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[edit] August 1
- Tropical storm Chris strengthens
- Israeli bombardment spills 35,000 tons of heavy fuel oil
- 2006 record heat wave moves across U.S. eastern seaboard
- Scientists crack age-old egg problem
- North and South Korean border guards exchange fire
- New Zealand suicide rate decreases
- Heat gets worse in Canada
- Fidel Castro temporarily hands power to his brother Raul
[edit] August 2
- Bombs kill several during Iraq football game
- Indonesian Health Ministry: Two new human clusters of Bird Flu suspected in Sumatra
- Father pays tribute to his son who died in Iraq
- Rotorua, New Zealand bans criminals from CBD
- Study at the University of Toronto says text messaging helps with grammar
- Man arrested for photographing unrelated arrest
- Israeli soldiers landing in Baalbek
[edit] August 3
- Fears raised of Iraq Civil War
- Ordinance in Chicago requiring "big box" stores to pay higher wages passes
- Hezbollah leader both threatens Tel Aviv and offers ceasefire
- Capitol Hill fries and toast French again
- FDA to move on approval of over-the-counter sale of "Plan B" birth control
- "No H5N1 virus" found in blood tests of suspected human Bird Flu cluster
- Citywide strike being discussed in Buffalo, N.Y.
- New Zealand policeman charged with drunk driving
[edit] August 4
- United States plans to train and equip Lebanon military
- Car crash enrages bees
- Swan in German zoo tests positive for H5N1 virus
- East Timor, Kuwait start negotiations for investment in public works
- 7/11 blasts suspect held in Kashmir
- From the eleventh century to the Digital Age, the Domesday Book is now online
- Katcher died of drowning, coroner says
- Newcastle, Australia man arrested for selling stolen jewelery online
- James Cameron to use Weta Digital for next film
[edit] August 5
- Apollo Moon landings tapes reported missing
- Mideast stance hurts Canada's PM Harper
- Israel detains Speaker of Palestinian parliament
- Swedish nuclear reactors shut down over safety concerns
- Australia cause South Africa heartbreak in Tri Nations rugby
- Ugandan rebels agree to a ceasefire
- Flooding kills dozens in North Korea, leaves thousands more homeless
[edit] August 6
- Participant claims drug trial gave him cancer
- I'm staying for at least a year: British PM Tony Blair
- Lebanon fighting escalates as UN debates ceasefire
- No full recount in Mexican election
- Castro recovering following surgery: Cuban officials
- Iran bans Shirin Ebadi-led human rights group
- Vaccine targets obesity in rats
- Canadian held in China faces execution
- Day 1 report of Wikimania 2006
- British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
- Syrian minister rejects proposed U.N. resolution
- Reuters retracts image; suspends employee due to threat
- Jenson Button wins 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix
- American cyclist Floyd Landis tested positive for excessive levels of testosterone in second test
[edit] August 7
- Strong earthquake hits near Vanuatu
- Study says dogs can smell lung and breast cancer
- Canadians are contacting PM Stephen Harper about the war in Afghanistan
- Lebanon: UN resolution won't end conflict
- 5th Canadian soldier in a week killed in Afghanistan
- Rare photograph of Florence Nightingale on display
- Israeli air strike killed one, not 40, in village; Lebanese PM says
- Newsletter from Australian council causes confusion over by-election
- British soldier killed in Afghanistan named
- 190 dead in Ethiopia floods
- Oil prices rise after Alaskan field shuts down
- TVNZ allowed to show Rainbow Warrior court footage
[edit] August 8
- Fredrik Ljungberg named captain of Swedish football team
- US box office breakouts for August 8, 2006
- Australia's 15th census to be held tonight
- 19 killed in Baghdad blast
- Talks continue over UN resolution on Lebanon war
- Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones sacked after "terrorist" comment
- Christchurch, New Zealand floods causes havoc
- Effort to end monkey-ing around on Delhi's subway
- Colombia's Uribe sworn in to second term as president
