August 2007

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August 8, 2007 (2007-08-08) (Wednesday) edit history watch A British Army helicopter crashes near the Catterick Garrison army base in Yorkshire causing at least two deaths. (AP via Forbes), (BBC) Tropical Storm Pabuk causes deadly landslides in the Philippines before hitting Taiwan causing power cuts. This comes after floods from another tropical storm kill 34 in central Vietnam. (AP via the New York Times), (Reuters via Washington Post) Street gunbattles continue for a third successive day in Port Harcourt, Nigeria as part of a criminal turf war. (Reuters via CNN) Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for the STS-118 assembly mission of the International Space Station. (CNN) Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, visits Iran to seek co-operation in reducing the level of violence. (AP via Forbes) Authorities tighten security on the site of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse following the arrest of 16 people for trespass and hindering investigations. (CNN) Powers Fasteners, the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for the Big Dig ceiling collapse in Boston, Massachusetts is indicted on a manslaughter charge. (AP via the Guardian) A United States raid and air strike on a Shiite militant base in Sadr City results in 32 deaths. (New York Times) A third outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been discovered in southern England but a ban of sending animals to slaughter is lifted in most of the country. (Reuters via News Limited) A tornado touches down in Brooklyn, New York just after dawn during a violent thunderstorm that dropped near three inches of rain in the New York City area, crippling the city's subway and commuter rail system during the morning rush hour. (CNN), (Reuters) Two fossils found in Kenya challenge existing views of human evolution by showing that Homo erectus and Homo habilis lived side by side in eastern Africa for half a million years. (New York Times) An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 hits Jakarta, Indonesia. (Sky) 2007 South Asian floods: Fresh round of floods hits Gujarat, India. People make trains at railway stations their homes in Bihar. Many places inaccessible by road or rail. (AndhraNews.net) In Germany the labour court of Nuremberg prohibited the strike prepared by the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL), which was to be the largest in 15 years. According to the Deutsche Bahn train company, the strike was prohibited because of the heavy tribute which would have been paid by the national economy (BBC). Two people killed and several injured as a bomb hidden in a bicycle parked at a police station explodes at Jorhat, Assam, India (AndhraNews.net) The Pakistani government claims to have killed at least 10 pro-Taliban militants in North Waziristan. (BBC) China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong visits its capital, Hohhot, and participates in a series of large celebration events. (CCTV International) China sends investigators to investigate illegally-built government offices in 30 provinces. (ABC) The Reserve Bank of Australia raises interest rates to 6.5%, the highest level in Australia since 1996. (News Limited and AAP) The Yangtse River Dolphin is declared extinct. (The Scotsman) (Guardian) Violence erupts in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea with security forces and villagers exchanging gunfire. (ABC News Australia) Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce is sworn in as the new Governor of South Australia. (AAP via the Melbourne Age) Xanana Gusmão is sworn in as the Prime Minister of East Timor with the opposition Fretilin party boycotting the ceremony. (BBC) North Korea and South Korea agree to hold summit in Pyongyang from August 28 through the 30th. (Yonhap News).

August 26, 2007 (2007-08-26) (Sunday) edit history watch Gunmen raid a farm in Putumayo in Colombia killing 9 people with authorities blaming FARC. (Associated Press in International Herald Tribune) 2007 Midwest flooding: Tornadoes hit parts of central and southeast Ohio as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest are without power. (AP via Fox News) A series of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia kills three people. (AFP via ABC News Australia) The Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam seeks to extract its wounded from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. (Reuters Alertnet) An Antonov plane carrying tin ore crashes in Kongolo in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Wikinews) Five Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurdish political parties sign a deal forming a new "Moderates Front" supporting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (BBC) The equine influenza outbreak spreads in Australia threatening the Spring Carnival including the Melbourne Cup. (Reuters via the Washington Post) Bird flu breaks out at a German farm. (Washington Post) Ludwig Scotty's government wins a landslide victory in the Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007 with René Harris as the only member of the Opposition to win a seat. (ABC News Australia) 25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings Seven more unexploded bombs are found in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India a day after the bombings. (Reuters via News Limited) The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy blames Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists for the bombings. (Bloomberg) 2007 Greek fires: European Union countries send firefighters and equipment to help fight hundreds of fires.(BBC and AFP via ABC News Australia) The fires threaten Olympia, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. (Financial Times via MSNBC) Greek authorities arrest and charge two people in connection with the fires. (CNN) The Greek Government offers a reward of €1,000,000 to help catch arsonists. (BBC)

