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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Small aircraft crashes into September 20 predict a Eureka Tower residential building NYC building "modestly better inflation is offically opened. At 297.5m A small aircraft has hit a outlook" due to a softening (976ft), the structure is the residential building on the upper economy and lower energy second tallest skyscraper in the east side in Manhattan, New York prices. The Federal Reserve held Southern Hemisphere, and the City. interest rates steady. second tallest residential building in the world. •An estimated 655,000 Iraqis Trains collide in Northern have died since 2003 who might France still be alive but for the US-led Geneva bomb scare causes rail Two trains have colided in invasion, according to a survey chaos Northern France at Zoufftegen in by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Geneva, Switzerland – Yesterday the Mossele region of France School of Public Health. The (October 10, 2006) a bomb scare close to the Luxembourg border, study is in dispute though since occured in Geneva. More than at around 11:45 earlier today. The Iraqi Ministry of Health 30,000 people were evacuated places the death toll at 50,000. from the main station Cornavin Featured story and the Globus Department store. •Twelve people have died By 20:00 Swiss Time (18:00 UTC) Russia estimates larger yield following a train crash at the alert was called off. Over 40 for N. Korea nuclear test Zoufftgen in north-east France, trains were cancelled and the Russia's defense minister, Sergei near the Luxembourg border. scare caused mass havoc in the Ivanov, said Monday that North •A North Korean official stationed centre of Geneva. Korea's nuclear test has been in Beijing tells the Yonhap news confirmed and yielded as much agency that "If all out sanctions "Ce message s'addresse aux forces as 15 kilotons of TNT; which was are implemented, we will take it de Police: deux bombes ont été the size of the Hiroshima atomic as a declaration of war". posées à deux endroits bomb. stratégiques. Une, à Cornavin et •Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's une au centre commerciale Wikipedia Current Events number two leader, tells the Globus. Nos demandes sont... Japanese news agency Kyodo •A small aircraft crashes into a building at 524 East 72nd Street, that North Korea will have no "This message is addressed to the on Manhattan's Upper East Side choice but to take physical steps Police Forces: two bombs have in New York City killing at least 4 if the continues to been placed at two strategic people. FBI states that there is so adopt a hostile attitude towards positions. One at Cornavin far no reason to suspect it. [Geneva's main station] and one terrorism, and the alert level •A United Nations report declares at the Globus shopping centre. Our hasn't been raised. The plane that abuse of children is demands are as follows…’ The line was registered to New York "widespread and tolerated" in then cut off. Yankees pitcher, Cory Lidle. Lidle many parts of the world. A is reported to have been the separate report by charity Save That was the message received by pilot, and have been killed in the the Children states that more the alert centre of the Police at crash. than a million children around the 17:12 Swiss time (15:12 UTC), world are in prison. causing an evacuation like none •Minutes from the United States seen before in Geneva. An Federal Reserve meeting held on •In Melbourne, Australia, the anonymous caller called 117, (the

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Police number in Switzerland). At liable to three years in prison. as an architect, Smith as a 18:00 Swiss time (16:00 UTC) in firefighter. the middle of rush hour, railway Imagination Movers to shoot police began asking people to Disney series pilot New agitations over cartoons leave the main station building -based band of Prophet Mohammed [Cornavin]. In a matter of minutes Imagination Movers have Amateur footage of members of the entire station was empty. All announced that they will be the Danish People’s Party drawing trains were stopped at Lausanne, shooting a pilot for the Disney cartoons of Prophet Mohammed or had they already by-passed the Channel this December. were aired on Danish Television station, they were to halt at the last week, prompting protests by nearest station ahead of them. The band reached a deal with Muslim groups. Disney this April to distribute their These halts caused the stranding music through Disney Records, The footage shows party youth of more than 30,000 passengers. after a year of negotiations. The members in a competition to draw All trams were stopped causing series is set to debut on Playhouse cartoons, during a summer camp major traffic jams. There were Disney in 2007. Since September, in August. similar happenings in the Globus their music videos have been on department store where staff and rotation on The . There have been protests in Egypt shoppers were evacuated without and Iran, also by Muslim groups in hassle. As no bomb was found in Nancy Kanter, the senior vice many parts of the world. . the store, the Police Line bands president of programming for were removed at 19:23 Swiss , first discovered Iran lodged a protest over the Time (17:23 UTC). However, the the movers at the Kids Tent of the issue, saying it was "deplorable search continued in the bigger New Orleans Jazz and Heritage that the extremist elements in Cornavin station, but shortly after Festival. "We sat in the hot Kids Danish society