• At least four people, including a high-ranking security service officer, are killed in a series of bombings and shootings across Russia's North Caucasus. (Voice of America)
• 2011 Libyan civil war: Libya's National Transitional Council extends the deadline for tribal leaders in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte to surrender in order to avoid further fighting. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Three Pakistani soldiers and one Indian soldier are killed following an attack by Indian border forces on a Pakistani checkpost along the Line of Control. (Express Tribune)

• The remains of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly are found in the former HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Victoria. (The Courier-Mail)
• Protesters from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign disrupt a concert given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for the BBC Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall. (BBC)

• The world's largest food group, Nestlé SA, opens a new production unit in Konolfingen, Switzerland, and its CEO affirms that the company is committed to its home country, despite problems created by the unusually strong Swiss franc against the euro. (Reuters)
• Former Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Maria van der Hoeven, takes office as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. (Wall Street Journal)

• Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declares a state of emergency after Tropical Storm Lee forms in the northern Gulf of Mexico. (CNN)

• The South Korean military resumes building a naval base on the island of Jeju-do after police clear the site of protesters. (Yonhap)

• A court in Düsseldorf orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab, acting on a lawsuit brought by Apple. (Reuters)

• 2010 Gaza flotilla raid:
  • Turkey expels Israel's ambassador and cancels all military agreements with Israel, hours before a UN report investigating the raid is published. (BBC) (The New York Times)
  • The UN report finds that the IDF acted 'legitimately' in trying to enforce Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, except for the lack of a final warning to the activists and the use of "excessive" force. (Jerusalem Post)

• The Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda announces his new Cabinet with Jun Azumi as Minister of Finance and Kōichirō Genba as Minister for Foreign Affairs. (AFP via Google News)

• 2011 Chilean Air Force CASA 212 crash:
  • Four bodies are recovered from the ocean after an airplane of the Chilean Air Force crashed near Robinson Crusoe Island on Friday. (CBC)
  • The Chilean Minister of National Defense Andrés Allamand Zavala confirms that all 21 passengers of the flight died in the crash, including TV presenter Felipe Camiroaga. (La Tercera)

• At least 24 people are killed in violence across Syria. (The Times of India)

• Tropical Storm Lee makes landfall near the US city of Lafayette, Louisiana, with the Gulf Coast hit by tornados. (Reuters)
• Wildfires continue to burn in the US state of Texas, destroying tens of thousands of acres of land. (The Statesman)

• Voters in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern go to the polls for a state election with the Social Democrats and Greens performing well and the Christian Democrats and Free Democrats performing poorly. (PA via Google News)

• Sonya Thomas wins the United States Chicken Wing Eating Championship by consuming 183 Buffalo wings in twelve minutes. (Buffalo News)
• 2011 World Championships in Athletics:
  • The United States tops the medal count at the World Championships. (Yonhap News)
  • The Jamaican 4x100-meter relay team of Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt sets a new world record. (Yonhap)

• The Emperor penguin who was washed up on a New Zealand beach in June is released back into the Southern Ocean. (BBC) (New Zealand Herald)

• Turkish air force strikes kill four members of the PKK in Northern Iraq. (Yahoo)^{[permanent dead link]}
• One person is killed and two injured by Iranian artillery shelling near the Iraqi border town of Siydah Khan, near Arbil. (Reuters)
• Sky News reports that 30,000 Libyans may be missing as a result of the civil war. (Sky News)
• A mosque in the Palestinian village of Kasra, north of Jerusalem, is attacked overnight, residents say. (BBC)
• The government of Pakistan reports the arrest of senior Al-Qaeda chief Younis al-Mauritani. BBC
• A convoy of troops loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crosses the border with Niger arriving in Agadez. (Associated Press)

• Rescuers in Japan look for survivors of Typhoon Talas, which has killed at least 35 people, with the Wakayama Prefecture on the Kii Peninsula the worst affected. (AP via Google News) (Japan Times)
• The 2011 Somalian famine, which has killed 30,000 children and tens of thousands more adults, spreads to the Bay Region of Somalia. (New YorK Times)
• 2011 Atlantic hurricane season:
  • Approximately 5,000 people are evacuated from their homes near the U.S. city of Austin, Texas, with wildfires caused in part by Tropical Storm Lee causing concerns in other parts of the state. (Xinhua) (Austin Statesman) (USA Today)
  • Hurricane Katia strengthens to Category 4 strength but no warnings are in place. (National Hurricane Centre)
  • The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee cause flooding in parts of the Southern United States. (USA Today)

