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[edit] September 1
- Talks between Pakistan, India yield apparent progress
- Football: Ronaldinho signs for Barcelona until 2010
- Google begins selling print ads
- Fats Domino rescued in New Orleans
- Nigeria bill has Taylor implications
- West African cholera claims more than 500 lives, more deaths feared
- "Toxic soup" scenario in New Orleans unlikely
- Microsoft acquires VoIP firm
- U.S. man murdered by wife in Hong Kong
- Al-Qaida claims responsibility for London 7/7 bombings
- UN Security Council considers Cote d'Ivoire sanctions
- Widespread looting blamed for disrupted rescue efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana
- First executions in post-Saddam Iraq held in Baghdad
- Fats Domino missing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Idaho companies claim of new record for transmitting data across a wireless link
- Józef Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies
- New Caledonia prepares for 2011 South Pacific Games
- Hurricane Katrina: Resources regarding missing/located people
- Israel rules victims of Jewish terrorist not entitled to lifelong support
- Shots reported during Superdome evacuation
- Bush authorizes oil release from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
[edit] September 2
- Crime in New Orleans sharply increases after Hurricane Katrina
- New South Wales Liberal leader attempts suicide
- Broadband users kicked off service for constant questioning
- Gas prices surge in Northeast US
- Woman torches own house, attempting to kill spiders
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide housing for Katrina refugees
- Minnesota 2% biodiesel mandate becomes effective September 29
- Did human remains cause mad cow disease?
- Scientists debate whether Hurricane Katrina was aggravated by global warming
- Microsoft Office dropped by Massachusetts, USA
- King of Swaziland seeks thirteenth bride, continues to cause ire
- Oil prices fall as reserves are released
- Intel responds to AMD antitrust suit
- Controversy over New Orleans photos captions
- Briton to fly hang glider across the UK
- Bomb in Dagestan explodes Russian military truck
- Ivorian rebels say South African mediators ‘discredited’
- Explosions hit waterfront in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Coroner finds that Australian Prime Minister Holt drowned in 1967
- Louisiana officials accused of blocking rescue volunteers
- US Senate approves $10.5 billon in aid for Hurricane Katrina victims
- Guantanamo prisoners stage hunger strike
- California Senate votes to allow gay marriages
[edit] September 3
- Many nations offer material aid to hurricane victims; Bush refuses to accept
- Chief Justice of the United States, William H Rehnquist, dies at age 80
- Federal response to Katrina a "national disgrace"
- Deadly blaze in Paris possibly caused by arson
- French President Jacques Chirac hospitalized
- Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin slams Bush, federal government in radio interview
- Chimpanzee genome sequenced
- Rapper Kanye West denounces Bush response, American media at hurricane relief telethon
- Federal government begins employing strategies to repair New Orleans
- Sun retires the Sun Industry Standards Source License
- Blizzard Entertainment's victory over bnetd sealed in Appeals Court
- Swazi princess beaten by government official for wild party
- Liberia's World Cup woes averted
- Cape Verde to launch first public university, with Brazil's support
- US unemployment fell to four-year low before Katrina
[edit] September 4
- Police shoot eight gunmen on New Orleans bridge, five dead
- Former US VP Al Gore spearheads transport of hurricane victims to relief in home state
- EU, China fail to agree on textile trade
- TV debate between German chancellor Schröder and opposition leader Merkel held
- Kuwait donates US$500 million to Katrina relief efforts
- Australia hits new Telstra privatization hurdles
- Hurricane Maria forms in Atlantic
- PayPal freezes $20k in hurricane relief donations
- Israelis, Pakistanis watch and wait as ties develop
- Controversy over whether New Orleans Mayor failed to follow hurricane plan
- India struggles with encephalitis outbreak
- Tempers flare over New Orleans tragedy
- Childhood ibuprofen-triggered asthma a concern
- Oil spill spotted along Mississippi River
- California's SB 1 Bill Originators' and Supporters Turn Against Bill
[edit] September 5
- Crosswords/2005/September/5
- Vladimir Putin dismisses head of Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov
- Green Beret tech blogs up-close and personal from New Orleans
- President Bush nominates John Roberts as Chief Justice of the U.S.
- 11 Japanese hospitals receive bomb threats
- At least 200 New Orleans police officers quit force
- China, EU reach deal on textile import
- Japan weathers Typhoon Nabi
- Tsunami nations give relief advice to U.S.
- 7 British paratroopers accused of murder begin trial
- Second Paris fire kills 16 in 18-story building
- Canada increases oil production to assist U.S.
