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- Jimmy Bartel of the Geelong Cats continues the club's dominance of the 2007 AFL Season by winning the prestigious Brownlow Medal. (news.com.au
- The India national cricket team wins the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 beating arch rival Pakistan by 5 runs. (Rediff.com) (AndhraNews.net)
- Menachem Mazuz, the Attorney General of Israel, orders a criminal investigation into the purchase of a house by the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert. (Reuters)
- The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University stating that Americans should look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and defending his right to denial of the Holocaust and denying the existence of gay Iranians. (CNN)
- The New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenas Facebook over alleged failure to protect the safety of its users. (Computerworld)
- The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon called for a new commitment by world leaders on climate change at a special United Nations session to discuss climate change. (Bloomberg)
- Members of the United Automobile Workers Union walk off their jobs at General Motors plants across the United States as union and company officials fail to reach agreement on a new contract. (NYT)
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Brazil's record on global climate change when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly this week. (Reuters)
- Brazil's stock market rises to a record (58,393.75 points) and the country's currency, the real, gains 0.11 percent to 1.867 per U.S. dollar. (Reuters)
- Former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, arrives in Washington beginning her last visit to USA before ending her self-exile. (AndhraNews.net)
- Several tornadoes affect parts of Britain, causing severe damage. (Sky News)
- Eyewitnesses say the number of people demonstrating in Rangoon was as high as 100,000 as the biggest Burmese anti-government protest in twenty years continues. (BBC)
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- A police officer in Warren, Ohio, is caught on camera using a taser on a woman while she was handcuffed. (ABC7 Chicago)
- The Election Commission of Pakistan sets October 6, 2007 as the date for the Presidential Election. (AndhraNews.net)
- Iran:
- American cyclist Floyd Landis is officially stripped of his win in the 2006 Tour de France and banned from competition for two years after an arbitration panel finds him guilty of doping during the 2006 Tour. He has 30 days to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP via ESPN.com)
- Osama bin Laden calls on the people of Pakistan to rise up in a "holy war" and overthrow President Pervez Musharraf. (BBC)
- Tens of thousands of people, including Howard University students and NAACP members, arrive in the U.S. city of Jena, Louisiana, to protest in support of six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl. (Washington Post)
- CNN reports that Iran has released Iranian-American social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh. (CNN)
- Al Qaeda's Deputy Leader Ayman al-Zawahri claims that the United States is being defeated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and North Africa. (AP via Topix)
- Qian Xun Xue case: Questions are asked in the New Zealand parliament as to why Nai Yin Xue was able to leave the country with his daughter despite a court order. (News Limited)
- A total of 24 people are arrested after a riot in Aurukun, Queensland, Australia. (News Limited)
- A fire breaks out at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata, Japan, which has been closed since a fire in July. (BBC)
- The Canadian dollar briefly reaches parity with the American dollar for the first time since 1976. (CBC)
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- Abbas El Fassi, leader of the Istiqlal Party, is appointed Prime Minister of Morocco by King Mohammed VI following the resignation of Driss Jettou and his cabinet.
- France calls for a joint force of United Nations and European Union peacekeepers in parts of Chad and the Central African Republic bordering the Darfur region of Sudan. (AFP)
- 2007 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Ivo forms off the coast of Baja California. (AP via The Globe and Mail)
- The United States Senate fails to pass a bill providing more home leave to United States troops in Iraq with the necessary 60 percent margin with 56 for and 44 against. (Reuters)
- Four fossil skeletons of early human ancestors are discovered in Georgia. (NYT)
- The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautions the International Atomic Energy Agency that it "is not in the business of diplomacy." (CNN)
- José Mourinho, manager of Chelsea Football Club, leaves the club by mutual consent. (BBC)
- Six hundred thousand people are made homeless by floods in Africa with at least 270 deaths with more rain expected. (ABC News Australia)
- Nevada authorities call off the search for missing US adventurer Steve Fossett two weeks after he goes missing. (Sky News Australia)
- Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls for a change to the country's Constitution to end the ban on the wearing of headscarves in universities. (AP via Google News)
- Due to increasing rocket attacks aimed at Israeli civilians, The Government of Israel declares the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", and announces plans to cut utilities to the territory. (Guardian Unlimited)
- U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announces that he will begin an investigation into the activities of Howard Krongard, Inspector General of the State Department. Krongard has been accused of interfering with investigations into corruption involving fraud in the building of the new United States Embassy in Iraq, the smuggling of illegal weapons into Iraq by Blackwater USA employees, and the activities of former chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Kenneth Tomlinson, in the use of his office for personal gain. (VOA)
- The Deputy Commander of the Iranian Air Force claims that Iran has plans to retaliate if attacked by Israel. (RIA Novosti)
- A car bomb in Beirut kills Lebanese legislator Antoine Ghanem of the Christian Phalange party and at least seven others. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Coalition parties and Maoists meet at Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's official residence to resolve the political deadlock. (AndhraNews.net)
- War in Afghanistan: Coalition forces led by the British Army launch a major offensive in Helmand province. (BBC)
- Officials from a UN-backed genocide tribunal detain Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving member of the Khmer Rouge regime. (BBC)
- Republican lawmakers block the United States Senate from taking up a bill to grant voting rights to Washington DC. (Washington Post)
- 2007 Pacific typhoon season:
- Typhoon Wipha (Goring) makes landfall in eastern China before weakening to a Category 2 typhoon as it heads inland. (Reuters)
- At least five people are killed and three are missing according to the Xinhua newsagency. (News Limited)
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