- Police seize $1 million worth of cannabis in southwestern Sydney
[edit] August 9
- Edinburgh Fringe festival begins
- Hearing testimony; U.S. soldiers took turns raping 14 year old Iraqi girl before killing her
- Coca-Cola and Pepsi face ban in Indian states
- US base in Nuristan, Afghanistan attacked
- Arrests over phone-tap of British royal family
- British soldier dies in Afghanistan
- Lieberman loses to Lamont in Connecticut primary
- Fire at New Zealand hospital destroys laundry
- Brothers found guilty of killing schoolboy
[edit] August 10
- Londoner hit by train, Underground closed at Marble Arch Station
- Kim Gevaert wins women's 100m final at European athletics championships
- War Crimes Act amendments to indemnify retroactively
- Google to warn users about "bad" websites
- Senior Chinese official executed for spying for Taiwan
- New Zealand Maori angry over US tattoo kit
- Israel pushes further into Lebanon
[edit] August 11
- UN officials push for humanitarian access in Lebanon
- Australian immigration amendments may have difficulty passing in the Senate
- Green Party refines 'Buy Kiwi Made' scheme
- U.S. issues warning of terrorist attacks in India
- 7-Eleven acquires Chicago-based White Hen chain
- Typhoon Saomai batters China
- Police in Britain uncover suspected terrorist plot
- Controversial Liverpool 'Evil Cabal' blog is legal
- Colombian reporter slain in home
- Chavez equates Israel invasion of Lebanon and occupation of Palestine with Nazi oppression of Jews
[edit] August 12
- 2006 Chinese wiki conference occurs in Shanghai
- Gevaert and Hellebaut win golden medal at European athletics championships
- British Muslims warn Prime Minister Tony Blair over foreign policy
- Security Council backs ceasefire in Israel-Lebanon conflict
[edit] August 13
- Most Tokyo power restored after blackout
- UK terror alert downgraded to "Severe"
- International AIDS conference begins in Toronto
- Forest fires continue to rage in Spain
- South Africa sets deadline in land transfer scheme
- Dead British soldier named
- Firefighters tackle industrial blaze in Manchester
- Australian government to introduce electronic Medicare rebates
- H5N1 bird flu confirmed in the Netherlands
[edit] August 14
- Suspected low pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu virus found in the United States
- Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza
- Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
- Toronto AIDS conference opens without Canadian Prime Minister
- Controversial blog Liverpool Evil Cabal closes
- Australian government announces measures to reduce fuel costs
- British soldier released after serving 12 years of life sentence for Cyprus killing
- PepsiCo names Nooyi CEO as Reinemund retires
- Wellington, New Zealand university student missing
- Erroneous newspaper report garners publicity for Moon landing tapes
- Virginia incumbent, Senator George Allen, accused of racism by Democratic hopeful
- Nigeria hands over disputed area to Cameroon
- Fire interrupts TNA wrestling PPV; one worker hurt
- Speculation grows in race to succeed Kofi Annan
- Tamil Tigers say Sri Lanka's government bombed orphanage
- Ariel Sharon's condition worsens
- Court date "as needed" for lawsuit against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Colombo land mine explosion kills seven
- Fresh pictures of Castro and Chavez shown in Cuban media
- UN sponsored ceasefire in Israel-Lebanon begins
[edit] August 15
- Experiment on frozen sperm raises hopes of "restoring" extinct mammals
- Ex-President Gerald Ford admitted to Mayo Clinic
- New drug for smoking cessation is under investigation
- AIDS Conference: Clinton and Gates defend Bush program
- Israel pulling back from Lebanon
- Dell recalls potentially incendiary laptop batteries
- CBC looks for Winnipeg news program host
- Tanker spills 1000s of tonnes of crude oil off Nicobar Islands
- Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon develops double pneumonia
- Rae gains support in Canadian Liberal leadership race
- Australian company to make solar power with space technology