Current events of August 27, 2007 (2007-08-27) (Monday) edit history watch Taleban rebels release 5 more South Koreans they are keeping hostage since July. Michael Vick, former National Football League star, arrived in US Federal Circuit Court in Richmond, Virginia and pleads guilty to federal dogfighting charges and then issues a public apology at the Omni Richmond Hotel. Sentencing by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson will be in December 2007. (Reuters) USA Today transcript of apology Newsday.com LA times Muhammed Ishaq Khakwani resigns as Pakistan minister of state for Information Technology over General Pervez Musharraf campaigning for re-election as the President of Pakistan while still an army officer. (The Hindu) In a Der Spiegel report, Chinese hackers are accused of breaking into the computer systems of the German Chancellor's office and three other government ministries. (Times Online). Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expresses "grave concern" at the allegations. (Forbes). The Montreal Metro Green Line and most of Downtown that were closed off on Friday reopens. Emergency reparation are made on a nearby building whose concrete side panels were in danger of falling off. The Bay considers suing the city, alleging that construction work is the source of the cracks. (CBC) (Radio-Canada) U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) is revealed to have pleaded guilty on August 8 to a charge of disorderly conduct at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (McClatchy Post Bulletin) Pakistan and Bangladesh reject charges by India that terror outfits operating in their countries were behind the Hyderabad bomb blasts which killed 42 and injured over 60. Indonesia's karate team boycotts an Asian championship in Malaysia to protest at the beating of one of its official referees by the local police. (AFP via Yahoo! News) United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation. (NYT) Ten people are arrested in Russia over the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. (BBC) Southeast Asian nations will seek $2 billion to build a rail link from Kunming in China to Singapore. (Reuters) Continuation of an equine influenza outbreak in Australia could threaten security at next week's APEC meeting (AP via IHT) A fire breaks out at the Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates, triggering explosions at a chemical storage depot. (Reuters) The Vatican establishes a low cost charter flight service to Catholic shrines in France, Poland, Spain and the Middle East for pilgrims. (BBC) A report from the National People's Congress environment and resources protection committee finds that high levels of pollution in the Huai River and its tributaries poses a "threat to the water safety of one sixth of the country's 1.3 billion population". (Reuters via ABC News Australia) Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Prescott announces he will retire as a Member of Parliament at the next election. (BBC) The Flight Data Recorder is retrieved from the wreckage of Adam Air Flight 574. (Wikinews)

Current events of August 28, 2007 (2007-08-28) (Tuesday) edit history watch The Supreme Court of Chile confirms a life sentence for Hugo Salas Wenzel, a Chilean general under former dictator Augusto Pinochet, for his role in the murder of 12 opponents of the regime. (BBC) The Sudanese Government and the United Nations launch a flood appeal to help victims of recent flooding which has killed 89 people and destroyed 73,000 homes. (BBC) South Korean hostage crisis: Officials in South Korea's Blue House claim that the Taliban has agreed to release 19 South Korean hostages. (Reuters) Battle of Karbala (2007): At least 52 people have been killed in fighting in Karbala, as thousands of Shia pilgrims gathered in the city for an annual festival. (Reuters) Scientists in Colombia discover new poisonous frog, dubbed the 'golden frog of Supatá,' in a remote mountainous region. (Fox News) A United States federal judge orders the extradition of former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France, where he has already been convicted in absentia on money-laundering charges. (CNN) Abdullah Gül of the Justice and Development Party is elected President of Turkey. (BBC) The Cockpit voice recorder is retrieved from the wreckage of Adam Air Flight 574, 24 hours after the recovery of the Flight data recorder. (ABC News Australia) The Ontario Court of Appeal acquits Steven Truscott of the 1959 murder of Lynne Harper, declaring the original trial that had sentenced the then-14-year-old to hang was a miscarriage of justice. The case has been a cause célèbre for almost fifty years. (CBC) A total lunar eclipse takes place in the early morning hours across most of North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean region. (Canwest via Ottawa Citizen)

