Wikinews:2010/August
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- 14,000-acre Southern California 'Crown Fire' at 82% containment, evacuation orders lifted
- Prosecutors drop assault case against former US VP Gore
- Canadian singer Justin Bieber to publish memoir
- Chelsea Clinton marries Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York
- Cargo plane crashes in Alaska's Denali Park, sparks wildfire
- UK military deaths in Afghanistan reach 327
- Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 16 split round week one
- Greg Biffle wins fifteenth career NASCAR Sprint Cup race
- 'Black box' found near crash site of Airblue flight
- Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night
- Illinois jurors begin fifth day of deliberations in Blagojevich corruption trial
- Emergency spacewalks planned to fix International Space Station
- FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines
- Suicide bomber kills five Afghan children
- Waters on trial for House ethics charges
- Wikinews Shorts: August 4, 2010
- California's same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional; appeal expected
- Obama approval ratings hit new lows
- One dead after small plane crashes near Phoenix
- Nine dead in shooting rampage at Connecticut beer warehouse
- Italian senate rejects no-confidence vote against minister
- Wikinews Shorts: August 5, 2010
- RAF UFO encounters may have been covered up by Churchill and Eisenhower
- Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave
- Three children die in Edinburgh house fire
- Mass panic as Zimbabwean officials fake air crash
- Naomi Campbell testifies against former Liberian president
- Nigel Lythgoe to return as executive producer of 'American Idol'
- Two die in school bus accident in Missouri, several others injured
- Black Eyed Peas to release new album, 'I Gotta Feeling' reaches six million downloads
- Halifax bank: UK house prices rose 0.6% during July
- 21 sites added to Unesco World Heritage list
- Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- Spreading floods in Pakistan worsen, at least 1600 dead
- Football: Coach of North Korea condemned to hard labor
- Pakistani President met with protest on fifth day of UK tour
- Pressure mounts against Florida church plans to burn Qur'an
- Hiroshima marks 65th atomic bombing anniversary
- US Senate confirms Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan
- Wildfires in Russia cover Moscow in smoke
- Revenge killings follow shooting of Karachi politician
- Welsh policemen smash 70-year-old's SUV windows
- Flash floods kill over a hundred in India, 500 missing
- Western Australian court to set precedent on the burqa
- Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 16 split round week two
- Poll: Arabs discouraged by US policies, back nuclear-armed Iran
- US unemployment rate remains unchanged at 9.5% in July
- Uproar over light sentence of Hong Kong judge's niece
- Apple executive leaves company after iPhone 4 antenna issues
- US Defense Secretary announces cuts in Pentagon programs
- German mosque used by September 11 militants closed
- Papua New Guinea Culture and Tourism minister charged with attempted murder
- Technical troubles hold up International Space Station repairs
- Former US Senator Ted Stevens among five killed in Alaska plane crash
- Bronislaw Komorowski sworn in as president of Poland
- Juan Montoya wins second career NASCAR Sprint Cup race
- Actress Patricia Neal dies aged 84
- British scholar Tony Judt dies aged 62
- Curfew imposed in Jammu and Kashmir, three injured and four killed
- One killed and nine injured in militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir
- Researcher claims solution to P vs NP math problem
- Letitia Long becomes first female director of a major US intelligence agency
- Several injured at campground in Maine as storm topples trees
- Indonesian government bans pornographic sites
- JetBlue flight attendant accused of cursing at passenger granted bail
- Mia Farrow, Carole White testify in Charles Taylor's war crimes trial
- Chilean miners trapped after mine collapse; miscalculated drilling delays rescue
- Plants may adapt faster to climate change than previously thought, new study shows
- Wikinews obtains new details on UK prisoner's murder
- Ramadan begins today in India
- Early puberty for US girls raises health risk
- Prospective Nobel Prize for Higgs boson work disputed
- Wikinews Shorts: August 14, 2010
- US professional wrestler Lance Cade dies aged 29
- 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Mariana Islands
- Former US Representative Dan Rostenkowski dies aged 82
- Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League finals take shape two weeks out
- Iran to launch its first nuclear power plant
- US warns Pakistan to stop press intimidation
- Manmohan Singh becomes the third longest serving Prime Minister of India
- Islamic insurgents kill three in Thailand
- Second earthquake in eleven days hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- Four killed, four others injured in Buffalo, New York shooting
- South Korean president proposes a reunification tax
- Hong Kong 'tutor king' applies for bankruptcy
- Apple manager charged with taking over US$1 million in kickbacks from suppliers
- US president Barack Obama backs mosque near Ground Zero site
- Boeing 737 crash-lands in Colombia; at least one killed
- Former first lady of India Janaki Venkataraman dies at 89
- Runaway train causes chaos on London Underground
- Kevin Harvick wins fourteenth career NASCAR Sprint Cup race
- Robert Wilson, bassist for The Gap Band dies aged 53
- China's economy surpasses Japan's in second quarter
- Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan dies in car accident aged 50
- US political columnist James J. Kilpatrick dies at age 89
- Scottish based game-developer Realtime Worlds enters administration
- Dozens dead after bus accident in Philippines
- Lucas announces Star Wars for Blu-ray
- Wikinews Shorts: August 18, 2010
- Scientists conclude that the universe may expand forever
- US food regulators recall 380 million eggs after salmonella outbreak
- Australian remake of Iron Chef launched
- Stockholm chief prosecutor quashes arrest warrant for Wikileaks editor-in-chief
- Australian judge delivers verdict on burqas in court
- Gas leak causes panic in Santa Cruz, Chile
- Scientists say the moon is slowly shrinking
- Van Gogh painting stolen again
- Scottish poet Edwin Morgan dies at age 90
- Seven killed in Chinese bombing
- Australian rules football: Warragul gets first win on eve of finals
- Former Yugoslavian footballer Stjepan Bobek dies aged 86
- Tropical Storm Danielle forms in Atlantic Ocean
- German director Christoph Schlingensief dies at age 49
- Lou Piniella retires after fifty years of baseball
- Australian federal election 2010: Parliament hung
- Atlantic storm Danielle strengthens to hurricane force
- School on Australia's Sunshine Coast makes staff redundant, requests they apply for 'new' jobs
- Hong Kong tourists held hostage in the Philippines, nine killed
- New Zealand scientist Graham Liggins dies aged 84
- President of East Timor pardons rebels who shot him
- Spanish newspaper co-founder Carlos Mendo dies aged 77
- Astronomers discover large exo-solar system
- Federal Aviation Administration proposes US$24.2m fine against American Airlines
- Airliner crashes in China, 42 killed
- Apple to hold media event on September 1, may update iPods and Apple TV
- Wikinews interviews William Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation
- Air Berlin to code-share with American Airlines and Finnair by November
- Glenn Beck to hold controversial 'Restoring Honor' rally at Lincoln Memorial
- Oil-eating microbe found in the Gulf of Mexico
- UK scientists discover multiple antibiotics used by fungus-farming ants to protect colonies
- Japanese researchers create smell sensor using genetically engineered frog eggs
- Canadian professional wrestler Luna Vachon dies aged 48
- Mount Sinabung erupts in Sumatra, Indonesia
- Tobacco attracts predators with chemicals in response to caterpillars, a study finds
- Didier Drogba withdraws from Cote D’Ivoire national football team
- Support for an Australian republic slips
- Young motorcycle racer Peter Lenz dies in race crash aged 13
- 2010 FIBA World Championship starts
- Teachers at Australian school shocked at no warning over redundancies, can apply before 'externals'
- Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League finals week one
- Six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan over two days
- As increase in digital music sales slows, record labels look to new ways to make money
- Daughter of U.S ambassador Eric John dies after New York City fall
- St. Lucian footballer Philip Tisson shot dead in Brooklyn, New York
- Algerian forces kill at least eight al-Qaeda rebels
- Two time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon dies at age 50
- Rem Koolhaas wins Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
- French film director Alain Corneau dies at age 67
- Last surviving participant of the 1930 FIFA World Cup Francisco Varallo dies aged 100
- Frenchman climbs skyscraper in 20 minutes without any equipment