September 1, 2010,
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September 1, 2010,
September 1, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama meets with a range of Middle East leaders in pursuit of peace between Israel and Palestine, including Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, King of Jordan Abdullah II and President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, A man upset with the Discovery Channel's environmental programs takes several people hostage at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, DC. Police snipers eventually kill him with the hostages being safe. (UKPA via Google)
September 1, 2010, Apple launches Ping. (BBC)
September 1, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The World Bank pledges to loan an additional $100 million to Pakistan. (Hindustan Times)
-Flood taxes are imposed in principle. (People's Daily)
-UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg visits a relief camp in Sukkur to witness the devastation caused by the ongoing floods. (BBC)
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September 1, 2010, 2010 Copiapó mining accident:
-The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile receive their first hot meal in 26 days: it consists of meatballs, chicken and rice through a tube. (BBC)
-As the isolation of the miners is similar to a space mission, NASA sends a team of doctors, who recommend the miners abstain from cigarettes and alcohol while trapped. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 1, 2010, 2010 China Flooding:
-Eight people are killed and 40 missing in landslides that hit Wama village in Yunnan province, near Baoshan. The overall death toll from the 2010 China floods rises to 3,185, with 1,050 more missing. (AFP)
September 1, 2010, 57,000 people are made homeless by heavy floods near Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan. (BBC)
September 1, 2010, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography A Journey goes on sale in the United Kingdom and becomes a bestseller. (The Guardian)
September 1, 2010, United States rapper T.I. and his wife singer Tameka Cottle are arrested on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for illegal drug possession. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, Archaeologists discover 200 year old bottles of beer in a shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea believed to be the world's oldest. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port. (ABC Online)
September 2, 2010, Hurricane Earl:
-A tropical storm warning is issued for the coast of Long Island in New York as Hurricane Earl approaches the east coast of the United States. (AP via Washington Post)
-The U.S. state of North Carolina orders the evacuation of Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island ahead of Hurricane Earl. (Christian Science Monitor)
-A state of emergency is declared in the states of North Carolina and Virginia. (Bloomberg)
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010, An oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in April, killing no people. (AP)
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
-Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Hussain Haroon calls for an inquiry after allegations emerge of Pakistani floodwaters being diverted into vulnerable villages in a bid to preserve crops. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, The Mexican Army claims to have killed 25 drug cartel gunmen in a clash in Tamaulipas state near the United States border. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, Police in Brazil arrest almost the entire council in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, on suspicion of fraud and corruption, leaving the city without a government. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, Figures show that at least 2,000 British police officers had 3 or more complaints made against them in 2009-10. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, BP warns the United States Congress that it might not be able to pay compensation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill if it is barred from getting new offshore drilling permits. (New York Times)
September 3, 2010, Release of Machete
September 3, 2010, Release of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 Video game
September 3, 2010, Unemployment in the United States rises to 9.6% for August. (Market Watch)
September 3, 2010, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs near Christchurch, New Zealand causing widespread damage and power cuts but no deaths. (The New Zealand Herald)
September 3, 2010, Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, Indonesia, erupts again. (AP via MSNBC)
September 3, 2010, Forest fires flare up in the southern Russian regions of Volgograd and Saratov, killing two people and burning down 500 buildings. (AFP via The Courier Mail)
September 3, 2010, Japan approves additional sanctions against Iran due to concerns over Iran's nuclear program. (AP via ABC News America)
September 3, 2010, The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization calls a special meeting for 24 September to discuss rising food prices. (BBC)
September 3, 2010, The Royal Mail in the United Kingdom launches the first intelligent postage stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology. (BBC)
September 3, 2010, A study published in the journal Cell reports the discovery that the cerebral cortex of mammals shares a common evolutionary origin with mushroom bodies, brain structures involved in learning and memory in insects and other invertebrates.(Science Daily)
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010, Tony Blair is met with a three-hundred person antiwar demonstration and has a small number of individuals throw objects (shoes, bottles and eggs), and encounters an attempted citizen's arrest for war crimes at Eason's in Dublin, Ireland, at his first public book signing for A Journey; four are arrested. Clashes between protesters and police lead to the closure of businesses and the Luas tram system. (The Guardian)
