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Helle Thorning-Schmidt (pictured) is designated to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark after a centre-left opposition coalition wins the Danish parliamentary election.
At least 96 people are killed and more than 100 others are injured in an explosion and resultant fire at a fuel pipeline in Nairobi, Kenya.
At the US Open tennis tournament, Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles and Samantha Stosur wins the women's singles.
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, the first civilian nuclear power facility in the Middle East, officially begins operating in Iran.
A Tanzanian passenger ferry en route to Pemba Island sinks, killing at least 240 people.

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17 September 2011 (Saturday)

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2011 Libyan civil war: forces loyal to deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi launch a counter-attack against opposition fighters in the towns of Bani Walid and Sirte. (Al-Jazeera)

Disasters

At least three people are dead and 25 injured following a train crash near the Alawwa railway station, 60 kilometres north of Colombo in Sri Lanka. (AFP via News Limited)
The US National Transportation Safety Board begins its investigation into the 2011 Reno Air Races crash which has killed at least three people. (BBC)
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks occurs off the coast of Honshu in Japan. (AFP via Hindustan Times)

International relations

Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra visits Cambodia for high level talks with the Government of Cambodia over a variety of issues including the Preah Vihear temple. (Voice of America)

Law and crime

Tanzanian authorities charge four people with negligence in relation to the Zanzibar ferry sinking that cost at least 240 lives on September 10. (AP via New York Times)

Politics and elections

Voters in Latvia go to the polls for a parliamentary election. (NPR)

September 17, 2011 Wikinews articles

16 September 2011 (Friday)

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Authorities in South Korea arrest a North Korean citizen for an alleged assassination attempt against Park Sang-hak, a noted defector and activist. (Yonhap)

Disasters

Hurricane Maria hits the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador as a Category 1 hurricane. (National Hurricane Centre)
Areas in Delhi, India, are flooded by heavy rain, with record rainfall recorded at Indira Gandhi International Airport. (IBN Live)
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, cancels a visit to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly as a result of the 2011 Sindh floods. (Reuters)
Four trapped coal miners are confirmed dead following a mining accident at the Gleision Colliery in South Wales. (BBC)
2011 Reno Air Races crash: At least 5 people are killed and at least 50 injured when a P-51D Mustang airplane crashes into the crowd at the annual Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada, in the United States. (MSNBC), (AP via Washington Post) (Reno Gazette-Journal)

International relations

Kosovo Serbs block off two border crossings with Serbia as the Kosovo government seeks to take them over. (AFP via Google)
The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in Libya for a meeting with the National Transitional Council. (Euronews)

Law and crime

The first security camera pictures are released of Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks. (MSNBC)
The Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China arrests more than 2,000 people in a crackdown on gang-related crime. (AP via Washington Post)
UBS trader Kweku Adoboli is charged with fraud and false accounting. (BBC)

Politics

Ecofin ministers agree on a bill on financial governance in Europe aiming to prevent future crisis. (Wall Street Journal)
The Health Services Union disaffiliates from the Australian Labor Party in the states of New South Wales and Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory, following the commencement of a New South Wales Police Force investigation into alleged "inappropriate practices" by current and former union officials, including Craig Thomson, a member of the House of Representatives. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sinn Féin's officer board gives its approval to put forward Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness as a candidate for the 2011 Irish presidential election. (BBC)
Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, says he will push for full United Nations membership as a nation state for the Palestinian National Authority at the Sept. 23 UN General Assembly meeting. (CNN)(Bloomberg News via S.F. Chronicle)

Science

Scientists at NASA announce the Kepler mission's discovery of a planet orbiting two suns. This is the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet, i.e., a planet that orbits two stars instead of one. (BBC) (NASA.gov)

September 16, 2011 Wikinews articles

15 September 2011 (Thursday)

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Business and economy

Japanese automaker Toyota resumes full production at its North American plants, having finally overcome parts shortages caused by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Bloomberg via Japan Times)
A contract between the North American automaker Chrysler and the United Auto Workers expires at midnight while negotiations continue between the union and General Motors. (Detroit Free Press)
Switzerland's UBS reports that it has lost US$2 billion on unauthorised deals by Kweku Adoboli, one of its London-based traders. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
Stock markets in the United States and Europe rally after major banks, including the European Central Bank and the United States Federal Reserve, initiate a plan to help end the European sovereign debt crisis. (CNN)