• South Korea announces that it will start sending emergency aid to North Korea next week after devastating floods. (Yonhap)

• The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac on embezzlement charges begins in Paris. (AFP via France 24)
• Turkish hackers gain access to the websites of several companies, including Vodafone, the Daily Telegraph and UPS, redirecting visitors to a site set up by the group. (BBC)

• The President of the United States Barack Obama kicks off his re-election campaign with an appearance at the AFL–CIO Labor Day parade in the city of Detroit. (Washington Times)
• In the United Kingdom the first wave of independent state-funded schools, known as free schools, open their doors as the new academic year begins. (BBC)

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• English musician PJ Harvey wins her second Mercury Prize for best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland for her album Let England Shake. (New York Times)

• A Russian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-31 crashes in Perm Krai in the Ural Mountains. (RIA Novosti)
• A wildfire destroys at least 118,500 acres and destroys over 700 homes in Central Texas since Saturday with two deaths. (CNN) (Houston Chronicle)
• A tropical storm watch is in place for Bermuda as Hurricane Katia gets closer. (National Hurricane Centre)

• The Swiss National Bank introduces a minimum exchange rate of 1.20 CHF/EUR to prevent the overvaluation of the Swiss franc. (BBC)

• News International phone hacking scandal:
  • Four former News International executives are recalled by the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to face further examination over phone hacking within the organisation. (BBC)
• Margaret Moran, the former British Labour Party MP for Luton South is charged on 21 counts relating falsely claiming Parliamentary expenses. (BBC)
• A mass shooting at an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Carson City, Nevada, leaves four dead, including the shooter, and six wounded. (AP)

• At least eleven people are killed following bombings in the Pakistan city of Quetta. (Dawn)
• A bomb explosion outside the Delhi High Court in the Indian court in New Delhi kills at least nine people and injures another 45. (AP via Forbes) (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

• ICM Registry – the company that sponsors the .xxx Internet top-level domain for adult entertainment, planned for launch in 2012 – is giving organisations and people in the public eye the opportunity to block their names from being used by websites with the suffix. (BBC)

• The economy of Australia recovers, achieving 1.2% growth in the second quarter after floods led to a contraction of .9% in the second quarter. (Dow Jones via The Australian)
• The Swedish car maker Saab Automobile files for bankruptcy in a self-managed reconstruction process. (AP via Forbes)

• A Yak Service Yak-42 carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near Yaroslavl, Russia, killing 44. (Lenta.ru)
• Tropical Storm Nate is set to arrive at the Atlantic coast of Mexico tonight or tomorrow morning. (National Hurricane Centre)
• Tropical Storm Lee remnants in the northeastern United States:
  • Ten thousand people are ordered to evacuate in Broome County in the US state of New York due to flooding of the Chenango River and the Susquehanna River. (Press Connects)^{[permanent dead link]}
  • Flash flood warnings are issued in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland. (Washington Post)
  • Heavy rain in the middle of Pennsylvania causes 1000 students in the Derry Township School District to be stranded at the Hershey Middle School. (Patriot News)

• The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina sign an accord ending four decades of disputes over the borders of India and Bangladesh. (IBN Live)

• Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond unveils a legislative programme for the coming year which includes plans to create a single police force and a single fire service for Scotland. (BBC)
• Republican Party candidates in the 2012 US presidential election hold a debate in California's Simi Valley. (AP)

• North Caucasus insurgency/Ingushetia civil war:
  • Six people are killed and at least three injured in a series of raids by Russian forces on suspected militants in the North Caucasus. (Monsters and Critics)
  • Over 2,600 people are classified as missing in the North Caucasus. (Interfax)
• United States counterterrorism officials investigate reports of a potential terrorist threat against either New York City or Washington D.C., linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Sunday. (New York Times)

• Unemployment in Australia is reported to have risen to 5.3% in August 2011. (Market Watch)