- Victoria, Australia - fuel theft on the increase
- Heavy hailstorms leave Sydney appearing snowed in
- New Zealand Maori Queen dies
- New Zealand pilot selling uniform online
[edit] August 16
- Three Mexican fishermen spend 9 months at sea
- UK seeks pardon for executed World War I soldiers
- Astronomers to vote on potential new planets
- Google launches free city wide Wi-Fi in Mountain View, California
- Arrest made in JonBenet Ramsey murder case
- Fire in Amherstburg, Ontario dies down
- United Airlines Flight 923 makes emergency landing at Logan International Airport
- Four Lotto 649 winners share jackpot
- New Zealand 'Boobs on Bikes' parade approved
- 6 Canadian soldiers injured in Afghan attack
[edit] August 17
- David Witt, father-in-law of Floyd Landis, commits suicide
- Dutch sheep contaminated by bluetongue
- Hollywood notables condemn Hamas and Hezbollah
- Federal judge rules warrantless wiretaps illegal
- US Airport evacuated in 'liquid bomb' scare
- Overnight battle for Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula
- Indonesian health officials investigating possible human to human transmission of H5N1 Bird Flu virus
- Man confesses to 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey
- Liverpool's elected officials call in the Police
- House fire in Buffalo, N.Y. leaves two families homeless
- New Zealand army Unimog crash leaves one solider dead
- Body of missing New Zealand student found
[edit] August 18
- Woman cleared in US liquid bomb scare
- Web.com announces second quarter results
- Man falls into 70 gallons of chocolate
- Wikimedia servers unreachable for 3 hours due to network outage
- North Korea to accept international aid
- Canadian soldier killed in accidental shooting laid to rest
- North Korea reportedly planning nuclear bomb test
- Chechen rebels surrender
- Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to have launch pad
- US senators on Greenland tour
- Muhammad cartoon row continues
- Two New Zealand men ran illegal text lottery
- Irish firm issues free energy challenge to scientists
[edit] August 19
- Virtual orchestra opens in London
- Top Hamas official seized by Israel
- Sri Lanka bombs LTTE, aid workers seek access
- Annan: Israel violates cease-fire
- Ford announces deep production cuts in response to growing losses
- German bomb suspect arrested by police
- Dead mountaineer found after seventeen years
- War on Terrorism could continue longer than the Cold War: Australia's Treasurer
- All Blacks win 2006 Tri Nations rugby series
- Lebanese security source: Israeli jets open fire in eastern Lebanon
[edit] August 20
- Australia's "most powerful" windfarm approved
- Pair taken off plane because of "suspicious" behaviour
- Polish peace activist imprisoned
- Volcano eruption in Ecuador kills six and destroys several small villages
- UK soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
- 400 Australian soldiers sent to Afghanistan
- "Jihad" Jack Thomas acquitted of terrorism conviction
- JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect on his way to America
- American athlete Marion Jones tests positive for EPO
- South Carolina attracting Republican hopefuls
[edit] August 21
- Manhunt underway for 2 murders in Virginia; Virginia Tech closed
- Hungary's St Stephen's Day hit by storm: 3 left dead
- 11 suspects in UK air bomb plot charged
- Manhunt underway after woman and her three children found dead
- NASA discovers new evidence of dark matter
- UK soldier killed in Afghanistan named by Ministry of Defence
- Buffalo, N.Y. restaurant to end nearly 30-year tradition
- Google re-opens online word processor service
- Channel Tunnel closed after smoke seen coming from train
- JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect back in America
- Indian shehnai Maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan Passes Away
- New Zealand riot police use batons to disperse unruly pub-crawl
- NASA chooses Woomera, South Australia for rocket launch site
- Demand for biofuel irrigation worsens global water crisis
- Australia to detain Burmese boatpeople on Nauru
