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* 2007 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Ivo forms off the coast of Baja California. (Associated Press 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 per cent margin with 56 for and 44 against. (Reuters)
* Four fossil skeletons of early human ancestors are discovered in Georgia. (New York Times)
* 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 leaves Chelsea F.C. (BBC News)
* 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))
* The Government of Israel declares the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity", and announces plans to cut utilities to the territory.(Guadian 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)
* 2007 Pacific typhoon season:
o Typhoon Wipha (Goring) makes landfall in eastern China before weakening to a Category 2 typhoon as it heads inland. (Reuters)
o At least five people are killed and three are missing according to the Xinhua newsagency. (News Limited)
* A supposed meteorite impact in Peru leads to hundreds of nearby villagers falling ill from still unknown causes. (Reuters)
* Nuclear program of Iran: The United States is drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for sanctions against Iran prior to discussions amongst the five permanent members. (AFP)
* The United States Federal Reserve cuts a key short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point, resulting in a stock market rally. (CNN Money)
* Bangladeshi cartoonist Arifur Rahman is detained on suspicion of disrespecting Muhammad. The Interim Government confiscates copies of the Prothom Alo newspaper issue in which Muhammad is caricatured. (AndhraNews.net)
* China confirms a bird flu outbreak in Guangzhou. (AndhraNews.net)
* More than 1,000 Buddhist monks march peacefully in Myanmar as part of a wave of anti-government protests. The marches are dispersed using teargas. (CNN), (Xinhua)
* The Bank of England injects £4.4 billion of liquidity into the U.K. Financial System as a response to the Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis, after £2 billion of deposits are removed from the Northern Rock bank within one day. (BBC)
* Russia claims to have killed top Dagestani militant Rappani Khalilov along with another militant in a day-long battle. (AP via IHT)
* North Korea denies allegations that it is helping Syria to develop a nuclear weapons facility. (BBC)
* Australia, the second largest wheat exporter in the world, cuts its forecast production by 30 per cent due to an ongoing drought. (BBC)
* 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from Shanghai, China as Typhoon Wipha approaches. (Reuters, AFP via News Limited)
* The son of Philippine House Speaker Jose De Venecia, Jr., Jose "Joey" De Venecia III, disclosed in a Senate inquiry that First Gentleman Mike Arroyo is the "mystery man" behind the controversial $ 329-million broadband contract with ZTE Corp. in China. (Inquirer)
* U.S. professional athlete O.J. Simpson is charged with several felonies in Las Vegas, Nevada.(Reuters)
* Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate, is apprehended by five police officers and tasered while allegedly having interruped a speech by U.S. Senator John Kerry.(The Miami Herald)
* Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, warns of the possibility of war over Iran's nuclear program. (BBC)
* Iraq and the United States have pledged a "fair and transparent" investigation into a gunfight involving private security firm Blackwater Security that left eight people dead in Baghdad. (BBC)
* Ernest Bai Koroma is sworn in as the President of Sierra Leone after winning a run-off election held 10 days ago. (ABC News Australia)
* Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the United States presidential election, 2008, announces a proposal for a universal healthcare plan. (Reuters)
* President George W. Bush nominates Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as the next Attorney-General of the United States. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
* Microsoft loses its appeal against a European Union antitrust ruling forcing it to pay a 497 million euro fine. (Bloomberg)
* The Supreme Court of Pakistan hears petitions as to whether Pervez Musharraf should remain as head of the Pakistani Army while serving as the President of Pakistan. (BBC)
* 2007 Pacific typhoon season: The death toll from Typhoon Nari in South Korea rises to nine. (AFP)
* A new species of bat, the Mindoro Stripe-Faced Fruit bat, is discovered on Mindoro Island in the Philippines. (AFP)
* Flight OG 269 crash:
o Fifty-five foreigners are among the 88 people who died in the crash of Flight OG 269 in Phuket. (ABC News Australia and AFP)
o The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder are found for the flight while an official from One-Two-Go Airlines thinks that wind shear may have been responsible. (AP via Topix)
* Greek conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis early Monday declared victory in Sunday's general elections after early results gave his ruling New Democracy party a lead of over four percent over the opposition Pasok socialists. (AFP)
* Incumbent parties lose two of three by-elections in Canadian federal parliamentary ridings in Quebec. Thomas Mulcair takes the Liberal stronghold of Outremont, bringing the New Democratic Party its second-ever victory in Quebec. Conservative Denis Lebel takes the Bloc-held riding of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, while Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac holds Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot for the Bloc Québécois. (CBC)
* The Sopranos wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in the Primetime Emmy Awards. (Sydney Morning Herald)
* O.J. Simpson is charged with six felonies in relation to an alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel room. (New York Times)
* A third case of foot and mouth disease is identified but not confirmed by United Kingdom government vets on a farm near Chertsey, Surrey. (Times Online)
* An Iraqi police colonel is gunned down in Afak, the third government official killed in that Iraqi town. (CNN)
* Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, will be nominated to replace Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General and President Bush will announce his selection on Monday. (AP via Yahoo! News)