• 2011 Northeastern United States floods following Tropical Storm Lee:
  • The National Weather Service issues flash flooding warnings for the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Virginia. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
  • More than 12 inches (30 cm) of rain falls in the region surrounding the capital of Harrisburg, causing heavy flooding and evacuations. (Reuters)
  • 115,000 people are ordered to evacuate from the city of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston as flood waters threaten the levees along the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. (The Times Leader)
  • Heavy rains and rockslides close the Schuylkill Expressway, a major artery into Philadelphia. (FOX Philly)
  • The Siegrist's Mill Covered Bridge, a Burr Arch Truss covered bridge located between the Rapho and West Hempfield townships in Lancaster, is swept away by rushing waters from Chiques Creek. (LNP)
  • Pennsylvania closes and evacuates the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence and the state government is suspended. (Patriot-News)
  • At least four deaths are reported in Pennsylvania and three in Maryland and Virginia. (WGAL) (Daily Record)
• The death toll in Japan from Typhoon Talas reaches 54, with 55 people still missing. (Kyodo via Japan Times)
• A blackout in southern California, Arizona and Baja California in Mexico caused by the loss of the entire San Diego Gas & Electric system leads to the closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the loss of power to more than two million people. (Los Angeles Times) (NBC San Diego) (AP via Arizona Star)
• Tropical Storm Nate causes heavy rain on Mexico's Atlantic Ocean coast. (NHC)

• Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade is reappointed to a second, three-year term as head of the Pacific Islands Forum. (Fiji Times)
• Up to 40,000 public sector workers gather in the Australian city of Sydney to protest a wages cap and job cuts in the 2011-12 budget proposed by the Government of the State of New South Wales. (News Limited) (Daily Telegraph)
• U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of both houses of Congress, putting forward a new job-creation plan entailing major spending initiatives and tax cuts. (Voice of America)^{[permanent dead link]} (Bloomberg) (Wall Street Journal)
• Former President of Vietnam Võ Chí Công dies in Ho Chi Minh City at the age of 99. (AP via Hindustan Times)

• In American football, the 2011 NFL season begins, with the Green Bay Packers playing the New Orleans Saints at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin with the Packers winning a shootout 42–34. (Reuters) (Fox Sports)

• Arab Spring:
  • 2011 Yemeni uprising:
    • Over a million people protest against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in one of the Yemeni opposition's largest protests. (CNN)
  • 2011 Syrian uprising:
    • Syrians engage in mass Friday protests against the Syrian government, calling on the international community for assistance against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. (Al Jazeera)
  • About 3,000 Egyptian protesters storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo.(CNN)

• A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia province. (Victoria Times Colonist)^{[permanent dead link]}

• Australopithecus sediba skeletons found at the Cradle of Humankind site in South Africa are dated at 2 million years old, suggesting that the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans. (The Australian)

• In rugby union, the 2011 Rugby World Cup begins in New Zealand, with New Zealand's All Blacks playing Tonga's Sea Eagles in Auckland. (The Telegraph)

• The MV Spice Islander I, a passenger ferry, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, leaving at least 187 people dead. (BBC) (Daily Telegraph)
• U.S. President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency in the state of Texas, amid wildfires that have already destroyed at least 1,300 homes. (CNN)

• G8 nations pledge at least $40 billion to help Arab countries reconstruct and implement democracy following the turmoil of the Arab Spring. (BBC)
• Post-Mubarak transition in Egypt:
  • Protesters storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo, forcing the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee. (Sydney Morning Herald)
  • The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the ruling military junta of Egypt, declares a national state of emergency. (Businessweek.com)

• In boxing, Vitali Klitschko defeats Tomasz Adamek by technical knockout to retain the WBC Heavyweight Championship of the World in Wrocław, Poland. (Taipei Times)
• In mixed martial arts, Daniel Cormier and Josh Barnett advance to the finals of the Strikeforce World Grand Prix Heavyweight Tournament by defeating Antônio "Bigfoot" Silva and Sergei Kharitonov, respectively, at Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov in Cincinnati, Ohio, US. (Sherdog)

• Tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks:
  • Memorial ceremonies are held at New York's Ground Zero and elsewhere in the United States, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Ceremonies are also held worldwide to mark the anniversary of the attacks. (Yahoo News via AP)
  • The National September 11 Memorial, located on the site of the former World Trade Center, opens in New York City. (Daily Sundial)
• A truck bomb at a military outpost in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, kills several civilians. (Miami Herald)
• Police in Gothenburg, Sweden, arrest four people after a suspected failed terrorist attack. (Sky News)

