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August 3, 2005 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events All passengers survive Toronto plane crash All passengers survive Toronto plane • In Canada, Air France Flight 358 burst crash into flames after skidding off the runway Today Air France flight while landing at Toronto Pearson number 358, an Airbus International Airport at 4:03 pm local time A340 from Paris, ran during a severe lightning storm. No off the end of the fatalities and 24 minor injuries are runway of Toronto's reported. Pierson International Airport and burst into flames. Fourteen •At least 15 people have died following a people are reported injured. series of insurgent attacks throughout Iraq. •The Chinese national oil company Photo taken of the scene from the south side of Russia bans ABC following interview CNOOC has withdrawn a bid for Unocal Highway 401 near Etobicoke Creek by a municipal traffic camera. Source: Government of Ontario with Chechen rebel leader quelling the fears that the deal would give The American a foreign government too much control Today at 4:03 p.m. EDT (2003 UTC) Air Broadcasting Company's over American oil reserves. Chevron is France Flight 358, an Airbus A340 from (ABC) accreditation in now expected to acquire Unocal. Russia will not be Paris, crashed at the end of Runway 24L of renewed by the Russian Government •In Zimbabwe, state prosecutors dropped Toronto's Pearson International Airport. following an interview with a Chechen treason charges against opposition leader Following flights to Toronto were diverted rebel Shamil Basayev on ABC. Morgan Tsvangirai. Mr Tsvangirai, leader to airports in Ottawa and Winnipeg. Airport of the Movement for Democratic Change, officials have said 43 people suffered minor was accussed of organising mass protests injuries but will not confirm that. There Featured story in 2003 to overthrow Robert Mugabe's were 297 passengers and 12 crew onboard. Serbian goal keeper debuts in Croatian controversial régime. Speaking at a press conference, Steve Shaw football club Rijeka •In Germany, police in Brandenburg A goal keeper from Serbia and of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority announce that they have uncovered bones said "As far as we know at this stage the Montenegro, Dragan Žilić, made his of nine newborn babies that had been league debut for Croatian football club passengers were able to flee the aircraft buried in flower pots. The woman before the fire broke out." Rijeka against Cibalija. believed to be their mother, identified in newspapers as "Sabine H.", has been The plane, flying from Charles de Gaulle Wikipedia Current Events arrested in the worst case of individual Airport in Paris, France, apparently ran into infanticide in German history. trouble amidst severe thunderstorms that • President Bush endorses intelligent had caused take-offs to be suspended at the design, stating that it should be taught in Tom Cruise orders €14,500 takeaway time of the crash. schools, even though the scientific meal community does not recognise ID as a The plane skidded 200 m past the end of the scientific theory and considers it to be Tom Cruise this week took the delivery runway, through barriers and into the creationist pseudoscience. service to a whole new level. Celebrating wooded Etobicoke Creek ravine near his 43rd birthday with numerous guests at a •In Ohio's Second District, voters are Highway 401, then burst into flames. The choosing a new congressman. The party in the USA, Cruise decided to call up runway was recently constructed, and is the candidates are Jean Schmidt and Paul his three favorite chefs, all living in Italy, to shortest at the airport (9000 feet). Hackett. prepare a meal. The last major crash of an airliner in North •Up to fifteen thousand protestors in Israel Cruise decided to fly all three chefs out to America was American Airlines Flight 587. stream to Sderot for an Anti- the United States at a cost of €14,500. There has never been a fatality in Airbus Disengagement Rally. According to the Daily Mail the chefs A340 passenger service. cooked the celebrity tagliatelle ragu, veal, Scientists at Stanford University have • and chocolate tiramisu. used nanotechnology to kill cancer cells CNN has reported that the lights in the without harming healthy tissue. plane had gone off, during landing. If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Wikinews Page 2 School, in Sundial, W.V. The school rests at experience which helped me to grow a great CP24 news channel has reported that the base of a mountain selected by Massey deal." Airport officials have said 43 have minor for "Mountain Top Removal" (MTR) injuries and no deaths. mining techniques. Along with the mining Atkins Nutritionals