Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/August
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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 31 | 6/7 |
- The Convention on Cluster Munitions, banning the use, production and transfer of cluster bombs, comes into effect.[1]
- Malawi changes its national flag.[2]
- Salanoia durrelli, a carnivoran species from Lake Alaotra, Madagascar, is officially described as a new species.[3]
- Israeli and Lebanese troops exchange fire on the border between the two countries.[4]
- The Sun undergoes a series of four large coronal mass ejections.[5]
- At least 63 people are killed and more than 200 others injured during rioting in Karachi, Pakistan.[6]
- Wildfires kill 48 people and cause evacuation of thousands in western Russia.[7]
- The worst flooding in Pakistan's history kills over 1,100 people and displaces thousands more.[8]
- The U.S. Senate votes to confirm Elena Kagan as an associate justice on the country's Supreme Court.[9]
- Kenya holds a referendum on a proposed new constitution.[10]
- 10 people, including 2 Afghan civilians and 8 international aid workers, are killed in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.[11]
- A landslide in Gansu province, People's Republic of China kills 127 people, with 2,000 more missing.[12]
- Researchers announce that diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be made with up to 100 percent accuracy using a cerebrospinal fluid test.[13]
- The death rate in Moscow doubles to 700 people per day due to poisonous smog from wildfires and a heat wave in western Russia.[14]
- Paul Kagame is re-elected President of Rwanda.[15]
- Colombia and Venezuela re-establish diplomatic relations after Juan Manuel Santos becomes the President of Colombia.[16]
- The World Health Organization announces the end of the swine flu pandemic.[17]
- Former President of Malta and President of the United Nations General Assembly Guido de Marco dies suddenly.[18]
- The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the first of the Youth Olympic Games, begins in Singapore with 3,531 participating athletes aged 14–18 from 205 National Olympic Committees.[19]
- Agricultural Bank of China completes the world's largest ever initial public offering, raising US$22.1 billion.[20]
- In golf, Martin Kaymer of Germany wins the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.[21]
- The economy of the People's Republic of China is the second-largest during the second quarter, having surpassed Japan's quarterly gross domestic product for the first time.[22]
- A bombing outside an Iraqi Army recruitment center in Baghdad kills more than sixty people.[23]
- Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has died, aged 82.[24]
- In association football, Nicolas Anelka is suspended for 18 games with the national team, and three other players for for shorter periods for their roles in a player strike at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[25]
- At least seven people are killed and fourteen others wounded in a bomb attack in Xinjiang province, north-western China.[26]
- Ngô Bảo Châu, Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanislav Smirnov, and Cédric Villani are awarded the Fields Medal for their work in mathematics.[27]
- Bolivia declares a state of emergency as forest fires rage across move than 1,500,000 hectares (3,700,000 acres).[28]
- Iran launches its first nuclear power plant in Busher.[29]
- A national election is held in Australia, with results indicating a hung parliament with neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal/National Coalition able to form a majority government.[30]
- David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya breaks the world record in the 800 metres at the ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meeting in Berlin.[31]
- A man shoots dead nine people, including himself, after taking hostages on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.[32]
- Thirty-three miners are found alive but trapped, three weeks after a mine collapse near Copiapó, Chile.[33]
- Al-Shabaab militants storm a hotel killing dozens, including parlamentarians, amid heavy fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia.[34]
- A traffic jam outside Beijing, China extends for over 60 miles (100 kilometres), leaving many drivers stranded for days.[35]
- A plane crash in Heilongjiang, north-west People's Republic of China, kills 42 people.[36]
- A series of bombings across thirteen cities in Iraq kill more than fifty people.[37]
- Archeologists excavate arrowheads in Sibudu Cave, South Africa, indicating the use of the bow and arrow up to 64,000 years ago.[38]
- Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra produced its first volcanic eruption in over 400 years, causing over 12,000 residents to flee and killing one person.[39]
- Danny Philip is elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, following general election.[40]
- Mad Men wins the drama prize and Modern Family wins the comedy prize at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.[41]
- Argentine footballer Francisco Varallo, the last surviving player from the inaugural FIFA World Cup, dies at the age of 100.[42]
References
[edit]- ^ Convention on Cluster Munitions (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Flag of Malawi (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Salanoia durrelli (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Adaisseh incident (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ coronal mass ejection (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Karachi riots (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Russian wildfires (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Pakistan floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Elena Kagan (User:Courcelles) Later removed per consensus on WP:ITN/C.
- ^ Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Badakhshan massacre (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2010 China floods#Gansu Province (User:Courcelles)
- ^ Alzheimer's disease#Diagnostic tools (User:The ed17)
- ^ 2010 Russian wildfires#Public health effects (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Rwandan presidential election, 2010 (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Colombia–Venezuela relations (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ 2009 flu pandemic (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Guido de Marco (User:TFOWR)
- ^ 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (User:TFOWR)
- ^ Agricultural Bank of China (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ Martin Kaymer (User:Tone)
- ^ Economy of the People's Republic of China (User:Tariqabjotu) Later removed "considering the PRC's GDP was higher than Japan's in 4Q08 and 4Q09 and Japan's > the PRC's over 1Q10 and 2Q10 combined, there's no story here".
- ^ 17 August 2010 Baghdad bombing (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Francesco Cossiga (User:Davidcannon) Later removed as "Item does not have consensus at WP:ITN/C and the article is substandard".
- ^ French national football team (User:HJ Mitchell) Later removed as "doesn't have a clear consensus".
- ^ 2010 Aksu bombing (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Stanislav Smirnov (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2010 Bolivia forest fires (User:Tone)
- ^ Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (User:Tone)
- ^ Australian federal election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ David Lekuta Rudisha (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Manila hostage crisis (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Copiapó mining accident (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Muna hotel attack (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 China National Highway 110 traffic jam (User:HJ Mitchell) Later removed as "Needs to be discussed further".
- ^ Henan Airlines Flight 8387 (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 25 August 2010 Iraq bombings (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ arrowhead (User:Fox)
- ^ Sinabung (User:Tone)
- ^ Danny Philip (User:Tone)
- ^ 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Francisco Varallo (User:Mkativerata)