Current events of August 29, 2007 (2007-08-29) (Wednesday) edit history watch Baiji, a river dolphin recently declared functional extinct, is witnessed in Anhui, China. (New York Times) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is all set to return back to Pakistan after seven years of exile. The Wyoming Republican Party votes to move its nominating convention to January 5, 2008, making it the first event in the nation for the Republicans in the United States presidential election, 2008. (MSNBC) The Red Cross reports that at least 17,000 are still missing from the former Yugoslavia, including 13,400 from the Bosnian wars, 2,300 from the Croatian conflict and 2,047 from the Kosovo conflict. (AFP via NYT) Moqtada al-Sadr suspends the activities of his Mehdi Army militia in Iraq for six months. (BBC) Senator Tim Johnson announces that he will return to the United States Senate on September 5 after recovering from brain surgery since last December. (Reuters) The United States Department of Defense's inspector general launches an investigation into the United States military's inability to account for weapons sent to Iraq after reports that Kurdish militants were using US weapons to attack Turkey. (Reuters) Thousands of people protest in Chile against the economic policies of the President Michelle Bachelet with 350 arrests made when they attempt to enter the grounds of the presidential palace. (AFP via ABC News Australia) A California produce company recalls bagged fresh spinach after it tests positive to salmonella. (CNN) The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) claim to have captured a Sudanese army base in the Kordofan province of Sudan. (Reuters via ABC) A NASA internal investigation finds no evidence of heavy drinking or drunkenness amongst astronauts prior to missions. (NYT) The United States Senate Republican Party leadership requests that Senator Larry Craig of Idaho stand aside from his Senate committees until the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics makes a ruling on his situation. Senator Craig agrees. (WSJ) John Holmes, the United Nation's emergency relief coordinator, warns that refugees of the Darfur conflict are arming themselves and may soon be able to defend themselves if the Sudanese government renews its attacks. (BBC) Three Palestinian children are killed in an explosion between Beit Lahiya and the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip caused by Israeli tank fire. The Israeli Defence Forces later claim they were aiming for rocket launchers in the area directed towards Israel, but eyewitnesses and medical sources said that there were no gunmen or rocket launchers at the scene. (BBC) (YNet) A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of British schoolboy Rhys Jones. (Sky News) Ten people are trapped alive in a collapsed apartment building in Baku, Azerbaijan with at least eight people having died. (Reuters via News Limited) The Taliban release twelve South Korean hostages of the 19 they have been holding. (BBC) A curfew is imposed in the Indian city of Agra after angry mobs clash with police resulting in one death and 50 police are injured. (BBC) Prison officers in the United Kingdom call a surprise 24-hour strike. (Daily Telegraph) The United States releases seven Iranians hours after detaining them in a Baghdad hotel. (AP via Fox News) Three people are killed - including a father and son - in a "targeted incident" involving firearms at a house in Bishop's Stortford. Two others are injured, but a 3 year-old girl is unharmed. Police are hunting "two Asian men" in connection with the attack. (BBC)

Science

Events related to physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology can be considered. Many of these will be discoveries, rather than strictly events of nature.

6 Aug. NASA reported that three galaxies the size of the Milky Way are colliding with another galaxy three times the size of the Milky Way in cluster CL0958+4702. The eventual galaxy could be up to ten times the size of the Milky Way.

7 Aug. Six new species of animal were discovered in a forest west of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo including a horseshoe bat, a rodent, two shrews and two species of insects.

7 Aug. Astronomers of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey announce the discovery of TrES-4, the largest known planet in the universe, circling the star GSC 02620-00648 in the Hercules Constellation.

28 Aug. - Total lunar eclipse.

Personal studies

These will include events related to the human body, psychology, and biography.

Anthropology

Social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected.

2 Aug. An offshore earthquake occured in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Vanuatu measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale but no tsunami was triggered.

2 Aug. An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale hit the southern part of Sakhalin off the coast of Russia causing a death. It also triggered a small tsunami that struck the coast of Hokkaido in Japan.

Culture

Material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture are needed.

2 Aug. The Dandy comic relaunched as Dandy Xtreme.

4 Aug. 11 Aug. The 92nd World Congress of Esperanto was held in Yokohama, Japan.

24 Aug. - 2 Sept. The 2007 World Championships in Athletics were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Institutions

Families, education, and economics are significant. Government including law, government activity, government structure, and particular governments can be connected.

1 Aug. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign an agreement to bolster economic and security relationships. It also called for negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement between ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand by the end of 2008.

2 Aug. The first-ever United Nations plenary session on climate change was extended into a third day due to the large number of 'worried nations' wanting to describe their climate-related problems.

30 Aug. The United Nations Headquarters building in New York City was evacuated after vials containing the chemical agent phosgene were discovered.

31 Aug. The World Health Organization reported an outbreak of an unknown disease with a high mortality rate in the province of Kasai Occidental A form of hemorrhagic fever was suspected to be the cause of the outbreak.

31 Aug. Negotiators from 158 countries reached rough agreements on greenhouse gas targets at a United Nations climate change conference.

31 Aug. The Secretary-General of the United Nations ordered an investigation into how hazardous material from Iraq came to be in the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Religion including religious beliefs, practice, organization, and particular religions is not highly visible, but is important.

3 Aug. Patriarch Teoctist of the Romanian Orthodox Church was buried in a ceremony in Bucharest led by Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox churches.

30 Aug. The Anglican Church of Kenya consecrated two bishops from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America after they left the Episcopal Church due to concerns that the Church was consecrating gay bishops.

Sociology

Social structure and change including social structure, social tupes, and social change will be useful. Communities such as New York City, Bombay are being distributed among the particular peoples they belong to.

