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[edit] August 1
- Bush appoints John Bolton United States' ambassador to the United Nations
- Rafael Palmeiro suspended for using steroids
- Black teenager murdered in racial attack in Liverpool, England
- Three battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment to disband as part of NI peace process
- Lawmaker from Japan found hanged
- Sudan’s Vice President killed in helicopter crash
- King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announced dead
- Guantanamo prosecutors call trials a "fraud"
- Poland accuses Belarus of human rights violations
- Burundian Hutu extremists have killed 300 civilians in the last two months
- Australian warship sunk as artificial reef
[edit] August 2
- Tom Cruise orders €14,500 takeaway meal
- All passengers survive Toronto plane crash
- U.S. immigrant worker debate taken up by Virginia township
- Attorney Jack Thompson sets sights on Sims 2
- Appalachia Mountains coal company plays State politics
- Formula 1: Barrichello leaves Ferrari
- Atkins Nutritionals Inc. goes bankrupt
- Russia bans ABC following interview with Chechen rebel leader
- Pennsylvania man acquitted of rape after DNA exoneration
[edit] August 3
- Football CL: Second qualifying round final results
- Freman Hendrix eclipses Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit mayoral race
- Ceremony takes place for decommissioned Royal Navy flagship
- United States Homeland Security network monitors suspicious activity
- New 'Mighty Mouse' from Apple debuts
- Prominent Iranian judge assassinated
- Canada's new governor general announced
- Speeding ticket paid with 12,000 pennies
- The San Diego Zoo gets a new baby giant panda
- Man charged over London bombings
- Brain dead woman gives birth
- Albanian girl murdered in tangle of crime
- German Adidas buys American Reebok
- Two-story building in Lynn, Massachusetts catches fire
- Spiders' egg case silk gene found
[edit] August 4
- London 21 July suspect claims device was 'flour bomb'
- NATO to expand Afghanistan presence
- Economy - Bush toughens up on Central America
- U.S. President Bush: 'We're at war'
- Two killed in Istanbul explosion
- Al Qaeda: 'Blair brought destruction to the heart of London'
- South Korean scientists clone dog for first time
- Foreign investment rises in Romania by 19 percent
- Former UK MP Mo Mowlam 'critically ill'
- 'Star Wars' headed to TV as weekly series
[edit] August 5
- U.S. to transfer some Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan
- An angered Robert Novak exited set of CNN ''Inside Politics'' show
- Four Israeli Arabs killed by Army deserter
- Stranded Russian minisub is trapped by 60 tonne anchor
- Laboratory fire forces evacuation of Australian National University
- British Airways to fly to Iceland
- Baugur Group among others buy Illum Warehouse Denmark
- UN reports 'grim picture' of human rights in Burundi
[edit] August 6
- Robin Cook dead after collapsing
- Plane ditches into sea near Sicily
- Finnish police isolate ports in Helsinki
- Senior citizen group seeks recovery of Medicare expenses from U.S. cigarette makers
[edit] August 7
- England win second test of the Ashes series
- Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer, dies at 78
- Russian submarine rescued by Royal Navy
- Netanyahu quits over Israel's pullout plan
- Larson B ice-shelf collapse reveals exotic organisms isolated for 10,000 years
- America's atomic bombing commemoration held in Hiroshima
[edit] August 8
- ABC News anchor Peter Jennings dies at 67
- 'Afghanistan is a 20-year venture' warns Canadian general
- Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 landing postponed for weather
- Reports indicate Bush appointing friend to lead Plame inquiry
- Slovenian alpinist in rescue on Nanga Parbat
- Koizumi has dissolved the Japanese Diet in response to rejection of postal services commercialization bill
- India, Pakistan begin next round of talks
- Wikimedia Foundation's first Wikimania convention held in Germany
[edit] August 9
- Municipal elections pushed back in Haiti
- Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely in California
- Anti-gay church protests U.S. at military funerals
- U.N. to begin forming response to Iranian nuclear program
- New entrance discovered to world's longest cave
- U.S. war protest mom met Bush in 2004
- U.S. Pentagon conference says weapons entered Iraq from Iran
- Oil for food scandal: UN releases third report
- Shuttle Discovery given 'go' for landing at Edwards AFB
- Interview: Wikinewsie Kim Bruning discusses Wikimania
[edit] August 10
- Detroit chemical plant experiences explosions, fire; residents evacuated/Brief
- Slovenian alpinist rescued from Himalayan peak
- NAFTA dismisses US claims of Canadian violation of Trade Agreement rules in softwood lumber dispute
- Greenpeace tries to thwart Chesapeake Bay fishing fleet
- Fourteen dead as passenger helicopter crashes off Estonia
- Volcanic activity expands McDonald Island off Australia
- Detroit chemical plant experiences explosions, fire; residents evacuated
- Oil in Alberta spill may be carcinogenic
[edit] August 11
- Crosswords/2005/August/11
- Truck carrying explosives crashes, explodes in Utah
- Scientists warn thawing Siberia may trigger global meltdown
- Palmeiro benched on return to Major League Baseball
- Tropical Storm Irene to intensify, may hit U.S. coast
- Rolling Stones unleash new song critical of Bush
- U.S. government hiring more hackers
- Pakistan successfully tests cruise missile
- Haze crisis over Malaysia prompts talks with Indonesia
[edit] August 12
- Former Japanese prime minister Hashimoto indicated his retirement
- Prices at the pump spike overnight in U.S.