Disasters

International aid group Oxfam sets up an emergency appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan, which have so far killed more than 200 people. (ABC News Australia)
Rescue efforts continue to release four miners trapped 90m (295ft) underground following an explosion at Gleision Colliery near Cilybebyll, Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley, Wales, on Thursday morning. (BBC) (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Earthquakes hit off the coasts of Vancouver Island, Cuba, Japan, and New Zealand's north island. (MSNBC)
Hurricane Maria passes Bermuda on its way to Newfoundland off the coast of Canada. (National Hurricane Centre)
The Norwegian cruise ship Nordlys catches fire off Ålesund. Two people are killed and twelve are injured. BBC

International relations

The Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra visits Cambodia in an effort to improve relations after the border clashes near the Preah Vihear Temple earlier this year which led to the deaths of twenty people. (Bloomberg)
Israel withdraws its ambassador to Jordan due to fears of a violent protest in Amman. (Reuters)
Senior NATO leaders including the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy fly to Libya to meet with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the leader of the National Transitional Council, and other leaders. (BBC)
UNICEF releases a child mortality report indicating that the number of children dying under the age of five has fallen from more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010. (UNICEF)
The United States designates the Indian Mujahideen as a terrorist organisation. (Indian Express)

Law and crime

The People's Republic of China sentences four people to death in the Xinjiang region following threats to crack down on terrorism in the far-western region. (AFP via Google News)
Figures from the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice indicate that three quarters of those charged with offences relating to the riots which occurred in August had previous criminal convictions. One quarter had committed more than ten previous offences. (BBC)
The Supreme Court of the United States halts the execution of Duane Buck for double murder in Texas while it reviews his case that the sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. (AP)

Politics and elections

Danish election:
- Voters in Denmark go to the polls for parliamentary elections with a left-wing Coalition led by the Social Democrats winning enough seats to form Government. (Christian Science Monitor) (Wall Street Journal)
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of the Social Democrats, looks set to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. (NPR)
Australians will now be able to choose "indeterminate" as a gender on their passports together with male and female. (AP via Mercury News)
Eight Flemish and Francophone parties represented in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives reach a breakthrough on the Bruxelles-Halle-Vilvorde which had been one of the issues holding up formation of a new government since an election in 2010. (Xinhua)

Science

Researchers at Australia's Monash University have identified a previously unknown species of bottlenose dolphin living in waters in and around Southeastern Australia, which they have named Tursiops australis. (BBC)

September 15, 2011 Wikinews articles

14 September 2011 (Wednesday)

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Taliban attack on Kabul:
- A Taliban attack on the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul ends with 11 people dead. (The Telegraph)
- The United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that the United States would retaliate against the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of terrorists that it believes was responsible. (AFP via Google News)
More than twenty people are killed and scores injured in attacks in Iraq, including 16 people killed in a car bombing in Babil Province. (AP via Washington Post)

Arts and culture

Archaeologists in the US state of Maryland claim to have found a fort in the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County built to protect the "friendly" Piscataway Indians in 1680. (Baltimore Sun)

Business and economy

Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, claims that the world economy has entered the "danger zone", with the United States, European Union and Japan having to make tough decisions. (Reuters)

Disasters

Tropical Storm Maria is strengthening in the Atlantic Ocean with a hurricane watch issued in Bermuda for when it arrives either late tonight or tomorrow. (National Hurricane Centre via NOLA)

Law and crime

The acquittals of former Premier of Western Australia Brian Burke, former Cabinet Minister Julian Grill and former public servant Nathan Hondros on corruption charges are overturned by the Court of Appeal in Perth, with the three set to face a retrial. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
A French Appeals Court clears former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of charges of involvement in a smear campaign against current President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Irish Times)
Paul Tiensten, a former Minister in Papua New Guinea, flees to Australia after being summonsed in East New Britain Province to face charges of fraud and corruption. AAP via The Australian)
Two days after his release from prison, British Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield is arrested on suspicion of fraudulently claiming expenses during his time as leader of Essex County Council. (BBC)

Politics and elections

The Australian government's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, announces an inquiry into the national media. (SBS)

Science

NASA announces plans for a Space Launch System to replace the Space Shuttle program with the first flight tentatively scheduled for 2017. (New York Times)

September 14, 2011 Wikinews articles

13 September 2011 (Tuesday)

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Investigators in Gothenburg, Sweden, now think that the four men arrested for the 2011 failed Gothenburg terrorist attack have links to the terrorist network Al-Qaida. (CBC)
Taliban insurgents attack the United States embassy, NATO headquarters and police buildings in the Afghan capital Kabul. (BBC)