- Islamic political party seeks registration in Australia
- Court rules in favour of record labels, Kazaa found illegal
- Brazilian Vote Buying parliamentary commission present first joint preliminary report
- Jetliner crashes in Indonesia
- U.S. classifies record number of documents in 2004
- Australian Health minister makes inappropriate comments about Brogden suicide attempt
[edit] September 6
- Portia de Rossi talks about Ellen DeGeneres, sexuality
- Sony breaks UK launch sales record with PlayStation Portable
- UK regulator warns MasterCard
- Manned mission to Mars at least 20 years away, easier than first trip to Moon
- Australian Aborigines sprayed by crop-duster
- Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students
- Girls Aloud win Popjustice £20 Music Prize
- Iraqi president says Saddam confessed to crimes
- New Orleans police officer commits suicide
- Antony & The Johnsons win Mercury Music Prize
- Actor Bob Denver dies at 70
- French President Chirac remains hospitalized
- Allegations President Bush staged photo-ops in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina tragedy
- Munich delays switch to Linux
- Linux installed on 2,460 desktop computers in Italian schools
- Fire kills 32 in theatre in Beni Suef, Egypt
- Wheelchair-bound Australian rescued in New Orleans
[edit] September 7
- Haiti reschedules November presidential elections
- US Department of Defense reports Iraqi Al Qaeda "safe house" hit
- Farmers block main road in South Italy
- Wikimedia Commons celebrates first anniversary
- UN holding recruitment exams in under-represented countries
- US carrier Delta Air Lines cuts jobs, sells planes
- Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans graduate students
- Apple unveils iPod nano
- Palestinian gunmen assassinate ex-security chief
- Australia's ABC head Levy leaves for "Channel Nine"
- Tunisian ATR-72 plane crash on 6 August caused by incorrect fuel gauge
- Australian PM Howard under fire over AU$1.40/L pump prices
- Celebrities contribute to Katrina relief
- New Orleans DirectNIC Offices, 'Outpost Crystal' visited by 82nd Airborne
- Chopper knocks Austrian gondola off cables, killing nine
- Astronomers find changes in Saturn's rings
- Award show producers try Emmy Idol
- U.S. state of Utah begins to accept evacuees from Hurricane Katrina
- Massachusetts to set up "village" for Katrina evacs
[edit] September 8
- Ukrainian president Yushchenko dismisses PM, cabinet
- California state legislature passes same-sex marriage bill
- Afghan-Tajik border control transferred from Russia
- Controversial rapper dethrones Mariah Carey from No. 1
- Oil price falls on inventory report
- US FEMA aid site only supports Windows with Internet Explorer
- UN inquiry finds mismanagement and failure of oversight
- Google hires Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet"
- Death of candidate will delay final results for German federal election by weeks
- Aerial photos of Katrina's aftermath available
- Samsung to sell dual-standard DVD player
- Halliburton's KBR awarded half billion dollar repair contract for Gulf Coast Navy facilities
- Blair is first public official to apologize for Hurricane Katrina response
- Controversy erupts over German Anarchist Pogo Party's campaign ad
[edit] September 9
- Israel completing Gaza withdrawal
- Ford, Fiat to produce small cars together
- Report: Annan failed to fix Oil for Food program
- New movies, 9 September 2005
- Sydney train doors stuck, passengers delayed
- Firefox 1.5 beta released to public
- New Orleans officials confiscating guns
- Malawi food appeal unanswered by world community
- FEMA head Michael Brown recalled to Washington
- US ABC network to offer more shows dubbed in Spanish
- How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
- News Corp acquires IGN for US$650 million
- GNOME Project unveils latest version of Linux and Unix desktop
- EBay may acquire VoIP firm Skype
- NASA announces Shuttle delay due to Hurricane Katrina
[edit] September 10
- Irish dancing record broken in Cork
- Australia proposes new anti-terror laws
- Swedish minister wants more free-to-air channels in the terrestrial television network
- Single-engine plane crashes into home in Cyprus
- Read Santa Clara marks tenth anniversary
- Guadalupe River Park and Gardens opens in San Jose, CA, USA
- Saudi Arabia agrees with the US on joining the WTO
- FEMA head relieved of duties
- Wendy’s finger pointers plead guilty of crime
- One week before German federal election, the race is wide-open again
- All major American TV networks show charity concert for Katrina victims
- Red Cross is not in New Orleans for Katrina, Guard raced it to Superdome
- British Gas announces a hike in energy bills of 14.2%
- Celebrities contribute to Katrina relief
[edit] September 11
- Katrina raised gas prices higher than ever
- Loyalist rioting erupts in Belfast
