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Tianyuraptor, a new genus of short-armed dromaeosaurid dinosaur, is described from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation.
At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Jamaica's Usain Bolt (pictured) sets new world records of 9.58 seconds for the 100 m sprint and 19.19 seconds for the 200 m sprint.
Car bombs explode in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 101, injuring 563, and breaching the Green Zone perimeter.
The MV Arctic Sea, a merchant vessel missing since being hijacked in July, is found near Cape Verde by the Russian Navy.
An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Russia kills 66 and causes power shortages in Siberia.
The bombing of a police headquarters in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia kills 20 and injures 138.

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August 23, 2009 (Sunday)

Tens of thousands of people protest against a new law which gives women equal rights in marriage in Bamako, Mali. (BBC)

August 23, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 22, 2009 (Saturday)

The militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta hands over hundreds of weapons to the Nigerian government as part of a weapons amnesty. (BBC) (NEXT) (IOL)
Officials from North and South Korea meet for talks for the first time in two years. (BBC) (Yonhap)

August 22, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 21, 2009 (Friday)

William Calley, the former US army officer found guilty of organizing mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai during the Vietnam War makes a public apology.(NPR)
A missile fired from a U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
Four policemen are killed after 4 suicide bombs on bicycles detonate in Grozny, Chechnya. (RIA Novosti) (AFP) (Al Jazeera)
A North Korean delegation arrives in South Korea to mourn the death of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. (Al Jazeera) (Yonhap) (China Daily)
20 people are killed and 40 injured after clashes between pro-government and Islamist forces in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Bloomberg)
A rockfall on a beach in the Algarve, Portugal, kills 5 holidaymakers and injures several others. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (euronews)
Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use". (The Times of India) (Al Jazeera)
U.S. President Barack Obama condemns Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's homecoming in Libya. (CNN)
Hawaii commemorates fifty years of U.S. statehood. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

August 21, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 20, 2009 (Thursday)

The U.S. federal government announces plans to end the Cash for Clunkers program. (New York Times)
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, is released on compassionate grounds due to terminal cancer, and boards a flight to Libya. (BBC)
A bicycle bomb explodes near a restaurant in Baghdad, killing two people. (Yahoo! news)
Switzerland's president, Hans-Rudolf Merz, apologizes to the Libyan government for last year's arrest of a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (MSNBC)
Elizabeth Ramos and Louis Williams admit to bribing an employee of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in exchange for defense contracts. (UPI)

August 20, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 19, 2009 (Wednesday)

Seven car bombs are detonated in Baghdad, killing at least 95, and wounding nearly 600. (The Times)
The United States and Switzerland sign an agreement designed to end a tax evasion dispute surrounding UBS U.S. customers. (BBC)
Spanish police capture two suspected members, Aitzol Etxaburu and Andoni Sarasola, of the Basque-region separatist group ETA. (CNN)
John Marek becomes the 68th death row inmate in the state of Florida, United States to be executed by lethal injection since the death sentence was re-instated in 1979.(Miami Herald)

August 19, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 18, 2009 (Tuesday)

Former South Korean President and 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kim Dae-jung dies of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. (Reuters)
Seven people are killed in a bombing targeting a NATO convoy in Kabul, days before the presidential elections in Afghanistan. (BBC)

August 18, 2009 Wikinews articles

August 17, 2009 (Monday)

Japan officially exits the recession. (BBC) (RTÉ)
A bomb explodes on a truck at a fuel station in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (20 km from Peshawar), killing seven people. (BBC News)
A suicide bomber explodes a truck at a police station in Nazran in Russia's North Caucasus, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 60 others. (Yahoo! News) (NY Times)
An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Russia kills seven and causes power shortages in Siberia. (Reuters) (RTÉ)
The Canadian Forces begin exercises to protect Canada's sovereignty in the far north. (CTV)
The MV Arctic Sea, a cargo ship missing after an apparent hijacking in July off the Swedish coast, is discovered by the Russian Navy off Cape Verde. (CNN)

August 17, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Worldwide recession Medical H1N1/09 flu pandemic West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Scientific Expedition 20 Sports World Championships in Athletics Political Honduran constitutional crisis Iranian election protests Nigerien constitutional crisis Peruvian political crisis Thai political crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification edit sidebar

Recent deaths
August 20: Larry Knechtel 20: Dudu Topaz 19: Don Hewitt 18: Rose Friedman 18: Kim Dae-jung 18: Hugo Loetscher 18: Robert Novak 13: Les Paul 12: Rashied Ali 11: Nuala Fennell 11: Eunice Kennedy Shriver 10: Andy Kessler edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Worldwide War on Terrorism Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War War in Darfur Kivu conflict Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Somali Civil War Second Tuareg Rebellion Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Laotian Secret War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War edit sidebar

Elections
Recent August 2: Comoros, Parliament 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum 20: Afghanistan, President Upcoming August 28: Moldova, President (indirect) 30: Gabon, President 30: Japan, Parliament September 1: Vanuatu, President 14: Norway, Parliament 16: Switzerland, Federal Council edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Canada: Larry O'Brien New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal France: Church of Scientology Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
August Ongoing 21 evening - September 20: Ramadan (Islam) 23 - September 3: Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism) Current 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 23: Liberation Day (Romania) 23: Flag Day (Ukraine) Upcoming 24: National Flag Day (Liberia) 24: National Heroes' Day (Philippines) 24: Independence Day (Ukraine) 25: Dia do Soldado (Brazil) 25: Independence Day (Uruguay) edit sidebar

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