have attempted to 20:00 Swis Time (18.00 UTC) the Tent and were just blown away to sabotage 's relations with danger in the station was decided see the response to them. We'd the Islamic countries once again". to be non-existent. heard their CDs, but when you actually sit there with a couple Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Christophe Zawadaski, hundred preschoolers and, in some Rasmussen called the drawings spokesperson for the police, cases, older kids, and see the way "tasteless" and "unacceptable", but explained that the search took a they react to the music, we insisted that he cannot control long time because the bomb- thought, 'This is for us.'" content shown in the media. sniffing dogs found a suspicious bag in a train. But "luckily there The Movers launched Playhouse Two youths featured in the film was no bomb inside" he said. The Disney's concert series, playing at have gone into hiding. first train left again at 20:45 Swiss MGM Studios' ABC Theater from Time (18:45 UTC). 18-24 September. The band is Chinese soldiers shoot Tibetans playing a Halloween concert on 21 crossing into Nepal The SBB-CFF-FFS (The Swiss August 2006, in New Orleans. At around 10:30 am on September Federal Railway company) say 30 Chinese soldiers opened fire on around 40 trains were cancelled. Imagination Movers are a kids people crossing from Nepal to Police say there is no links band formed in 2003. Indie Kids Tibet killing at least two. between this event and the alert of Rock reviewed the group in May, Mountaineers and Sherpas in a possible attack on the UN saying they were "the U2 of kids Nepal witnessed the event. building last week, which was music with a big anthemic leaked to the press, and was pop/rock sound, catchy lyrics, & of There has been no official Chinese meant to be a top-secret course, imagination." The group comment on the event. document. Geneva police have not includes Rich Collins, Scott Durbin, yet made an arrest following this Dave Poche and Scott "Smitty" About 70 refugees were crossing false alert. But, if whomever Smith. While all four members had the Nangpa Pass seeking a caused this panic is caught, Swiss at least "dabbled" in music, Durbin religious education in Nepal. penal code decrees anyone was a computer instructor, Collins accused of a fallacious tip-off is worked in online journalism, Poche Kelsan Namtso, a 17 year old nun

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, October 12, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 leading the children, and and 13 According to the sources, this is Small aircraft crashes into NYC year old boy were killed. British not the first time such an act has building - Terror alert to climber Steve Lawes said that he occurred at the school. The remain unchanged saw a body being left there 28 incident has been cause for strong A small aircraft struck an hours before it was collected. emotions among the French apartment building in New York educational community, which is this afternoon, killing the pilot and French schoolgirl stoned in sensitive to issues surrounding a flight instructor. Cory Lidle, a playground for not observing France's Muslim community, pitcher for the New York Yankees Ramadan especially those regarding the baseball team, was the registered ast Wednesday, October 7, 2006, a treatment of women. owner of the aircraft and is Muslim school girl at Jean-Mermoz believed to have been piloting it; School in Lyon, France was injured Azzedine Gacci, president of the his passport was found on the by stones hurled at her by four Regional Council of Muslim scene. The flight instructor has not male classmates who are Muslim, Worship (CRCM), stated: "[S]i les been identified. as reported in the regional faits sont avérés, ils sont newspaper Le Progrès. The reason inacceptables....")—“...if the facts The plane, a Cirrus SR20 with given was for eating during the are proven (to be true), they are registration number N929CD, hit fast of Ramadan, and thus not unacceptable”. The young girl in the 26th floor of the Belaire observing what is believed by question was in her menstruating Condominium, a 50 story brick Muslims to be one of the seven cycle at the time of the incident. luxury residential building on the pillars of Muslim faith orthodoxy. He expressed regret that some Upper East Side at 524 East 72nd Muslim youths do not know that Street at York Avenue near the According to a leading Jean- "femmes indisposées" (women in East River in Manhattan, New York Mermoz School official, "it was a an exceptional state) are City, of which the first 20 floors simple incident, not exempted by the Koran from are a hospital. An eyewitness, premeditated," and commented observing certain aspects of present half a block from the that the story did not warrant Ramadan injunctions. building, reported that the plane French television coverage. In a Le hit the building, creating an Progrès update report dated Canadian MP Belinda Stronach enormous fireball, broke in two October 11, 2006, "the sequence has first interview since affair and crashed down onto on the of the facts are better known." with Tie Domi street below. Authorities received Allegedly, three students were Recently Canadian MP Belinda a 911 call reporting a crash at taken aside by several schoolboys, Stronach had an affair with Tie 2:42 p.m. Eastern time. who exclaimed, "You are eating!" Domi, a former NHL player. She to one of the students in the had refused to answer direct New York City mayor Michael group, a girl who was eating a questions about her personal life. Bloomberg