August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days.
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus, who did not take a day from February
He chose this month to take his name rather than his birth month - which was traditional - as a mark of honour to the defeated Queen Cleopatra the last ruler of Egypt, this being her birth month.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
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August 1, 2010, The United Arab Emirates will suspend some BlackBerry mobile services from October amid concerns that data from some equipment is being exported offshore and managed by foreign organisations. Saudi Arabia plans to suspend some services later this month. (BBC)
August 1, 2010, Thousands of troops are mobilised in Russia to tackle forest fires spreading in 17 regions, the worst in decades, as the death toll rises to 30. (Voice of Russia)
August 1, 2010, Pakistan floods:
-The death toll from floods in northwestern Pakistan exceeds 1,000. (Aljazeera)
-The United States pledges $10 million in foreign aid to Pakistan to help the nation respond. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 1, 2010, Scientists announce the discovery of the world's first active undersea river, in the Black Sea. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 2, 2010, Release of The Suburbs is third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire
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August 2, 2010, The United States House of Representatives ethics committee charges California Democrat Maxine Waters with breaking ethics rules. (USA Today)
August 2, 2010, The Government of the United States claims that nearly 5 million barrels of oil have spilt from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest accidental maritime oil spill ever.(New York Times)
August 2, 2010, An antiques dealer is imprisoned for handling a copy of the first folio by poet and playwright William Shakespeare, though cleared of actually stealing it, in the UK. (BBC)
August 2, 2010, The Census of Marine Life is released after 10 years of study of the worlds oceans showing that there are 230,000 species of animal living there. (Fox News)
August 3, 2010, Release of All Night Long the fifth studio album by the American hard rock band Buckcherry
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August 3, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-More than three million people are dislocated and 1,500 are now dead as Pakistan's worst floods flow to the south. (Aljazeera)
-Rescue attempts are underway. (BBC)
-The Warsak Dam near Peshawar, Pakistan's third-largest dam, is threatened by rising water levels. (The Guardian)
-The United States Army sends four CH-47 Chinook helicopters and two UH-60 Blackhawks helicopters to help with the relief effort. (AFP via Google)
August 3, 2010, The daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston once again call off their engagement after it's revealed that Johnston fathered a child with another woman. (ABC)
August 3, 2010, Nearly £2 billion of savings are revealed to have been removed from the UK's nationalised Northern Rock bank. (The Guardian)
August 3, 2010, Mexicana de Aviación, Mexico's biggest airline, files for bankruptcy. (BBC)
August 3, 2010, President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari arrives in the United Kingdom upon a five-day visit as the two countries disagree over David Cameron's remarks on "the export of terror". (Aljazeera)
August 3, 2010, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol and South Africa's top police officer, is sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges. (AP via GaeaTimes)
August 3, 2010, Saudi Arabia announces it is to commence a ban on the "messenger function" on Blackberry handsets from Friday due to security concerns over the Research In Motion (RIM) technological device. (BBC)
August 3, 2010, The first major Earth-directed solar eruption in a decade will generate aurorae visible in non-polar areas from early August 4th to August 5th. (Foxnews.com)
August 4, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean confirms he is to announce plans to stand for the presidency in Haiti. (BBC)
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August 4, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Nearly 1 million people are estimated to have been left homeless during the ongoing severe floods in Pakistan. (The Guardian)
-Thousands of people flee their homes in Punjab due to flood fears. (Aljazeera)
-Rain falls, causing more damage. (BBC)
-The United Nations World Food Programme warns that parts of northwest Pakistan are facing urgent food shortages. (Sky News)
-The Disasters Emergency Committee launches its appeal for donations. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, Summer 2010 Russian wildfires:
-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev interrupts his summer holiday to return and fire several top military officials after wildfires destroy a naval base outside Moscow. (BBC) (Aljazeera)
-At a meeting of the national Security Council Medvedev states: "By no means you may allow anarchy [...] You must not let the situation go out of local authorities' control". (Xinhua)
August 4, 2010, Officials say more than 28,000 pple have died in Mexican drug violence since December 2006, thousands more than previously thought. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, A man found dead in forest near Trongsa is thought to have been killed by a tiger, possibly Bhutan's first such death in 15 years. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, A vault containing non-words - those rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary - is uncovered. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 4, 2010, The confirmed death toll from flooding in China rises above 1,000. (Associated Press)
August 4, 2010, Three barns collapse at the largest egg farm in the U.S. state of Ohio in Croton, with at least one worker dead. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
August 4, 2010, Admiral Thad Allen, the man in charge of the US Government's efforts to clear up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has given clearance for BP to pour cement into its Gulf of Mexico oil well. (Reuters)
August 4, 2010, Vaughn R. Walker, the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, rules in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California is unconstitutional. (Los Angeles Times)
August 4, 2010, Fidel Castro is expected to address the Cuban national assembly on Saturday for the first time in four years; his speech is anticipated to talk of a possible nuclear war involving the United States, Israel and Iran. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 4, 2010, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees becomes the seventh player in the history of Major League Baseball to hit 600 home runs. (The New York Times)
August 5, 2010, The United Nations states more than four million people are now affected by the most severe flooding in Pakistan's history, while the death toll rises to at least 1,600. (Aljazeera)
August 5, 2010, The United States Senate confirms the nomination of Elena Kagan as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (CNN)
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010, Newly released files, which can be freely downloaded for the next month, show that the British government felt threatened by UFOs in the 1950s and that Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the cover-up of one unexplained encounter. (BBC)
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010, Model Naomi Campbell gives evidence that she received several "dirty looking stones" after meeting the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in his trial at the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone. (The Guardian)
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August 5, 2010, South Korea begins a huge anti-submarine exercise in the Yellow Sea, near the disputed maritime border, in what it sees as a show of strength against North Korea and "to be fully prepared for combat"; North Korea disapproves of the exercise. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, A piano which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is thought to have played is discovered in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg. (The Age)
August 5, 2010, BP is authorized to pump cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site after a successful "static kill" procedure with drilling mud.
August 5, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron commits another gaffe - with an erroneous statement that Iran possesses a nuclear weapon - just after apologising to an angered pensioner for his previous gaffe about the Battle of Britain. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, Reported Japanese child abuse reaches its highest level since records were first taken a decade ago. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, Brazilian police discover a Rio de Janeiro prison is being run by some of the inmates; a guard is arrested. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, The U.S. Government charges 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline" sending money and fighters from the United States to the Somalian insurgency group Al-Shabaab. (AP via Google News)
August 5, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean formally registers to stand for the presidency of Haiti. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Release of The Other Guys
August 6, 2010, Release of Step Up
August 6, 2010, Release of The Disappearance of Alice Creed
August 6, 2010, Release of Flipped
August 6, 2010, Release of Middle Men
August 6, 2010, Release of Twelve
August 6, 2010, At least 12 million people are now affected by the worst floods in the history of Pakistan with 1,600 people being killed and 650,000 homes being destroyed. (Aljazeera)
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August 6, 2010, Mark Hurd resigns as chief executive officer of computer company Hewlett-Packard following investigation of a sexual harassment claim. (AP via ABC America)
August 6, 2010, NATO admits it killed at least 32 Afghan civilians in Nangarhar Province as a result of air strikes on August 5, including 26 people in two incidents in one area. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 6, 2010, Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia, bans export of flour and wheat from August 15 to December 31 due to the worst drought in Russian history. (Reuters)
August 6, 2010, A 22-year-old Chinese woman falls from a building, becoming the thirteenth Foxconn employee to die in a spate of deaths at the company. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Rescue efforts continue to save 34 people trapped in a mine after a rock collapse near Copiapó. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, China suspends traffic on the Yalu River and evacuates more than 40,000 people from Dandong over fears of flooding amid unprecedented levels of rainfall. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Smoke from Russian wildfires covers famous landmarks and delays more than 140 flights at Moscow airports while official figures indicate that 14,340 people died in Moscow during July 2010; 4,824 more than the same month last year. (Sky News)
August 6, 2010, Mount Karangetang, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Siau, erupts. (AP via Seattle PI)
August 6, 2010, Hiroshima marks the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack; United States representatives attend in an official capacity for the first time. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Saudi Arabia's ban of online functions on BlackBerry mobile phones is implemented. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, A woman is arrested following the discovery of baby corpses stored inside four suitcases in her attic in Nij Beets, Friesland. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger files a motion calling for same-sex marriages to resume in the U.S. state immediately. (AFP via The Age)
August 6, 2010, The Pentagon makes a demand to Wikileaks that it remove its collection of classified military documents from the internet. (Aljazeera)
August 6, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski is officially sworn in as President of Poland, following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash in April. (Aljazeera)
August 6, 2010, Usain Bolt is professionally defeated for only the second time in the 100 metres by Tyson Gay in Stockholm. (BBC Sport)
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August 7, 2010, United States astronauts Douglas H. Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson fail on the International Space Station (ISS)'s longest spacewalk and sixth longest spacewalk to repair a cooling system, which means two more spacewalks are now required. (BBC)
August 7, 2010, The Gulf of Mexico seafood industry starts to reopen after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP via News Times)
August 7, 2010, Pakistan issues a red alert as the worst floods in its history move south towards Sindh, with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, at least 10,000 cows killed and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani appealing on television for help from the international community. (BBC)
August 7, 2010, Pollution hits record levels in Moscow as large wildfires continue to devastate Russia. (Aljazeera)
August 7, 2010, Efforts intensify to rescue at least 34 people trapped in a mine near Copiapó, Chile, in the Atacama Desert. (Aljazeera)
August 7, 2010, An oil spill stretching at least two miles long occurs in the Arabian Sea offshore Mumbai, India, after a vessel from Panama collides with another vessel from St. Kitts. The Panamanian ship was carrying 2,662 tons of oil, 283 tons of diesel and 88,040 liters of lube oil when it became grounded and started to leak. (CNN)
August 7, 2010, A poll of six countries, taken by the Brookings Institution, an American think tank, indicates that the popularity of the President of the United States Barack Obama has dropped significantly in the Arab World since "A New Beginning". (The Irish Times)
August 7, 2010, Saudi Arabia decides it will not ban Blackberry instant messanging after agreeing a deal to iron out security fears. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 8, 2010, Fidel Castro delivers a short speech to the Cuban Parliament to warn about the risk of a nuclear war between the United States and Iran, accusing Barack Obama of provoking conflict with Iran and North Korea and urging him to prevent such a conflict. (Aljazeera)
August 8, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Torrential rains worsen the ongoing flood crisis across Pakistan, which has so far affected 14 million people, as rescue helicopters are forced to stay on the ground in the northwest of the country. (Aljazeera)
-Landslips wreak further destruction in Pakistan: 28 corpses retrieved so far in 2 villages. (BBC)
-Food prices soar in Pakistan as the floods destroy one million acres of crops so far. (The Express Tribune)
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August 8, 2010, Mark Papermaster, who engineered the Apple Inc. iPhone, leaves the company due to the antenna issues associated with the iPhone 4. (Aljazeera)
August 8, 2010, Ads website Craigslist faces allegations of "pay to rape" underage prostitution after a letter is published in The Washington Post. (The Guardian)
August 8, 2010, It is revealed that Sarah, Duchess of York faces possible bankruptcy, which would make her the first Royal to suffer this. (The Guardian)
August 8, 2010, Several countries evacuate staff from their embassies in Moscow due to the 2010 Russian wildfires including Germany, Austria, Poland and Canada, as Russia experiences its hottest year on record. (RIA Novosti)
August 8, 2010, There is a further cave-in at the mine near Copiapó, Chile where people have been working since Thursday to rescue 34 miners trapped underground; work is currently suspended in an incident that is rare in that part of the world. (BBC)
August 8, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Abkhazia on his first visit there since the territory declared independence from Georgia two years ago. (RIA Novosti)
August 8, 2010, President of Mexico Felipe Calderón calls for a debate on the legalization of drugs. (The Observer)
August 8, 2010, Elena Kagan is sworn in as the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. (The New York Times)
August 9, 2010, The United Nations describes the ongoing 2010 Pakistan floods as the worst natural disaster in years - worse than the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake - as the number of people affected reaches an estimated 15 million and the waters and landslides continue to swamp the country. (Aljazeera)
August 9, 2010, A de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter seaplane crashes near Aleknagik, Alaska, killing five people, including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and O'Keefe's son were aboard the plane, but survived. (MarketWatch)
August 9, 2010, A policy proposal by Google and Verizon regarding the way internet service is regulated comes under criticism from groups promoting net neutrality. (New York Times)
August 9, 2010, Commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki:
-Japan marks the 65th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The United States, which perpetrated the attack, upsets survivors by not sending an ambassador due to "scheduling reasons" this time, though France and the UK send representatives for the first time. (China Daily)
-Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue calls for the international elimination of nuclear weapons before representatives of a record 32 countries. (Japan Times)
August 9, 2010, Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue calls for the international elimination of nuclear weapons before representatives of a record 32 countries. (Japan Times)
August 9, 2010, Honda recalls more than 384,000 vehicles due to ignition difficulties. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, The death toll in China following the recent mudslide rises to 337. 1,148 people are now missing. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, 33 miners are still trapped without any contact underground after days of rescue efforts at a collapsed mine near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, Mumbai oil spill: An oil spill becomes more serious three days after two ships, MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 111 collided off Mumbai, India. (The Times of India)
August 9, 2010, An anonymous transsexual is involved in a landmark case in Hong Kong to win the right to marry her boyfriend. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, More than 200 Mexican police suspend and hold their own commander at gunpoint in a Ciudad Juárez hotel over allegations of drugs-related corruption. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, American politician Maxine Waters is formally charged with three counts of breaking ethics rules. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox calls for the legalisation of drugs in Mexico. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Release of Order of the Black the eighth studio album by the metal band Black Label Society.