• At least 22 people are dead in the Indian state of Orissa as a result of flooding. (IBN)

• UK police raid the Greenacre caravan site in Leighton Buzzard, rescuing 24 men who had been held there as slaves in squalid conditions . (The Guardian)

• Voters in Guatemala go to the polls for a general election. (Christian Science Monitor)

• In tennis, Samantha Stosur of Australia wins the Women's Singles in the 2011 US Open, defeating Serena Williams of the United States 6-2, 6-3. (New York Times)

• The EU Council votes to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. (BBC)
• British comedian David Walliams completes a 140-mile charity swim along the River Thames, raising £1 million in aid of the BBC's Sport Relief. (BBC)
• Leila Lopes of Angola is named Miss Universe 2011. (LA Late)

• Stocks on Asian markets fall sharply due to renewed concerns over the Eurozone debt crisis. (Market Watch)
• The UK's Independent Commission on Banking recommends that British banks should separate their retail banking divisions from investment banking arms to safeguard against riskier banking activities. (BBC)

• At least 75 people are killed by a petrol pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. (BBC)
• At least 19 people die in a bus crash on the Indonesian island of Java. (Jakarta Post)
• At least 240 bodies have been recovered off the coast of Zanzibar following Saturday's ferry sinking. (Xinhua)
• An explosion occurs at the Marcoule nuclear power plant in southern France, killing one person and injuring four. (BBC)

• Police in Kenya are searching for a gang who killed a British tourist and kidnapped his wife at a beachside resort. (BBC)
• Former British Conservative peers Lord Taylor of Warwick and Lord Hanningfield are released early from prison sentences for fiddling parliamentary expenses. (BBC)

• Bernard Hogan-Howe is named as the new Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police. (BBC)

• In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's Singles at the 2011 US Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1. (New York Times)

• Investigators in Gothenburg, Sweden, now think that the four men arrested for the 2011 failed Gothenburg terrorist attack have links to the terrorist network Al-Qaida. (CBC)
• Taliban insurgents attack the United States embassy, NATO headquarters and police buildings in the Afghan capital Kabul. (BBC)

• U.S. bankruptcy court judge Mary Walrath rejects a reorganization plan submitted by Washington Mutual, holding that the Debtors erred by planning to pay senior debtholders a contract rate of interest rather than the federal judgment rate. (Wall Street Journal Online)

• 12.3 million people have been displaced and 11.2 million homes affected, as well as 1.7 million acres of fertile land inundated, in the wake of the monsoonal 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan. The death toll from the flooding currently stands at 270. (Express Tribune)
• At least 11 people are killed and over 228 injured in a collision between a bus and train in the suburb of Flores in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. (Buenos Aires Herald)
• The Pagami Creek wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of the U.S. state of Minnesota spreads to over 100,000 acres, with smoke drifting across the Midwest. (Lakeland Times) (Duluth News)^{[permanent dead link]}
• Pakistani Taliban gunmen opened fire on a Peshawar school bus that kills 15 people. (The Guardian)

• Over 5,000 people have reportedly been infected by an outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan. (ARY News)

• Voters in New York's 9th congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives Anthony Weiner with Republican Bob Turner winning a tight race with Democrat David Weprin (New York Times) (The Atlantic Monthly) (AP)
• Voters in Nevada's 2nd congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives, Senator Dean Heller, with Republican Mark Amodei defeating Democrat Kate Marshall. (New York Times) (AP)
• The date of the Venezuelan presidential election is set for 7 October, 2012. (BBC)
• The British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee announces its intention to recall James Murdoch as its probe into the News International phone hacking scandal continues. (BBC)
• The United Kingdom Boundaries Commission publishes proposals to redraw constituency boundaries in England and Northern Ireland to reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600 at the next general election. Proposals for Scotland and Wales will be announced later. (BBC)
• Unions in the United Kingdom call on members to stage a nationwide "day of action" on 30 November in protest at changes to public sector pensions. (BBC)

• Taliban attack on Kabul:
  • A Taliban attack on the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul ends with 11 people dead. (The Telegraph)
  • The United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that the United States would retaliate against the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of terrorists that it believes was responsible. (AFP via Google News)
• More than twenty people are killed and scores injured in attacks in Iraq, including 16 people killed in a car bombing in Babil Province. (AP via Washington Post)

