August 4, 2005 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events former British Royal Navy flagship HMS Invincible has taken place in Portsmouth, Man charged over London bombings •Mo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland Hampshire today. Ismael Abdurahman was Secretary, has been admitted to hospital, arrested in connection apparently critically ill. The ceremony marks the end of the aircraft with the July 21 bombings carrier's 25-year career. Invincible was •14 US Marines have been killed following in London and has been commissioned into the Royal Navy on 11 charged with terrorism an insurgent attack in Haditha, north- western Iraq. US Officials deny that a July 1980 and first saw service in the offences. He is the first person to get Falklands War in 1982. The Duke of York Marine has been taken hostage. charged in connection with the attacks. served aboard Invincible as a helicopter All passengers survive Toronto plane •More than 800 people have been wounded pilot. crash and 84 killed in the violence which Air France flight number 358, an Airbus erupted in Sudan after ex-rebel southern Pipers played aboard Invincible while it A340 from Paris, ran off the end of the leader Garang died in a helicopter crash. sailed into Portsmouth Naval Base on 1 August for the last time. A gun salute and a runway of Toronto's Pearson International In Singapore, an announcement was made • flypast also marked the event. Airport and burst into flames. 43 people declaring the election date for the are reported to have minor injuries. presidential election to be on 27 August, Last month, Invincible undertook a UK tour with nomination day slated for 17 August. to celebrate the ship's silver jubilee. In June, Featured story •NBC Universal gets permission from the carried acted as flagship for the U.S. immigrant worker debate taken up parent company GE to buy Dreamworks. International Fleet Review to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. by Virginia township •In Australia, Morris Iemma becomes the In a plan spearheaded by 40th Premier of New South Wales after Bill Threlkeld, local The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that being elected unopposed as leader of the Invincible would be 'mothballed' for five- officials were lobbied to state Australian Labor Party. use taxpayer money to years in a state of reduced readiness. build a regulated day •In Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially laborer center in an old becomes new president. It is unlikely that Invincible will ever be recommissioned into the Royal Navy. police station. This they say would get the •In Saudi Arabia the new King Abdullah day-laborer groups off the street. The plan has been invested. Tony Blair and Jacques The MoD said that a decision to either sell, has the backing of Herndon mayor, Chirac, along with many European Michael L. O'Reilly. scrap or even turn Invincible into a museum Monarchs are present for the "bayaa" ship will be made in 2010. ceremony while George Bush Senior and Wikipedia Current Events Dick Cheney will meet with the new King The decommissioning took place six- the following day. • Two people are known to have died months earlier than planned and has following a bomb blast in Istanbul, •In Malaysia, former deputy premier prompted fears that the Royal Navy will be Turkey. Ibrahim receives apology and left overstretched. The move has been compensation from former chief of police criticised by the opposition Conservative •The BBC has uncovered documents Noor, who beat him September 1999 ago Party, who say that it will reduce the Royal which reveal that in 1958 the British when he was arrested on dubious grounds. Navy's capability at a time of Government helped Israel attain nuclear In return, Ibrahim drops the case again "unprecedented international tension". weapons. him. The chairman of the British Council of Ark Royal is about to undergo a major refit • Australian justice minister Chris Ellison Mosques and Imams has advised British • at Rosyth, which leaves Illustrious — the wants to create tough laws against practice muslim women to refrain from wearing Royal Navy's new Fleet Flagship — as the of sending young girls overseas to forced clothing, such as the Hijab, which only aircraft carrier on active service. marriages. identifies them as Muslim following a large increase in Islamophobia and Hate Ceremony takes place for The three aircraft carriers are expected to be crimes. decommissioned Royal Navy flagship replaced by 2015 with two 65,000 tonne aircraft carriers — believed to be named •Oracle Corporation acquires i-flex. The decommissioning ceremony for the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Thursday, August 4, 2005 Wikinews Page 2 Wales. However, zoo personnel became suspicious that one fetus was no longer viable after The baby reportedly "is doing well" and is Football CL: Second qualifying round veterinarians failed to detect a heartbeat in in intensive care at the Virginia Hospital final results one cub last week. Bai Yun failed to give Center in Arlington County, Virginia. Mr. birth to a second cub Tuesday evening. "It Torres, who quit his job to be at his wife's All second qualifying round games of is likely that the second fetus died in utero side, is faced with thousands in medical UEFA Champions League were played and was reabsorbed by her body," Hall said. expenses. yesterday and today. Celtic almost managed to pull off a miracle, by scoring 4 goals at Panda behavioral researchers will be The mother died on Wednesday after being home against Artmedia, but were one goal watching the pair 24 hours a day for three taken off life support. A fund has been set short of forcing the game into extra time. weeks to record and assess the mother- up for her at: The Susan M. Torres Fund For results please visit us online at infant relationship. The new cub has not yet en.wikinews.org been named. The gender of the cub will be Albanian girl murdered in tangle of unknown until zoo staff can safely check. crime Speeding ticket paid with 12,000 pennies Man charged over London bombings An Albanian girl who publicly exposed A Seattle man ticketed for speeding near alleged corruption in the Vlorë police Moorhead, Minnesota decided to pay up, Ismael Abdurahman was arrested in department has died violently. The but instead of paying by cheque or money connection with the July 21 bombings in seventeen year old Joana Dudushi revealed notes, he paid in pennies at court. The judge London and has been charged with on live television in April that officers reacted with this comment: "If the person is terrorism offences. He is the first person to forced her to work as a prostitute. Dudushi mad at the cop, why take it out on court be charged in connection with the attacks. would later accuse her patrons of rape and administration?" said Clay County District police would collect hefty bribes to let them Judge John Pearson. "They're punishing the The charge reads: "Between July 23 and off. She was found stabbed to death in the wrong people.". July 28 he had information he knew or Albanian port city Vlorë. believed might be of material assistance in The man was made to wait for the pennies securing the apprehension, prosecution or Dudushi had not been placed in witness to be counted using a coin counting conviction of another person in the UK for protection as her accusations did not lead to machine by a court clerk who left with the an offence involving the commission, any convictions. An internal investigation of small garbage can of pennies for a bank. preparation or instigation of an act of the Vlorë police found no evidence of $120 in notes, plus extra pennies in change, terrorism." wrong-doing on the part of officers in the were paid back to the man, who was forced case of the alleged forced prostitution. to wait in the courthouse until the coins He will appear before Bow Street were counted and he could pay the fine. Magistrates in London on August 4. The murder probably took place on Sunday, July 31 according to the local police, which He was caught driving 70 mph in a 55 mph Brain dead woman gives birth also states that at least ten suspects have zone on March 5 in Moorhead, Minnesota. been questioned. The body of Joana Susan Torres, a women who had been on Dudushi was found near her apartment The San Diego Zoo gets a new baby giant life support because she is brain-dead gave where she lived with her two-month-old panda birth to a daughter by Caesarean section on baby. Tuesday. The baby , Susan Anne Catherine A new giant panda cub has been born at the Torres, weighs 1 pound, 13 ounces, and is New 'Mighty Mouse' from Apple San Diego Zoo. Bai Yun, a 13-year-old 13 1/2 inches long. giant panda, gave birth at 9:57 p.m. on Apple Computer Inc. today Tuesday to a cub weighing 4 ounces (113.5 The mother Susan Torres, had a stroke on revealed a new product grams). May 7 when the condition of her stage four named Mighty Mouse. The melanoma went to her brain. Doctors said mouse has four buttons and a "Bai Yun immediately tended to her her brain functions had stopped and there small 360 degree scroll squawking infant," said Suzanne Hall, a was no hope of recovery.