' probe. Calls for an early departure for Blair increase.
36 people are killed in clashes between Bundu dia Kongo, an opposition secessionist religious group and the police in a dispute over the election of provincial governors. (BBC)
Shia insurgency in Yemen: Ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed and 20 wounded in a fresh attack on an army roadblock, a security source says. (Aljazeera)
Palestinian factional violence: Hamas gunmen ambush a convoy carrying weapons to Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard unit. Six Fatah members are killed, more than 70 people are wounded and 12 others are kidnapped in ensuing battles. (Ynet)
A trial for the murder of Janelle Patton on Norfolk Island starts with the defendant pleading not guilty. The murder was the first on the island for 150 years. (BBC)
The Enhanced Fujita scale begins operational use. This scale measures the intensity of tornadoes based on the damage they cause in the United States.
Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renew their truce when violence broke off again after the initial ceasefire. (BBC)(CNN)(Reuters)
Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah, openly states for the first time that the governments of Iran and Syria are supporting Hezbollah financially, with weapons, and with training, and "everybody knows it." (The Jerusalem Post)
Russia investigates smelly orange snow, oily to touch, which has fallen across an area of 1500 square kilometres in the Omsk region of the country. (BBC)
Palestinian factional violence: Fatah and Hamas take some of their gunmen off the streets of the West Bank and free some hostages under a new declared ceasefire. (BBC)
At least 20 people are killed and 340,000 are made homeless by
Greece's conservative government wins a vote of confidence, ending a three-day debate that started with the opposition Socialist Party calling for early elections (AP)
An international passenger train crashes into a freight train in Komárom, Hungary, causing the engineer's death. Two of the 25 passengers also suffered injury. (HírTV)
Iraqi army uniforms, and says it holds the United States responsible for his life. The U.S. denies any involvement of U.S. and Iraqi troops. (BBC)
U.S. pilot shooting a UK convoy in a friendly fire incident during the Iraq War, killing one British soldier and injuring four. The pilot, and others, are said to have made a series of crucial mistakes. (The Sun)
Three people in the United Kingdom have been jailed after plotting over internet
An explosion at a ceremony in Kismayo kills at least four people and injures 24 others, including senior military officers and regional leaders. General Abdi Mahdi, the recently appointed Somali military chief, is among the injured. (Aljazeera)
National Court of Spain finds five out of six Algerian
men guilty of membership in a terrorist organization and document forgery for terrorist purposes, sentencing each of them to 13 years imprisonment. All six were acquitted of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack
Prime Minister of Guinea. At least 17 people have died in protests over the weekend. The protest started on the morning of the 12th with a march from the centre of Conakry to the palace. Widespread problems with armed bandits taking advantage of the insecurity have also been reported. Lansana Conté has now declared a state of emergency. (Reuters)(SOS)(AP via Houston Chronicle)
Israeli Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi resigns after a Government commission finds that he ignored links between senior officers and underworld figures and failed to ensure a proper investigation of a 1999 killing of an alleged crime boss. (AP via Boston Globe)
Also in Colombia the Nevado del Huila, the country's highest volcano, has showed increasing seismic activity including a cloud of ash. A high state of alert is in place for 4 departments. (El Tiempo)
A man is arrested over a series of
letterbomb attacks that occurred in Britain during the past few weeks. (The Times)
A river boat carrying children on a school trip on the Periyar River in southern India capsizes, killing at least 18 students and four teachers. (AP via CNN)
2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq: U.S. military officials say they are concerned about recent attacks by insurgents involving poisonous chlorine gas. (BBC)
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq is detained by the U.S. military as he returns from Iran and is released with an apology 12 hours later. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Mario Chanes de Armas, one of the leaders in the Cuban revolution dies, 80 years old. After breaking with Castros authoritarian leadership, he was imprisoned for 30 years, longer than any other political prisoner anywhere. (New York Times)
House of Commons votes not to extend provisions of its anti-terrorism legislation that allows for preventative arrests and forced testimony. (FOX)
After rumours that authorities were going to raise interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation, the
SSE Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbles 9% from unexpected selloffs, the largest drop in 10 years, triggering major drops in worldwide stock markets. (Forbes)(BBC)(Xinhua)
After the Chinese market drop, the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Sell orders are made so fast that a second analysis computer has to be used, causing an instantaneous 200-point drop at one point. (Reuters)
