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* At least four are killed by the unexpected eruption of the previously dormant volcano on the Yemeni Red Sea island of Jabal al-Tair.
* Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie (pictured) sets a new marathon world record in Berlin with a time of 2:04:26.
* Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand wins the World Chess Championship.
* Germany defeats Brazil at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup to win its second consecutive world title.
* The NASA spacecraft Dawn is launched on a mission to explore mainbelt asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
* Princess Märtha Louise becomes the first member of the Norwegian Royal Family to ever appear in a court of law as she wants to halt sales of a book entitled Martha's angels. (Aftenposten)
* Israel confirms it conducted an attack on Syria. (Ynet)
* Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: A projection by the authoritative Ukrayinska Pravda said the results would produce 229 seats in parliament for an "Orange" coalition, a majority of three. (Reuters)
* The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown arrives in Baghdad for his first visit to Iraq. (BBC)
* A powerful earthquake hits the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia prompting a tsunami warning. (AP)
* War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blows himself up near a bus carrying policemen killing at least 11 in Kabul. (BBC) (AndhraNews.net)
* The President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walks across the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean peninsula in travelling to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. (BBC) (CNN)
* 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, meets with Burmese General Than Shwe to tell him to stop the killing of dissidents. (The Guardian)
* President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces he will run on his party's list in the parliamentary elections in December and that he does not exclude the option of becoming Prime Minister of Russia after the election. (Bloomberg)
* Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007: With 70 percent counted, Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 36.8 percent. (Bloomberg)
* At least 15 people are killed and 19 others injured in a suspected suicide bomb blast in Bannu in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. (BBC)
* General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who helped depose Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the 2006 Thai coup d'état, resigned as head of the Council for National Security. (BBC)
* Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is selected Presidential Candidate for the Russian Elections to be held in March 2008. (AndhraNews.net)
* Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007:
o Ukrainians went to the polls for the third time in three years to vote in parliamentary election. (AFP)
o According to data of National Exit Poll: Party of Regions 35.2%; Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 31.5%; Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc 13.4%; Communist Party of Ukraine 5.1%; Lytvyn's People's Bloc 3.7%; Socialist Party of Ukraine 2.5%. (ForUm)
* The Topps Meat Company recalls 21.7 million pounds (9,800 tonnes) of frozen beef patties because of potential contamination with E. coli. Twenty-five cases of illness due to E. coli have been reported in the Northeastern United States. (NYT)
* 2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
o A central member of the military junta in Myanmar is reportedly interested in seeking political asylum in Norway. The colonel is said to have defected recently, and he is now hiding in the jungle among the Karen people. (The Norway Post)
o John Bolton, the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, says the government of China is the key to political change in Myanmar, not United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari who has met the military junta. (Forbes)
* Indian player Viswanathan Anand wins the World Chess Championship 2007 at Mexico City to become the new world champion. (NYT)
* Lewis Hamilton wins the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix to take a 12 point lead in the 2007 Formula One season World Championship with 2 races remaining. (BBC)
* U.S. college football: The new AP Poll results are released, with nine of the ten ranked teams that lost this past weekend either dropping further down the list or out of the poll completely. LSU rose to #1 for the first time since 1959, Kentucky and Boston College rise into the Top Ten for the first time since 1977 and 1992, respectively, and South Florida ascends into the Top Ten for the first time ever. (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
* A dormant volcano erupts on Jabal al-Tair, a Yemeni island in the Red Sea. (BBC)
* A bomb explodes in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, injuring 12 tourists. (BBC News)
* President of Pakistan Muslim League (N) says former Pakistan President Nawaz Sharif will make a comeback to Pakistan after Ramadan. (AndhraNews.net)
* 2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
o Shortly after his scheduled arrival at Yangon, it was reported that Ibrahim Gambari, the UN Secretary-General's special adviser on Burma, had arrived in Naypyidaw to talk with the junta leaders. (Mizzina News)
o There are reports that Htoo trading company, owned by junta loyalist business tycoon Tay Za, has shut-down its operations after giving two months salaries to its staff. (Mizzima News)
* Iran declares the US Army and CIA, "terrorist organisations", countering claims by America about their own armed forces. (BreakingNews.ie)
* Australian football: The Geelong Cats end a 44 year drought to win their 7th AFL Premiership, defeating the Port Adelaide Power by a record 119 points in the 2007 AFL Grand Final, and completing an unprecedented season of dominance.(AP via Yahoo! Sports)
* U.S. college football: In an unprecedented shakeup, ten of the twenty-five top-ranked teams in the AP Poll lose to either lower-ranked or unranked rivals Friday night and throughout Saturday, marking this weekend as one of the most volatile in NCAA sporting history. (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