Peoples

This depends heavily on nations [such as France, Congo]

Asiatic peoples

[Such as those of Thailand city of Seoul] can also be examined.

Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran can be examined.

1 Aug. The Accordance Front, Iraq's largest Sunni party, withdrew from the government while at least 70 people died in three bomb attacks.

4 Aug. United States forces claimed that they had killed Haitham al-Badri, the leader of al-Qaeda in Salahuddin province in Iraq and believed to be the man responsible for the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra in June.

5 Aug. Holocaust survivors protested outside the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert's office over the level of support from Israel.

5 Aug. Lebanon held two by-elections to replace two members of the Parliament of Lebanon, Pierre Amine Gemayel and Walid Eido, killed in violent incidents claimed to be murder. Camille Khoury and Mohamad Amin Itani were declared as the winners of the elections although rival candidate Amin Gemayel has lodged a complaint about Khoury's victory.

5 Aug. Mortar bombs struck a petrol station in eastern Baghdad killing at least nine people and injuring 11.

6 Aug. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in historic Palestianian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

6 Aug. The Lebanese government claimed that the police have killed Abu Hureira, the second in command of Fatah al-Islam.

6 Aug. Five members of the Iraqiya coalition led by former Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi suspended their participation in the current Cabinet led by Nouri al-Maliki.

6 Aug. A truck bomb in Tal Afar in northern Iraq killed at least 25 people and destroyed 10 homes.

6 Aug. The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas met to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state.

7 Aug. The Taliban attacked Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province but was repulsed by a joint force of Afghan fighters and United States Army forces with 20 militants killed.

7 Aug. Jordan opened its government schools to Iraqi refugees. Israel evicted Jewish settlers from Hebron. A dozen religious members of the Israeli Army refused to participate and were sentenced for up to a month in a military jail.

14 Aug. Multiple suicide bombings killed 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.

20 Aug. 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan: The Taliban released the remaining South Korean hostages.

30 Aug. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah claimed its militants have fired a missile into southern Israeli city of Sderot in response to Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip. Israeli sources said the rocket landed on a building and caused damages and panic.

30 Aug. Militants fired rockets on a United States military aircraft containing three US Senators (Richard Shelby, Mel Martinez and James Inhofe) as well as Rep. Bud Cramer as it left Baghdad for Amman in Jordan.

31 Aug. Thousands of people protested against the ruling Hamas party in the Gaza Strip.

31 Aug. At least ten civilians were killed and several more injured in Kunar province as Taliban rockets aimed at a US military base hit a nearby village.

31 Aug. Nearly two dozen Afghan militants died in heavy fighting in Helmand province.

31 Aug. War in Afghanistan At least two people were killed and ten others injured by a suicide bomb at the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.

Egypt

Turkey

3 Aug. Turkey's two largest cities, Ankara and Istanbul, struggled with water shortages with Ankara rationing water to two days on, two days off as a result of having 5% left in their reservoirs.

4 Aug. A natural gas pipeline between Turkey and Greece was completed allowing gas to be sent from the Middle East to Europe.

6 Aug Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer gave a mandate to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to form his second cabinet following a landslide victory for the Justice and Development Party (Ak Parti) in the general elections.

28 Aug. - Abdullah Gül is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.

South Asian peoples such as those of Bangladesh are significant.

1 Aug. At least 28 people died in Uttar Pradesh, India as an overcrowded boat carrying flood evacuees and aid workers capsized on the Rohni River. Monsoon floods have killed more than 150 people in India during July while at least 82 people have died in Nepal over the past two weeks and 38 in Bangladesh.

2 Aug. A Cabinet Minister and four junior ministers belonging to the Ceylon Workers Congress left the Government of President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa due to "political differences".

3 Aug. 2007 South Asian floods: Monsoon floods make millions homeless in India, Nepal and Bangladesh with a death toll of 145 in India and 65 in Bangladesh.

4 Aug. 2007 South Asian floods: The Ganges River system was expected to come under further strain from monsoon floods as 20 million were homeless in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Almost 200 people had died.

5 Aug. The death toll from the 2007 South Asian floods neared 1,100 in India while 120 people have died in Bangladesh and 84 in Nepal. Health officials have raised concerns about epidemics.

6 Aug. Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina filed petitions challenging government move to try her in connection with an extortion case.

7 Aug. Bangladesh security officials arrested 24 suspected militants at Zia International Airport en route to Kabul, Afghanistan.

31 Aug. National Board of Revenue (NBR) of Bangladesh found former premier Khaleda Zia having bank accounts in several names but with the same address.

India

1 Aug. The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex lost 615 points in a single day becoming the third biggest such crash in its history.

2 Aug. Journalists in the Indian state of Manipur refuse to put out newspapers as a protest against threats from rebel groups.