Economics and business

U.S. bankruptcy court judge Mary Walrath rejects a reorganization plan submitted by Washington Mutual, holding that the Debtors erred by planning to pay senior debtholders a contract rate of interest rather than the federal judgment rate. (Wall Street Journal Online)

Disasters

12.3 million people have been displaced and 11.2 million homes affected, as well as 1.7 million acres of fertile land inundated, in the wake of the monsoonal 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan. The death toll from the flooding currently stands at 270. (Express Tribune)
At least 11 people are killed and over 228 injured in a collision between a bus and train in the suburb of Flores in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. (Buenos Aires Herald)
The Pagami Creek wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of the U.S. state of Minnesota spreads to over 100,000 acres, with smoke drifting across the Midwest. (Lakeland Times) (Duluth News)

Health

Over 500,000 people have reportedly been infected by an outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan. (ARY News)

Politics and elections

Voters in New York's 9th congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives Anthony Weiner with Republican Bob Turner winning a tight race with Democrat David Weprin (New York Times) (The Atlantic Monthly) (AP)
Voters in Nevada's 2nd congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives, Senator Dean Heller, with Republican Mark Amodei defeating Democrat Kate Marshall. (New York Times) (AP)
The date of the Venezualan presidential election is set for 7 October, 2012. (BBC)
The British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee announces its intention to recall James Murdoch as its probe into the News International phone hacking scandal continues. (BBC)
The United Kingdom Boundaries Commission publishes proposals to redraw constituency boundaries in England and Northern Ireland to reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600 at the next general election. Proposals for Scotland and Wales will be announced later. (BBC)
Unions in the United Kingdom call on members to stage a nationwide "day of action" on 30 November in protest at changes to public sector pensions. (BBC)

September 13, 2011 Wikinews articles

Copyright on musical recordings extended by twenty years in EU

12 September 2011 (Monday)

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Arts and culture

The EU Council votes to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. (BBC)
British comedian David Walliams completes a 140-mile charity swim along the River Thames, raising £1 million in aid of the BBC's Sport Relief. (BBC)
Leila Lopes of Angola is named Miss Universe 2011. (LA Late)

Business and economy

Stocks on Asian markets fall sharply due to renewed concerns over the Eurozone debt crisis. (Market Watch)
The UK's Independent Commission on Banking recommends that British banks should separate their retail banking divisions from investment banking arms to safeguard against riskier banking activities. (BBC)

Disasters

At least 75 people are killed by a petrol pipeline explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. (BBC)
At least 19 people die in a bus crash on the Indonesian island of Java. (Jakarta Post)
At least 240 bodies have been recovered off the coast of Zanzibar following Saturday's ferry sinking. (Xinhua)
An explosion occurs at the Marcoule nuclear power plant in southern France, killing one person and injuring four. (BBC)

Law and crime

Police in Kenya are searching for a gang who killed a British tourist and kidnapped his wife at a beachside resort. (BBC)
Former British Conservative peers Lord Taylor of Warwick and Lord Hanningfield are released early from prison sentences for fiddling parliamentary expenses. (BBC)

Politics

Bernard Hogan-Howe is named as the new Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police. (BBC)

Sport

In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's Singles at the 2011 US Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1. (New York Times)

September 12, 2011 Wikinews articles

11 September 2011 (Sunday)

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Tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks:
- Memorial ceremonies are held worldwide to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks. (Yahoo News via AP)
- Memorial Plaza, located on the site of the former World Trade Center, opens in New York City. (Daily Sundial)
A truck bomb at a military outpost in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, kills several civilians. (Miami Herald)
Police in Gothenburg, Sweden, arrest four people after a suspected failed terrorist attack. (Sky News)

Disasters

At least 22 people are dead in the Indian state of Orissa as a result of flooding. (IBN)

Law and crime

UK police raid the Greenacre caravan site in Leighton Buzzard, rescuing 24 men who had been held there as slaves in squalid conditions . (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

Voters in Guatemala go to the polls for a general election. (Christian Science Monitor)

Sport

In tennis, Samantha Stosur of Australia wins the Women's Singles in the 2011 US Open, defeating Serena Williams of the United States 6-2, 6-3. (New York Times)

September 11, 2011 Wikinews articles

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Recent: August 21: Cape Verde, President (2nd round) 23: Liberia, Constitutional referendum 26: Abkhazia, President 27: Singapore, President 29: Estonia, President (indirect) Recent: September 11: Guatemala, General 15: Denmark, Parliament Upcoming: September 17: Latvia, Parliament 18: Liechtenstein, Abortion referendum 20: Zambia, General edit sidebar

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