- Iran stands firmly against nuclear agency resolution
- Pro-democracy demonstrations erupt in Maldives
- Israel bans nonresidents from Gaza
- British Airways strike grounds flights at Heathrow
- Julian McGauran makes rude gesture to Australian Senate
[edit] August 13
- Palestinians arrested in West Bank raids
- Veteran U.S. attorney appointed to oversee Plame inquiry
- Israeli greenhouses to be preserved after Gaza pullout
- Iraqi constitution met by Sunni resistance
- Activists remember Burundi's Gatumba massacre
- Sri Lanka's foreign minister killed in sniper attack
- Concerns about health situation in UK and Austria
- Talks with TGWU and Gate Gourmet to resume later today
- Ministry reveals the details of their new album
[edit] August 14
- Kurmanbek Bakiev sworn in as president of Kyrgyzstan
- Mother's plea to U.S. president gains widespread attention
- Controversial cancer test gains support
- David Lange, former New Zealand prime minister, dies at 63
- Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashes in Greece
- Paula Abdul cleared of sex scandal after 'American Idol' inquiry
- TSA cuts US airport security screening personnel
[edit] August 15
- Car bombing in Chechnya kills boy
- Former northeastern US Republican campaign director charged with conspiracy
- Third Ashes test ends in a draw
- U.S. study of gay sheep may shed light on sexuality
- 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Asia and Pacific commemorated
- Chelsea signs Essien for £26 million
- Coroner makes first post mortems of Athens airliner crash victims; text message was a hoax
- Orioles' Palmeiro gets mixed baseball fan greeting
- Gaza Strip pullout under way
[edit] August 16
- Somalia food hijackers make new demands
- Plane carrying 160 crashes in Venezuela
- CNN headquarters infected with computer worm, exaggerates global threat
- Spanish helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills 17
- Taizé ecumenical community founder Frère Roger assassinated
- Brazilian shot by police on London Underground was not acting suspiciously
- New record time spent in space
- Babies on U.S. no-fly lists holding up passengers
- Earthquake strikes northeast Japan, shakes Tokyo
[edit] August 17
- "Camp Casey" moves to safer land, as Mother's protest continues
- Two injured in explosion at Toronto fairground
- New computer worm poised to cause massive outages
- Two new schools open in Beslan
- Canadian gasoline tops $1 a litre, politicians consider options
- Bangladesh hit by several bomb explosions
- Fiddle Legend Vassar Clements dead at 77
- 21 July bombing suspect to be extradited back to the UK
- Israeli Army begins forced evacuation of Gaza settlements
[edit] August 18
- U.S. Army intelligence had detected 9/11 terrorists year before, says officer
- Madrid bombing suspect arrested in Belgrade
- Israeli troops remove protesters from Gaza synagogues
- Virginians melee at used Apple iBook sale
- Microsoft announces prices for new Xbox 360
- Iraqi gasoline is the cheapest in the world at $.05 per gallon
- Baghdad morgue received over 1,000 bodies in July
- No 'mates' in Australia's Parliament House
- Pope visits World Youth Day in Cologne
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory illuminates Supernova 1987A
- Multiple computer worms released as "botwar" rages
[edit] August 19
- Explosion in San Francisco injures one, cause unknown
- China and Russia continue joint army exercise
- Syrian-born youth killed while building bomb in Norway
- Former British Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam dies
- Merck & Co. found liable for $253.4 million in Texas man's Vioxx-related death
- Australian Air Force crews "at war" with Veterans' Affairs over compensation
- Rocket attack on USS Ashland docked in Jordan; another rocket fired at Israeli town
- Moroccan gets seven years in German 9/11 retrial
- Former rebel becomes President of Burundi
- Next Shuttle flight delayed to next year; ISS crew begin spacewalk
[edit] August 20
- Document reveals U.S., Taliban discussed bin Laden assassination
- Indonesian blackout caused by lack of generation capacity
- CBC lockout enters sixth day
- Croatian singer beaten in Belgrade
- Daily Mail: Scotland Yard offered Menezes family US$1m
- At least 13 killed in shootings at polling stations in Pakistan
- Attempt to reopen Western Australia's biggest beef processor
[edit] August 21
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- Space shuttle Discovery back in Florida
- Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
- One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope
- Australian parliamentary security officers allowed to address members as 'mates' again
- Inter Milan victorious in Italian Super Cup
[edit] August 22
- Innovator of synthesizers Robert Moog, dead at 71
- Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist
- Irish CAO releases 2005 university offers to students
- Dance party broken up by police in Utah, USA
- Earthquake reported near Rome's coast, no damage caused
- British authorities may have detected nerve gas attack plans
- Young Quakers disappointed by UK visa denials
- 'MI6 officers' named on US-based website
- Brush fire gets close to animal park near San Diego
[edit] August 23
- 'Piano Man' speaks and is identified, returns home to Germany
- Officials of Fanmi Lavalas party threaten boycott
- Lance Armstrong accused of EPO doping
- Draft constitution pushed into Iraqi parliament
- Thousands expected to protest at Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney
- Canada considers trade retaliation against the U.S.