August 10, 2010, Release of 31 Minutes to Takeoff the debut album by American singer-songwriter Mike Posner
August 10, 2010, Release of Madden 2011 Video game
August 10, 2010,
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August 10, 2010, A United States military judge at Guantánamo Bay rules that confessions allegedly forced via torture from Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen they accuse of terrorism after his 2002 capture at the age of 15, count as evidence in his trial. (Aljazeera)
August 10, 2010, The United States and Vietnam celebrate the 15th anniversary of diplomatic relations by conducting what the United States describes as a "series of naval engagement activities" in the South China Sea, risking a disagreement with China. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The United Nations releases a report highlighting the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, A much-publicized project backed by Spain's government sells just 16 of the 2,000 electric cars it had intended so far in 2010. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia),
August 10, 2010, Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Iran digs mass graves in Khuzestan province, using psychological warfare in preparation for an invasion by the United States armed forces after the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929, and warns that Iran will attack American bases in the Middle East if American forces attack. (Voice of America)
August 10, 2010, The United Nations warns that the trial of Guantánamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr violates an International Criminal Court statute banning the trial for war crimes of those under the age of 18, saying this has not happened since World War II. (The Hindu)
August 1o, 2010, The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation rules same-sex marriages in Mexico City have to be recognised across Mexico. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Saudi Arabia permits the use of Blackberry devices for now, having previously considering banning them as they were unable to intercept and decrypt communications on that platform. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a $26 billion bill to help struggling states to meet budgets. (Reuters)
August 10, 2010, The World Health Organization announces that the H1N1 flu pandemic which killed 18,000 people worldwide is over. (CBC)
August 10, 2010, Archaeologists claim they have located Britain's oldest house near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Usain Bolt sustains a back injury that rules him out of all competition for the remainder of the year. (Jamaica Observer)
August 11, 2010,
August 11, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Food prices quadruple in Pakistan as conditions worsen and at least 1.4 million acres of crops are wiped out in Punjab by Pakistan's worst floods. (Aljazeera)
-The United Nations warns that there could be a second wave of deaths due to the devastation caused by the floods. (Mail & Guardian)
-Gordon Brown requests that the British public supply more money to be used to help those affected by the floods. (The Guardian)
-John Holmes, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator appeals for $460 million in funding to assist victims of the 2010 Pakistan floods. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, Muslims begin the holy month of Ramadan in which they are required to fast between sunrise and sunset. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI refuses the resignations of Irish bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field, who resigned at Christmas over criticism in the Murphy Report into child sexual abuse. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, The Buggles, known for "Video Killed the Radio Star", the first song played on MTV, announce they are to reunite for a one-off first ever live performance. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, A preliminary investigation blames driver error for many Toyota accidents. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, International stock markets slump in value in Asia, Europe and North America due to speculation brought about by comments from the Federal Reserve System of the United States. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, The Bank of England's governor Mervyn King admits the economy will not grow very much and inflation will stay higher for longer in the UK, describing as a "choppy recovery" being ahead over the next two years. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Fires are reported in Russia's nuclear-contaminated forests from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, amid concerns about the spread of radiation. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, Heavy rains threaten rescue efforts after a deadly mudslide in Gansu, China, as the death toll reaches 1,117. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, The Seychelles becomes the 112th country to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. (UN)
August 11, 2010, Fidel Castro agrees with former U.S. intelligence agents who say Israel is planning for a sudden attack on Iran, but states that Israel won't start the war as it would be outnumbered. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, The United States threatens to sell an anti-ballistic missile to Kuwait to counter alleged "current and future threats". (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Australopithecus afarensis evidently used stone tools for consumption of animal tissues as early as 3.39 million years ago, a study published in Nature finds. (Nature)
August 11, 2010, The jury is selected for Canadian Omar Khadr's war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. (The Globe and Mail)
August 11, 2010, Ibrahim al Qosi, a former cook and driver of Osama Bin Laden, is imprisoned for 14 years by a Guantánamo Bay military tribunal. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Michael Mara, a man dubbed the "Granddad Bandit" suspected of bank robbery in 13 US states is arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP via Google News)
August 11, 2010, Peruvian indigenous Amazon groups announce a plan to launch their own political party before next year's election; protecting the rainforest and indigenous rights are to be among its aims. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, American Republican politician Bill McCollum proposes stricter immigration legislation for the U.S. state of Florida, similar to that in the U.S. state of Arizona. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, President of FIFA Sepp Blatter says that FIFA is investigating reports that members of the North Korea national football team have been publicly humiliated and the coach Kim Jong-Hun sentenced to hard labour following a poor performance in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (Bloomberg)
August 12, 2010,
August 12, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The United Nations launches a major appeal for assistance dealing with the ongoing floods that have devastated Pakistan. (BBC)
-President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari makes his first visit to the affected areas. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Julian Assange, the director of Wikileaks, says that Wikileaks is planning to release the rest of Afghan War Diary, documents on the War in Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
August 12, 2010, Edward Whitacre, Jr. announces that he will resign as chief executive officer of General Motors effective from September and that he will be replaced by Daniel Akerson. (The Australian)
August 12, 2010, Greece's economy shrinks further. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, A deep magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Ecuador, southeast of Quito, with no deaths or serious damage reported. (Euronews)
August 12, 2010, Doctors in Moscow are encouraged to use "less frightening" causes of death as the mortality rate from heatstroke soars with fires burning across Russia. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the Vice-President of Iran describes inhabitants of the United Kingdom as "not human" and "a bunch of idiots run by a mafia". He also describes Australians as "a bunch of cattlemen" and says that Koreans "need to be slapped". (UK Press Association via Google News)
August 12, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker, after deciding for the plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, mandates that same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of California should resume on August 18. (The New York Times)
August 12, 2010, The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak with a display of up to 80 meteors an hour. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Three participants in the Einstein@Home program from the United States and Germany help to discover pulsar PSR J2007+2722. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Release of Eat Pray Love
August 13, 2010, Release of The Expendables
August 13, 2010, Release of Scott Pilgrim vs The World
August 13, 2010, Release of Tales from EarthSea
August 13, 2010, Release of Victoria II Video game
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August 13, 2010, The eurozone economy grows by 1% in the second quarter of 2010, with the German economy growing by 2.2%, its fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, TAM Airlines of Brazil and LAN Airlines of Chile announce plans for a merger that would make the biggest carrier in the region. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Fresh landslides and heavy rain in northwestern China leave at least 29 people dead and a further 10,500 trapped. (Reuters)
August 13, 2010, A forest fire grows in size near to Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov. (China Radio International)
August 13, 2010, A strong earthquake strikes near Guam. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs a bill increasing security along his country's border with Mexico. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Sierra Leone's human rights commission asks South Africa to return "blood diamonds" allegedly given to Naomi Campbell. (Montreal Gazette)
August 13, 2010, Lebanon cancels an Iranian made television series about Jesus after complaints from Christian leaders and the public. (Ya Libnan)
August 13, 2010, Trial of Omar Khadr: The lawyer of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who is the youngest Guantánamo Bay inmate, faints in court and is rushed to hospital. The trial subsequently gets suspended.(Aljazeera)
-A serving officer in the United States Army is removed from the jury after informing the court of his belief that the American-run prison camps in Guantánamo Bay ought to be shut down. (The Independent)
August 13, 2010, Scientists find evidence that 250 rare Caquetá Titi monkeys survive in Colombia. (CBS)
August 14, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank estimates that the 2010 Pakistan floods have caused $1 billion in damages to crops. (Los Angeles Times)
-The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani estimates that 20 million people have been affected by the floods. (BBC)
-The United Nations estimates that the relief efforts are yet to reach six million people. (Reuters)
-The UN confirms the first case of cholera in Mingora in the Swat District with many more cases suspected. (Voice of America)
August 14, 2010, Russia announces that it is slowly bringing the 2010 Russian wildfires under control. (RIA Novosti)
August 14, 2010, China announces a national day of mourning for the victims of mudslides in the northwest of the country, as the death toll rises to 1,239 people. (China Daily)
August 14, 2010, A rally takes place outside Google's offices in the U.S. state of California against a proposal to change online data treatment. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, The United Nations states Niger faces its worst hunger crisis in history, worse than 2005 when thousands of people were left to starve to death. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama states that America's "commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable" as he declares his support for plans to build a mosque in New York City. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, Obama goes for a swim while holidaying at Panama City in the U.S. state of Florida, allegedly to show that the Gulf of Mexico is safe for swimming following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (CNN)
August 14, 2010, Data from a study at Purdue University suggest that the 2010 Haiti Earthquake was caused by a previously unknown fault line, as opposed to the Enriquillo Fault Line as was initially presumed. (AP)
August 15, 2010,
August 15, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon visits Pakistan to inspect the relief effort for the 2010 Pakistan floods. (CNN)
August 15, 2010, 2010 Russian wildfires:
-Smog from the 2010 Russian wildfires returns to Moscow. (RIA Novosti)
-A ban on grain exports begins in an effort to reduce increases in the price of bread. (BBC)
August 15, 2010, Inspections of Israel's nuclear programme are urged by some concerned countries in a letter sent to Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. (Aljazeera)
August 15, 2010, A policeman hurls a shoe towards the Chief Minister for Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, during the Indian Independence Day function in Srinagar amid protests against Indian rule; 15 policemen are later suspended. (Indian Express)
August 15, 2010, General David Petraeus expresses doubt during an interview on American television that the United States will be able to definitely begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011. (BBC)
August 15, 2010, Lebanon opens a bank account to help fund the country's army after the United States suspended the country's assistance due to the 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, History Channel Special Presentation: Gates of Hell
August 16, 2010, Release of The Illusion of Safety is the second album released by London indie pop band The Hoosiers
August 16, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The devastating floods continue as a concern of the United Nations, with officials citing a lack of aid funding for six million people in urgent need of clean water. (New York Times)
-The United Nations states there is high risk for as many as 3.5 million children who may be struck down by diseases in the water. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, 2010 Russia Wildfires:
-Russia is battered by a severe storm following its recent heatwave, its hottest summer in recorded history. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai gives private security firms operating in that country four months to disband. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 16, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, recently sacked from his post in Afghanistan by the United States for speaking to Rolling Stone, is given a lecturing post at a major university in the United States. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, Politicians and intellectuals including Étienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly appeal to Nicolas Sarkozy that France repay €17 billion it took from Haiti in 1825 after the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804); they say the money is "morally, economically, and legally unassailable" in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, AIRES Flight 8250 crashes upon landing on San Andrés Island, Colombia; one death is reported. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, An explosion at a maternity hospital in Romania's capital Bucharest, kills at least 4 babies, while 2 pregnant women and 8 newborn infants sustain burns and other injuries in serious condition. (Reuters)
August 16, 2010, Easter Island:
-Community leaders in Easter Island threaten to secede from Chile, prompting the resignation of Governor Pedro Edmunds Paoa. (RNZI)
-Pro-independence activists reportedly sieze control of government buildings, a museum and a hotel located on land claimed by ethnic Polynesians. (Times Herald-Record)
-45 Chilean special forces have been sent to Easter Island to monitor events. (RNZI)
August 16, 2010, Malta buries former president Guido de Marco in a state funeral. (The Times)
August 16, 2010, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to give the £4.6 million advance and all royalties from his forthcoming memoirs, A Journey, to a sports centre for badly injured soldiers; pacifists and the families of soldiers killed under his leadership call it "blood money". (BBC)
August 16, 2010, Iran nuclear program:
-Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, says that Iran will build a third uranium enrichment plant next year. (Jerusalem Post)
-The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signs a new law binding the Government of Iran to pursue a target of refining uranium to 20 percent. (AFP via Google News)
August 16, 2010, Australia's (and the Southern Hemisphere's) first total artificial heart transplant occurs at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia. (AAP via Herald-Sun)
August 17, 2010, Release of The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden's upcoming fifteenth studio album
August 17, 2010, Release of Tomorrow Morning is a 2010 studio album by Eels—the third in a trilogy of concept albums including Hombre Lobo (2009) and End Times (2010).
