Portal:Current events/2010 September 1

September 1, 2010 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

The People's Liberation Army Navy commences artillery exercises in the Yellow Sea in response to those being conducted by South Korea and the United States against North Korea. (BBC)
At least 30 people are killed and 250 injured in three suicide bombing attacks on Shia procession in Lahore, Pakistan. (BBC) (Arab News) (DAWN) (The Guardian) (The Times of India) (Xinhua)
At least 6 people die as Mozambique police fire rubber bullets as a protest in Maputo over rising food prices turns into a riot. (RFI) (BBC) (Reuters Africa) (Aljazeera)
A border clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan occurs, leaving several soldiers dead and both sides blaming the other for the violence. (BBC) (Aysor)
2 Israelis are wounded in a shooting near Kochav HaShachar in the West Bank. (Haaretz) (Aljazeera)
The Palestinian Authority arrests 250 members of Hamas following the shooting of four Israeli settlers at Beit Hagai. (Los Angeles Times)

Arts and culture

Actor Michael Douglas speaks for the first time in public of his recent disgnosis with throat cancer during an interview on American television. (BBC) (The Guardian)
Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is rehospitalised in the United States after becoming unconscious. (BBC)
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography A Journey goes on sale in the United Kingdom and becomes a bestseller. (The Guardian)
United States rapper T.I. and his wife singer Tameka Cottle are arrested on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for illegal drug possession. (CNN)
Archaeologists discover 200 year old bottles of beer in a shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea believed to be the world's oldest. (CNN)

Business and economics

Apple Inc. launches Ping. (BBC)
A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port. (ABC Online) (BBC) (People's Daily)
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, upheld an injunction issued by a federal district court in Indiana in 2009, enjoining Teva Pharmaceuticals from the marketing of its drug for the treatment of osteoporosis. The district court found, and the appellate court agrees, that Teva's drug is in violation of a valid patent held by Eli Lilly and Company. (Fierce Pharma)

Disasters

57,000 people are made homeless by heavy floods near Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan. (BBC)
2010 Pakistan floods:
- The World Bank pledges to loan an additional $100 million to Pakistan. (Hindustan Times) (Reuters)
- Flood taxes are imposed in principle. (People's Daily)
- UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg visits a relief camp in Sukkur to witness the devastation caused by the ongoing floods. (BBC) (The Times of India) (PA via The Independent) (Sky News)
2010 Copiapó mining accident:
- The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile receive their first hot meal in 26 days: it consists of meatballs, chicken and rice through a tube. (BBC)
- As the isolation of the miners is similar to a space mission, NASA sends a team of doctors, who recommend the miners abstain from cigarettes and alcohol while trapped. (The Daily Telegraph) (Reuters)
The U.S. state of North Carolina orders the evacuation of Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island ahead of Hurricane Earl. [http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0901/Hurricane-Earl-path-evacuation-of-Ocracoke-Island-watch-in-Virginia