5 Aug. Bodies of two students of IIM Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, were recovered after being swept away in flash floods.

6 Aug. 50 feared dead when a boat carrying 130 passengers overturned in the midstream of River Ganga in Bihar, India.

15 Aug. India and Pakistan marked the 60th anniversary of their independence from the British Empire.

25 Aug. Forty-four people were killed after two bombs exploded in Hyderabad, India.

Pakistan

1 Aug. 18 militants killed near Banda checkpoint of North Waziristan, Pakistan by Pakistan troops.

2 Aug. Two aides of al Qaeda and Taliban were arrested at different places in Pakistan.

3 Aug. The Supreme Court of Pakistan freed Javed Hashmi, the leader of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy and Pakistan Muslim League faction leader, who was jailed in 2003 for writing a letter critical of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf.

4 Aug. Ten pro-Taliban militants and four Pakistan Army soldiers were killed in a clash in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. In another incident, a suicide car bomber killed six in Parachinar, North West Frontier Province in Pakistan.

7 Aug. The Pakistan Army launched a strike on a militant base in the Degan area near Miranshah in North Waziristan.

15 Aug. India and Pakistan marked the 60th anniversary of their independence from the British Empire.

30 Aug. Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, stated that he would return to Pakistan from exile after winning a case in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

30 Aug. Waziristan War: Scores of Pakistani soldiers have gone missing near the Afghanistan border, amid claims from pro-Taleban militants that they had kidnapped the troops.

31 Aug. Waziristan War: The Pakistan government disputed claims by pro-Taliban militants that they had captured 300 Pakistan Army soldiers stating that a convoy of 100 soldiers has been trapped and they are working to relieve them.

Central Asian peoples including some of those in China and Russia can perhaps be examined.

7 Aug. Georgian-Russian relations: Two Russian aircraft allegedly violated Georgia's airspace with one firing an air-to-surface guided rocket onto Georgian territory. The rocket did not explode and the Russian government denied the incident took place.

Oriental peoples including those in Japan are being connected. Cities include Tokyo

1 Aug. Norihiko Akagi resigned as Japan's agriculture minister after scandals involving him adversely affected the Liberal Democratic Party's performance in the Japanese House of Councillors election, 2007.

1 Aug. Sumo wrestler Asashoryu became the first Yokozuna in history to be suspended from competition.

2 Aug. South Korea suspended beef imports from the United States following the discovery of banned parts in a recent shipment.

6 Aug. North Korea and South Korea exchanged gun fire over the border, the first such incident in a year.

6 Aug. Japan marked the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

6 Aug. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

7 Aug. An earthquake of 6.4 preliminary magnitude occurred off the coast of Okinawa in Japan.

7 Aug. Satsuki Eda of the Democratic Party of Japan was chosen as the President of the House of Councillors making him the first member of an Opposition party to hold the position.

18 Aug. Typhoon Sepat made landfall in eastern Taiwan.

China

1 Aug. Sixty-nine Chinese coal miners were rescued from the Zhijian mine in Henan province.

5 Aug. Thirty-four rail workers building a tunnel in Hubei province China were trapped 200 metres underground following a landslide.

7 Aug. Chinese police arrested six protesters calling for a free Tibet by unfurling banners on the Great Wall of China.

14 Aug. At least 22 people were killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapsed in the southeastern province of Hunan, China.

30 Aug. Cao Gangchuan, the Defense Minister of People's Republic of China and Masahiko Komura, Defense Minister of Japan. met and agree to strengthen exchanges.

30 Aug. The Chinese Finance Minister, Jin Renqing, resigned due to "personal reasons".

Southeast Asian peoples include events in Vietnam,

5 Aug. Police fired shots to disperse an angry crowd in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea with unconfirmed reports of a man dying.

6 Aug. Sir Michael Somare's National Alliance Party formed a coalition with six partners which will be the next government of Papua New Guinea.

7 Aug. Malaysia banned hiring of foreign security guards following rape and murder of a student by a Pakistani security guard recently.

7 Aug. Youths in East Timor attacked Australian Army forces and United Nations personnel following the announcement that Xanana Gusmão would be the next Prime Minister.

7 Aug. A storm killed at least 17 people in Vietnam with another 12 missing.

6 Aug. José Ramos Horta, the President of East Timor, selected Xanana Gusmão as the Prime Minister of East Timor.

31 Aug. The President of French Polynesia Gaston Tong Sang lost a vote of no-confidence and was forced to resign.

31 Aug. Malaysia celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence.

The Philippines do not yet have reported events.

Indonesia does not yet have reported events.

Western Civilization including Mexico, Germany is connected. Cities include Mexico City

1 Aug. The remains of the RMS Titanic's Unknown Child, initially identified as Eino Viljami Panula, were re-identified by a Canadian research team and found to be those of another young passenger, Sidney Leslie Goodwin.