August 17, 2010, Release of No Better Than This is album by John Mellencamp
August 17, 2010, Release of Kane & Lynch: Dog Days Video game
August 17, 2010, Hezbollah states it has passed on evidence said to implicate Israel in the 2005 assassination of then Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri. (BBC)
August 17, 2010, Archaeologists in Afghanistan discover the remains of a Buddhist site south of the capital Kabul. (Reuters Africa)
August 17, 2010, The Chilean military removes 1,000 protesters who had occupied government buildings, museums and a hotel on Easter Island. (Radio New Zealand International)
August 17, 2010, Same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of California, due to resume on Wednesday, is blocked by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals until it is decided whether a ban is constitutional. (San Francisco Chronicle)
August 17, 2010, A federal jury convicts former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on one count of lying to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. The jury is deadlocked on the other 23 charges. (Chicago Tribune)
August 17, 2010, Former Israeli soldier Eden Aberjil is criticized for her Facebook images of herself smiling with blindfolded and bound Palestinian prisoners. (BBC)
August 17, 2010, Chess champion Bobby Fischer is, as a result of a DNA test, deemed not to have fathered a 9-year-old girl in the Philippines. (BBC News)
August 18, 2010, Release of Vampires Suck
August 18, 2010, Release of Lara Croft: The Guardian of the Light Video game
August 18, 2010,
August 18, 2010,
August 18, 2010,
August 18, 2010,
August 18, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Saudi Arabia overtakes the United States as the main donor to the stricken country. (The Guardian)
-The United Nations says that flood relief aid to Pakistan is "arriving too slowly". (Aljazeera)
-The European Union pledges an additional $39 million and the Islamic Development Bank pledges $11.2 million. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Julian Assange of Wikileaks says the United States has approached the website to try to negotiate the release of a further 15,000 Afghanistan war documents which the military desires to keep secret; the United States denies this. (Aljazeera)
August 18, 2010, The United States ends combat operations in Iraq as its last combat brigade departs for Kuwait. (Al Jazeera)
August 18, 2010, The United States deploys troops along its border with Mexico by the order of President Barack Obama. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, The American Ballet Theatre is given permission by its country's President, Barack Obama, to perform in Cuba; it would be the first time in 50 years. American tourists are still banned by their government from travelling to Cuba. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Soul singer Erykah Badu is fined and punished by the city of Dallas, Texas, United States, after being convicted of disorderly conduct for removing her clothes and re-enacting a controversial scene from the country's history while filming a music video.
August 18, 2010, Rupert Murdoch provides $1 million to the U.S. Republican Party ahead of an important election in November, more than doubling the party's funds with one of the largest handouts by a media organisation; critics declare Fox News is not impartial. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Iceland lowers its interest rate to 7%. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Foxconn holds employee rallies in a bid to stem the recent huge increase in suicides by its employees. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, United States car maker General Motors files for an Initial Public Offering. (The New York Times)
August 18, 2010, Japanese carmaker Mazda recalls 215,000 vehicles in the United States and 11,000 vehicles in China due to power steering flaws. (CBS Marketwatch)
August 18, 2010, Scientists dispute the claim by the United States that all the oil has gone from the Gulf of Mexico. (The Guardian)
August 18, 2010, Scientists blame a peculiar double earthquake earthquake for the deadly tsunami responsible for the deaths of 192 people in the South Pacific last September, and described as "unlike anything seismologists have seen before". (BBC)
August 18, 2010, A court in Colombia declares as unconstitutional a controversial deal allowing the United States to freely use its military bases and says it will have to be redrafted; other Latin American countries have expressed concern that the United States is exerting excessive influence on the region. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Two Israeli groups launch a course in "Zionist editing" of the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia. (The Guardian)
August 18, 2010, David Paterson, Governor of the U.S. state of New York, is to discuss relocating the controversial Park51 Islamic community centre and mosque near World Trade Center site in New York City. (Al Arabiya)
August 18, 2010, Elections in Haiti:
-Haiti's final decision on its presidential election candidates is delayed until Friday due to eligibility issues; it had initially been expected yesterday. (BBC)
-Potential candidate Wyclef Jean goes into hiding after receiving mysterious death threats from an anonymous source. (The Guardian)
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The United Nations estimates that four million people have become homeless as a result of the 2010 Pakistan floods; Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, speaking in New York, states that the floods are a "slow-motion tsunami" as he calls for more funds to assist those affected. (Reuters)
August 19, 2010, South Africa deploys its army to deal with public sector workers striking in a bid to earn an increased wage; police shoot rubber bullets and water cannon into crowds outside a hospital in Soweto. At least five people have been killed so far during the strikes. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, The last United States brigade combat team leaves Iraq: there are still 56,000 members of the United States armed forces in the country. (CNN)
August 19, 2010, Winston Churchill's butterfly house is rebuilt. (The Independent)
August 19, 2010, The Oxford Dictionary of English adds new words and phrases to the language including vuvuzela, carbon capture and storage, toxic debt and quantitative easing. (ABC News Online)
August 19, 2010, Two groups in Israel begin pro-Zionist courses in editing Wikipedia. (The Guardian)
August 19, 2010, Foxconn states its intention to hire more workers following a rash of suicides among its workforce. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, An American egg company recalls 380 million products as outbreaks of salmonella poisoning spread across the United States. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, BP is accused by Transocean of trying to keep secret data required to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla, Spain; the bull is killed. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, Two passenger train carriages are swept into a river by floods in Sichuan, China. (Xinhua)
August 19, 2010, The United Nations issues a report stating that Israel restricts with live ammunition access to land used for farming and fishing by Palestinians, causing a loss of livelihood for tens of thousands of Palestinians. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, North Korea confirms the seizure of a South Korean fishing boat two weeks ago, with four South Korean and three Chinese sailors on board. (Yonhap)
August 19, 2010, A U.S. federal grand jury in Washington indicts former Major League Baseball superstar pitcher Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. (The New York Times)
August 20, 2010, Release of Nanny McPhee Returns
August 20, 2010, Release of Lottery Ticket
August 20, 2010, Release of Piranha
August 20, 2010, Release of The Switch
August 20, 2010, Release of Blood of the Nations Accept's twelfth studio album.
