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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events 156 passengers and 7 crew on a charter flight made an emergency AMC Airlines charter plane overshooting the runway. There is belly landing at the Atatürk emergency lands in Instanbul one injury, and the plane is badly International Airport in Istanbul, damaged. after requesting permission to •Turkey recalls its ambassador perform an emergency landing for from Washington D.C. due to technical reasons. concerns over a draft House of Representatives resolution to The plane was returning describe the killings of Armenians vacationers to Poland from during as genocide. Hurghada and was bound for Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport. •A group of 138 prominent Muslim clerics and scholars send an open Wikimania jury chooses The plane caught fire while belly letter to Pope Benedict XVI and landing and overshot the runway. Alexandria for 2008 location other Christian leaders, calling for According to an official mailing One person was hurt. There were greater understanding between no fatalities. The plane is likely a list post from the two faiths. Wikimedia Volunteer total loss. Coordinator, •Turkey recalls its ambassador to Wikimania 2008 will the United States due to anger The Norwegian pilot said that the be held in Alexandria, over an upcoming House of landing, which was made in Egypt. Representatives vote on darkness, was possible because of recognizing the Armenian speckless sky at the time. Genocide. Featured story McGuinty wins re-election in •At least one person is killed and 2007 Ontario General Election Augusten Burroughs on 8 are injured when a bomb setup Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize addiction, writing, his family in a tiffin box blasted in the for Literature and his new book shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin The official results of the 2007 Wikinews Chisti in Ajmer, India. Ontario General Election now show conducted an in- •The British writer Doris Lessing that the has depth interview wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in been re-elected. The Liberal Party with New York Literature. lead by Dalton McGuinty will spend Times bestselling the next 4 years in a majority author Augusten •Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells government. Burroughs about his settlement NHS Trust has received heavy with the Turcotte family, his criticism in a Healthcare McGuinty is the first Liberal battle with addiction, his Commission report on a lethal premier to have back-to-back happiness in sobriety and why he outbreak of Clostridium difficile in majorities since Mitchell Hepburn, would want breast cancer if he its hospitals. who held office from 1934-1942, was a woman. with his second majority starting AMC Airlines charter plane in 1937. Hepburn's government Wikipedia Current Events emergency lands in Instanbul legacy includes the Queen An AMC Airlines MD-83 makes an An aging McDonnell Douglas MD- Elizabeth Way and Rainbow Bridge emergency belly landing at the 83 passenger jet (registration: SU- to Niagara Falls, New York. Atatürk International Airport, BOY) of Egypt's AMC Airlines with

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McGuinty wins, Tory doesn't get PV Taiwan 2007: ITRI Taiwan For the "Jinyi Award", ITRI set a seat awards winners of Jinyi Award special pavilion at their booth to McGuinty was re-elected in his and shows the solutions on show the nominated products and riding of Ottawa South. photovoltaic industry current solutions with solar After lots of speculations and energy. According to ITRI, "Jinyi In his speech, McGuinty told speculative London betting on the Award" encouraged individual or supporters "For this great privilege outcome it has been announced group participants can applied the I am profoundly grateful." He that British author Doris Lessing creations on solar energy and continued by stating that the party ("The Golden Notebook", 1962) is photovoltaics to life of the human "deplore[s] negativity," and that the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize beings. ITRI also hoped those no one should "mistake our civility for Literature. solutions can transform with as a weakness." valued products. This year, ITRI At the International Book Fair at cooperated with Taiwan Design Progressive Conservative (PC) Frankfurt, Germany, which is Center supervised by Taiwan leader John Tory was defeated by currently underway, this decision External Trade Development Liberal candidate has met with general approval, as Council (TAITRA) with judgments in the riding of Don Valley West. a decision awarding the literary of the 4th Jinyi Award. He previously held a seat in his work of an author well established former riding of Dufferin—Peel— beyond her native country, rather This competition has three groups Wellington—Grey. A leadership than a political statement. The (Product Design, Professional election will be held if Tory resigns reason given for giving the Design, Design Competition) with his position, a move he has so far prestigious award to Doris Lessing different natures, competition avoided. was to honour "that epicist of the places, and fields of participants. female experience, who with Winners of "Professional Design Asking hypothetically "Is [Tory] a skepticism, fire and visionary Group" and the 1st and 2nd place little too progressive for the power has subjected a divided of "Design Competition Group" Conservatives?", Liberal Gerard civilisation to scrutiny". were named at the Ceremony. Kennedy on CTV echoed the thoughts of many media outlets, Lessing herself, who will turn 88 After the Ceremony, ITRI held who feel the faith-based school on October 22, has been named a "Photovoltaic Applications on funding was the key blow to Tory's potential candidate over the last Construction Seminar" for campaign Tory called McGuinty to 30 years - so long in fact, that she participants with semiconductor, concede at 10:30 pm. McGuinty herself once exclaimed: "I'll never photovoltaic, environment, and was first to make a televised get it". Finally, on December 10, constriction industries. speech, despite the general 2007, the Nobel Prize including 10 "Governments and companies in practice of winners speaking last. Million Swedish Kronor (1,1 Million Taiwan should learn some Euro) will be awarded to her in successful cases in Europe and New Democratic (NDP) leader Stockholm. USA. ITRI started constructions of was re-elected in photovoltaic and solar energy his riding of Kenora—Rainy River. PV Taiwan 2007 starts with system at South Taiwan. photovoltaic solutions and Photovoltaic and solar energy are Green Party leader Frank de Jong applications the valuable and important energy ran in Burlington earlier this year ndustrial Technology Research source from now, and its industry in a by-election, but lost to a PC Institute (ITRI) showed their will be taken effect on some strong-hold candidate. He ran solutions of excellence not only at environment issues such as again in the riding of Davenport, TAITRONICS Autumn and increasing of oil prices, but lost to Liberal Mario Silva. TaiwanRFID exhibitions, but also greenhouse effect, trendy changes held "The 4th Jinyi Award of environment awareness." Dr. As of 23:40 EDT with 57.6% of the Ceremony" and "Photovoltaic Joeng-shein Chen (Deputy polls reporting: Applications on Construction Manager of Photovoltaics Seminar" accompanied with PV Technology Center of Industrial Taiwan Forum and Exhibition this Technology Research Institute) year. taught to the participants at this seminar.

