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Top Stories Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events UN aid plane crash kills 17 in anniversary of the Swissair Flight mortgage provider announces Democratic Republic of the 111 disaster. None of the 229 plans to dramatically reduce the Congo people on board survived the size of its business resulting in A United Nations (UN) aid plane aircraft's impact with the sea on the loss of 5,000 jobs. in the Democratic Republic of the September 2, 1998. •Japan's Kyodo news agency Congo (DRC) has crashed, killing reports that North Korea has all seventeen Questions raised about started rebuilding the Yongbyon passengers McCain's choice of Palin, aides Nuclear Scientific Research on board, insist "thorough vetting" Center in retaliation for the according to process United States failing to remove it a source from Various questions have been from a list of states that sponsor the UN. raised about the terrorism. A Beechcraft 1900 According to choice of Alaska Image: Adrian Pingstone. the •At least 15 people die in an Governor Sarah Palin spokesperson "The plane was attack on the village of Musa as Senator John found 15 kilometres (eight miles) Nikow in South Waziristan with McCain's choice for northwest of Bukavu airport. witnesses claiming that United Republican vice There were 15 passengers and States military forces are presidential running mate. There two crew on board." involved. Pakistan later lodges an have been doubts over how official complaint. thoroughly McCain had examined DHS relies on Wikipedia for Palin's background before •The United States Court of asylum information, appeals announcing that he had selected Appeals for the Eighth Circuit court rules against use her to be his running mate on finds "that a reliance on The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of August 29. McCain's advisers information in Wikipedia is Appeals has ruled that the insist that Palin was "thoroughly insufficient grounds for a ruling" Department of Homeland Security vetted," a process that would in an immigration case. was wrong in using the have included a review of all online encyclopedia •Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf financial and legal records as well Wikipedia as a Raza Gilani survives an as a criminal background check. reference when assassination attempt. deciding whether to Wikipedia Current Events •The Independent Monitoring allow asylum seekers to stay in Commission reports that the Hurricane Ike becomes the fifth the United States. Provisional IRA has effectively hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic been disbanded as a terrorist hurricane season later organization, but the Provisional Service held in Nova Scotia on strengthening to Category 3. tenth anniversary of Swissair IRA Army Council still exists crash that killed 229 •Flooding from Tropical Storm A memorial Hanna causes 26 deaths in Haiti. Professional wrestler Walter service has been •United States Army troops cross "Killer" Kowalski dies at age 81 held in Nova the Pakistan border and launch a Former professional wrestler Killer Scotia, Canada raid in the Angoor Ada region of Kowalski died in the early morning to Waziristan. hours of August 30th at the age of Image: Outriggr CC- commemorate 81. Kowalski suffered a major •GMAC's Residential Capital BY-SA-CA 2.0 the tenth heart attack on August 8 and

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Thursday, September 4, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 remained in critical condition at a DHS relies on Wikipedia for —United States Court of Appeals local hospital in Everett, asylum information, appeals Massachusetts until August 18 court rules against use when his family took him off of life The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Cary Bass, the volunteer support. Appeals has ruled that the coordinator of the Wikimedia Department of Homeland Security Foundation, gave Wikinews the During a career that spanned for was wrong in using the online following statement on this issue: 30 years, Kowalski wrestled for encyclopedia Wikipedia as a “Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- several organizations including the reference when deciding whether almost every article can be edited National Wrestling Alliance and the to allow asylum seekers to stay in by anyone at any time. The vast American Wrestling Association. In the United States. majority of the information is the 1960's and 70's Kowalski accurate and the editors strive to wrestled for the World Wide The department used the write from a neutral point of view, Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he Wikipedia article named laissez- but the nature of the project is won the WWWF World Tag Team passer to decide whether the that at any moment, any article Championship with Big John document was a valid form of can contain erroneous information Studd. identification. This is despite the or pure inaccuracies. fact that the article had a large In 1952 Kowalski was involved in orange notice at the top of the Anyone using Wikipedia as an an incident with wrestler Yukon article saying that "this article original source should be mindful Eric. During the match while does not cite any references or of this fact; and anyone citing performing his signature diving sources." critical information such as a judge knee drop he ripped part of Eric's for use in a lawsuit is advised to ear off. When Kowalski visited him The Board of Immigration Appeals use the sources provided via each in the hospital the pair laughed has stated that it doesn't article's references section, history with each other, the following day "encourage the use of resources and talk page to verify that the the newspaper stated that such as Wikipedia.com in reaching information they are reading is, in Kowalski showed up at the hospital pivotal decisions in immigration fact, accurate.”