• Archaeologists in the US state of Maryland claim to have found a fort in the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County built to protect the "friendly" Piscataway Indians in 1680. (Baltimore Sun)

• Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, claims that the world economy has entered the "danger zone", with the United States, European Union and Japan having to make tough decisions. (Reuters)

• Tropical Storm Maria is strengthening in the Atlantic Ocean with a hurricane watch issued in Bermuda for when it arrives either late tonight or tomorrow. (National Hurricane Centre via NOLA)

• The acquittals of former Premier of Western Australia Brian Burke, former Cabinet Minister Julian Grill and former public servant Nathan Hondros on corruption charges are overturned by the Court of Appeal in Perth, with the three set to face a retrial. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
• A French Appeals Court clears former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of charges of involvement in a smear campaign against current President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Irish Times)
• Paul Tiensten, a former Minister in Papua New Guinea, flees to Australia after being summonsed in East New Britain Province to face charges of fraud and corruption. (AAP via The Australian)
• Two days after his release from prison, British Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield is arrested on suspicion of fraudulently claiming expenses during his time as leader of Essex County Council. (BBC)
• In a court case concerning the theft of Kevlar-related trade secrets, DuPont is awarded US$920 million in damages.(BBC)

• The Australian government's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, announces an inquiry into the national media. (SBS)

• NASA announces plans for a Space Launch System to replace the Space Shuttle program with the first flight tentatively scheduled for 2017. (New York Times)

• Japanese automaker Toyota resumes full production at its North American plants, having finally overcome parts shortages caused by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Bloomberg via Japan Times)
• A contract between the North American automaker Chrysler and the United Auto Workers expires at midnight while negotiations continue between the union and General Motors. (Detroit Free Press)
• Switzerland's UBS reports that it has lost US$2 billion on unauthorised deals by Kweku Adoboli, one of its London-based traders. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Stock markets in the United States and Europe rally after major banks, including the European Central Bank and the United States Federal Reserve, initiate a plan to help end the European sovereign debt crisis. (CNN)

• International aid group Oxfam sets up an emergency appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan, which have so far killed more than 200 people. (ABC News Australia)
• Rescue efforts continue to release four miners trapped 90m (295ft) underground following an explosion at Gleision Colliery near Cilybebyll, Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley, Wales, on Thursday morning. (BBC) (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
• Earthquakes hit off the coasts of Vancouver Island, Cuba, Japan, and New Zealand's north island. (MSNBC)
• Hurricane Maria passes Bermuda on its way to Newfoundland off the coast of Canada. (National Hurricane Centre)
• The Norwegian cruise ship Nordlys catches fire off Ålesund. Two people are killed and twelve are injured. BBC

• The Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra visits Cambodia in an effort to improve relations after the border clashes near the Preah Vihear Temple earlier this year which led to the deaths of twenty people. (Bloomberg)
• Israel withdraws its ambassador to Jordan due to fears of a violent protest in Amman. (Reuters)
• Senior NATO leaders including the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy fly to Libya to meet with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the leader of the National Transitional Council, and other leaders. (BBC)
• UNICEF releases a child mortality report indicating that the number of children dying under the age of five has fallen from more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010. (UNICEF)
• The United States designates the Indian Mujahideen as a terrorist organisation. (Indian Express)

• The People's Republic of China sentences four people to death in the Xinjiang region following threats to crack down on terrorism in the far-western region. (AFP via Google News)
• Figures from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice indicate that three quarters of those charged with offences relating to the riots which occurred in August had previous criminal convictions. One quarter had committed more than ten previous offences. (BBC)
• The UK's Metropolitan Police arrest trader Kweku Adoboli after Swiss bank UBS says it lost $2bn (£1.3bn) as a result of unauthorised trading by a member of staff. (BBC)
• The Supreme Court of the United States halts the execution of Duane Buck for double murder in Texas while it reviews his case that the sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. (AP)

• Danish election:
  • Voters in Denmark go to the polls for parliamentary elections with a left-wing Coalition led by the Social Democrats winning enough seats to form Government. (Christian Science Monitor) (Wall Street Journal)
  • Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of the Social Democrats, looks set to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. (NPR)
• Australians will now be able to choose "indeterminate" as a gender on their passports together with male and female. (AP via Mercury News)^{[permanent dead link]}
• Eight Flemish and Francophone parties represented in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives reach a breakthrough on the Bruxelles-Halle-Vilvorde which had been one of the issues holding up formation of a new government since an election in 2010. (Xinhua)