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2007 Frankfurt International centre of London from the east would not give details of the Book Fair opens and the west, will provide a better students' names or conditions, but After the success of Taiwan rail link to the West End. Jackson said in an afternoon press Photovoltaic Forum 2006, the conference that all three teenagers organizer Taiwan External Trade Gordon Brown said "It was a great were in stable condition. Development Council (TAITRA) day for London, Crossrail and the held PV Taiwan 2007 Forum and economy" with the project According to one student, 14-year- Exhibition at Taipei International expected to add £20 billion a year old student Michael Peek was the Convention Center on October 11 to the UK economy. first person shot, after reportedly and 12. This forum and exhibitions punching Coon in the face. The attracted 74 companies The government is providing a student indicated that Peek did not participating with 110 exhibition third of the money with the rest know that Coon was armed at the booths at TICC 1F and 2F, and is made up from borrowing against time. 18-year-old student Darnell mainly focused on photovoltaic future fares and a levy on London Rodgers told the media that he materials/modules/products, business rates. was the other student shot, a electrical system transformation graze wound for which he was products, system appliances. The news was also welcomed from treated and subsequently released. the railway union RMT, who had According to TAITRA, with the been protesting to the government The 57-year-old teacher, David environment topic on global to go further for a new north to Kachadourian, was listed in good warming, increasing of oil prices, south high speed rail link. condition. 42-year-old teacher environment awareness, and Michael Grassie was in surgery and greenhouse effect, solar energy is Crossrail is also hoped to reduce his condition was unavailable. a very important energy source the overcrowding to airports such from now. The production value is as Heathrow and many others. The gunman was reportedly upset currently increasing world-wide, about a recent suspension arising with the help of semiconductor Shootings in Cleveland high from a fight that happened industry, the photovoltaic industry school leave five injured, Monday near the school. will play a suitable role at energy gunman dead and environment industry in A 14-year-old student opened fire According to one student Taiwan. in a Cleveland, Ohio high school interviewed by CNN, the gunman today, wounding four people. The said he "worshiped the devil" and In the exhibition, lots of exhibitors gunman then fatally shot himself. had mentioned committing a showed their solutions and shooting at the school. Another products on solar energy modules Police were called to the scene at student noted that the gunman and photovoltaic products with lots 1:15 p.m. EST, with reports of a often wore a trench coat and an of unique functions such as gunman in the school. The empty pistol belt to class. waterproof, long-time usage, and gunman, 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, industry integration. One of the entered the school with a gun in A security guard was present on exhibitors - Industrial Technology each hand. Students were the first floor of the building, but Research Institute (ITRI) also held evacuated, with the gunman the position of a guard on the third a seminar and "Jinyi Award" for reportedly still in the building for floor was eliminated. While metal nominated participants and college some time afterward. detectors were present in the students on photovoltaic industry. building, they were not always in According to Cleveland mayor use; it is unclear whether they Crossrail train approved for Frank Jackson, two adult males, were in use at the time of the London ages 57 and 42, and two teenage shooting. The £16 billion Crossrail Scheme, males, ages 18 and 14, were that will run through London, wounded, and taken to local The school, SuccessTech Academy, Berkshire and Essex was given the hospitals. A third teenager, a 14- is a non-traditional school within go ahead; construction will begin year-old female, hurt her knee the Cleveland Metropolitan School by 2010 and it is expected to be while running from the school. District, described on their web finished by 2017. The line, that will site as a "small, nontraditional provide 24 hour trains to the A spokesperson for the hospital high school that provides a

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