gave a press sandwich, and who then threw conference at approximately 5:20 stones which " lightly injured the Now for the first time since her p.m. Eastern time to report that girl in the head." The prosecutor of affair, with Tie Domi, she sat down the plane was occupied by a flight the Republic of Lyons noted that with CBC's George instructor and a student pilot, but the word 'Ramadan' had not been Stroumboulopoulos on his show as next-of-kin had not been able to uttered during the incident. "It is The Hour to answer his questions be notified, the identities of the very necessary to know that the about the affair, politics, and other two people on the plane would not political awareness of these boys is topics during the nine minute chat, be released at this time. limited," he added. Two of the four on October 9th. It was held at alleged perpetrators who did 11:00 P.M. EDT. Apartments were seen to be acknowledge these acts were engulfed in flames. The FBI has suspended for four days, and the No transcripts of this interview are stated that it was not an act of school's 250 students were officially available but, a video (see terrorism. The New York area was assembled by the principal shortly CBC source below) can be viewed. grey and overcast during the time after the event "for a solemn at crash; however, visibility was reminder of the law." The not hampered. aggressed girl's parents lodged a formal complaint. After an hour and a half, the fire

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, October 12, 2006 Wikinews Page 4 was extinguished by the FDNY. reported by AP. Lidle was killed, One eye-witness interviewed by according to reports. CNN the BBC stated: "I was wondering Initial reports suggested that a Television reported that the FBI why the plane was doing helicopter was involved, but the stated he was at the controls as acrobatics and then the next thing FAA has stated that it was a fixed- the only occupant of the plane, I knew was that it had crashed wing aircraft. CNN Television and that his passport was found on into the building." She also added reported that it was a single- the ground below the accident. that the plane was a small, white, engine fixed-wing plane which left 4-seater winged aircraft and not a Teterboro Airport, a busy General A little over an hour and a half helicopter as many news agencies Aviation airport in New Jersey, after the crash, the fire was were reporting it to be. circled the Statue of Liberty was extinguished after 39 fire units and tracked on radar until it was lost over 100 fire fighters responded. CNN Television broadcast reports near the 59th Street Bridge, that from eyewitnesses who reported: the plane may have been having The White House has said that A pilot who saw the impact stated, fuel problems or fuel pump there has been no change in the "It looked like a pilot who was problems, and that it was "a pilot terror threat alert and that desperately trying to get to an in distress." President Bush is being updated airport." constantly. Another eyewitness who saw the Wallace Sines, a source for CNN event from the Bronx-Queens stated he believes the plane was a La Guardia airport was temporarily Expressway, also referred to the Cirrus SR-20 with an installed restricted to no take offs from incident as appearing as if the parachute, which did not deploy. other airports, however by 4:10 plane was "desperately trying to The whole-plane parachute system Eastern Time, CNN Television get to LaGuardia" and that as to may have saved the lives of the reported that all New York-area whether he "clipped" the building, aircraft occupants had it been airports were open. or struck it directly, that "he hit it safely deployed clear of buildings, dead on." but the system is not designed to CNN Television announced at "I heard a buzzing noise and then prevent the trauma associated 3:50pm Eastern Time that as of a an explosion which looked like a with a plane impacting a builing. few minutes earlier, NORAD is mushroom cloud." The Cirrus SR-20 was introduced putting fighter aircraft on patrol in 2001 and the Cirrus line of 4- over certain major American cities Giant camel bones found in seater aircraft has since become as a precautionary measure similar Syria one of the most purchased single to the actions taken after the 9/11 The skeletal remains of a giant engine aircraft in the world. The terrorist attacks as a "just in case" camel were discovered in a Syrian SR-20 does not normally carry an measure. It also reported that desert. The fossils are estimated to airline-style flight-data recorder, tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of have come from a camel that died but some are equipped with GPS the attack on the USS Cole in about 100,000 years ago. equipment which logs flight Aden, Yemen. direction, speed and altitude. The bones were unearthed at al- Moments after the crash, there Hemel, Syria, about 155 miles BBC News 24 has reported that was a drop in the New York Stock northeast of Damascus, by an four people have been killed; Exchange, however it quickly archaeological team made up of however, it is unknown whether returned to normal after it was both Swiss and Syrian people. they were in the building or the reported that the crash was an aircraft and the NYPD has accident. Apparently the Palmyra region of confirmed this. According to CNN the Syrian desert "is the first origin Television ten people have been The New York Yankees of the camel," said Bassam injured, six of them firefighters. organization confirmed the plane is Jammous, director general of the The New York Times, however, registered to Cory Lidle of the New Antiquities and Museum reports that eleven firefighters York Yankees, who was planning to Department. have been injured. fly from New York to Florida, and that some unnamed member of A scientific name has not yet been The aircraft was owned by baseball the Yankees organization was on agreed upon, but the joint Swiss- player Cory Lidle. He was on board the plane. Syrian team has dubbed it the