- UK Chancellor blames OPEC for oil crisis, refuses to cut fuel tax
- Chile remembers its own September 11 anniversary
- Red Cross asks for more volunteers
- Katrina survivor searchers prepare for the worst
[edit] September 12
- Second night of violence in Belfast
- Synagogues burn as Palestinians rejoice over Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip
- Los Angeles undergoing large power outage
- England win the Ashes
- NZ opposition leader admits to fundamentalist contacts
- Hong Kong Disneyland opens to the public
- Michael Brown, Director of FEMA resigns
- Exit Polls: Norway votes for change
- EBay to acquire Skype
- US peace activist to be deported from Australia
- Bush approval rating sinks to 38%
- FEMA accused of misusing trained disaster workers as public-relations workers
- Koizumi wins electoral mandate for postal reform
[edit] September 13
- Proposed United States doctrine would expand possible use of nuclear weapons
- Caged children well fed, behaved
- Paramilitary group calls for end to rioting in Northern Ireland
- R&B singer D’Angelo sentenced on cocaine charge
- Nintendo releases GameBoy Micro in the US
- Volcanic bulge found in Oregon
- Oracle to acquire Siebel for USD 5.85bn
- Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans graduate students
- Telstra sale legislation debated in Australian House of Representatives, considered "urgent"
[edit] September 14
- Lingering Ophelia lashes at U.S. Carolinas coast
- Light stopped for over a second
- Camel Rock Festival held in Scilly
- Senate questions Roberts in confirmation hearings
- Lexmark releases printer with built-in CD burner
- Panic-buying as petrol protests sweep Britain
- Wal-Mart accused of workers rights violations
- First Nestorian search engine goes online
[edit] September 15
- Lavalas candidate barred from elections
- Telstra sale legislation passed by Australian Senate
- Tauranga bomb threat politically motivated
- Thai political talk show taken off during media buyout attempt
- Were New Orleanians caught in political crossfire?
- US airlines Delta, Northwest file for bankruptcy
- Thai political talk show taken off air
- Imperfect immune systems help avoid autoimmune disease
- Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students
- Seven face deportation after UK dawn raids
- US state of Texas executes woman convicted of murdering family
- Israeli court orders controversial wall rerouted
- National plant materials center goes native in Washington, DC
- Sony recalls Playstation 2 power adaptors
- Blackwater mercenaries used in New Orleans
[edit] September 16
- Apple may build cameras into Macs
- Hiroshima citizens aid radiation exposed people in Kazakhstan
- Dell to drop Itanium-based servers
- Musharraf's rape comments spur controversy
- MasterCard to debut on NYSE
- Blair recognizes Kyoto treaty stopped by its restrictions
- Resolution of Inquiry into pre-Iraq war U.S.-U.K. correspondance fails by one vote
- Bush calls for expanding Federal authority
- Norway to withdraw troops from Iraq
- Bushmen given 10 days to leave their reserve in Botswana
- Chavez wants UN uprooted from New York
- Hurricane Ophelia hits U.S. East Coast
- Kay Hull crosses floor in Australian House of Representatives on Telstra legislation
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 launch dates
[edit] September 17
- Nintendo unveils controller for Revolution console
- Saudi Arabia, UAE to support increasing oil production
- Voting chaos in Germany expected
- Results to be announced in the New Zealand 2005 General Election
- Australian man allegedly ignites carpet, plastic with static electricity
- Results of the 2005 New Zealand General Election
- Gaza looters destroy Palestine Authority property
- UN agrees on reform document
- Polls Closed in The New Zealand 2005 General Election
- Hubble Space Telescope running on two gyroscopes
- Navy helping New Orleans pets
- Gwanda Chakuamba freed by Malawi court
- Deadly car bomb explosion rocks Beirut
[edit] September 18
- Thai media mogul drops newspaper takeover attempt
- Results of 2005 German federal election
- Stolen laptop found; had over 98,000 students' personal data
- Science of champagne bubbles explained
- Rupert Murdoch: Blair says BBC "hates America"
- Iran determined to continue with nuclear program
- Singer Britney Spears gives birth to a healthy boy
[edit] September 19
- DeLay declares 'victory' in war on U.S. budget fat
- Afghanistan holds first democratic general elections
- Russian pilot crashes in Lithuania
- Idaho meterologist promotes Hurricane Katrina conspiracy theory
- Artists erect giant bunny on Italian mountainside
- Nuclear arms agreement reached with North Korea
- Musharraf denies making rape remarks
- NASA plans for future moon missions
- John "Jebby" Bush, son of Florida Governor Bush, arrested for public intoxication
[edit] September 20
