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The Diet of Japan elects Taro Aso (pictured) of the Liberal Democratic Party as the new Prime Minister of Japan.
Eleven people are killed in a school shooting in Kauhajoki, Finland.
Edward Natapei is elected the new Prime Minister of Vanuatu following the 2008 general elections.
In golf, Team USA defeats Team Europe to win the 37th Ryder Cup Matches.
Thabo Mbeki, as requested by the ruling African National Congress, resigns as President of South Africa.
More than 12,800 children in China are hospitalized due to adulterated milk products and infant formula.
A truck bomb detonates outside a hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 53 people and injuring 266 others.

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September 25, 2008 (Thursday)

September 25, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 24, 2008 (Wednesday)

Subprime mortgage crisis
- President of the United States George W. Bush is to address the nation on prime time television to discuss the crisis and the Paulson plan. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- Senator John McCain, the Republican Party nominee in the presidential election, postpones campaigning and seeks deferral of a presidential debate so that he can return to Washington D.C. to discuss the subprime mortgage crisis and the Paulson Plan. (New York Times)
Preliminary findings made for the American Geophysical Union that support the Clathrate gun hypothesis, indicate the possible release of millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas, from Arctic seabeds. (The Independent)
The Diet elects Taro Aso of the Liberal Democratic Party as the new Prime Minister of Japan. (AP via CNN) (AFP)
Tomislav Nikolić announces that his party (a splinter from the Serbian Radical Party) will be called Serbian Progressive Party and that it will be founded on 21 October 2008. (B92)
Typhoon Hagupit hits Vietnam, the Philippines and southern China, killing at least eight. (BBC)

September 24, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 23, 2008 (Tuesday)

Pakistani soldiers and tribesmen reportedly shoot down a suspected U.S. military drone near the village of Jalal Khel in South Waziristan. The report comes a day after intelligence officers said two United States helicopters crossed a mile into Pakistan over North Waziristan, but flew off after Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire. (AP via Google News)
Government officials say that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into possible fraud for mortgage financing companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and insurer American International Group. (AP via CNNMoney)
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva is shut down until the northern spring while engineers probe magnet failures. (BBC News)
Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, warns the United States Congress that failure to pass the Paulson Plan quickly would make a recession more likely. (AP via Miami Herald)
Japanese investment bank Nomura Holdings aquires the European, Asian and Middle Eastern equities and investment banking operations of Lehman Brothers. (MarketWatch)
Sweden's National Television issues a public apology for a "misleading" report on comments made by foreign minister Carl Bildt about Sweden's intelligence services. (The Local)
Colin Barnett is sworn in as the 29th Premier of Western Australia. (The West Australian)
Eleven die in a school shooting in Kauhajoki, Finland. (BBC News)

September 23, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 22, 2008 (Monday)

Herman Simm, a former head of security at the Estonian Defense Ministry, and his wife Heete Simm, who works as a lawyer at Estonia's National Police Board, are arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia. (The International Herald Tribune)
Four people die in Puerto Rico as a result of heavy rains. (AP via Fox News)
South Africa's ruling African National Congress party names deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the successor to President Thabo Mbeki. (Bloomberg News)
More than 18,000 archived radio programs are indefinitely lost after the main computer server at Sweden's National Radio crashed last month. (Resume)
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, 2008: Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party chooses former Foreign Minister of Japan Taro Aso as the next Prime Minister of Japan replacing Yasuo Fukuda. (AFP)
Edward Natapei is elected the new Prime Minister of Vanuatu following the 2008 general elections replacing Ham Lini. (The International Herald Tribune)
15 people, including 11 foreign nationals, are kidnapped near Aswan in southern Egypt. (BBC News)
Radiocarbon dating estimates that Stonehenge was constructed around 2300 BC. (BBC News)
Paulson Plan
- The Paulson Plan to rescue the U.S. Banking system is debated by the 110th United States Congress. (The New York Times)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 370 points due to uncertainty over the plan. (The New York Times)
A car is driven into a group of people in Jerusalem in what Israeli authorities are describing as a "terror attack". (BBC News)

September 22, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 21, 2008 (Sunday)

Mad Men wins the Emmy Award for Best Drama and 30 Rock wins for Best Comedy at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Reuters)
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
The number of babies in China hospitalized due to adulterated milk products and infant formula reaches 12,892. (CNN)
The Social Democrats, led by Borut Pahor, presumably win the Slovenian parliamentary election. (AFP via Melbourne Herald-Sun)
The United States wins the Ryder Cup for the first time since 1999. (The Times)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submits his resignation to President Shimon Peres. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni begins talks on forming a new government. (AP via Google News)
Tyrone beat Kerry 1-15 to 0-14 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2008. (RTÉ)

September 21, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 20, 2008 (Saturday)

A fire in a nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen results in 43 dead and another 51 injured. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
The Ugandan Lords Resistance Army has launched a surprise offensive in Southern Sudan hitting an army base and villages in the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo. (BBC News)
Residents of Galveston Island, Texas are advised that they can return home next Wednesday but there will be little or no services after Hurricane Ike destroyed much of the town. (CNN)
The Bush administration asks the United States Congress for $700 billion to buy mortgage-related assets to try and resolve the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via USA Today)
War in North-West Pakistan:
- A suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan Army convoy, killing eight soldiers. (France 24)
- The 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing occurs. (AP via Google News)
South African President Thabo Mbeki agrees to resign after the ruling African National Congress requested him to step down.(Reuters Africa via Google News)
Pakistan detains 13 Indian fishermen after they drifted in Pakistani waters. (Press Trust of India)

September 20, 2008 Wikinews articles

September 19, 2008 (Friday)

Four people die in a plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina with Travis Barker, formerly of Blink 182, and DJ AM being critically injured. (AP via CNN)
Global stock market crash of September 2008
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Kingdom Financial Services Authority take emergency action to temporarily ban short-selling of financial companies stock. (AP via Google News)
- The United States Department of the Treasury guarantees money market mutual funds up to an amount of $50 billion to guarantee their viability. (The New York Times)
- The New York Stock Exchange responds positively to these initiatives with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 390 points. (The New York Times)
Nigerian Oil Crisis
- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announces that it has blown up a pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell. (BBC News)
- Nigerian oil production has been reduced by 280,000 barrels per day since renewed attacks on oil facilities began. (Bloomberg)
Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. (BBC News)

September 19, 2008 Wikinews articles

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