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Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Thai PM Thaksin ousted by •BBC Top Gear presenter Richard •The leader of the military coup in coup Hammond is critically injured in Thailand, General Sonthi A military coup has an attempt to break the UK land Boonyaratglin, declares that a taken place in speed record for the TV show new civilian prime minister will be Thailand with soldiers appointed in two weeks to •In Kazakhstan, 41 miners die in and tanks surrounding replace the deposed Thaksin the nation's worst mining government buildings Shinawatra. accident after a methane in Bangkok while explosion in a coal mine. •A second night of violence in the ousted Prime Minister Thaksin capital Budapest leaves nearly 60 Shinawatra was at the annual UN •Former South African Deputy people injured and leads to 100 General Assembly in New York. President Jacob Zuma's arrests as police clash with The army Commander-in-Chief corruption trial is thrown out by demonstrators seeking the Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin has the judge at Pietermaritzburg resignation of Prime Minister been announced to be the acting High Court, who rules that the Ferenc Gyurcsány. prime minister. State's case goes "from one disaster to another" and failed to •A public memorial service is held UN General Assembly opens follow proper procedure. This is at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, with rhetorical appeals by thought likely to improve Zuma's Queensland, Australia, for "The both Bush and Ahmadinejad chances of succeeding President Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. US President George Thabo Mbeki, but prosecutors •The English Football Association W. Bush and Iranian have said that they will refile is to investigate allegations of President Mahmoud charges later. corruption and the taking of Ahmadinejad •Dozens are killed and hundreds illegal payments (known addressed the 61st annual missing in India and Bangladesh colloquially as 'bungs') within the meeting of the UN General after heavy rainstorms in the Bay sport. assembly in New York of Bengal. •The United States Federal Richard Hammond injured in Featured story Reserve decides to leave its jet-powered car crash Canadian terror suspect Arar benchmark interest rate Richard Hammond, a British cleared after one year of unchanged at 5.25% for a second television presenter known for torture successive month. Chairman Ben presenting shows such as Top Gear The RCMP bungled the case of Bernanke and his colleagues and Brainiac, is in a stable Maher Arar leading to an innocent believe a slowing economy and condition in hospital following a car man being tortured in Syria falling energy prices are starting accident during filming for Top following his deportation from the to relieve inflation pressures. Gear. He was injured when the jet- United States. Justice Dennis powered car he was driving •Shinzo Abe is elected as party O'Connor's report, released crashed during filming for the leader of the Liberal Democratic yesterday, reveals that the RCMP former. The "Vampire" car, which Party in Japan, replacing the erroneously told the United holds the British land speed current Prime Minister Junichiro States that Arar was linked to Al record, overturned whilst being Koizumi. He will likely be elected Qaeda and was wrongly driven at speeds of up to 280 as the new prime minister on 30 described as an "Islamic miles per hour at Elvington airfield September 2006. extremist individual". near York, in what was suggested to be an attempt at bettering the If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Thursday, September 21, 2006 Wikinews Page 2 previous record. It has been bowled out for 146 at the end of be elected to the House of alleged that he suceeded in a the 41st over. India will now face Commons in the January 23, 2006 previous attempt. It was during Australia in the semi-final on federal elections. his final attempt that the crash Friday. The West Indies have occured. Emergency services were already secured themselves a Bob Rae, a former leader of the called to the scene at 5.45pm local place in the final. Ontario New Democratic Party time (16.45 UTC). donated a total of $845 to the Winning the toss, India elected to Liberals since the beginning of The BBC reports suggest that he bat first but got off to a disastrous 2005 including $300 to MP John was taken from the crash scene start. Skipper Rahul Dravid was Godfrey's election campaign and unconscious and airlifted to the caught behind off Dwayne Smith's $300 to Pierre Pettigrew's riding specialist neurological unit at bowling for a duck, and was soon association in Papineau. He also Leeds General Infirmary. The followed by Virender Sehwag who donated money to NDP candidates ambulance service is reported to was bowled by Smith after getting in the