• Researchers at Australia's Monash University have identified a previously unknown species of bottlenose dolphin living in waters in and around Southeastern Australia, which they have named Tursiops australis. (BBC)

• Authorities in South Korea arrest a North Korean citizen for an alleged assassination attempt against Park Sang-hak, a noted defector and activist. (Yonhap)

• Hurricane Maria hits the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador as a Category 1 hurricane. (National Hurricane Centre)
• Areas in Delhi, India, are flooded by heavy rain, with record rainfall recorded at Indira Gandhi International Airport. (IBN Live)
• The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, cancels a visit to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly as a result of the 2011 Sindh floods. (Reuters)
• Four trapped coal miners are confirmed dead following a mining accident at the Gleision Colliery in South Wales. (BBC)
• 2011 Reno Air Races crash: At least 5 people are killed and at least 50 injured when a P-51D Mustang airplane crashes into the crowd at the annual Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada, in the United States. (MSNBC), (AP via Washington Post) 1
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  • In baseball, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees sets a record in Major League Baseball for career saves. (AP via Taiwan News)

• 2011 Yemeni uprising: Rockets hit a protest camp in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killing at least two people. (Reuters)
• Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former President of Afghanistan, is killed in a suicide bombing at his home in Kabul while meeting with a Taliban delegation to discuss a possible peace deal. (Al-Jazeera), (AFP via The Australian)
• Gunmen in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan open fire on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims to Iran, killing at least 25 people. (New York Times)
• A bombing attack in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara kills at least 3 people and injures 34. (New York Times)

• Gears of War 3, the final game in the acclaimed Gears of War video game franchise, goes on sale, with 20,000 game stores around the world opening at midnight for its release. (The Guardian)

• Qantas flights throughout Australia are disrupted by a four-hour strike by airport ground staff and baggage handlers. (Sydney Morning Herald)^{[permanent dead link]}
• The International Monetary Fund warns of a possible global double-dip recession in the coming years. (Sky News)
• The world's 8th-largest search engine, Yandex, expands into Turkey, marking its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States. (Total Telecom)
• Wadah Khanfar steps down as the head of the Al Jazeera news network, and is replaced by Sheikh Ahmad bin Jassim bin Mohammad Al Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family. (Financial Times) (Irish Times) (Al Jazeera)

• Floods and landslides caused by a week of heavy rain in the People's Republic of China have killed at least 57 people and made as many as a million people homeless. (BBC)
• An investigation by Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee into the fatal crash of RusAir Flight 9605 in June 2011 finds that the disaster, which killed 47 people, was caused by a combination of pilot error, an inadequate weather forecast and inadequate ground equipment. It is furthermore reported that the aircraft's navigator was intoxicated at the time of the crash.(Wall Street Journal)
• The road to the Indian town of Mangan reopens after the 2011 Sikkim earthquake, with the death toll expected to rise as rescuers reach the worst affected areas. (Times of India)
• The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia did not abuse legal processes to destroy Yukos, once its largest oil company. (The Scotsman)
• 2011 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Ophelia forms in the central Atlantic Ocean, with no storm warnings currently in place. (National Hurricane Centre via NOLA.com)

• The African Union officially recognises the National Transitional Council as Libya's legitimate leadership. (AFP via Google)

• A Norwegian judge orders Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, to be kept in solitary confinement for four more weeks. (CNN)
• The United States military officially ends its policy known as "don't ask, don't tell" and allows homosexual personnel to publicly declare their sexual orientation without being dismissed. (New York Times)
• A group of Italian scientists go on trial for allegedly downplaying the risk of a major earthquake before the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, which killed 308 people. (The Independent)
• Mexican gunmen dump 35 bodies in the city of Boca del Rio, with at least some of the victims having links to organised crime. (AP via Bakersfield Now)

• Voters in Zambia go to the polls for a general election, with a close presidential race expected between incumbent Rupiah Banda and opposition leader Michael Sata. (Voice of America)

• 2011 Yemeni uprising: Yemeni government forces break a recently-established ceasefire by firing mortar rounds at mourners at the funerals of protesters. (AP via The Australian)
• Parts of the Pakistani city of Quetta observe a shutdown in response to the killing of 29 Shiite protesters on Tuesday. (Daily Times)

