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- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown denies that the British Government had any role in the release from prison of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi. (Daily Telegraph)
- The Malaysian opposition party PAS defeats the government party UMNO in the by-election at Permatang Pasir, Penang.(Bernama)
- A suicide bombing in Mesker-Yurt, Chechnya, kills three police officers. (Yahoo! news) (BBC News)
- Madagascar's political rivals meet for a second round of talks in Maputo, Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
- South Korea successfully launches its first space rocket, Naro-1, orbiting the STSAT-2A satellite (BBC News)
- U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for his second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.(Bloomberg)
- A car bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, kills at least 30 people. (BBC)
- A bomb in Afghanistan kills four American soldiers, making 2009 the deadliest year for foreign troops since the 2001 invasion. (BBC)
- A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi, China, kills at least 11 people. (BBC)
- The US budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded. (BBC)
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- According to court documents, the Los Angeles County coroner's preliminary assessment is that Michael Jackson's death was caused by an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.(Reuters)
- The district court in Stockholm orders BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's largest ISP, Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic.(CNET News)
- Sweden's TeliaSonera AB announces cash offers worth around $687.7 million in total for shares it doesn't already own in Baltic operators Teo LT and Eesti Telekom. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears on television for the first time in more than a year. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Thieves kill an endangered Sumatran Tiger in an Indonesian zoo and steal its body, leaving its intestines behind. (BBC) (Jakarta Globe)
- Ireland's Green Party and gay rights organisations defend plans to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples following criticism of the move by Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. (The Irish Times)
- China is to try 200 people suspected of their involvement in the Ürümqi riots last month. (GBC) (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- Two mass graves containing the remains of communist soldiers dating from the Vietnam War are discovered in central Vietnam. (The Straits Times) (China Daily)
- A Malaysian Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who was convicted of drinking alcohol, is granted a reprieve until after Ramadan. (Al Jazeera) (Bernama) (Xinhua) (IOL)
- Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill defends his decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua)
- Kenya's fifth national census takes place. (KBC) (BBC) (The Nation) (Associated Press)
- Captain Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a military coup in Guinea, refuses to rule out standing for President, after previously promising not to. (BBC) (AFP) (IOL)
- At least 200 children are killed and around 900 hospitalised by Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, India. (BBC)
- Baitullah Mehsud is confirmed dead by leaders of Pakistan's Taliban. (Associated Press)
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- Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states mark the twentieth anniversary of the 'Baltic Way' - when two million people formed a human chain to protest against Soviet Union rule. (Aljazeera), (Guardian), (Baltic Times).
- Tens of thousands of people protest against a new law which gives women equal rights in marriage in Bamako, Mali. (BBC) (Afrique en ligne)
- 26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and ships in the Suez Canal on behalf of Lebanon's Hezbollah group go on trial in an Egyptian security court. (IOL) (BBC)
- Thousands of people are evacuated as forest fires reach the outskirts of the Greek capital, Athens. (Associated Press) (BBC) (Daily Mail) (RTÉ)
- North Korean envoys meet the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for the first time since he took office. (Al Jazeera) (Yonhap)
- A new picture of Fidel Castro is published in the Juventud Rebelde state-run newspaper, apparently showing Cuba's ailing former leader in much better health. (BBC) (CNN) (IOL) (Reuters Africa)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main rival Abdullah Abdullah alleges fraud in the presidential election. (Xinhua) (The Guardian) (The Times of India)
- Yemeni troops claim to have killed more than 100 Shia rebels in the past two weeks, including two leaders, but the rebels deny their leaders, Mohsen Saleh Gawd and Salah Jorman, are dead and no independent confirmation is made available. (BBC)
- A leak at an offshore oil rig that caused a large oil spill off the coast of Australia "could take weeks" to be plugged. (Associated Press) (The Australian)
- A severe drought in northern China leaves 5 million people short of water and damages 8.7 million hectares of farmland. (The Straits Times) (Press Trust of India) (China Daily)
- England reclaim The Ashes with a 2-1 series win over Australia. (BBC)
- Iraq broadcasts a video of former police chief Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim, a Saddam Hussein loyalist, confessing to orchestrating a truck bombing at the finance ministry, the first of two bombings that killed 95 people and maimed hundreds more in Baghdad on 19 August. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Straits Times)
- ZANU-PF party members walk out of a meeting of Zimbabwe cabinet members to review the work of a unity government it has formed with its opponents, over charges of electoral fraud. (Reuters Africa)
- Honduras's Supreme Court rejects a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and orders his arrest if he returns. (BBC)
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- Argentina's association football championship kicks off after President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner puts it on the state payroll to avoid a financial crisis. (MercoPress)
- Brazil becomes Chile's third largest trading partner, displacing Japan, according to recently released government trade figures. (MercoPress)
- South African President Jacob Zuma makes a pilgrimage to a former anti-apartheid guerrilla camp in Angola where he lays a wreath and pays tribute to fallen comrades. (IOL)
- The presidents or heads of state of five nations, including Seretse Ian Khama of Botswana and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, along with ministers and musical troupes gather at the cricket stadium in Oranjemund, Namibia, for a welcoming ceremony at the conclusion of explorer Kingsley Holgate's latest expedition, which took him through nine countries. (IOL)
- 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)
- A 34-year-old Tunisian woman from Gafsa, thought to have been pregnant with 12 babies and whose story had attracted international attention, is determined to have been the victim of a phantom pregnancy. (IOL)
- László Sólyom, President of Hungary was declared unwelcome by Slovakia and was not allowed to step on Slovak soil to attend an unveiling of a statue depicting King Saint Stephen, first King of Hungary. (BBC)
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