Wikinews:2011/August
- US President Obama announces deal reached to avert government default
- More than 100 reported dead after Syrian troops move against protesters
- 6.8 earthquake rocks northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea
- Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa dies aged 80
- Study observes masturbation and other sexual trends among US teens
- British man survives artificial heart transplant
- Bill passed to raise US debt limit
- Yani Tseng captures Women's British Open title for a record fifth major
- Swaziland to receive financial bailout from South Africa
- Earl Anthony Wayne confirmed as U.S ambassador to Mexico
- Sitcom star Roseanne Barr announces run for U.S. president
- Ralph Nader: Obama will likely face challenge in Democratic primaries
- Juno spacecraft bound for Jupiter
- Boeing rolls out first 787 Dreamliner to go into service
- United States Government loses AAA credit rating from Standard and Poor's
- Hugh Carey, former New York Governor, dies aged 92
- Wikinews interviews Andy Martin, U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate
- Bill to eliminate corruption does not go far enough, say Indian activists and lawyers
- Scottish annual drug deaths coming down from record levels
- BMW announces 7.6% sales rise as US, China demand grows
- DNA components found in meteorites
- Rioting develops throughout England
- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait recall ambassadors to Syria
- U.S. Presidential candidate Fred Karger denied place at Fox News debate
- Former Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri dies aged 74
- Allied WWII spy Nancy Wake dies aged 98
- Finnish police to receive guidance on Internet 'hate speech'
- Riots in England continue for a fourth night
- Fiona Donnison jailed for murdering her children in UK
- Sri Lankan cricketer Norton Fredrick dies aged 73
- Texas governor Rick Perry to announce his presidential intentions
- School Principal found dead in Tennessee classroom; teen held by police
- Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko arrested on contempt of court charges
- Australian politician Karen Overington dies aged 59
- Three killed amongst Birmingham, England riots
- Scientists use gene therapy, patients' own immune systems to fight leukemia
- Shell reports oil leak at North Sea platform
- David Cameron responds to rioting, promises changes on policing
- China sends its first aircraft carrier to sea
- Renewed concern over nuclear response following atomic bomb anniversary
- Phone hacking scandal prompts media review in Australia
- Jersey knife attack kills six
- Texas governor Rick Perry enters presidential race
- Texas continues to suffer record-breaking drought
- Corruption threatens Brazil's Olympics and World Cup
- Thirty injured as bus crashes in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- New drug may treat virtually all viral infections
- U.S. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann narrowly edges Ron Paul in Ames Straw Poll
- Glasgow, Scotland shooting leaves two hospitalised
- Syrian naval vessels, ground troops attack port of Latakia
- Wikinews interviews Chinese-American martial artist Alfred Hsing
- Up to 74 reported dead after Iraq bombings
- Japan to use renewable energy
- Police social media frenzy threatens to prejudice alleged child killer trial
- Indiana State Fair stage collapse kills four, injures forty
- Chinese human rights activist faces trial
- Former Governor-General of New Zealand Paul Reeves dies aged 78
- SETI Institute set to re-open
- News of the World: New document suggests cover-up
- Scots report crime using Facebook
- Guyana president's libel case heard in court
- Officer held after phone-hacking investigation 'leak'
- Egypt recalls envoy in Israel
- La Liga fixtures face delay due to players' strike
- Magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia felt up and down U.S. east coast, Pentagon evacuated
- Social networks asked to visit UK Home Office after riots
- New York executive files $60 million libel lawsuit over insurance scandal
- Pakistan government must investigate killings and abductions of journalists, says UN
- Former Wikileaks employee destroys unpublished leaked documents
- Trapped journalists in Libya freed
- Apple executive Steve Jobs resigns
- UK electoral commission asked to investigate News International payoffs
- Japan nuclear disaster: areas to remain off-limits for decades
- Sudanese President releases all detained journalists
- Freshwater lakes in Texas show signs of extreme drought