• US rock band R.E.M. announce they are splitting up. (The Telegraph)

• Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)
• United Technologies Corporation announced that it reached an agreement to purchase Goodrich Corporation, manufacturer of spacecraft attitude control systems, for US$18.4B. (United Technologies)

• Indonesian search and rescue agencies continue to search for survivors after a boat sinks off the coast of Bali, with 11 people confirmed dead and 14 missing. (Straits Times)
• Typhoon Roke bears down on northeastern Japan, with four people reported dead due to flooding. (Chicago Sun Times)
• The death toll from the 2011 Sikkim earthquake rises above 100. (News Limited) (Voice of America)

• The governments of North Korea and South Korea meet but fail to reach an agreement on the resumption of Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. (AP via Fox News)
• South Korean religious leaders leave for North Korea on a rare visit. (Yonhap)
• Two American hikers, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, are set free on bail by Iran as a humanitarian gesture, after being detained in prison for over two years under allegations of espionage. (Chron)
• Turkey signs an accord with North Cyprus to explore for oil and gas in the Mediterranean in response to a decision by the Government of Cyprus to drill for oil. (AFP via Google)

• Troy Davis case:
  • The United States Supreme Court decides to delay the execution of Troy Davis, superseding the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles rejection of the request for death row clemency. (ABC News) (USA Today)
  • Shortly thereafter, the United States Supreme Court refuses to delay the execution of Troy Davis; Davis' execution goes ahead as scheduled. (Washington Post) (Atlanta Journal Constitution)^{[permanent dead link]}

• The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the United States will host the 2015 UCI World Championships in Richmond, Virginia. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)^{[permanent dead link]} (Associated Press)

• At least five people are killed in a bus bombing in Pakistan's Bajaur Agency. (Xinhua)

• World stock markets plunge amid growing global fears of recession. (Sky News)
• Facebook makes major changes to its social networking interface, updating its profile page, adding an app store, and amending its news feed with a "timeline" feature. (CNN) (MSNBC)
• Hewlett-Packard fires CEO Léo Apotheker, replacing him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)

• Typhoon Roke passes through the Japanese island of Honshu, causing 13 deaths, and arrives in Hokkaido. (AP via ABC News America)
• At least four people are killed and 18 injured in a factory fire in the suburb of Dombivli in the Indian city of Mumbai. (IBN Live)
• Heavy floods and related disasters across China, especially in the drainage basin of the Han and Wei Rivers, leave 90 dead and 22 missing. (Xinhua) (AFP via Google)
• 2011 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Hilary reaches category 3 strength off the coast of Mexico, but is not expected to make landfall. (NHC)

• The Anniston Chemical Activity destroys its last mustard gas shells, becoming the fifth of nine US chemical weapons depots to close under terms of the Chemical Weapons Treaty. (Anniston Star)
• Pope Benedict XVI commences a state visit to Germany. (The Telegraph)
• China warns the United States over its proposed sale of newer versions of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon to Taiwan. (Reuters)
• Representatives of the United States and European nations walk out of the General Assembly of the United Nations during an accusatory speech by the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP via The Australian)

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests suspected members of the computer hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous in the US cities of Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco. (Fox News)

• The first President of Cape Verde, Aristides Pereira, dies in Portugal at the age of 87. (Washington Post)
• The Italian Chamber of Deputies rejects a request to arrest Marco Milanese, a former aide to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giulio Tremonti, on corruption charges. (Bloomberg)
• Tens of thousands of students protest in the Chilean capital Santiago for increased education expenditure. (AP)
• Former television journalist Shelly Yachimovich is elected as the head of the Israeli Labor Party. (AP via Yahoo News)

• CERN researchers affiliated with the OPERA experiment report experimental results that appear to show neutrinos exceeding the speed of light. (BBC)

• 2011 Yemeni uprising: The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, returns from Saudi Arabia after a three-month absence, amid an increase in political unrest and violence in Yemen. (Al-Jazeera)
• Thousands of mourners gather in Kabul for the funeral of former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed by a suicide bomber earlier in the week. (BBC)