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean is reportedly omitted from the list of candidates for the Haitian presidential election. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-After initial hesitation, Pakistan ultimately accepts $5 million in aid from India; it subsequently calls it a "very welcome initiative". (The Times of India)
-The United Nations calls for more helicopters. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, For failure to deal with the recent wildfires the head of Russia's forestry agency is fired by Vladimir Putin and replaced with his deputy. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Carworkers in South Africa end their eight-day strike with a 10% pay deal. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Bolivia declares a state of emergency after approximately 25,000 forest fires spread across the country. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Gas leak in a hardware store in Santa Cruz, Chile produces a massive evacuation in the surrounding area. (Wikinews)
August 20, 2010, France continues deporting Roma as the Vatican condemns this act. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 20, 2010, Israel and Palestinians agree to resume peace talks on September 2. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010,President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects calls from the United Nations Security Council to stop all uranium enrichment but promises to stop high level enrichment if the country is assured of uranium for a research reactor. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010, Hilary Rodham Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, states that the United States "categorically disagrees" with the decision of the Scottish Government to release on compassionate grounds Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010, Remains of a 104-year-old woman's body are discovered in her son's backpack during a nationwide search in Japan for missing centenarians. It is thought they may have been there for a decade. (AFP)
August 20, 2010, Shining Path leaders Abimael Guzmán and Elena Iparraguirre marry at a maximum-security prison near Lima; they fought for their right to marry by going on hunger strike earlier this year. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, The Pentagon vows to prevent "internal threats" in the United States. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Britain warns Libya not to celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, released on compassionate grounds suffering terminal cancer and expected to live just three months. (Aljazeera)
August 20, 2010, The world's first solar-diesel power station opens in Marble Bar, Western Australia. (Herald Sun)
August 20, 2010, Scientists publish a report in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology about a method of predicting radioactive contamination damage on species near Chernobyl, from historical mutation rates particularly in mitochondrial DNA. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, A possible new approach for treating mood disorders, such as depression, suggested in study of ketamine activity with the nervous system, more specifically mTOR-dependent synapse formation. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 20, 2010, A study links the risk of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to pesticide exposure before birth. (MSNBC)
August 21, 2010,
August 21, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes more than $200 million in funds pledged towards the humanitarian effort following the 2010 Pakistan floods. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, A Vincent van Gogh painting - known as both Poppy Flowers and Vase with Flowers - is stolen from the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil art museum in Cairo, but is later said to have been recovered at Cairo Airport. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, More than 50,000 people are evacuated after the Yalu River floods in China; flooding is also reported in North Korea with the city of Sinuiju particularly affected. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, The charity Save the Children says the food crisis in Niger is being made worse by hoarders selling grain at higher prices than most people can afford. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, Relatives accuse authorities of not doing enough to save 33 miners who have spent the past 15 days trapped in a collapsed mine near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, The United States is hit by a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people now thought to be ill across the country due to bad eggs; poisoning is expected to increase in the coming weeks. (The Age)
August 21, 2010, Italy backs France's crackdown and expulsion of Roma from the country. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. (Reuters)
August 21, 2010, Amnesty International urges Saudi Arabia not to sever the spine of a man as punishment; the man has been convicted of paralyzing another man. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, Swedish prosecutors issue and then revoke an arrest warrant against Wikileaks spokesperson Julian Assange. Assange calls the incident "deeply disturbing" as Wikileaks prepares to release 15,000 documents which the U.S. military would like to keep secret. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean is formally declared unsuitable as a presidential candidate in Haiti's election. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Dutch sailor Laura Dekker starts her bid to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in Portimão, Portugal. (AP via KGW)
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Around 150,000 people flee their homes in Sindh as the devastating floods worsen in Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
-International pledges currently total $800 million, say government figures. (Aljazeera)
August 22, 2010, 5,000 people are evacuated in North Korea after the Yalu River on the border with China floods; 94,000 in China are also evacuated. (AFP)
August 21, 2010, All 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground are located alive after 17 days, though they have not yet been removed from the mine and remain trapped. (AP via Google News)
August 22, 2010, The Vincent van Gogh painting Poppy Flowers, missing but reportedly found yesterday, is now reported missing again after yesterday's find is proven false. (BBC)
August 22, 2010, Hundreds of people rally in relation to an Islamic cultural centre proposed for New York City, United States; opponents to the building blare Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." over loudspeakers. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Iran unveils a long range unmanned bomber, the Karrar drone their latest addition in a number of recently disclosed military hardware. (The Guardian)
August 21, 2010, South African trade unions state that a court injunction successfully sought by the government is intended to "intimidate" workers who are striking in the hope of receiving better pay. (BBC)
August 22, 2010, Supporters of Julian Assange of Wikileaks credit American intelligence agencies with recent smears against his character and express surprise that it has not happened sooner. (The Guardian)
August 22, 2010, Protesters against the Park51 project for an Islamic community center two blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center site gather in New York City. (CNN)
August 22, 2010, United States authorities give the green light to human trials of an Ebola drug said to have worked during tests on monkeys. (BBC)
August 23, 2010, Release of 7th Symphony the seventh studio album by the Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010, The United Nations describes the humanitarian situation caused by the 2010 Pakistan floods as critical. (BBC)
August 23, 2010, Flooding in China and North Korea:
-More than 250,000 people are evacuated due to floods across China and North Korea. (Al Jazeera)
-4 people die in floods in Dandong, China after flood waters cause the Yalu River to burst its banks. (AP via The Independent)
August 23, 2010, It is expected to take 120 days (4 months) to free the 33 miners trapped underground near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert after it is confirmed that they are all currently alive. (The Guardian)
August 23, 2010, The Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam is knocked down by a gust of heavy wind, breaking off about a meter above ground. (NOS)
August 23, 2010, Jimena Navarrete, representing Mexico, wins Miss Universe 2010. (AP via News OK)
August 23, 2010, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rules against a decision by President Barack Obama allowing the expansion of embryonic stem cell research claiming it breaks US law. (Bloomberg)
August 24, 2010, Release of Back to Me the third studio album by American singer Fantasia Barrino
August 24, 2010, Release of Teenage Dream the third studio album and second mainstream album by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry
August 24, 2010, Release of Mafia II Video game
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010, Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead. (AP)
August 24, 2010, Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger. (AFP)
August 24, 2010, Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (ABC News America)
August 24, 2010, The United States Department of Justice states that it will appeal a decision by United States federal judge Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research. (BBC)
August 24, 2010, Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl. (Telegraph)
August 24, 2010, John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona. (Fox News)
August 25, 2010,
August 25, 2010,
August 25, 2010, Archaeologists working at the Umm El-Kharga Oasis, 200km south of Cairo, discover a 3,500 year old ancient Egyptian settlement. (ABC News America)
August 25, 2010, Wikileaks publishes a CIA analysis claiming that the United States could be perceived as an "exporter of terrorism". (Washington Post)
August 25, 2010, Mexican Naval Infantry find 72 corpses at a remote ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, near the border with the US state of Texas. The victims were economic migrants from Central America and South America believed to be murdered by a drug cartel. (Reuters)
August 25, 2010, A solar system is discovered for the star HD 10180 including a possible planet 1.4 times the size of the Earth. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Pakistan orders nearly half a million people in towns including Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro and Daro threatened by floods to evacuate. (AFP via Google News)-
-The Pakistan Taliban threatens to kidnap foreign aid workers. (The Telegraph)
August 26, 2010, The United States Food and Drug Administration finds that feed given to hens at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farm led to a salmonella outbreak in eggs. (CNN)
August 26, 2010, German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010, Former International Atomic Energy Agency director Olli Heinonen claims that Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for one to two nuclear bombs. (Haaretz)
August 26, 2010, Israel asks Germany to arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp. (Haaretz)
August 26, 2010, An independent counsel finds that the Governor of New York David Paterson gave misleading evidence about intending to pay for free tickets that he obtained to last year's baseball world series and refers the issue to the Albany District Attorney for possible prosecution for perjury. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010, Heavy rains wash red argillite sediment from old sedimentary rock into a river at Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, causing Cameron Falls to turn red. (Daily Mail)
August 27, 2010, Release of The Last Exorcism
August 27, 2010, Release of Takers
August 27, 2010, Release of Going The Distance
August 27, 2010, Release of Light Me Up the debut album from American alternative rock band The Pretty Reckless
August 27, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The Indus River breaches its banks near the southern Pakistan city of Thatta forcing the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. (ABC Online and AFP)
August 27, 2010,
August 27, 2010, Ben Bernanke, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, says the United States Federal Reserve is prepared to act against the prospects of deflation but expects economic growth to continue during the latter half of 2010 "albeit at a relatively modest pace." (New York Times)
August 27, 2010,
August 27, 2010, A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes northern Iran, killing two people. (WireUpdate)
August 27, 2010, France rejects criticism from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination over its Roma removal strategy. (Xinhua)
August 27, 2010, Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Apple Computer, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples Inc., Yahoo and YouTube. (NYT)
August 27, 2010, A team of scientists, led by Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool, releases draft sequences of the wheat genome. (BBC)
August 27, 2010, Arrowheads found in the Sibudu Cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa show that humans were using bow and arrows 64000 years ago. (BBC)
August 27, 2010, Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category 4, becoming the first major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (MSNBC)
August 28, 2010,
August 28, 2010, A large gathering of people attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (USA Today)
August 28, 2010, Cuba eases property laws, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years. (AP)
August 28, 2010, Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana is sentenced in absentia to life in prison with hard labour for ordering the killing of opposition supporters. (BBC)
August 29, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-Floods worsen in Pakistan as more towns are threatened. (Press TV)
August 29, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama pledges to restore the Gulf Coast on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in a speech in New Orleans. (Reuters via Toronto Sun)
August 29, 2010, The Catholic Church admits that during a meeting in April Godfried Danneels, the retired Catholic leader in Belgium, advised a person who had experienced abuse to remain secret until his abuser Roger Vangheluwe, the Bishop of Brugge, retired. (BBC)
August 29, 2010, 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards:
-Mad Men wins the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. (Los Angeles Times)
August 29, 2010, 1 person dies as the Sumatran volcano Sinabung prompts a red alert by erupting for the first time in over 400 years and leads to Indonesia evacuating thousands of people. (ABC News Online)
August 29, 2010, The Palestinian Authority launches a United States funded advertising campaign supporting peace talks with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)
August 30, 2010,
August 30, 2010,
August 30, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The historic city of Thatta is preserved by troops and volunteers fighting severe floodwaters in Pakistan; it had been thought of as being at great risk. (AP via Google News)
-More than 175,000 people flee, as the city virtually empties. (Aljazeera)
August 30, 2010, Chile mining accident:
-The 33 miners involved in the accident make telephone contact with their families for the first time in 3 weeks. (BBC)
- Rescuers are to begin drilling to rescue the trapped miners. (Santiago Times)
August 30, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
-Category 4 Hurricane Earl takes aim at the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico with winds of up to 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) prompting hurricane warnings. (msnbc.com)
-Tropical Storm Fiona forms in the central Atlantic Ocean with the potential to become the fourth hurricane of the season. (Huffington Post)
August 30, 2010, Alain "Spiderman" Robert climbs another building barehanded, this time in Sydney; he is later arrested. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 30, 2010,Indonesia's Mount Sinabung continues to erupt with 21,000 people now evacuated from nearby areas of north Sumatra and two people dead. (AP via Fox News)
August 30, 2010, 9 people die and 480 are rescued following a fire at a retirement home in the Tver region of Russia. (CNN)
August 30, 2010, The United States begins patrolling with troops its border with Mexico. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, China and North Korea acknowledge the leader of North Korea Kim Jong Il visited China recently where he met with the President of China Hu Jintao. (UK Press Association via Google News)
August 30, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama freezes the assets of three North Korean organisations and one individual in response to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. North Korea has denied it is responsible. (The Guardian)
August 30, 2010, More than 100 Russian skinheads attack a music festival in central Russia, injuring at least 10 people and leaving one 14-year-old girl dead. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, 3,200 police officers have been fired so far this year by Mexico's federal police force due to extracurricular activities. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, The Indian government decides not to ban the controversial Blackberry devices for at least two months after the North American manufacturer allows "lawful access" to encrypted data it had been feared would be a security threat. (Aljazeera)
August 30, 2010, Talks begin between the government and workers striking for better conditions in South Africa in the third week of a conflict which has seen troops deployed. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues issues a report criticizing the International Panel on Climate Change for its unwillingness to be open to alternative views on climate change and lack of transparency on potential conflicts of interest. (Aljazeera)
August 31, 2010, Release of Time for Annihilation...On the Record and On the Road the seventh studio album by rock band Papa Roach
August 31, 2010, Release of Asylum the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed
August 31, 2010, Release of Something for the Rest of Us the ninth studio album by Buffalo-based rock band, the Goo Goo Dolls
August 31, 2010, Release of Metroid: Other M Video game
August 1, 2010,
August 1, 2010,
August 1, 2010,
August 1, 2010,