6 Aug. A state of emergency was declared in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik due to a forest fire.

25 Aug. - Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declared a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravaged western Peloponese and the island of Euboea, killing at least 64 people.

31 Aug. Talks aimed at negotiating peace in Iraq begin in Finland.

31 Aug. While Greece brought the 2007 Greek forest fires under control, 8 people died in 48 hours in forest fires in northern Algeria, six firefighters die in Croatia and the village of Les Useres in the Valencia region of Spain was evacuated.

Anglic peoples [including the United States,] are being connected.

1 Aug The President of the United States George W. Bush ordered senior adviser Karl Rove not to testify before a United States Senate committee on the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.

1 Aug. The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapsed at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people.

1 Aug. Scouting celebrated its 100th birthday with worldwide celebrations.

1 Aug. Demolition of the last 4 masts of former VLF Transmitter Rugby.

1 Aug. New Zealand launched its first commercially available biofuel, which consists of 90 percent petrol and 10 percent bioethanol made from cows' milk.

1 Aug. US crude oil prices reached a new high of $78.77 a barrel due to declining stocks and decreased output.

1 Aug. The United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading levied a fine of £121.5 million on British Airways for price collusion over long distance passenger fuel surcharges. British Airways and Korean Air later plead guilty to conspiracies to fix the price of passenger and cargo fees in the United States with fines of $300 million each being levied.

1 Aug. The US House of Representatives passed a resolution to lift travel restrictions on Taiwan's president and other high-level officials visiting the United States.

2 Aug. Mary Peters, the United States Secretary of Transportation, orders an immediate inspection of all truss bridges in the United States following the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis.

2 Aug. Kafeel Ahmed, who was one of the instigators of the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, died in the Royal Glasgow Infirmary of the injuries he sustained in the attack.

2 Aug. United States Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins III was convicted of murder and related offences in relation to the killing of an Iraqi man.

2 Aug. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rules that three insurers were not responsible for flood damage in New Orleans resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

3 Aug. The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency in Santa Barbara County, California with hundreds of people ordered to evacuate due to wildfire.

3 Aug. US President George W. Bush signed a bill to implement recommendations of the 9-11 Commission.

3 Aug. The United States Congress allocated $250 million to rebuild the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

3 Aug. The United States Senate voted to extend the powers of intelligence agents to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists in a victory for President of the United States George W. Bush.

3 Aug. Raids at the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, California allegedly produced evidence that links the bakery to the murder of Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post, and two other people.

3 Aug. The Canadian government agreed to make available a judicial report on the treatment of Maher Arar falsely accused of terrorism.

3 Aug. A strain of foot and mouth disease was found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. Gordon Brown held a COBRA meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.

3 Aug. An outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a cattle farm in Surrey, UK was confirmed by Defra. The unlicenced movement of all livestock throughout the UK was prohibited.

3 Aug. George W. Bush invited representatives of the UN and major industrialized and developing countries to a conference to discuss a post-Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions.

4 Aug. A United States Army soldier Jesse Spielman is sentenced to 110 years for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Iraq and the murder of her family.

4 Aug. The United States House of Representatives passed the budget for the United States Department of Defense.

4 Aug. The United States House of Representatives passed an energy bill which aimed to expand the use of renewable energy and reduce tax concessions to oil companies.

4 Aug. A vehicle with Florida license plates driven by men of Middle Eastern origin was stopped by police in Goose Creek, South Carolina, and found to be carrying explosive devices.

4 Aug. The United States House of Representatives approved legislation expanding the United States Government's ability to conduct surveillance without a court order on foreign terrorism suspects.

4 Aug. A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock was in place after foot and mouth disease was found on the Surrey farm.

4 Aug. The Phoenix spacecraft launched toward the Martian north pole.

4 Aug. - 11 Aug. The National Eisteddfod of Wales was held at Mold, Flintshire, Wales.

4 Aug. San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds tied Hank Aaron for most career home runs with 755, while Alex Rodriguez become the youngest player to hit 500 home runs in Major League Baseball.

4 Aug. Oakland police claimed that a 19-year-old man had confessed to the murder of Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post.

4 Aug. NASA launched the Phoenix Mars Lander which is due to land in Planum Boreum on the Martian northern ice cap next year.

4 Aug. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown held an emergency COBRA cabinet meeting to discuss an outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a farm in Surrey, England. The foot and mouth strain has been identified as a rare strain used at the nearby Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright.

5 Aug. Twenty-six people including 14 convicted prisoners escaped from the Campsfield House detention centre in Oxfordshire, England.

5 Aug. Republican Party candidates in the 2008 United States Presidential election held a debate.

5 Aug. Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa won the Women's British Open title, her first major.

5 Aug. The President of the United States George W. Bush met with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai at Camp David to discuss the security of Afghanistan.