Inc. goes bankrupt equipment, a coal preparation plant and a Appalachia Mountains coal company sludge pond were established on the Atkins Nutritionals Inc, the multi-million plays State politics mountain. Protest groups, mainly the Coal dollar company that supplies dieters with River Mountain Watch and Mountain low carb foods designed for the famous Justice Summer, presented a list of demands Atkins diet has filed for bankruptcy. The to Massey officials that included shutting popularity of the Atkins diet has fallen down the preparation plant, ceasing all sharply so far this year leading to a drop in MTR mining above the Marsh Fork sales at Atkins Nutritionals Inc. Massey Energy Co., the fourth largest coal Elementary School, and abandoning plans producer in the the U.S., filed a federal for a second coal silo near the school. They The company which has filed for chapter 11 lawsuit against the Governor of West also ask that the Marsh Fork school be bankruptcy protection in a Manhattan court Virginia, Joe Manchin. cleaned up or relocated. The state permit for lost over $340 million last year. This is a second coal storage silo was rescinded by despite the fact that there are now believed Massey’s CEO Don Blankenship alleged the DEP the same day Massey filed the to be over 30 million followers of the diet in that Gov. Manchin acted in retaliation Manchin lawsuit. the USA. against the company’s coal mining operations because the company spent Gov. Manchin in June said that Blankenship Administrators were appointed to the $650,000 in an advertising campaign to could expect tougher state scrutiny of his British division of Atkins Nutritionals just defeat the governor sponsored pension bond business affairs since the Massey media six months ago after a string of poor sales proposal. The $5.5 billion bond proposal, campaign against the pension bond results and mounting debt. 3 million people intended to shore up the state's sagging proposal. "I think that is justified now, since in Britian follow the diet. pension plan, was defeated in a special Don has jumped in there with his personal election held in June. wealth trying to direct public policy," he Robert Atkins, the American cardiologist said at an appearance at an American who started the diet, died in April 2003 after The Massey lawsuit, filed last Tuesday on Electric Power event in Putnam County. sustaining head injuries from a fall outside July 26 in the U.S. District Court in the his New York office and falling into a W.V. southern district, was referred to by Formula 1: Barrichello leaves Ferrari coma. Rumors have circulated regarding the Gov. Manchin as having less to do with the cause of his death, and medical records bond proposal than with the newly show that he suffered from hypertension increased state "severance tax" on coal. and congestive heart failure prior to his fall. Nearly 40 million tons of coal production It is not known if the two were related. will be subject to the 56-cent tax. Russia bans ABC following interview According to Blankenship, that tax amounts with Chechen rebel leader to $22.4 million in additional costs for the company, but he denied the increase has The American Broadcasting Company's anything to do with the lawsuit. Ferrari's second driver, Rubens Barrichello, (ABC) accreditation in Russia will not be announced today that he will depart from renewed by the Russian Government The company reported profits that almost Ferrari at the end of the season. Barrichello following an interview with Shamil Basayev tripled during the second quarter compared was with the team since 2000, won 9 Grand on ABC. to a year ago. Of the company’s rosy Prix, helping win 5 constructor titles. He earnings picture, Blankenship urged states will most likely continue his career in BAR. Basayev is a Chechen rebel leader — who to “show some frugality” by not placing tax seek an end to Russian rule of Chechnya — burdens on coal to solve state budget Ferrari announced Felipe Massa, currently and has claimed responsibility for a number shortfalls. He said his company is “playing driving for Sauber, as Michael of terrorist incidents, including the Beslan a role” because there was no need for the Schumacher's teammate for next season. "I school siege where 344 civilians - 172 of bond sale and the state can afford to make am aware of the responsibility it places on them children - have been killed. The payments into the pension system. me and I cannot wait to be part of a team interview with Basayev was conducted by like Ferrari, alongside the best driver in the freelance journalist Andrei Babitsky and Blankenship acknowledged during a world, Michael Schumacher," said Massa. was shown during ABC's Nightline. conference call the now-rescinded June 30 permit by the W.V.