Portal:Current events/2005 September 5
- A Admiral Kuznetsov after the plane's arresting cable broke during the landing attempt; the pilot ejected out of the plane and survived. Due to the plane's reportedly containing secret high-tech military equipment, Russian authorities have decided to destroy it using underwater bombs. (Pravda.Ru), (Aftenposten)
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- Kyūshū. (Reuters)
- U.S. federal government's response to the Hurricane. (The Myrtle Beach online)
- A cable car crash at Sölden, Ötztal, in the Austrian Alps leaves nine people dead when a helicopter carrying construction materials dropped concrete onto the cable. (BBC) (Sky News)
- American jurist John Roberts is nominated by US President George W. Bush as the next Chief Justice of the United States. (MSNBC) Bush withdrew Roberts' original nomination to succeed retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
- Three teenage girls admit starting a fire in Paris on September 3 which left 16 people dead. (CFRA Canada)
- Google taps into the Chinese local markets by opening their fifth international Local Search Engine on Google China at http://bendi.google.com/. (SINA)
- Ibrahim Rugova, the President of Kosovo, has announced that he has lung cancer but will not be stepping down. (BBC)
- Rizal Nurdin and Raja Inal Siregar. (CNN)
- A painting discovered in the )