—Cary Bass and laughed at his victim rather proceedings." They said that they than with him, furthering allowed the decision to stand due Service held in Nova Scotia on Kowalski's image as a heel. to the fact that the information tenth anniversary of Swissair seemed accurate. crash that killed 229 After retiring Kowalski opened up a A memorial service has been held wrestling school. During his time The appeals court noted when in Nova Scotia, Canada to teaching he taught some making the decision that Wikipedia commemorate the tenth superstars such as Triple H, Perry admits that articles will often go anniversary of the Swissair Flight Saturn and Chyna. He has also long periods of time. Below is the 111 disaster. None of the 229 trained Chris Nowinski, A-Train, extract from the court documents people on board survived the Frankie Kazarian, Kenny Dykstra that makes this point: “...The site aircraft's impact with the sea on as well as others. acknowledges [that articles], “may September 2, 1998. become caught up in a heavily Kowalski was inducted into the unbalanced viewpoint and can take Hundreds of search and rescue WWE Half of Fame and Wrestling some time – months perhaps – to personnel and local fishermen Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame regain a better-balanced were mobilised after the crash in in 1996, the Professional Wrestling consensus.” Id. As a consequence, St. Margaret's Bay near Halifax to Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Wikipedia observes, the website’s recover fragments of both the National Polish-American Hall of “radical openness means that any aircraft and the victims. The state Fame in 2007. given article may be, at any given of the human remains was such moment, in a bad state: for that identifying them resulted in Former student of Kowalski, Triple example, it could be in the middle what would remain the largest H said "It's a huge loss. Walter of a large edit or it could have DNA identification operation up was one of the biggest name been recently vandalized.” untill the World Trade Centre performers of his time. His legacy collapsed. will live on forever."

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At the ceremony, attended by some 20 recommendations for The UN has identified the victims around 100 people, 229 heart- airplanes have been carried out? as a Canadian member of the UN shaped stones crafted from beach What has gone wrong with the Development Programme (UNDP), rocks and simply decorated with bureaucracy - the inertia for that?" an Indian who worked for the painted stars flowers and hearts asked Rabbi David Ellis. John Butt, Office for the Coordination of were availible for the mourners to who headed the identification Humanitarian Aid, two members of take and place at the foot of the effort as Nova Scotia's chief Medecins Sans Frontiers, one from memorial at Bayswater, one for medical examiner at the time, said France and one from the Republic each of the 229 names upon the it was 'disapointing' that action of Congo. granite monument. Many flowers had not been taken and that it was were also laid there. "not very good to think about The other thirteen were citizens of flying in an aircraft when you know the DRC. Two were employees of The aircraft was a widebodied jet recommendations have been made Air Serv and were the crew. Four which had departed John about the standards of safety and were with the UNDP and another F.Kennedy International Airport in they haven't been adopted." four were civil servants, while the New York at 8:18 p.m. 53 minutes last three worked for Handicap after takeoff pilot Urs Zimmerman TSB member Jonathan Seymour International. and co-pilot Stephan Loew smelt was also critical of the lack of smoke in the cockpit and within action, particularly on the US The UN spokesperson also said three more minutes smoke was Federal Aviation Administration's that "the helicopter landed far visible. The plane, by then in part. "It's just that obviously after away [from the wreckage] and the Canadian airspace, tried to reach 10 years you would have hoped search and rescue team headed to Halifax Airport but never made it, that things would have moved on the site on foot." hitting the water at around 9:31 quite significantly further than p.m. at 350 mph (563 kph). they have. It's frustrating that The plane was on a journey from we're still that far away from Kinshasa to Goma, with stops at The cause of the disaster was where we might want to be after Mbandaka, Kisangani and Bukavu. determined to be highly flammable 10 years," he said. insulating foam, which caught light Air crashes are common in the after an arcing electrical wire UN aid plane crash kills 17 in DRC and, as a result, Congolese triggered a small fire. The fire was Democratic Republic of the airliners are banned from flying in ferocious enough to destroy critical Congo the airspace of countries in the power cables, leaving the aircraft A United Nations (UN) aid plane in European