5 Aug. Tom Glavine of the New York Mets won his 300th career game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.

6 Aug. The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapsed, trapping six miners.

6 Aug. Trinidad Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls ordered the extradition of three men to the United States to face charges of involvement in a terrorist attack on John F. Kennedy Airport.

6 Aug. United States District Court judge Ronald Whyte struck down a California law aiming to prohibit minors from buying or renting violent videogames on First Amendment grounds.

6 Aug. An Arizona judge ruled that that a United States Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett must stand trial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrant.

6 Aug. The United States Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer's AIDS drug Selzentry.

6 Aug. A second case of foot and mouth disease was reported in Surrey, England resulting in the culling of more cattle.

6 Aug. Six miners were trapped in a coal mine 15 miles west of Huntington, Utah. A 3.9 to 4.5 (USGS) magnitude earthquake was reported in the area around the time of the cave-in.

7 Aug. Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's home run record by hitting his 756th home run.

7 Aug. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 756th career home run, passing Hank Aaron as the all-time leader in Major League Baseball. Bonds hits the shot against Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik in the fifth inning of their game at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California.

7 Aug. Seismic activity frustrated rescue efforts for six coal miners trapped underground near Huntington, Utah.

7 Aug. Tests confirmed a second outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey, England. Inspectors thought that there is a "strong probability" that the disease came from a research site at Pirbright shared by Merial, a vaccine company and the Institute for Animal Health.

7 Aug. The United Kingdom asks United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to release five residents of the UK from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

7 Aug. Paul Calvert announced his resignation as President of the Australian Senate and as a Senator for Tasmania effective from next week.

8 Aug. The Space Shuttle Endeavour was successfully launched on mission STS-118

8 Aug. The 21st World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, Essex closed.

9 Aug. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27.

11 Aug. The Premier League and Football League seasons started in England.

12 Aug. Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, his 13th career major.

15 Aug. NBA referee Tim Donaghy surrendered to police and plead guilty to charges brought up by the FBI investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.

16 Aug. Tributes were held in honor of the late Elvis Presley on the 30th anniversary of his death.

16 Aug. The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah, collapsed a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more.

17 Aug. The Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical 2 premiered in the USA

21 Aug. STS-118 landed at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.

22 Aug. The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

24 Aug. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspends deactivated Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick indefinitely without pay after Vick chose to plead guilty in federal court to dog fighting.

27 Aug. United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, to be effective September 17.

30 Aug. An Iowa district court ruled that same-sex couples can marry based on the Iowa constitution guarantee of equal protection.

30 Aug. United States health officials issued a consumer alert for people to check their freezers for contaminated meat.

30 Aug. A report into the Virginia Tech massacre criticised staff for not acting quickly enough after Seung-Hui Cho's first killings.

31 Aug. A memorial service was held at the Guards' Chapel in London, the area of worship for the Household Division of the British Army, for the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. The service was organized by her sons, Princes William and Harry.

31 Aug. U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu surrendered to the San Mateo County sheriff's office on a 15-year-old felony warrant.

31 Aug. The Mine Safety and Health Administration indefinitely suspended the search for six missing coal miners trapped in the Crandall Canyon mine in the U.S. state of Utah.

31 Aug. Canadian police arrested a man in Toronto found with three letter bombs in the boot of his car.

31 Aug. Provisional data from the United Kingdom Meteorological Office showed that the 2007 British summer was the wettest on record with five areas of England on flood warning.

31 Aug. Mike Nifong, the prosecutor in the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, was found in criminal contempt of court for lying to a judge in the case and was sentenced to a day in jail.

31 Aug. The U.S. Kroger supermarket chain recalled its "Southern-Style" and "Mustard" potato salads due to concerns over E. coli bacteria.

31 Aug. Republican Senator John Warner announced that he would not seek re-election to the United States Senate.

31 Aug. Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were indicted for carrying explosive materials across state lines with one indicted for terrorism charges.

31 Aug. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow resigned, effective September 14, 2007. Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino will replace him after his resignation is effective.

31 Aug. The British Royal Family, including Prince Charles, Prince Harry and Prince William, and Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth, along with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and hundreds more, gathered for a memorial service for Diana, Princess of Wales, ten years after her death, at Guard's Chapel in London.

31 Aug. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown and the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy threatened the government of Sudan with sanctions over Darfur.

31 Aug. Angry Victorian farmers trapped the Premier of Victoria John Brumby and Rural and Regional Development Minister Jacinta Allan as well as advisers and media in a machinery yard outside Colbinabbin, east of Bendigo to raise concerns about the Government's water plans.

Latin peoples including those of Brazil can also be examined.