August 1, 2010, The United Arab Emirates will suspend some BlackBerry mobile services from October amid concerns that data from some equipment is being exported offshore and managed by foreign organisations. Saudi Arabia plans to suspend some services later this month. (BBC)
August 1, 2010, Thousands of troops are mobilised in Russia to tackle forest fires spreading in 17 regions, the worst in decades, as the death toll rises to 30. (Voice of Russia)
August 1, 2010, Pakistan floods:
-The death toll from floods in northwestern Pakistan exceeds 1,000. (Aljazeera)
-The United States pledges $10 million in foreign aid to Pakistan to help the nation respond. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 1, 2010, Scientists announce the discovery of the world's first active undersea river, in the Black Sea. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 2, 2010, Release of The Suburbs is third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire
August 2, 2010,
August 2, 2010,
August 2, 2010, The United States House of Representatives ethics committee charges California Democrat Maxine Waters with breaking ethics rules. (USA Today)
August 2, 2010, The Government of the United States claims that nearly 5 million barrels of oil have spilt from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest accidental maritime oil spill ever.(New York Times)
August 2, 2010, An antiques dealer is imprisoned for handling a copy of the first folio by poet and playwright William Shakespeare, though cleared of actually stealing it, in the UK. (BBC)
August 2, 2010, The Census of Marine Life is released after 10 years of study of the worlds oceans showing that there are 230,000 species of animal living there. (Fox News)
August 3, 2010, Release of All Night Long the fifth studio album by the American hard rock band Buckcherry
August 3, 2010,
August 3, 2010,
August 3, 2010,
August 3, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-More than three million people are dislocated and 1,500 are now dead as Pakistan's worst floods flow to the south. (Aljazeera)
-Rescue attempts are underway. (BBC)
-The Warsak Dam near Peshawar, Pakistan's third-largest dam, is threatened by rising water levels. (The Guardian)
-The United States Army sends four CH-47 Chinook helicopters and two UH-60 Blackhawks helicopters to help with the relief effort. (AFP via Google)
August 3, 2010, The daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston once again call off their engagement after it's revealed that Johnston fathered a child with another woman. (ABC)
August 3, 2010, Nearly £2 billion of savings are revealed to have been removed from the UK's nationalised Northern Rock bank. (The Guardian)
August 3, 2010, Mexicana de Aviación, Mexico's biggest airline, files for bankruptcy. (BBC)
August 3, 2010, President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari arrives in the United Kingdom upon a five-day visit as the two countries disagree over David Cameron's remarks on "the export of terror". (Aljazeera)
August 3, 2010, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol and South Africa's top police officer, is sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges. (AP via GaeaTimes)
August 3, 2010, Saudi Arabia announces it is to commence a ban on the "messenger function" on Blackberry handsets from Friday due to security concerns over the Research In Motion (RIM) technological device. (BBC)
August 3, 2010, The first major Earth-directed solar eruption in a decade will generate aurorae visible in non-polar areas from early August 4th to August 5th. (Foxnews.com)
August 4, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean confirms he is to announce plans to stand for the presidency in Haiti. (BBC)
August 4, 2010,
August 4, 2010,
August 4, 2010,
August 4, 2010,
August 4, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Nearly 1 million people are estimated to have been left homeless during the ongoing severe floods in Pakistan. (The Guardian)
-Thousands of people flee their homes in Punjab due to flood fears. (Aljazeera)
-Rain falls, causing more damage. (BBC)
-The United Nations World Food Programme warns that parts of northwest Pakistan are facing urgent food shortages. (Sky News)
-The Disasters Emergency Committee launches its appeal for donations. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, Summer 2010 Russian wildfires:
-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev interrupts his summer holiday to return and fire several top military officials after wildfires destroy a naval base outside Moscow. (BBC) (Aljazeera)
-At a meeting of the national Security Council Medvedev states: "By no means you may allow anarchy [...] You must not let the situation go out of local authorities' control". (Xinhua)
August 4, 2010, Officials say more than 28,000 pple have died in Mexican drug violence since December 2006, thousands more than previously thought. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, A man found dead in forest near Trongsa is thought to have been killed by a tiger, possibly Bhutan's first such death in 15 years. (BBC)
August 4, 2010, A vault containing non-words - those rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary - is uncovered. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 4, 2010, The confirmed death toll from flooding in China rises above 1,000. (Associated Press)
August 4, 2010, Three barns collapse at the largest egg farm in the U.S. state of Ohio in Croton, with at least one worker dead. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
August 4, 2010, Admiral Thad Allen, the man in charge of the US Government's efforts to clear up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has given clearance for BP to pour cement into its Gulf of Mexico oil well. (Reuters)
August 4, 2010, Vaughn R. Walker, the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, rules in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California is unconstitutional. (Los Angeles Times)
August 4, 2010, Fidel Castro is expected to address the Cuban national assembly on Saturday for the first time in four years; his speech is anticipated to talk of a possible nuclear war involving the United States, Israel and Iran. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 4, 2010, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees becomes the seventh player in the history of Major League Baseball to hit 600 home runs. (The New York Times)
August 5, 2010, The United Nations states more than four million people are now affected by the most severe flooding in Pakistan's history, while the death toll rises to at least 1,600. (Aljazeera)
August 5, 2010, The United States Senate confirms the nomination of Elena Kagan as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (CNN)
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010, Newly released files, which can be freely downloaded for the next month, show that the British government felt threatened by UFOs in the 1950s and that Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the cover-up of one unexplained encounter. (BBC)
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010, Model Naomi Campbell gives evidence that she received several "dirty looking stones" after meeting the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in his trial at the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone. (The Guardian)
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010,
August 5, 2010, South Korea begins a huge anti-submarine exercise in the Yellow Sea, near the disputed maritime border, in what it sees as a show of strength against North Korea and "to be fully prepared for combat"; North Korea disapproves of the exercise. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, A piano which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is thought to have played is discovered in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg. (The Age)
August 5, 2010, BP is authorized to pump cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site after a successful "static kill" procedure with drilling mud.
August 5, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron commits another gaffe - with an erroneous statement that Iran possesses a nuclear weapon - just after apologising to an angered pensioner for his previous gaffe about the Battle of Britain. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, Reported Japanese child abuse reaches its highest level since records were first taken a decade ago. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, Brazilian police discover a Rio de Janeiro prison is being run by some of the inmates; a guard is arrested. (BBC)
August 5, 2010, The U.S. Government charges 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline" sending money and fighters from the United States to the Somalian insurgency group Al-Shabaab. (AP via Google News)
August 5, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean formally registers to stand for the presidency of Haiti. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Release of The Other Guys
August 6, 2010, Release of Step Up
August 6, 2010, Release of The Disappearance of Alice Creed
August 6, 2010, Release of Flipped
August 6, 2010, Release of Middle Men
August 6, 2010, Release of Twelve
August 6, 2010, At least 12 million people are now affected by the worst floods in the history of Pakistan with 1,600 people being killed and 650,000 homes being destroyed. (Aljazeera)
August 6, 2010,
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August 6, 2010, Mark Hurd resigns as chief executive officer of computer company Hewlett-Packard following investigation of a sexual harassment claim. (AP via ABC America)
August 6, 2010, NATO admits it killed at least 32 Afghan civilians in Nangarhar Province as a result of air strikes on August 5, including 26 people in two incidents in one area. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 6, 2010, Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia, bans export of flour and wheat from August 15 to December 31 due to the worst drought in Russian history. (Reuters)
August 6, 2010, A 22-year-old Chinese woman falls from a building, becoming the thirteenth Foxconn employee to die in a spate of deaths at the company. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Rescue efforts continue to save 34 people trapped in a mine after a rock collapse near Copiapó. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, China suspends traffic on the Yalu River and evacuates more than 40,000 people from Dandong over fears of flooding amid unprecedented levels of rainfall. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Smoke from Russian wildfires covers famous landmarks and delays more than 140 flights at Moscow airports while official figures indicate that 14,340 people died in Moscow during July 2010; 4,824 more than the same month last year. (Sky News)
August 6, 2010, Mount Karangetang, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Siau, erupts. (AP via Seattle PI)
August 6, 2010, Hiroshima marks the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack; United States representatives attend in an official capacity for the first time. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, Saudi Arabia's ban of online functions on BlackBerry mobile phones is implemented. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, A woman is arrested following the discovery of baby corpses stored inside four suitcases in her attic in Nij Beets, Friesland. (BBC)
August 6, 2010, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger files a motion calling for same-sex marriages to resume in the U.S. state immediately. (AFP via The Age)
August 6, 2010, The Pentagon makes a demand to Wikileaks that it remove its collection of classified military documents from the internet. (Aljazeera)
August 6, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski is officially sworn in as President of Poland, following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash in April. (Aljazeera)
August 6, 2010, Usain Bolt is professionally defeated for only the second time in the 100 metres by Tyson Gay in Stockholm. (BBC Sport)
August 7, 2010,
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August 7, 2010, United States astronauts Douglas H. Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson fail on the International Space Station (ISS)'s longest spacewalk and sixth longest spacewalk to repair a cooling system, which means two more spacewalks are now required. (BBC)
August 7, 2010, The Gulf of Mexico seafood industry starts to reopen after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP via News Times)
August 7, 2010, Pakistan issues a red alert as the worst floods in its history move south towards Sindh, with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, at least 10,000 cows killed and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani appealing on television for help from the international community. (BBC)
August 7, 2010, Pollution hits record levels in Moscow as large wildfires continue to devastate Russia. (Aljazeera)
August 7, 2010, Efforts intensify to rescue at least 34 people trapped in a mine near Copiapó, Chile, in the Atacama Desert. (Aljazeera)
August 7, 2010, An oil spill stretching at least two miles long occurs in the Arabian Sea offshore Mumbai, India, after a vessel from Panama collides with another vessel from St. Kitts. The Panamanian ship was carrying 2,662 tons of oil, 283 tons of diesel and 88,040 liters of lube oil when it became grounded and started to leak. (CNN)
August 7, 2010, A poll of six countries, taken by the Brookings Institution, an American think tank, indicates that the popularity of the President of the United States Barack Obama has dropped significantly in the Arab World since "A New Beginning". (The Irish Times)
August 7, 2010, Saudi Arabia decides it will not ban Blackberry instant messanging after agreeing a deal to iron out security fears. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 8, 2010, Fidel Castro delivers a short speech to the Cuban Parliament to warn about the risk of a nuclear war between the United States and Iran, accusing Barack Obama of provoking conflict with Iran and North Korea and urging him to prevent such a conflict. (Aljazeera)
August 8, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Torrential rains worsen the ongoing flood crisis across Pakistan, which has so far affected 14 million people, as rescue helicopters are forced to stay on the ground in the northwest of the country. (Aljazeera)
-Landslips wreak further destruction in Pakistan: 28 corpses retrieved so far in 2 villages. (BBC)
-Food prices soar in Pakistan as the floods destroy one million acres of crops so far. (The Express Tribune)
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August 8, 2010, Mark Papermaster, who engineered the Apple Inc. iPhone, leaves the company due to the antenna issues associated with the iPhone 4. (Aljazeera)
August 8, 2010, Ads website Craigslist faces allegations of "pay to rape" underage prostitution after a letter is published in The Washington Post. (The Guardian)
August 8, 2010, It is revealed that Sarah, Duchess of York faces possible bankruptcy, which would make her the first Royal to suffer this. (The Guardian)
August 8, 2010, Several countries evacuate staff from their embassies in Moscow due to the 2010 Russian wildfires including Germany, Austria, Poland and Canada, as Russia experiences its hottest year on record. (RIA Novosti)
August 8, 2010, There is a further cave-in at the mine near Copiapó, Chile where people have been working since Thursday to rescue 34 miners trapped underground; work is currently suspended in an incident that is rare in that part of the world. (BBC)
August 8, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Abkhazia on his first visit there since the territory declared independence from Georgia two years ago. (RIA Novosti)
August 8, 2010, President of Mexico Felipe Calderón calls for a debate on the legalization of drugs. (The Observer)
August 8, 2010, Elena Kagan is sworn in as the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. (The New York Times)
August 9, 2010, The United Nations describes the ongoing 2010 Pakistan floods as the worst natural disaster in years - worse than the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake - as the number of people affected reaches an estimated 15 million and the waters and landslides continue to swamp the country. (Aljazeera)
August 9, 2010, A de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter seaplane crashes near Aleknagik, Alaska, killing five people, including former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and O'Keefe's son were aboard the plane, but survived. (MarketWatch)
August 9, 2010, A policy proposal by Google and Verizon regarding the way internet service is regulated comes under criticism from groups promoting net neutrality. (New York Times)
August 9, 2010, Commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki:
-Japan marks the 65th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The United States, which perpetrated the attack, upsets survivors by not sending an ambassador due to "scheduling reasons" this time, though France and the UK send representatives for the first time. (China Daily)
-Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue calls for the international elimination of nuclear weapons before representatives of a record 32 countries. (Japan Times)
August 9, 2010, Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue calls for the international elimination of nuclear weapons before representatives of a record 32 countries. (Japan Times)
August 9, 2010, Honda recalls more than 384,000 vehicles due to ignition difficulties. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, The death toll in China following the recent mudslide rises to 337. 1,148 people are now missing. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, 33 miners are still trapped without any contact underground after days of rescue efforts at a collapsed mine near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, Mumbai oil spill: An oil spill becomes more serious three days after two ships, MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 111 collided off Mumbai, India. (The Times of India)
August 9, 2010, An anonymous transsexual is involved in a landmark case in Hong Kong to win the right to marry her boyfriend. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, More than 200 Mexican police suspend and hold their own commander at gunpoint in a Ciudad Juárez hotel over allegations of drugs-related corruption. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, American politician Maxine Waters is formally charged with three counts of breaking ethics rules. (BBC)
August 9, 2010, Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox calls for the legalisation of drugs in Mexico. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Release of Order of the Black the eighth studio album by the metal band Black Label Society.