- Hiker missing from US state of Utah wilderness found in Australia
- Israel completes Gaza strip, West Bank pull-outs
- UK guinea pig farm to close after owner's family grave robbed
- Indiana senator testing waters for 2008 U.S. presidential bid
- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuela's president
- Massive floods in Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland
- Australian current affairs TV program accused of inciting religious hatred
- Archaeologists find 1.8M-year-old Homo erectus skull
- New Zealand general election: National, Labour TV debate
[edit] August 24
- Butter sculpture returns to Canadian National Exhibition
- Google Talk released in beta form
- Google provides Gmail access to American cell phone customers
- Canadian woman faces 234 counts of double-doctoring
- Mixed success for Brampton Day at Ontario Place
- Turkmen president bans recorded music in public
- Clothes from China piling up on European borders
- Australian governments to partially fund Forbes conference
- Update: U.S. Army intelligence had detected 9/11 terrorists year before, says officer
- English FA rescinds red cards, FIFA backlash probable
- Jetliner crash-lands in Peru
[edit] August 25
- George H. W. Bush to attend Sydney CEO conference
- RTÉ's Eddie Hobbs attracts massive audience
- Authorities search for victims of Peruvian air crash
- Americans are getting fatter, not-for-profit's report finds
- Brampton, Canada and Marikina, Philippines seeing double as cities twin
- US televangelist Pat Robertson apologizes for assassination remark
- US satellite radio provider Sirius unveils portable player
- Canadian city announces first Studios of Brampton tour
- Next generation DVD format war nearing deadline
- Winners of international postcard-sized art exhibit announced
- German Constitutional Court green-lights early elections call
- Protestors want 'carnival not confrontation' at Forbes conference
[edit] August 26
- Hotel quarantined after anthrax scare in US state of Michigan
- Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida, kills seven
- Montreal lab questions ethics of recent EPO doping claims against Lance Armstrong
- World Health Organization declares tuberculosis emergency in Africa
- Tropical Storm Katrina threatens Florida, Bahamas
- Man allowed to keep deceased friend in warehouse freezer
- Controversial Berlin opera features interactive drug usage
- Iberia burning: forest fires rage across Portugal
[edit] August 27
- Afghani heroin shipment shot down in Tajikistan
- Wine cork prevents fuel leak on train
- Shoppers World hosts arts event
- Lance Armstrong disputes French doping results
- UK study claims men have higher average I.Q. than women
- Two arrests made in Zotob worm attack
- Swedish Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
- Writers meet weekly at Ashland Underground
[edit] August 28
- Mandatory evacuation declared in New Orleans, US
- Hawaii, US beats Curacao in Little League World Series Championship
- First encyclopedic dictionary of the Black Sea released
- First suicide attack since Israeli pullout occurs in Beersheba
- Service cutoff extended for unresponsive U.S. VoIP users
- Australian MPs demand Islamic headscarf ban in schools
[edit] August 29
- CN Health & Safety Plan planned to be cancelled
- Little Caesars Pizza to open eight stores in Ireland
- Sixteen additional suspects revealed in Zotob worm case
- Sydney, protesters reach agreement with police
- Hurricane Katrina causes upwards of $12bn of damage; oil prices surge
- Wreck of August 6 airliner crash recovered from sea off Italy
- Bush attendance at Australia CEO conference a hoax
- First fifty-star United States flag up for sale
[edit] August 30
- Louisiana locked down; New Orleans could become a "toxic soup"
- Green Day dominates at MTV's 2005 Video Music Awards
- At least 55 killed by Hurricane Katrina; serious flooding across affected region
- Sydney prepares for Forbes Conference and 30A protest
- Suspects apprehended after car chase through Denver, US
- Protests over UK preparations to deport Kurd Iraqi asylum seekers
[edit] August 31
- Philippine impeachment unlikely to succeed
- Carnival style protest held in Sydney
- Italian petrol prices rocket to a record EUR 1.30 per litre
- Total evacuation of New Orleans planned
- Several hundred killed after stampede in Baghdad
- Rhode Island District Court freezes Palestinian Authority assets in the US
