Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean
* Hurricane Dean to the south of Jamaica as a Category 4 hurricane.
* An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru, killing more than 500 and flattening more than 85,000 buildings.
* A series of four suicide bomb attacks in Kahtaniya, Iraq results in at least 400 deaths and another 375 injuries; most of the victims belonged to the minority Yazidi religion.
* Yone Minagawa of Japan dies at 114, making Edna Parker of the United States, 106 days younger, the oldest living person in the world.
* NASA opts not to repair damaged thermal protective tiles on the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, currently on a mission to expand the International Space Station.
* British police have released CCTV footage of the shooting of a motorcyclist on the M40 motorway near Leamington Spa, England. (Sky)
* Muslim groups occupy Sikh Bhai Taro Singh Jee temple in Lahore, Pakistan (AndhraNews.net)
* An official of Murray Energy Corp, the operators of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, say that six trapped miners "may never be found". (Wikinews)
* An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude hits northern Tanzania 85 kilometres north of Arusha. (Reuters)
* Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, the Shia governor of Iraq's southern Al Muthanna Governorate is killed by a roadside bomb at Samawa. (BBC)
* The Tasmanian Labor Party expels Harry Quick, the Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Franklin. (ABC News Australia)
* The eye of Hurricane Dean rapidly moves westward, passing just south of Jamaica, bringing strong hurricane-force winds and storm surges to bear down on the island nation, though the strongest wind is believed to have been offshore. (CNN)
* A summit between US president George W. Bush, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, and about 30 CEOs from the three countries begins in the resort town of Montebello, Quebec, near Ottawa. The talks will deal with the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Protesters representing a variety of issues are expected to hold demonstrations regarding the exclusion of civil society from the talks and the secrecy of the process. (CBC News)
* A China Airlines Boeing 737 airplane catches fire shortly after landing at Naha, Japan. (Wikinews)
* Indonesia raises the lava alert for Mount Karangetang on the resort island of Siau as authorities move to evacuate those most at risk. (Reuters)
* Rescue workers start pumping water from a flooded coal mine in Xintai, Shandong where 172 Chinese miners are trapped. (CNN)
* United States floods:
o The Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty declares a state of emergency in six Minnesota counties as a result of flooding with six deaths reported. (AP via West Central Tribune)
o At least two people die and another three are missing after the remains of Tropical Storm Erin hit Oklahoma. (Reuters via New Zealand Herald)
o Twelve people have died in the midwest of the United States with Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio also badly affected. (AP via Forbes)
* A week long heatwave in the southeast and midwest of the United States has caused the deaths of 49 with 12 deaths in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP via Fox News)
* The Philippines army captures an Abu Sayyaf base on the island of Basilan following a heavy struggle with at least 35 soldiers and militants killed in the battle. (Reuters via Canada.com)
* Kazakhstani legislative election, 2007: President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party wins 88 per cent of the vote in yesterday's election and will be the only party represented in the Majilis or Kazakh parliament. (ABC News Australia) (AAP via News Limited)
* Typhoon Sepat spawns a tornado that kills nine people in Zhejiang Province, China. More than a million people have been evacuated as a result of the typhoon. (Reuters via CNN)
* Jamaica prepares for Hurricane Dean with the hurricane already responsible for at least eight deaths on Caribbean islands St. Lucia, Martinique and Dominica. It is expected to hit the Cayman Islands on Monday and the Yucatan peninsula on Tuesday with further impact on Mexico or Texas later in the week. (CTV) (AP via Forbes)
* Voters in Thailand go to the polls for a referendum to decide whether to accept or reject a new constitution. A majority of voters appear to have supported it.(BBC), (Xinhua)
* A German woman taken hostage yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan is found during a police raid on a house. Multiple abductors arrested. (BBC)
* The second fire this year in the same building in Pakistan kills 1, injures four. (Wikinews)
* Rescuers say that a fourth hole in the Crandall Canyon mine near Huntington, Utah shows no sign of six trapped miners. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
* The death toll of a bridge collapse in Fenghuang, China rises to 64. (AP via IHT)
* A fire in the former Deutsche Bank Building near New York's Ground Zero kills two firefighters. (AP via Yahoo! News)
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