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"Syrian Camel". Jammous stated train and a Luxembourgeois that the animal is thought to have Kiran Desai's mother Anita Desai is passenger train. The passenger been around 13 feet tall, twice also an author, and three of her train was travelling from that of an average-size modern works have been shortlisted for Luxembourg to Nancy and the day camel. the prize. freight train was travelling from Thionville to Luxembourg. Some of the bones were The Inheritance of Loss deals with discovered in 2005, but only issues such as globalisation, and There are also at present 20 recently did they find many more. life in rural India. The book, set in additional casualties although this New York and the Himalayas, deals number could rise. BBC News has Evidence from the fossils make it with an embittered judge and his reported, some of the injured may appear that they wern't bred by desire to enjoy a peaceful retired still be trapped in wreckage. humans, but this cannot be life. Rescuers from France and certain. Luxembourg are at the scene, with "I was very conscious of the BBC reporting that a mobile India's Kiran Desai wins emotional territory that I wanted hospital as well as specialist Booker Prize for "The to capture, in terms of the story, I equipment was on the way. Inheritance of Loss" didn't know at all what it was The 2006 Man Booker Prize was going to be, I think I wrote in The cause of the crash is awarded to Kiran Desai, for her every direction - the story of undetermined at present, but due fictional work The Inheritance of immigrants in New York, my to engineering works, single line Loss. The 35-year-old is the parents, my grandparents, my working was in operation on the youngest woman, and the third journey. But yes, I was aware of route affected. The trains collided Indian, to win the £ 50,000 award. the certain sort of emotional head-on. An SNCF spokesman was After two hours of deliberation, landscape, darkness, worry and quoted as saying "Due of the Hermione Lee, (chairwoman of the fear that this journey between engineering works, only one way judges) announced that the panel East and West causes.", said Kiran was available and train traffic was had chosen Desai's second novel Desai of her work. alternating" He continued, "For over the other shortlisted entries- reasons still to be established, the In the Country of Men by Hisham The Booker Prize was founded in trains found themselves facing Matar, The Secret River by Kate 1969 and is considered one of the each other". Grenville, Carry Me Dow by M. J. most prestigious honour given to Hyland, Mother's Milk by Edward authors whose works have been French Prime Minister Dominique St Aubyn and The Night Watch by published in Britain, Ireland and de Villepin and Transport Minister Sarah Waters. the Commonwealth. The honour Dominique Perben are understood was renamed the Man-Booker to be on their way to the scene of "This is a magnificent novel of Prize after the Man Group began the incident. humane breadth and wisdom, sponsoring it. comic tenderness and powerful Eric Soupa, a local official was political acuteness.", Lee said, Trains collide in eastern France quoted (BBC News) on French adding that the judges had "felt Two trains have collided head-on in radio: "We are faced with an strongly about" and "admired" all eastern France at Zoufftgen in the important and dramatic situation." the entries, and that The Moselle region of France, close to According to first reports, the Inheritance of Loss was not a the Luxembourg border, at around spokesman of SNCF has indicated "compromise" choice. While 11:45 local time (09:45 UTC) that the driver of the freight train accepting the award, Desai said, "I earlier today. Based on inital did not "pass a signal at red" and didn't expect to win. I don't have a reports, BBC News has suggested had actually passed the signal at speech. My mother told me I must 10 passenger deaths as well as the green. wear a sari... a family heirloom, those of two train drivers involved but it's completely transparent!" in the incident and a track side New Zealand Government After expressing her gratitude to worker.French officals later announces record surplus her publisher, editor and agent, confirmed at least 5 dead. Today the New Zealand she added, "I'm Indian and so I'm Government announced that they going to thank my parents." The trains were a french freight had a record surplus of NZ$11.5

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, October 12, 2006 Wikinews Page 6 billion for the 2005 and 2006 averaged nearly $3 billion a year - and the publisher, saying “We financial year. This amount was in other words, revenue nearly condemn with the greatest $2.5 billion more than the tripled. conviction the grave attacks on government expected to get, freedom of thought and freedom of however $1.8 billion of the surplus "It [tax] should be put to use in a expression which this affair has was because of a change to the way that truly benefits New provoked.” But later issues recording of the tax take. Zealand," O'Reilly added. apologies.