- Vatican denies church is shielding war criminal
- US Federal Reserve lifts interest rates
- Sprint/RealNetworks to provide cell phone Internet radio and podcasts in US
- NYPD shuts down anti-war speech due to absence of permit
- AOL to launch VoIP service
- IDG cancels Macworld Boston
- Opera Internet browser goes ad-free
- Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dead at 96
- London bombers rehearsed attacks
- US clinic plans first face transplant
- Basra, Iraq raid by UK forces to rescue soldiers from police
- Lightning storm moves through Southern California
[edit] September 21
- Arizona applies ban on autodialers to mobile phone spam
- Jet Blue airliner lands with broken nose gear
- Tennessee closes down Christian ex-gay camp for treating mental illness without a license
- Florida Keys evacuated in preparation for Rita
[edit] September 22
- Insights on nutrient traffic in living cells
- Whalers upset Spirit in opening game for Ontario Hockey League
- Former 'Dudley Boys' sign with TNA Wrestling
- London bomb suspect returned from Italy
- Google prepares to launch WiFi service
- Houston mayor urges evacuations as Hurricane Rita moves closer to shore
- South African typhoid outbreak protest dispersed with rubber bullets
- Google sued by thousands of authors over Google Print
[edit] September 23
- Ask Jeeves to remove valet from website
- Katrina conspiracy meteorologist quits Idaho TV News
- Parts of New Orleans flood again
- Hurricane Rita turns toward Texas-Louisiana border
- India subsidizes girls' education to offset gender imbalance
- World Food Program told to leave North Korea
- St. Anthony Foundation provides hope
- Sony restructuring plan includes 10,000 job cuts
- WinMX shut down following RIAA requests
- Italian Minister of Economy resigns
- Google launches new blog search engine
[edit] September 24
- Thousands march to demonstrate opposition to U.S.-led wars
- Delta Air Lines to cut up to 9,000 jobs
- Google creates new desktop software
- E-Inquiries - Bring Public Inquiries to the Net
- US Chief Justice candidate John Roberts' nomination goes to full Senate
- Net skills to be taught by kids
- Sydney Swans win AFL premiership after 72 years in classic match
- US army whistleblowers allege widespread torture of Iraqi detainees
- Massive traffic jams, gas shortages plug evacuation routes near Houston
- Hurricane Rita makes landfall
- Fire breaks out in Galveston
- Bomb explodes in Belarusian city
- U.S. soldiers engaged in gore-for-porn swap
- New Palm Treo will run Windows Mobile
- Oil price jumps as Rita heads to refineries
- FBI recruits for "War on Porn"
[edit] September 25
- Church of Scientology does not see humor in website dedicated to Tom Cruise
- Gay teachers' status uncertain after Polish election
- Google Toolbar for Firefox now out of beta
- Polish parliamentary election - unofficial results
- Switzerland citizens vote Yes to freedom of circulation to new EU states
- UK mobile provider begins TV-on-phone trial
- Switzerland citizens vote on extending freedom rights from 15 to 25 European countries
- Hasegawa retains Bantamweight title
- Controversy over effects of new bankruptcy law on victims of Katrina
- Three detained for Thai marine deaths
- Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license
[edit] September 26
- Guantanamo prisoner seeks UK citizenship, asylum
- FDA recalls foreign meat used in aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina
- IRA decommissioning complete - de Chastelain
- Microsoft launches MSN adCenter
- IRA weapons decommissioned
- Indonesian bird flu death toll rises to six
- Fernando Alonso becomes new Formula One World Champion
[edit] September 27
- Anti-war protestors arrested outside White House
- Brazilian football referee admits he frauduently refereed games
- Blair: "Labour must be the party of change makers"
- StarOffice 8 launched
- Blair denies Iraq pullout
- Suresh Joachim breaks ironing world record
- Leader of Puerto Rican People’s Army shot, killed by FBI
- Einstein's equation turns 100
[edit] September 28
- Microsoft invested 4 billion USD into Xbox division
- 9/11 Anthrax investigation quietly loses urgency
- MIT's "$100 laptop" to be unveiled in November
- U.S. Senate debates ten year sunset for federal agencies
- French ferry raided by military forces
- Fuel hike plans spark unrest across Indonesia
- Emerging technologists showcased at MIT
- FCC extends 911 deadline for VoIP
- ALA observes banned book week
- U.S. house majority leader DeLay indicted, steps down temporarily
[edit] September 29
- Demosphere.net launches new Wiki
- Arctic ice cap shrank sharply this summer
- US Treasury Department unveils new ten-dollar bill
- John Roberts sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States
- Colorado parents burn books
- MTV, Warner Music agree on licensing deal
- US military to buy anthrax and bioweapons production systems
