinewsies. Other content pushing down on the surface with leaving Iowa City, Iowa and released under the GNU Free the arm before scooping up the headed west for Salt Lake City, Documentation License. material to break it up, then Utah, carrying all their possessions sprinkle a smaller amount over the in two-wheeled handcarts. To view a copy of the CC-BY license, door," said Ray Arvidson of 1928 – Australian aviator Charles visit:

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