January election including have said that Hammond began to just one run off six balls. Suresh $300 to Irene Mathyssen, who was regain conciousness upon arrival Raina, Sachin Tendulkar and a cabinet minister under Rae in at the hospital. However, a Harbhajan Singh helped bring the 1990s, and $250 to his former firefighter who witnessed the India's total up above the 150- special assistant, Rochelle accident said that he was able to mark, even as the rest of the Carnegie, the NDP's candidate in speak when removed from the batting order collapsed under the Willowdale. Carnegie's Liberal rival wreckage, and numerous West Indian attack. was Jim Peterson, brother of eyewitnesses from the Top Gear former Ontario premier David crew claimed he was 'helped into' The Indian bowlers managed to Peterson whose government Rae an air ambulance, suggesting he put some pressure on the Windie defeated in 1990. was conscious at the time. batting order by getting some early wickets. Shivnaraine Scott Brison is the most generous The car was "very very badly Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan Liberal having donated a total of damaged and in many pieces on and Runako Morton were all $3175 to the party, its candidates the runway", according to BBC dismissed in the 20s, following and riding associations, followed News 24, reporting comments which the rest of the West Indies by Ken Dryden who donated made by his colleagues. batsmen were all sent back to the $2145, Joe Volpe who has donated pavilion by the 41st over. $1695, Hedy Fry with $1323.49, A BBC spokesman confirmed that Hall Findlay with $1290.85, Rae's the presenter had been injured. Two Canadian Liberal $845 and Stephane Dion with Presenters are reported [BBC] to leadership candidates failed to $595. be at his side. Consistent news donate to party emerged that he had regained A Wikinews analysis of financial Totals do not include donations some sort of conciousness by the reports filed with Elections Canada made by the candidates to their time he arrived at the hospital in shows that two of the candidates own leadership campaigns. Leeds. for the leadership of the Liberal Wikinews examined financial Party of Canada have not made reports for donations to political At 11:26pm local time, Hammond any financial donations to the parties, riding associations and was declared by BBC News 24 to party, its riding associations, or federal election candidates made be in a stable condition. election candidates in 2005 or in 2005 and 2006. 2006. Neither Michael Ignatieff nor Cricket: India beats the West Gerard Kennedy are recorded as Mercury contamination Indies by 16 runs having made finanical throughout the food chain India defeated the Windies by 16 contributions. A new report released by the runs in the fifth ODI at the Kinrara National Wildlife Federation finds Oval in Kuala Lumpur, thereby Ironically, Ignatieff was the that, in the United States, the keeping alive their hopes of recipient of a donation from one animals of many different species, making it to the finals of the DLF fellow leadership candidate, including species eaten by Cup tri-series. The West Indies Martha Hall Findlay, who donated humans, are contaminated with were chasing 163 to win, but were $230.58 to his successful effort to mercury at levels higher than If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, September 21, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 previously thought. Mercury species, including species of fish, well. The new study is an poisoning in humans, which can mammals, birds, reptiles, and international study of survival and result from eating contaminated amphibians, and in a diversity of mortality. animals, leads to a wide range of environments, including conditions, including kidney and freshwater, marine, and forest The study also reveals that a male neurological damage, fatigue, habitats. Some of the animals in born in the late 1870's would have vision problems, and tremors. which mercury is accumulating had an average life span of 51- Mercury poisoning in some include songbirds, alligators, years-old and in the 1930's the animals is so severe that they turtles, bats, otters, polar bears, average life span was 69-years- cannot reproduce at their normal mink, ducks, loons, and bald old. And in females the life rates, or they simply die from it. eagles. expectancy is 75-years-old, previously 55-years-old. While many people are aware of Felice Stadler says that the report mercury contamination of fish, "underscored how pervasive Kim Dunstan, Statistics NZ more recent studies have found mercury contamination has demographer, said: "The dramatic that insects, and animals that eat become. Nearly every aspect of lifespan changes were attributed them, also have high levels of our food web has been to many factors, including mercury.
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