Union. uncontrollable. the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has crashed, killing US Senator Joseph Lieberman The investigation was one of all seventeen passengers on speaks at Republican National aviation's costliest and most board, according to a source from Convention complicated, costing the the UN. According to the United States Senator Joseph Transportation Safety Bureau of spokesperson "The plane was Lieberman (ID-CT) delivered an Canada $60 million. The TSB found 15 kilometres (eight miles) impassioned speech yesterday to produced 23 recommendations to northwest of Bukavu airport. There Republicans at the 2008 prevent a recurance of the were 15 passengers and two crew Republican National Convention. disaster, but only five have been on board." His choice to do so angered implemented in the decade since numerous congressional the crash, including some Air Serv International, the Democrats, and may lead to flammable material restrictions operator of the aircraft, said that it sanctions by the party. and electrical safety did not believe there to be any improvements. survivors They also said in the Lieberman spent 18 years as a statement that "the staff of Air Democrat, winning his first Senate Several people at the hour-long Serv International express their race in 1988. After three terms, multifaith ceremony complained at condolences and deepest Lieberman narrowly lost the the perceived lack of action. "How sympathy to the families of the Democratic primary in the lead-up come after 10 years we are passengers and crew." to the 2006 election. Running hearing reports that only five of instead under the "Connecticut for

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Lieberman" party banner, mentioning Obama's stance on doubts over how thoroughly Lieberman beat his former ground-troop funding: McCain had examined Palin's democratic opponent Ned Lamont, “When others wanted to retreat in background before announcing Republican Alan Schlesinger and defeat from the field of battle, that he had selected her to be his third-party candidates thereby when Barack Obama was voting to running mate on August 29. retaining his seat. He promptly cut off funding for our troops on McCain's advisers insist that Palin changed his official party affiliation the ground, John McCain had the was "thoroughly vetted," a process to "Independent Democrat", which courage to stand against the tide that would have included a review he continues to use. of public opinion and support the of all financial and legal records as surge, and because of that, today, well as a criminal background Lieberman, who had previously our troops are at last beginning to check. endorsed John McCain for the come home, not in failure, but in presidency and was long honor.” Palin is the Republican Party's first considered as a possible running female candidate for Vice mate, spoke to the Republican Lieberman's decision to speak at President. In 1984, Geraldine party about choosing a maverick: the Convention sparked anger Ferraro was Walter Mondale's from many of his Democratic running mate on the Democratic “But when they look to colleagues. A "Lieberman Must Go" Party ticket. Washington, all too often they do petition, boasting over 50,000 not see their leaders coming signatures, was launched by Yesterday, Palin and her husband together to tackle these problems. filmmaker Robert Greenwald. issued a statement saying that Instead they see Democrats and Greenwald seeks to have their 17-year-old unmarried Republicans fighting each other, Lieberman stripped of his daughter Bristol is five months rather than fighting for the chairmanship on the Senate pregnant and that she intends to American people...It shouldn't take Homeland Security and marry the father of the baby. The a natural disaster to teach us that Governmental Affairs Committee. statement came after media the American people don't care Pundits consider this likely if speculation and internet rumours much if you have an "R" or a "D" Democrats gain Senate seats in that Palin's 4-month-old son, Trig, after your name.” the upcoming election, was in fact her grandson, and that Lieberman also took shots at his guaranteeing a safe majority. (The the mother is Bristol. own party, and its candidate, current makeup of the Senate is Senator Barack Obama: “Senator 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, Senator Barack Obama, McCain's Obama is a gifted and eloquent and two independents, Lieberman opponent in the 2008 election, was young man who can do great and Bernie Sanders of Vermont.) asked to comment on Palin's things for our country in the years family situation: ahead. But eloquence is no Lieberman's speech came on the substitute for a record—not in first day of the convention, and "Let me be as clear as possible... I these tough times. In the Senate followed that of Senator Fred think people's families are off- he has not reached across party Thompson and the televised limits, and people's children are lines to get anything significant appearance of U.S. President especially off-limits. This shouldn't done, nor has he been willing to George W. Bush. The convention be part of our politics. It has no take on powerful interest groups in will conclude on Thursday, 4 relevance to Governor Palin's the Democratic Party. Contrast September. performance as governor or her that to John McCain's record, or potential performance as a vice the record of the last Democratic Questions raised about president," said Obama. President, Bill Clinton, who stood McCain's choice of Palin, aides up to some of those same insist "thorough vetting" Obama further told reporters to Democratic interest groups and process "back off these kinds of stories" worked with Republicans to get Various questions have been and noted that he was born to an important things done like welfare raised about the choice of Alaska 18-year-old mother himself. reform, free trade agreements, Governor Sarah Palin as Senator Obama became annoyed when and a balanced budget.” John McCain's choice for asked about a news report that Republican vice presidential quoted an unnamed senior McCain He also elicited booing when running mate. There have been campaign aide saying that