1 Aug. A French court ordered the release of two suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

1 Aug. The Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero visited the Canary Islands to inspect the damage caused by five days of fires on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

3 Aug. The former deputy director of Augusto Pinochet's secret police, Raul Iturriaga, was captured by the police after having entered in rebellion in June 2007 against the Chilean state and justice.

3 Aug. Mexican archaeologists announced the discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl.

3 Aug. Two Cuban boxers, Guillermo Rigondeaux Olympic bantamweight champion and amateur welterweight world champion Erislandi Lara, who deserted their team at the 2007 Pan American Games were found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will be sent back to Cuba.

4 Aug. Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim fired the head of the Brazilian airports authority, José Carlos Pereira for recent problems including the crash of TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 and hired Sergio Gaudenzi, the President of the Brazilian Space Agency.

6 Aug. Mexico and Brazil signed an agreement on developing technology for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation involving co-operation between Pemex and Petrobras.

7 Aug. Two men were arrested in Paris for stealing Pablo Picasso paintings from the apartment of his granddaughter.

7 Aug. Argentina signed an "energy security treaty" with Venezuela in Buenos Aires.

7 Aug. Two buses crashed on the Panamerican Highway in southern Peru resulting in 17 casualties and 37 injuries.

7 Aug. Fortune magazine lists Mexican businessman Carlos Slim as the richest man in the world ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

7 Aug. Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia, Colombian cocaine trafficker boss of the Norte del Valle Cartel was apprehended in Brazil and faced extradition to the United States. The US Government had offered a reward of US$5 million dollars.

15 Aug. An 8.0 earthquake struck Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.

30 Aug. Two trains collided in Nova Oguacu, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, killing at least eight and injuring 40.

30 Aug. The Torre Mayor in Mexico City is evacuated after a car containing explosives was found in its carpark. Part of the building, Latin America's tallest, had also been evacuated the day before after police received an anonymous bomb threat.

30 Aug. Scores of Italians were arrested in a crackdown on the 'ndrangheta organised crime clans active in Calabria.

30 Aug. More than 450 people were arrested after protests in which police used tear gas and water cannons in Chile's capital, Santiago.

21 Aug. Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slammed into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

31 Aug. A fuel spill polluted Puerto Rico's southwest coast from the town of Guanica to Guayanilla Bay.

31 Aug. Twelve Chileans including a Catholic priest were charged for alleged involvement in death squads during the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.

31 Aug. Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, stated that he would meet with FARC guerillas to mediate a dispute with the Government of Colombia about the release of captives.

Northeast European peoples including Russia can be connected.

1 Aug. 2007 Russian North Pole expedition: A Russian expedition with the aim of claiming petroleum beneath the Arctic reached the North Pole.

1 Aug. Russia’s gas exports monopoly Gazprom announced it would almost halve supplies to Belarus from August 3 after failing to reach a deal with Minsk over a $456 million energy debt.

2 Aug. 2007 Russian North Pole expedition: Two Russian bathyscaphes, MIR submersibles reached the seabed below the North Pole, at a depth of 4.2 km, for the first time ever.

3 Aug. Russia said that it would launch a criminal case against Andrei Lugovoi if the United Kingdom provided it with convincing evidence of Lugovoi's involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

4 Aug. Smoking in public places was banned in Slovenia.

31 Aug. An explosion in Ingushetia near the Chechen border killed four Russian police officers.

African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected.

1 Aug. Sudan pledged support for UNAMID, a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur.

2 Aug. 100 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when a train derailed. Government officials attributed the accident to faulty brakes.

3 Aug. 50 people were feared drowned and 100 were missing after a boat capsized in Sierra Leone

3 Aug. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe signed the Interception of Communication Act into law, allowing the Zimbabwean government to listen to private telephone conversations, open mail and intercept faxes and e-mail.

3 Aug. Rebel groups in Darfur held meetings in Tanzania jointly mediated by the United Nations and the African Union to resolve disputes.

5 Aug. Authorities in Mozambique seized thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste which they feared may contain the dangerous chemical diethylene glycol.

11 Aug. Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Sierra Leone.

30 Aug. At least 10 Malians were killed and several others injured after their vehicle hit a land mine.

30 Aug. Darfur rebels accused the Sudanese Government of bombing South Darfur.

31 Aug. Democratic Republic of the Congo The United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo sent troops to the town of Katale in the Masisi district of North Kivu province due to heavy fighting between the army and supporters of rebel General Laurent Nkunda.

31 Aug. A tank truck crashed into four minibuses in Kisii, Kenya, resulting in at least 29 deaths and 30 injuries.

Nigeria

6 Aug. Flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, led to thousands of people being forced from their homes and six people going missing.

American Indian peoples, including some peoples found in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico will also be connected.