• Global stock markets fall for a second day amid fears of a deepening economic crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald) (Bloomberg) (CNBC)^{[permanent dead link]} (Sky News)
• Thousands of Toyota workers in Australia go on strike over a pay dispute. (ABC News Australia)
• Fitch Ratings predicts that financial returns on commercial property in the United States will stabilize, though slowly, in the months ahead. (Reuters)

• Floods in the Filipino province of Maguindanao affect 16,000 families. (Inquirer)

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • During the opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, makes a bid for UN recognition in a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, which would exist in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and have East Jerusalem as its capital. (Washington Post) (Sky News)
  • The quartet of Middle East negotiators - the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations - call on both Israel and Palestine to resume negotiations. (BBC)

• South Korean prosecutors raid the offices of seven savings banks whose operations were suspended last week, with the president of one bank committing suicide. (Yonhap)

• Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is declared the winner of the Zambian presidential election. (BBC)
• The United States House of Representatives passes a resolution providing funding for the Government through to November 18, but the Senate vows to reject it, making a government shutdown from October 1 possible. (Washington Post)

• NASA's 1991-era Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to fall from orbit sometime this evening Greenwich Mean Time. (BBC)

• Arab Spring:
  • 2011 Libyan civil war: In the pro-Muammar Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte, National Transitional Council forces are massing in a square about a kilometer (0.6 miles) from the city center, as they weather heavy fire from pro-Gaddafi snipers. (Reuters)

• Turkey seizes a Syrian ship possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army, as the 2011 Syrian uprising continues. (Voice of America)

• Six people die in a house fire in the London suburb of Neasden. (The Telegraph)

• A Spanish oil tanker hijacked off the coast of West Africa is freed, with no harm reportedly done to the crew, and no ransom paid to the pirates. (AP via Google News)

• Oswald Grübel, chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, resigns in the wake of a rogue trading scandal. (Sky News)

• At the United Russia Congress, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to run in the 2012 Russian presidential election. (BBC) (RIA Novosti)
• Herman Cain wins a Florida straw poll for the 2012 Republican presidential primaries. (CNN)
• Voters in Bahrain go to the polls for byelections caused by the resignation of Shiite members during the 2011 Bahraini uprising; many Shiite voters are expected to boycott the election. (Reuters)
• Voters in the United Arab Emirates go to the polls for parliamentary elections. (BBC)

• The decommissioned NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere without incident, after more than 20 years in orbit. (Washington Post)

• A suicide bombing near a church in Central Java, Indonesia, kills at least two people and injures several others. (BBC)
• Four consecutive bombings kill at least 10 people and injure 70 others in the Iraqi city of Karbala. (CNN)
• The United Nations Security Council urges all sides in the 2011 Yemeni uprising to "show maximum restraint". (Al Jazeera)
• Gunfire is reported at a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) compound in the Afghan capital Kabul. (BBC)

• A Buddha Air flight taking tourists to see Mount Everest crashes in Nepal, killing 19 people. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
• An out-of-control forest fire near the Canadian town of Fort McMurray in Alberta causes the closure of Highway 63. (Vancouver Sun)

• At least five people are shot dead in two locations in the US state of Indiana. (AP via ABC News America)

• Senate elections in France result in a left-wing majority, headed by the Socialist Party, for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic. (Le Monde)
• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces reforms giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections. (BBC)
• The Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding announces plans to step down as soon as the Jamaica Labour Party announces its new leader in December. (Go Jamaica)

• In athletics, Patrick Makau Musyoki of Kenya breaks the world record for the marathon at the Berlin Marathon, pending official ratification by the International Association of Athletics Federations. (AP via the Wall Street Journal)

• CBS Season Premieres of CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race and The Good Wife

• 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) enter Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte, as the NTC's three-day assault on the city intensifies. (BBC)
• The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, orders the National Police's Detachment 88 counter-terrorism squad to investigate a recent suicide bombing in Solo, Java. (The Australian)

• Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are published online in a joint project between Israel's national museum and Google. (AP)

• Asian and European stock markets open lower in response to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe. (BusinessWeek) (Bloomberg) (IBN) (Sky News)

• More than 100,000 people in the Philippines are evacuated ahead of Typhoon Nesat, with Albay province lying directly in the storm's pathway. (AP via NineMSN)

• Tuvaluan Prime Minister Willy Telavi signs an agreement to establish diplomatic relations with Abkhazia during an official visit to Sukhumi. (RNZI)

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