* Andrei Lugovoy, the former KGB agent accused by British authorities of murdering Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope in London last November, says he will run for parliament on the party list of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. (The Washington Post)
* Flight OG 269 crashes while trying to land in heavy rain at Phuket International Airport in Thailand with reports of 88 deaths and at least 20 people seriously injured. (AP via IHT)
* Colin McRae and his son are confirmed dead in the helicopter crash in Scotland. (Sunday Times)
* The Election Commission of Pakistan amends Presidential Election Rules 1988 ahead of the elections so that Article 63 of the Constitution no longer applies to the President. (AndhraNews.net)
* The Iraqi parliamentary bloc controlled by militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr announces that it will abandon the party led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (LA Times)
* Chinese authorities recall tainted leukemia drugs blamed for leg pains and other problems. (FOX)
* Greek voters go to the polls for the Greek legislative election, 2007. The ruling New Democracy Party wins the election, with 98% of the votes counted, gaining 41.9% of the vote and 152 seats over 38.1% and 102 seats for the socialist PASOK party. The Communist Party wins 8.1% and 22 seats, over 5% and 14 seats for Radical Left Coalition and 3.7% and 10 seats for Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), a Far-Right party. (ERT) (AFP)
* Wildfires force the evacuation of thousands of residents of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties in the U.S. state of California. (AP via Fox News)
* The Washington Post reports that the NATO-led Coalition Force in Afghanistan intercepted a shipment of Iranian arms intended for the Taliban. (UPI)
* A bus crash in the western Mexican state of Nayarit kills at least 18 and injures 13. Many of the passengers were from a flight from Phoenix, Arizona, USA, to Guadalajara, Jalisco, that was forced to divert to Puerto Vallarta. (Canadian Press)
* Over 190 anti-Iraq War protesters are arrested outside the United States Capitol. (AP)
* A helicopter registered in the name of former World Rally Championship champion Colin McRae crashes killing four people near McRae's home in Scotland. (AFP via News Limited)
* Sierra Leone's ruling People's Party seeks an injunction against the National Electoral Commission publishing further results of the 2007 general election with results published so far showing Opposition candidate for president Ernest Bai Koroma in the lead. (BBC)
* 2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Ingrid weakens to a tropical depression. (CNN)
* At least 10 people are killed and 15 wounded in a suicide bombing outside a Baghdad bakery as residents prepared to break their Ramadan fast. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
* Floods in Ghana displace 260,000 people with similar problems in Mali and neighbouring countries in West Africa. (SAPA-DPA via Independent Online South Africa)
* The Australian Labor Party holds the seats of Williamstown and Albert Park in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as two by-elections are held. (ABC News Australia)
* Melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean opens up the Northwest Passage between Europe, Asia and North America. (Reuters via News Limited)
* Negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers continue in Detroit, Michigan past the deadline with a strike to start if negotiations fail. (NYT)
* September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes: The death toll rises to 21 with 88 people injured. (Reuters)
* Nineteen people are killed in Sri Lanka as a result of a roadside bomb and fighting between the Sri Lankan Army and the Tamil Tigers. (AP via IHT)
* Zhao Yan, a Chinese journalist working for the New York Times, is released from jail in China after serving a three year sentence for "leaking state secrets". (BBC)
* Impact of Meteorite at Carancas in Peru.
* Finland scrambles a jet fighter to intercept a Russian aircraft. (Wikinews)
* Chrysler recalls 300,000 sport utility vehicles to investigate braking problems while Honda recalls 180,000 Honda Civics from the 2006–07 season due to problems with a wheel-bearing seal. (AP via Topix)
* There is a run on the Northern Rock bank in the United Kingdom following revelations that it sought a rescue injection of funds from the Bank of England. (The Times)
* War in Iraq:
o U.S. General Peter Pace, outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledges that mistakes were made during the war. (CNN)
o Sunni Arab Iraqis and United States forces vow to keep fighting Al Qaeda in Anbar Province following the assassination of Sheikh Sittar. (Reuters)
* A new case of foot and mouth disease is confirmed at a farm in Egham, Surrey, England. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
* An official for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that a million people in Africa require assistance after floods have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks. (AFP)
* The Pakistan Peoples Party unanimously decides that Benazir Bhutto will return to Pakistan on October 18, 2007. (AndhraNews.net)
* Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect; the traditional Latin Mass is thus officially restored in the Roman Catholic Church. (AFP) (Arkansas Catholic) (Catholic World News)
* The Russian State Duma confirms Viktor Zubkov as new Prime Minister of Russia. (Interfax)
* Oscar Temaru is elected as the President of French Polynesia by the Parliament for the third time in three years. (AP via IHT)
* September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes
o At least 13 people are confirmed dead and hundreds of homes damaged as a result of the earthquakes. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
o Another earthquake of 6.9 magnitude occurs off the coast of Sumatra. (BBC)
* The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launches SELENE, the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program, on a mission to explore the moon. (BBC)
* Michael Sulick is named the new Director of the United States' National Clandestine Service.
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