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Obama's name appears in liberal Republicans were quick to note has been handed out to any of the blogs speculating about Trig's that Palin has "more experience" in claimants as yet, and a law parentage. "I am offended by that elected office than does Obama. professor from Duke University statement... There is no evidence has been hired to develop a at all that any of this involved us." McCain's choice of Palin came as a formula that will determine how shock to some, after it was much each party is entitled to. "We don't go after people's expected that McCain would families; we don't get them choose Joe Lieberman, Tim The fire was the fourth-deadliest involved in the politics. It's not Pawleny, or Tom Ridge for the vice nightclub fire in US history. appropriate, and it's not relevant," presidential nomination. McCain Obama added. "Our people were had reportedly met Palin only US hands over security for not involved in any way in this, twice before her selection, and had Anbar province to Iraq and they will not be. And if I ever his first face-to-face interview with The United States military has thought that there was somebody her on August 28. McCain offered handed Anbar province, once the in my campaign that was involved Palin the vice presidential spot just centre of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, in something like that, they'd be moments after their meeting to Iraqi control at a ceremony in fired." concluded. The two appeared at a the provincial capital. For Iraqi campaign rally event the following politics, the Anbar handover is The McCain campaign said that morning in Ohio. especially meaningful because the Senator McCain was aware of Shiite-dominated Iraq military will Bristol Palin's pregnancy before he Great White offers US$1 million now provide security in a largely asked her mother to join him on settlement over Station Sunni province. Anbar is the the ticket. McCain reportedly did nightclub fire eleventh of 18 provinces that the not see the pregnancy as a United States hard rock band coalition has returned to Iraqi detriment to Governor Palin's Great White has filed a settlement control, but it is the first Sunni selection as the vice presidential offer of US$1 million to families of province. President George W. candidate. victims of the Station nightclub Bush said that "Today, Anbar is no fire. 100 people died including longer lost to al-Qaeda, it is al- McCain told reporters that he was band guitarist Ty Longley and over Qaeda that lost Anbar." satisfied with his campaign's 200 were injured in the February vetting process: "The vetting 2003 disaster in Rhode Island. Stanford builds helicopters process was completely thorough that teach themselves and I'm grateful for the results." The fire started when band acrobatics manager Daniel Bichele ignited Stanford University has developed Governor Palin has hired a private pyrotechnics towards the an artificial intelligence software lawyer in a legislative ethics beginning of a concert by Great that allows their model helicopters investigation in Alaska into White at the club. Cheap packing to learn complex aerial acrobatics whether she abused her power in foam had been used as simply by "watching" a human. dismissing the state's public safety soundproofing material to The human controlled helicopter is commissioner, Walter Monegan. surround the stage, and this monitored by a variety of sensors The investigation is checking into ignited. Great White were never which funnel all the data into the whether Palin dismissed Monegan charged, but Bichele was given a AI software. Once the acrobatic for his reluctance to fire Palin's 15-year sentence with 11 of those trick has been repeated a few former brother-in-law, Mike suspended in 2006 for 100 counts times, the computer analyzes the Wooten. of involuntary manslaughter, to data. It is then capable of which he pleaded guilty. He was repeating, with greater accuracy There is no sign that Palin's formal paroled in March this year. than the human controller, the nomination this week at the acrobatics. This system allows the Republican National Convention The settlement offer would need helicopters to preform aerial was in jeopardy. The controversy approved by each of the over 300 maneuvers far more complicated adds anxiety to Republicans who plaintiffs, as well as the federal than previously possible. are worried that Democrats would judge. It would add to $175 million use the selection of Palin to already offered by dozens of Malaysian man uses nut to question McCain's judgment. defendants in the case. No money extend penis, gets stuck

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