However the surplus is now going French teacher in hiding after Education Minister Gilles de Robien to put more pressure on the criticizing Islam expressed “solidarity” with Mr. government to put tax cuts on the Robert Redeker, a French writer Redeker but also criticized him for cards. Both the Labour and United and college tutor in Toulouse, is not showing "prudence and Future parties are reviewing now in hiding after receiving a moderation". Two French teachers cutting business tax. But the series of death threats from unions have issued statements National party says that with the Islamic fundamentalists by phone, defending Mr. Redeker's right to big surplus they can afford to cut email, and on a radical Islamist speak freely while also criticizing both business tax and personal internet forum. his statements. tax. One online posting called upon Le Figaro has been banned in However finance minister, Doctor French Muslims to "follow the lead several Muslim countries, including Michael Cullen, said the amount of of Muhammad Bouyeri", who Egypt. cash available for tax cuts will be murdered the Dutch filmmaker clearer in December. Theo van Gogh after he made a NYC boy found on Long Island, film denouncing the plight of New York after car theft John Key, finance spokesman for abused Muslim women. triggers amber alert National, said: "The surplus makes An amber alert has been cancelled a mockery of claims made by The forum also published photos of after an eight-year-old Inwood boy Michael Cullen before the last him, his home address with was found unharmed after a car election that tax cuts were directions, the places where he theft-turned-kidnapping ended on unaffordable and would put at risk works, and his telephone numbers. Long Island. core primary services. When Mr. Redeker told i-TV that: surpluses are this enormous, any "There is a very clear map of how According to various local sources, veiled hope the government had to get to my home, with the Belkis Gonzales left her sleeping that it is not overtaxing people will words: 'This pig must have his child, Jay Polanco, in her SUV rapidly evaporate." head cut off'." while she entered a store at Sherman Avenue near 204th Cullen said: "The Government's The French police say they are Street. The vehicle was then stolen "robust" financial position was a taking the threats seriously, but with the boy still inside. firm base for the future, but it was did not elaborate on the protection not an indication of how much offered to Mr. Redeker. Residents in the area kept their room he had for tax cuts or eyes open and NYPD arrived on spending." Mr. Redeker had published an the scene quickly. editorial in Le Figaro criticizing Phil O'Reilly, Chief Executive of Islam. His article stated that the According to news reports, the Business New Zealand said: "The Prophet Mohammed was “a vehicle was traveling along the business tax reduction from 33 to merciless warlord, a looter" and "a Northern State Parkway near 30 cents planned for April 2008 mass-murderer of Jews”. He also Westbury when one of its tires could be brought forward to April asserted that Islam "exalts went flat. A good Samaritan, 2007. The last time the business violence and hatred" in its sacred Thomas Knabbe, pulled over to rate was cut, in 1989, business tax text and religious rites. assist and became suspicious revenue actually went up. In the when he discovered that the decade before 1989, revenue Le Figaro has defended Mr. driver, a white female, spoke only averaged around $1 billion a year, Redeker, publishing a front-page English, while the child spoke only while in the decade after, it open letter, signed by the editor Spanish.

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