[edit] August 22
- Bomb scare on China-Australia flight
- Romanian oil company claims Iran has seized one of its rigs
- Russian mathematician declines Fields Medal
- Men charged in US and Canada over alleged plot to arm Tamil Tigers
- Moscow market bomb kills 10, injures 55
- Lech Walesa quits Solidarity
- Violence in Congo after first round election results are announced
- Scottish Socialist Party to split as Sheridan launches new party
- Russian jet with 170 aboard crashes in Ukraine
- New Zealand man sentenced to life in prison for murder
[edit] August 23
- 12 arrested after India-bound flight escorted back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
- Tottenham comfortably beat Sheffield United 2-0
- Canadian soldier kills 10 year old Afghan boy
- Karr waives extradition, will face charges in Colorado
- Pakistani-born Australian sentenced to 20 years over terrorism offences
- US Box Office Breaks Out for August 23, 2006
- Forest fire in Chalkidiki peninsula causes political tension in Greece
- Disease outbreak feared after mass hysteria over "sweet" water in Mumbai
- Bobby Robson recovering from operation
- Thousands watch Boobs on Bikes parade in Auckland
- Woman and man arrested over multiple deaths
- Amnesty International accuses Israel of "war crimes" in Lebanon
- New Zealand Governor-General sworn in
- Bobby Robson to undergo cancer surgery
- Australia to subsidise Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer
[edit] August 24
- Pluto loses planet status
- France offers promised 2000 soldiers to the UN in Lebanon
- Ireland's Roscrea town centre evacuated
- Confrontation between Greenpeace and fishermen off Marseille
- Netherlands flight alert suspects to be freed
- Man arrested for broadcasting Hezbollah television in New York
- 8 Afghans killed in early morning raid
- UK population exceeds 60 million for the first time
- Ukraine celebrates Independence Day
- Local communities in the UK must "root out" extremism, says Ruth Kelly
- India may pull peacekeeping troops out of Lebanon
- Allegations that New Zealand school administers corporal punishment
[edit] August 25
- Italy to take command of UNIFIL
- Portugal formally commits to participate in UN's force
- Wife of adulterous Czech PM joins rival political party
- Fire brings down two domes of historical Russian cathedral
- Tony Blair's eldest son released from hospital
- Texas man foils burglary in Britain
- Security scare prompts UK-US flight to divert
- Nigerian troops allegedly burned down slums after soldier's killing
- Liberal MP resigns as deputy foreign affairs critic
- Bodies of Afghan boy, Canadian soldier returned
- Venezuelan President Chavez in Beijing to boost trade
- 63% of Israelis want Olmert to quit
- Biggest free music event in Europe back in Liverpool
- Dutch Ambassador to India expresses regret following Schiphol false-alarm
- Tony Blair's eldest son admitted to hospital
- NASA announces official search for the missing Apollo tapes
- Israel buys nuclear capable subs
- Air New Zealand Screen Awards winners announced
- 8th case of mad cow disease found in Canada
[edit] August 26
- Freesolo rock climber John Bachar injured in fatal car accident
- Elizabeth May elected leader of Canada's Green Party
- The Green Party of Canada to elect new leader
- Four year-old boy battered with a brick in East Yorkshire
- British Airways flight makes emergency landing in Iceland, terrorism ruled out
- Pakistan: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed in Baluchistan
- South Africa lose to the All Blacks at rugby in Pretoria
- Bloc Quebecois says no to reversing gay marriage
- Iran inaugurates heavy-water production plant
- All-Ferrari front row on 2006 Turkish Grand Prix
- Umpire Darrell Hair offers to quit ICC elite panel for $500,000
- Congo electoral commissioner condemns Kinshasha clashes
- Courtrooms in Ontario to get cameras
[edit] August 27
- Afghanistan sees worst days of violence since 2001
- Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, Gaza-held journalists released
- Felipe Massa wins 2006 Turkish Grand Prix