August 10, 2010, Release of 31 Minutes to Takeoff the debut album by American singer-songwriter Mike Posner
August 10, 2010, Release of Madden 2011 Video game
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August 10, 2010, A United States military judge at Guantánamo Bay rules that confessions allegedly forced via torture from Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen they accuse of terrorism after his 2002 capture at the age of 15, count as evidence in his trial. (Aljazeera)
August 10, 2010, The United States and Vietnam celebrate the 15th anniversary of diplomatic relations by conducting what the United States describes as a "series of naval engagement activities" in the South China Sea, risking a disagreement with China. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The United Nations releases a report highlighting the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, A much-publicized project backed by Spain's government sells just 16 of the 2,000 electric cars it had intended so far in 2010. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia),
August 10, 2010, Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Iran digs mass graves in Khuzestan province, using psychological warfare in preparation for an invasion by the United States armed forces after the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929, and warns that Iran will attack American bases in the Middle East if American forces attack. (Voice of America)
August 10, 2010, The United Nations warns that the trial of Guantánamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr violates an International Criminal Court statute banning the trial for war crimes of those under the age of 18, saying this has not happened since World War II. (The Hindu)
August 1o, 2010, The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation rules same-sex marriages in Mexico City have to be recognised across Mexico. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Saudi Arabia permits the use of Blackberry devices for now, having previously considering banning them as they were unable to intercept and decrypt communications on that platform. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a $26 billion bill to help struggling states to meet budgets. (Reuters)
August 10, 2010, The World Health Organization announces that the H1N1 flu pandemic which killed 18,000 people worldwide is over. (CBC)
August 10, 2010, Archaeologists claim they have located Britain's oldest house near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. (BBC)
August 10, 2010, Usain Bolt sustains a back injury that rules him out of all competition for the remainder of the year. (Jamaica Observer)
August 11, 2010,
August 11, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Food prices quadruple in Pakistan as conditions worsen and at least 1.4 million acres of crops are wiped out in Punjab by Pakistan's worst floods. (Aljazeera)
-The United Nations warns that there could be a second wave of deaths due to the devastation caused by the floods. (Mail & Guardian)
-Gordon Brown requests that the British public supply more money to be used to help those affected by the floods. (The Guardian)
-John Holmes, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator appeals for $460 million in funding to assist victims of the 2010 Pakistan floods. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, Muslims begin the holy month of Ramadan in which they are required to fast between sunrise and sunset. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI refuses the resignations of Irish bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field, who resigned at Christmas over criticism in the Murphy Report into child sexual abuse. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, The Buggles, known for "Video Killed the Radio Star", the first song played on MTV, announce they are to reunite for a one-off first ever live performance. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, A preliminary investigation blames driver error for many Toyota accidents. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, International stock markets slump in value in Asia, Europe and North America due to speculation brought about by comments from the Federal Reserve System of the United States. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, The Bank of England's governor Mervyn King admits the economy will not grow very much and inflation will stay higher for longer in the UK, describing as a "choppy recovery" being ahead over the next two years. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Fires are reported in Russia's nuclear-contaminated forests from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, amid concerns about the spread of radiation. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, Heavy rains threaten rescue efforts after a deadly mudslide in Gansu, China, as the death toll reaches 1,117. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, The Seychelles becomes the 112th country to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. (UN)
August 11, 2010, Fidel Castro agrees with former U.S. intelligence agents who say Israel is planning for a sudden attack on Iran, but states that Israel won't start the war as it would be outnumbered. (Xinhua)
August 11, 2010, The United States threatens to sell an anti-ballistic missile to Kuwait to counter alleged "current and future threats". (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Australopithecus afarensis evidently used stone tools for consumption of animal tissues as early as 3.39 million years ago, a study published in Nature finds. (Nature)
August 11, 2010, The jury is selected for Canadian Omar Khadr's war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. (The Globe and Mail)
August 11, 2010, Ibrahim al Qosi, a former cook and driver of Osama Bin Laden, is imprisoned for 14 years by a Guantánamo Bay military tribunal. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, Michael Mara, a man dubbed the "Granddad Bandit" suspected of bank robbery in 13 US states is arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP via Google News)
August 11, 2010, Peruvian indigenous Amazon groups announce a plan to launch their own political party before next year's election; protecting the rainforest and indigenous rights are to be among its aims. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, American Republican politician Bill McCollum proposes stricter immigration legislation for the U.S. state of Florida, similar to that in the U.S. state of Arizona. (BBC)
August 11, 2010, President of FIFA Sepp Blatter says that FIFA is investigating reports that members of the North Korea national football team have been publicly humiliated and the coach Kim Jong-Hun sentenced to hard labour following a poor performance in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (Bloomberg)
August 12, 2010,
August 12, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The United Nations launches a major appeal for assistance dealing with the ongoing floods that have devastated Pakistan. (BBC)
-President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari makes his first visit to the affected areas. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Julian Assange, the director of Wikileaks, says that Wikileaks is planning to release the rest of Afghan War Diary, documents on the War in Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
August 12, 2010, Edward Whitacre, Jr. announces that he will resign as chief executive officer of General Motors effective from September and that he will be replaced by Daniel Akerson. (The Australian)
August 12, 2010, Greece's economy shrinks further. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, A deep magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Ecuador, southeast of Quito, with no deaths or serious damage reported. (Euronews)
August 12, 2010, Doctors in Moscow are encouraged to use "less frightening" causes of death as the mortality rate from heatstroke soars with fires burning across Russia. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the Vice-President of Iran describes inhabitants of the United Kingdom as "not human" and "a bunch of idiots run by a mafia". He also describes Australians as "a bunch of cattlemen" and says that Koreans "need to be slapped". (UK Press Association via Google News)
August 12, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker, after deciding for the plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, mandates that same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of California should resume on August 18. (The New York Times)
August 12, 2010, The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak with a display of up to 80 meteors an hour. (BBC)
August 12, 2010, Three participants in the Einstein@Home program from the United States and Germany help to discover pulsar PSR J2007+2722. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Release of Eat Pray Love
August 13, 2010, Release of The Expendables
August 13, 2010, Release of Scott Pilgrim vs The World
August 13, 2010, Release of Tales from EarthSea
August 13, 2010, Release of Victoria II Video game
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August 13, 2010, The eurozone economy grows by 1% in the second quarter of 2010, with the German economy growing by 2.2%, its fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, TAM Airlines of Brazil and LAN Airlines of Chile announce plans for a merger that would make the biggest carrier in the region. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Fresh landslides and heavy rain in northwestern China leave at least 29 people dead and a further 10,500 trapped. (Reuters)
August 13, 2010, A forest fire grows in size near to Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov. (China Radio International)
August 13, 2010, A strong earthquake strikes near Guam. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs a bill increasing security along his country's border with Mexico. (BBC)
August 13, 2010, Sierra Leone's human rights commission asks South Africa to return "blood diamonds" allegedly given to Naomi Campbell. (Montreal Gazette)
August 13, 2010, Lebanon cancels an Iranian made television series about Jesus after complaints from Christian leaders and the public. (Ya Libnan)
August 13, 2010, Trial of Omar Khadr: The lawyer of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who is the youngest Guantánamo Bay inmate, faints in court and is rushed to hospital. The trial subsequently gets suspended.(Aljazeera)
-A serving officer in the United States Army is removed from the jury after informing the court of his belief that the American-run prison camps in Guantánamo Bay ought to be shut down. (The Independent)
August 13, 2010, Scientists find evidence that 250 rare Caquetá Titi monkeys survive in Colombia. (CBS)
August 14, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank estimates that the 2010 Pakistan floods have caused $1 billion in damages to crops. (Los Angeles Times)
-The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani estimates that 20 million people have been affected by the floods. (BBC)
-The United Nations estimates that the relief efforts are yet to reach six million people. (Reuters)
-The UN confirms the first case of cholera in Mingora in the Swat District with many more cases suspected. (Voice of America)
August 14, 2010, Russia announces that it is slowly bringing the 2010 Russian wildfires under control. (RIA Novosti)
August 14, 2010, China announces a national day of mourning for the victims of mudslides in the northwest of the country, as the death toll rises to 1,239 people. (China Daily)
August 14, 2010, A rally takes place outside Google's offices in the U.S. state of California against a proposal to change online data treatment. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, The United Nations states Niger faces its worst hunger crisis in history, worse than 2005 when thousands of people were left to starve to death. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama states that America's "commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable" as he declares his support for plans to build a mosque in New York City. (BBC)
August 14, 2010, Obama goes for a swim while holidaying at Panama City in the U.S. state of Florida, allegedly to show that the Gulf of Mexico is safe for swimming following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (CNN)
August 14, 2010, Data from a study at Purdue University suggest that the 2010 Haiti Earthquake was caused by a previously unknown fault line, as opposed to the Enriquillo Fault Line as was initially presumed. (AP)
August 15, 2010,
August 15, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon visits Pakistan to inspect the relief effort for the 2010 Pakistan floods. (CNN)
August 15, 2010, 2010 Russian wildfires:
-Smog from the 2010 Russian wildfires returns to Moscow. (RIA Novosti)
-A ban on grain exports begins in an effort to reduce increases in the price of bread. (BBC)
August 15, 2010, Inspections of Israel's nuclear programme are urged by some concerned countries in a letter sent to Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. (Aljazeera)
August 15, 2010, A policeman hurls a shoe towards the Chief Minister for Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, during the Indian Independence Day function in Srinagar amid protests against Indian rule; 15 policemen are later suspended. (Indian Express)
August 15, 2010, General David Petraeus expresses doubt during an interview on American television that the United States will be able to definitely begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011. (BBC)
August 15, 2010, Lebanon opens a bank account to help fund the country's army after the United States suspended the country's assistance due to the 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, History Channel Special Presentation: Gates of Hell
August 16, 2010, Release of The Illusion of Safety is the second album released by London indie pop band The Hoosiers
August 16, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The devastating floods continue as a concern of the United Nations, with officials citing a lack of aid funding for six million people in urgent need of clean water. (New York Times)
-The United Nations states there is high risk for as many as 3.5 million children who may be struck down by diseases in the water. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, 2010 Russia Wildfires:
-Russia is battered by a severe storm following its recent heatwave, its hottest summer in recorded history. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai gives private security firms operating in that country four months to disband. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 16, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, recently sacked from his post in Afghanistan by the United States for speaking to Rolling Stone, is given a lecturing post at a major university in the United States. (BBC)
August 16, 2010, Politicians and intellectuals including Étienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly appeal to Nicolas Sarkozy that France repay €17 billion it took from Haiti in 1825 after the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804); they say the money is "morally, economically, and legally unassailable" in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, AIRES Flight 8250 crashes upon landing on San Andrés Island, Colombia; one death is reported. (Aljazeera)
August 16, 2010, An explosion at a maternity hospital in Romania's capital Bucharest, kills at least 4 babies, while 2 pregnant women and 8 newborn infants sustain burns and other injuries in serious condition. (Reuters)
August 16, 2010, Easter Island:
-Community leaders in Easter Island threaten to secede from Chile, prompting the resignation of Governor Pedro Edmunds Paoa. (RNZI)
-Pro-independence activists reportedly sieze control of government buildings, a museum and a hotel located on land claimed by ethnic Polynesians. (Times Herald-Record)
-45 Chilean special forces have been sent to Easter Island to monitor events. (RNZI)
August 16, 2010, Malta buries former president Guido de Marco in a state funeral. (The Times)
August 16, 2010, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to give the £4.6 million advance and all royalties from his forthcoming memoirs, A Journey, to a sports centre for badly injured soldiers; pacifists and the families of soldiers killed under his leadership call it "blood money". (BBC)
August 16, 2010, Iran nuclear program:
-Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, says that Iran will build a third uranium enrichment plant next year. (Jerusalem Post)
-The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signs a new law binding the Government of Iran to pursue a target of refining uranium to 20 percent. (AFP via Google News)
August 16, 2010, Australia's (and the Southern Hemisphere's) first total artificial heart transplant occurs at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia. (AAP via Herald-Sun)
August 17, 2010, Release of The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden's upcoming fifteenth studio album
August 17, 2010, Release of Tomorrow Morning is a 2010 studio album by Eels—the third in a trilogy of concept albums including Hombre Lobo (2009) and End Times (2010).