- Tropical Storm Ernesto nears the US Coast
- National Geographic reporter faces espionage charges in Sudan
- 5 Afghans, Canadian soldier injured in mortar attack
- Chad orders oil companies out of the country
- Guantanamo inmate Murat Kurnaz transferred to Germany and released
- British soldier shot and killed in southern Afghanistan
- Eleven year-old boy arrested on suspicion of assaulting a four year-old boy in East Yorkshire
- Canadian soldiers kill Afghan police officer
[edit] August 28
- Amnesty: "looming human rights crisis" in Darfur
- Pentagon considers using non-nuke ICBMs for preemptive strikes against alleged "terrorists"
- Russian fire-fighting helicopter crashes in Antalya, Turkey
- Afghanistan: 17 killed, 47 injured in Afghan suicide attack on market
- Austrian teenager mourns captor's suicide
- Iraq; Another day of violence in Baghdad and the south
- South Dakota killer wants to drop death sentence appeals
- Ministry of Defence names dead British soldier
- Pakistan on high alert as violence spreads in Balochistan
- TV3 banned from New Zealand Parliament for three days
- Multiple bombs set off in Turkish resort
- 49 dead after Comair regional jet crashes in Kentucky
- PlayStation 3 will be used to help cure cancer and Alzheimer's
[edit] August 29
- Historian Beckett names Thatcher & Attlee greatest Brit PMs
- Iran voices defiance towards nuclear deadline
- Canadian Idol top four perform
- Canadian MP Benoit Sauvageau dies in car crash
- Alberta's opposition filibuster anti-gay marriage bill
- President Bush mocked in two Canadian ad campaigns
- Ugandan ceasefire takes effect
- Water level of Great Lakes is falling
- Film from Nunavut in Canada's north to open TIFF
- Wikinews Shorts: August 29, 2006
- GAO report says federal anti-drug Ad-campaign ineffectual
- India's Secretary-General candidate Tharoor suggests UN reform agenda
- U.S. commuter blows up section of Washington D.C. Bridge
- BC man is selling the boat from old TV series Gilligan's Island
- Mexican ruling boosts Calderon, rival vows parallel government
- Turkey to decide on sending troops to Lebanon
- 25 drown as van plunges into Krishna river in India
- HUD hoaxer calls attention to lack of affordable housing
- 4,400 kilograms of drugs seized in New Delhi
- New Zealand police want bus driver to pay reparation
- 5 killed as bus from New York City to Montreal crashes
- Watchdog group StopBadware.org warns against free AOL software
- Case against Karr dropped: no DNA link to JonBenet Ramsey murder
- Sri Lanka - Government Army strikes at Tamil Tiger enclaves in the north east
[edit] August 30
- Canadian Idol top four eliminations
- Iraqi activist forced to change t-shirt with Arabic peace slogan
- Tropical Storm Ernesto weakens
- Canadian Prime Minister Harper plays small role in television show Corner Gas
- U.S. calls for sanctions against Iran
- Rebel leader, 56 inmates escape from East Timorese jail
- Thailand may create new province to honour King
- New Zealand police to trial tasers from Friday
- Audience in Ireland watches circus acrobat fall to his death
- 27 die from pipeline explosion in Diwaniya, Iraq
- Canada's Defence Minister visits Canadian troops in Afghanistan
- Jimmy Carter blasts Blair for "subservience" to Bush
[edit] August 31
- Kids TV star Lunar Jim to tour malls in Canada
- Wikinews Shorts: August 31, 2006
- Annan demands Hezbollah free abducted soldiers and Israel lift blockade
- Pilot dies as Dutch F-16 fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan
- Space shuttle Atlantis set to launch on September 6
- Portuguese troops leave for Lebanon in October
- Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna found
- Canadian union upset over Scugog councilor lowering flag
- Hard shoulder gets the soft treatment on British motorways
- New UK donor laws may reduce organ shortages
- Plane carrying arms to Nepal detained in Gujarat
- Bull kills New Zealand man
- Astronomers witness supernova
- FBI most-wanted fugitive, polygamist Warren Jeffs, arrested
- Wikinews interview with America's Got Talent finalists Celtic Spring