August 17, 2010, Release of No Better Than This is album by John Mellencamp
August 17, 2010, Release of Kane & Lynch: Dog Days Video game
August 17, 2010, Hezbollah states it has passed on evidence said to implicate Israel in the 2005 assassination of then Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri. (BBC)
August 17, 2010, Archaeologists in Afghanistan discover the remains of a Buddhist site south of the capital Kabul. (Reuters Africa)
August 17, 2010, The Chilean military removes 1,000 protesters who had occupied government buildings, museums and a hotel on Easter Island. (Radio New Zealand International)
August 17, 2010, Same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of California, due to resume on Wednesday, is blocked by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals until it is decided whether a ban is constitutional. (San Francisco Chronicle)
August 17, 2010, A federal jury convicts former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on one count of lying to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. The jury is deadlocked on the other 23 charges. (Chicago Tribune)
August 17, 2010, Former Israeli soldier Eden Aberjil is criticized for her Facebook images of herself smiling with blindfolded and bound Palestinian prisoners. (BBC)
August 17, 2010, Chess champion Bobby Fischer is, as a result of a DNA test, deemed not to have fathered a 9-year-old girl in the Philippines. (BBC News)
August 18, 2010, Release of Vampires Suck
August 18, 2010, Release of Lara Croft: The Guardian of the Light Video game
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August 18, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Saudi Arabia overtakes the United States as the main donor to the stricken country. (The Guardian)
-The United Nations says that flood relief aid to Pakistan is "arriving too slowly". (Aljazeera)
-The European Union pledges an additional $39 million and the Islamic Development Bank pledges $11.2 million. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Julian Assange of Wikileaks says the United States has approached the website to try to negotiate the release of a further 15,000 Afghanistan war documents which the military desires to keep secret; the United States denies this. (Aljazeera)
August 18, 2010, The United States ends combat operations in Iraq as its last combat brigade departs for Kuwait. (Al Jazeera)
August 18, 2010, The United States deploys troops along its border with Mexico by the order of President Barack Obama. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, The American Ballet Theatre is given permission by its country's President, Barack Obama, to perform in Cuba; it would be the first time in 50 years. American tourists are still banned by their government from travelling to Cuba. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Soul singer Erykah Badu is fined and punished by the city of Dallas, Texas, United States, after being convicted of disorderly conduct for removing her clothes and re-enacting a controversial scene from the country's history while filming a music video.
August 18, 2010, Rupert Murdoch provides $1 million to the U.S. Republican Party ahead of an important election in November, more than doubling the party's funds with one of the largest handouts by a media organisation; critics declare Fox News is not impartial. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Iceland lowers its interest rate to 7%. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Foxconn holds employee rallies in a bid to stem the recent huge increase in suicides by its employees. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, United States car maker General Motors files for an Initial Public Offering. (The New York Times)
August 18, 2010, Japanese carmaker Mazda recalls 215,000 vehicles in the United States and 11,000 vehicles in China due to power steering flaws. (CBS Marketwatch)
August 18, 2010, Scientists dispute the claim by the United States that all the oil has gone from the Gulf of Mexico. (The Guardian)
August 18, 2010, Scientists blame a peculiar double earthquake earthquake for the deadly tsunami responsible for the deaths of 192 people in the South Pacific last September, and described as "unlike anything seismologists have seen before". (BBC)
August 18, 2010, A court in Colombia declares as unconstitutional a controversial deal allowing the United States to freely use its military bases and says it will have to be redrafted; other Latin American countries have expressed concern that the United States is exerting excessive influence on the region. (BBC)
August 18, 2010, Two Israeli groups launch a course in "Zionist editing" of the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia. (The Guardian)
August 18, 2010, David Paterson, Governor of the U.S. state of New York, is to discuss relocating the controversial Park51 Islamic community centre and mosque near World Trade Center site in New York City. (Al Arabiya)
August 18, 2010, Elections in Haiti:
-Haiti's final decision on its presidential election candidates is delayed until Friday due to eligibility issues; it had initially been expected yesterday. (BBC)
-Potential candidate Wyclef Jean goes into hiding after receiving mysterious death threats from an anonymous source. (The Guardian)
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010,
August 19, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The United Nations estimates that four million people have become homeless as a result of the 2010 Pakistan floods; Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, speaking in New York, states that the floods are a "slow-motion tsunami" as he calls for more funds to assist those affected. (Reuters)
August 19, 2010, South Africa deploys its army to deal with public sector workers striking in a bid to earn an increased wage; police shoot rubber bullets and water cannon into crowds outside a hospital in Soweto. At least five people have been killed so far during the strikes. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, The last United States brigade combat team leaves Iraq: there are still 56,000 members of the United States armed forces in the country. (CNN)
August 19, 2010, Winston Churchill's butterfly house is rebuilt. (The Independent)
August 19, 2010, The Oxford Dictionary of English adds new words and phrases to the language including vuvuzela, carbon capture and storage, toxic debt and quantitative easing. (ABC News Online)
August 19, 2010, Two groups in Israel begin pro-Zionist courses in editing Wikipedia. (The Guardian)
August 19, 2010, Foxconn states its intention to hire more workers following a rash of suicides among its workforce. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, An American egg company recalls 380 million products as outbreaks of salmonella poisoning spread across the United States. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, BP is accused by Transocean of trying to keep secret data required to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla, Spain; the bull is killed. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, Two passenger train carriages are swept into a river by floods in Sichuan, China. (Xinhua)
August 19, 2010, The United Nations issues a report stating that Israel restricts with live ammunition access to land used for farming and fishing by Palestinians, causing a loss of livelihood for tens of thousands of Palestinians. (BBC)
August 19, 2010, North Korea confirms the seizure of a South Korean fishing boat two weeks ago, with four South Korean and three Chinese sailors on board. (Yonhap)
August 19, 2010, A U.S. federal grand jury in Washington indicts former Major League Baseball superstar pitcher Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. (The New York Times)
August 20, 2010, Release of Nanny McPhee Returns
August 20, 2010, Release of Lottery Ticket
August 20, 2010, Release of Piranha
August 20, 2010, Release of The Switch
August 20, 2010, Release of Blood of the Nations Accept's twelfth studio album.
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean is reportedly omitted from the list of candidates for the Haitian presidential election. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010,
August 20, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-After initial hesitation, Pakistan ultimately accepts $5 million in aid from India; it subsequently calls it a "very welcome initiative". (The Times of India)
-The United Nations calls for more helicopters. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, For failure to deal with the recent wildfires the head of Russia's forestry agency is fired by Vladimir Putin and replaced with his deputy. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Carworkers in South Africa end their eight-day strike with a 10% pay deal. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Bolivia declares a state of emergency after approximately 25,000 forest fires spread across the country. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Gas leak in a hardware store in Santa Cruz, Chile produces a massive evacuation in the surrounding area. (Wikinews)
August 20, 2010, France continues deporting Roma as the Vatican condemns this act. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 20, 2010, Israel and Palestinians agree to resume peace talks on September 2. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010,President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects calls from the United Nations Security Council to stop all uranium enrichment but promises to stop high level enrichment if the country is assured of uranium for a research reactor. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010, Hilary Rodham Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, states that the United States "categorically disagrees" with the decision of the Scottish Government to release on compassionate grounds Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103. (The Guardian)
August 20, 2010, Remains of a 104-year-old woman's body are discovered in her son's backpack during a nationwide search in Japan for missing centenarians. It is thought they may have been there for a decade. (AFP)
August 20, 2010, Shining Path leaders Abimael Guzmán and Elena Iparraguirre marry at a maximum-security prison near Lima; they fought for their right to marry by going on hunger strike earlier this year. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, The Pentagon vows to prevent "internal threats" in the United States. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, Britain warns Libya not to celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, released on compassionate grounds suffering terminal cancer and expected to live just three months. (Aljazeera)
August 20, 2010, The world's first solar-diesel power station opens in Marble Bar, Western Australia. (Herald Sun)
August 20, 2010, Scientists publish a report in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology about a method of predicting radioactive contamination damage on species near Chernobyl, from historical mutation rates particularly in mitochondrial DNA. (BBC)
August 20, 2010, A possible new approach for treating mood disorders, such as depression, suggested in study of ketamine activity with the nervous system, more specifically mTOR-dependent synapse formation. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 20, 2010, A study links the risk of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to pesticide exposure before birth. (MSNBC)
August 21, 2010,
August 21, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes more than $200 million in funds pledged towards the humanitarian effort following the 2010 Pakistan floods. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, A Vincent van Gogh painting - known as both Poppy Flowers and Vase with Flowers - is stolen from the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil art museum in Cairo, but is later said to have been recovered at Cairo Airport. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, More than 50,000 people are evacuated after the Yalu River floods in China; flooding is also reported in North Korea with the city of Sinuiju particularly affected. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, The charity Save the Children says the food crisis in Niger is being made worse by hoarders selling grain at higher prices than most people can afford. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, Relatives accuse authorities of not doing enough to save 33 miners who have spent the past 15 days trapped in a collapsed mine near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, The United States is hit by a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people now thought to be ill across the country due to bad eggs; poisoning is expected to increase in the coming weeks. (The Age)
August 21, 2010, Italy backs France's crackdown and expulsion of Roma from the country. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. (Reuters)
August 21, 2010, Amnesty International urges Saudi Arabia not to sever the spine of a man as punishment; the man has been convicted of paralyzing another man. (BBC)
August 21, 2010, Swedish prosecutors issue and then revoke an arrest warrant against Wikileaks spokesperson Julian Assange. Assange calls the incident "deeply disturbing" as Wikileaks prepares to release 15,000 documents which the U.S. military would like to keep secret. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean is formally declared unsuitable as a presidential candidate in Haiti's election. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Dutch sailor Laura Dekker starts her bid to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in Portimão, Portugal. (AP via KGW)
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010,
August 22, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Around 150,000 people flee their homes in Sindh as the devastating floods worsen in Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
-International pledges currently total $800 million, say government figures. (Aljazeera)
August 22, 2010, 5,000 people are evacuated in North Korea after the Yalu River on the border with China floods; 94,000 in China are also evacuated. (AFP)
August 21, 2010, All 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground are located alive after 17 days, though they have not yet been removed from the mine and remain trapped. (AP via Google News)
August 22, 2010, The Vincent van Gogh painting Poppy Flowers, missing but reportedly found yesterday, is now reported missing again after yesterday's find is proven false. (BBC)
August 22, 2010, Hundreds of people rally in relation to an Islamic cultural centre proposed for New York City, United States; opponents to the building blare Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." over loudspeakers. (Aljazeera)
August 21, 2010, Iran unveils a long range unmanned bomber, the Karrar drone their latest addition in a number of recently disclosed military hardware. (The Guardian)
August 21, 2010, South African trade unions state that a court injunction successfully sought by the government is intended to "intimidate" workers who are striking in the hope of receiving better pay. (BBC)
August 22, 2010, Supporters of Julian Assange of Wikileaks credit American intelligence agencies with recent smears against his character and express surprise that it has not happened sooner. (The Guardian)
August 22, 2010, Protesters against the Park51 project for an Islamic community center two blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center site gather in New York City. (CNN)
August 22, 2010, United States authorities give the green light to human trials of an Ebola drug said to have worked during tests on monkeys. (BBC)
August 23, 2010, Release of 7th Symphony the seventh studio album by the Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010,
August 23, 2010, The United Nations describes the humanitarian situation caused by the 2010 Pakistan floods as critical. (BBC)
August 23, 2010, Flooding in China and North Korea:
-More than 250,000 people are evacuated due to floods across China and North Korea. (Al Jazeera)
-4 people die in floods in Dandong, China after flood waters cause the Yalu River to burst its banks. (AP via The Independent)
August 23, 2010, It is expected to take 120 days (4 months) to free the 33 miners trapped underground near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert after it is confirmed that they are all currently alive. (The Guardian)
August 23, 2010, The Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam is knocked down by a gust of heavy wind, breaking off about a meter above ground. (NOS)
August 23, 2010, Jimena Navarrete, representing Mexico, wins Miss Universe 2010. (AP via News OK)
August 23, 2010, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rules against a decision by President Barack Obama allowing the expansion of embryonic stem cell research claiming it breaks US law. (Bloomberg)
August 24, 2010, Release of Back to Me the third studio album by American singer Fantasia Barrino
August 24, 2010, Release of Teenage Dream the third studio album and second mainstream album by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry
August 24, 2010, Release of Mafia II Video game
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010,
August 24, 2010, Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead. (AP)
August 24, 2010, Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger. (AFP)
August 24, 2010, Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (ABC News America)
August 24, 2010, The United States Department of Justice states that it will appeal a decision by United States federal judge Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research. (BBC)
August 24, 2010, Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl. (Telegraph)
August 24, 2010, John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona. (Fox News)
August 25, 2010,
August 25, 2010,
August 25, 2010, Archaeologists working at the Umm El-Kharga Oasis, 200km south of Cairo, discover a 3,500 year old ancient Egyptian settlement. (ABC News America)
August 25, 2010, Wikileaks publishes a CIA analysis claiming that the United States could be perceived as an "exporter of terrorism". (Washington Post)
August 25, 2010, Mexican Naval Infantry find 72 corpses at a remote ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, near the border with the US state of Texas. The victims were economic migrants from Central America and South America believed to be murdered by a drug cartel. (Reuters)
August 25, 2010, A solar system is discovered for the star HD 10180 including a possible planet 1.4 times the size of the Earth. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010,
August 26, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-Pakistan orders nearly half a million people in towns including Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro and Daro threatened by floods to evacuate. (AFP via Google News)-
-The Pakistan Taliban threatens to kidnap foreign aid workers. (The Telegraph)
August 26, 2010, The United States Food and Drug Administration finds that feed given to hens at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farm led to a salmonella outbreak in eggs. (CNN)
August 26, 2010, German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010, Former International Atomic Energy Agency director Olli Heinonen claims that Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for one to two nuclear bombs. (Haaretz)
August 26, 2010, Israel asks Germany to arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp. (Haaretz)
August 26, 2010, An independent counsel finds that the Governor of New York David Paterson gave misleading evidence about intending to pay for free tickets that he obtained to last year's baseball world series and refers the issue to the Albany District Attorney for possible prosecution for perjury. (New York Times)
August 26, 2010, Heavy rains wash red argillite sediment from old sedimentary rock into a river at Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, causing Cameron Falls to turn red. (Daily Mail)
August 27, 2010, Release of The Last Exorcism
August 27, 2010, Release of Takers
August 27, 2010, Release of Going The Distance
August 27, 2010, Release of Light Me Up the debut album from American alternative rock band The Pretty Reckless
August 27, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-The Indus River breaches its banks near the southern Pakistan city of Thatta forcing the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. (ABC Online and AFP)
August 27, 2010,
August 27, 2010, Ben Bernanke, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, says the United States Federal Reserve is prepared to act against the prospects of deflation but expects economic growth to continue during the latter half of 2010 "albeit at a relatively modest pace." (New York Times)
August 27, 2010,
August 27, 2010, A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes northern Iran, killing two people. (WireUpdate)
August 27, 2010, France rejects criticism from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination over its Roma removal strategy. (Xinhua)
August 27, 2010, Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Apple Computer, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples Inc., Yahoo and YouTube. (NYT)
August 27, 2010, A team of scientists, led by Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool, releases draft sequences of the wheat genome. (BBC)
August 27, 2010, Arrowheads found in the Sibudu Cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa show that humans were using bow and arrows 64000 years ago. (BBC)
August 27, 2010, Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category 4, becoming the first major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (MSNBC)
August 28, 2010,
August 28, 2010, A large gathering of people attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (USA Today)
August 28, 2010, Cuba eases property laws, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years. (AP)
August 28, 2010, Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana is sentenced in absentia to life in prison with hard labour for ordering the killing of opposition supporters. (BBC)
August 29, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-Floods worsen in Pakistan as more towns are threatened. (Press TV)
August 29, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama pledges to restore the Gulf Coast on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in a speech in New Orleans. (Reuters via Toronto Sun)
August 29, 2010, The Catholic Church admits that during a meeting in April Godfried Danneels, the retired Catholic leader in Belgium, advised a person who had experienced abuse to remain secret until his abuser Roger Vangheluwe, the Bishop of Brugge, retired. (BBC)
August 29, 2010, 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards:
-Mad Men wins the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. (Los Angeles Times)
August 29, 2010, 1 person dies as the Sumatran volcano Sinabung prompts a red alert by erupting for the first time in over 400 years and leads to Indonesia evacuating thousands of people. (ABC News Online)
August 29, 2010, The Palestinian Authority launches a United States funded advertising campaign supporting peace talks with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)
August 30, 2010,
August 30, 2010,
August 30, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The historic city of Thatta is preserved by troops and volunteers fighting severe floodwaters in Pakistan; it had been thought of as being at great risk. (AP via Google News)
-More than 175,000 people flee, as the city virtually empties. (Aljazeera)
August 30, 2010, Chile mining accident:
-The 33 miners involved in the accident make telephone contact with their families for the first time in 3 weeks. (BBC)
- Rescuers are to begin drilling to rescue the trapped miners. (Santiago Times)
August 30, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
-Category 4 Hurricane Earl takes aim at the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico with winds of up to 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) prompting hurricane warnings. (msnbc.com)
-Tropical Storm Fiona forms in the central Atlantic Ocean with the potential to become the fourth hurricane of the season. (Huffington Post)
August 30, 2010, Alain "Spiderman" Robert climbs another building barehanded, this time in Sydney; he is later arrested. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 30, 2010,Indonesia's Mount Sinabung continues to erupt with 21,000 people now evacuated from nearby areas of north Sumatra and two people dead. (AP via Fox News)
August 30, 2010, 9 people die and 480 are rescued following a fire at a retirement home in the Tver region of Russia. (CNN)
August 30, 2010, The United States begins patrolling with troops its border with Mexico. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, China and North Korea acknowledge the leader of North Korea Kim Jong Il visited China recently where he met with the President of China Hu Jintao. (UK Press Association via Google News)
August 30, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama freezes the assets of three North Korean organisations and one individual in response to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. North Korea has denied it is responsible. (The Guardian)
August 30, 2010, More than 100 Russian skinheads attack a music festival in central Russia, injuring at least 10 people and leaving one 14-year-old girl dead. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, 3,200 police officers have been fired so far this year by Mexico's federal police force due to extracurricular activities. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, The Indian government decides not to ban the controversial Blackberry devices for at least two months after the North American manufacturer allows "lawful access" to encrypted data it had been feared would be a security threat. (Aljazeera)
August 30, 2010, Talks begin between the government and workers striking for better conditions in South Africa in the third week of a conflict which has seen troops deployed. (BBC)
August 30, 2010, The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues issues a report criticizing the International Panel on Climate Change for its unwillingness to be open to alternative views on climate change and lack of transparency on potential conflicts of interest. (Aljazeera)
August 31, 2010, Release of Time for Annihilation...On the Record and On the Road the seventh studio album by rock band Papa Roach
August 31, 2010, Release of Asylum the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed
August 31, 2010, Release of Something for the Rest of Us the ninth studio album by Buffalo-based rock band, the Goo Goo Dolls
August 31, 2010, Release of Metroid: Other M Video game
August 31, 2010,
August 31, 2010, Mexican authorities arrest top drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villarreal. (Al Jazeera)
August 31, 2010,
August 31, 2010, 2010 Pakistan Floods:
-Floodwaters continue to wreak havoc in Pakistan, affecting areas near Larkana. (DAWN)
August 31, 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's largest computer maker based in the U.S. state of California, pays US$55 million amid allegations it defrauded the United States government. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 31, 2010, Hurricane Earl moves away from the Leeward Islands towards the east coast of the United States with a hurricane watch issued for most of the North Carolina coast. (Reuters)
August 31, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama delivers a televised Oval Office address to the United States commemorating the end of United States armed forces being directly involved in fighting in Iraq. (New York Times)
August 31, 2010, The South African government improves a pay offer to more than a million striking public sector workers in an attempt to end the two week long strike. (AllAfrica.com)
-Floodwaters continue to wreak havoc in Pakistan, affecting areas near Larkana. (DAWN)
August 31, 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's largest computer maker based in the U.S. state of California, pays US$55 million amid allegations it defrauded the United States government. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 31, 2010, Hurricane Earl moves away from the Leeward Islands towards the east coast of the United States with a hurricane watch issued for most of the North Carolina coast. (Reuters)
August 31, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama delivers a televised Oval Office address to the United States commemorating the end of United States armed forces being directly involved in fighting in Iraq. (New York Times)
August 31, 2010, The South African government improves a pay offer to more than a million striking public sector workers in an attempt to end the two week long strike. (AllAfrica.com)
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