September 4, 2010, A state of emergency and curfew are declared in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (The Guardian)
September 4, 2010, Australian floods: Heavy rain in the Australian state of Victoria causes flooding in the towns of Ballarat, Maryborough and Bendigo with landslides blocking roads in the Victorian Alps. (ABC News Online)
-Floodwaters isolate the town of Birdsville in Queensland. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
September 4, 2010, A plane crash near Fox Glacier in the South Island of New Zealand is believed to have killed 9 people. (ABC News Online)
September 4, 2010, NASA scientists advise the 33 miners trapped in Chile to regulate sleeping patterns, boost intake of Vitamin D and take exercise. (BBC)
September 4, 2010,The President of Guatemala Alvaro Colom declares a state of emergency after weeks of heavy rain results in landslides with at least 21 people dead. (AFP via ABC Online)
September 4, 2010, Former Hurricane Earl loses its tropical storm status after making landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada but left one person dead and a million people without power in Canada. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 4, 2010,Thousands of people protest across France against the government's policy of deporting of Roma people. (Aljazeera)
September 4, 2010, The News of the World alleges that a 4th cricketer from Pakistan is being probed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) into the corruption allegations it broke last week. (BBC)
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010, A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala after heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people. (BBC)
September 5, 2010, The Australian Army is called in to assist with flood relief in the state of Victoria. (ABC News Australia)
September 6, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Hermine slams into northern Mexico near the border with Texas. (Reuters via Swiss Info)
September 6, 2010, The number of deaths for members of the International Security Assistance Force in the War in Afghanistan reaches 500 for the first 9 months of 2010 as opposed to 521 for all of 2009. (Reuters)
September 6, 2010, New Zealand Army soldiers begin providing security at the centre of Christchurch following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake as a state of emergency is extended until Wednesday. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 6, 2010, Over fifty-thousand Australians have been placed on evacuation alert in the Australian state of Victoria in eleven towns since Saturday due to the 2010 Victorian floods. (AFP via The West Australian)
September 6, 2010, Emergency teams in Guatemala resume rescue efforts after mudslides bury dozens of people. (BBC)
September 6, 2010, A wind-driven wildfire in the United States state of Colorado leads to the evacuation of 1,000 houses. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 6, 2010, China investigates the qualifications of all its commercial pilots after 200 of them had falsified their résumés. (BBC)
September 7, 2010, Release of Kid Rock Album Born Free
September 7, 2010, Release of Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place the upcoming fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin
September 7, 2010, Release of NHL 11
September 7, 2010, Release of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
September 7, 2010, Release of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
September 7, 2010, Release of R.U.S.E
September 7, 2010,
September 7, 2010, Current Barclays Capital chief Robert Diamond, one of the world's highest paid bankers, is to become chief executive of Barclays Bank plc succeeding the present incumbent John Varley next year. (BBC)
September 7, 2010, Some 3,500 people are evacuated in Boulder County, Colorado due to wildfires concerns. (AFP via Google News)
September 7, 2010, Japan experiences its record-hottest summer. (Mercury News)
September 7, 2010, Around 85 fires break out in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan, with at least 20 homes destroyed. Winds of 40 to 50 mph cause 113,000 customers to lose electricity. (ABC News America)
September 7, 2010, Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is denied parole by the New York State Division of Parole in the U.S.. (CNN)
September 7, 2010, United States Army General David Petraeus, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, condemns plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks as inflammatory. (New York Times)
September 8, 2010, Series Premiere of Hellcats
September 8, 2010, Release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010, Eight people are missing and at least fifty-four houses are destroyed in a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colorado, in the United States. (CNN)
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010, Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen suspected in participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. (AP via Fox News)
September 8, 2010, Two workers are missing and more than thirty workers are trapped in an oil rig in the Shengli oil field off Dongying in China's Shandong province. (AFP via Google News)
September 8, 2010, The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, is extended for another week following an aftershock to Saturday's earthquake in Lyttelton. (Sydney Morning Herald)
September 8, 2010, The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine causes widespread flooding in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma with at least two people dead. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 8, 2010, Police in Europe shut down 49 servers and detain ten people in a raid across thirteen countries in a crackdown on film piracy. (AFP via the Melbourne Age)
September 9, 2010,
"Ground zero" mosque and cultural center controversy:
-Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, and Asif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan, call on President of the United States, Barack Obama, to stop International Burn a Koran Day being organised by the Dove World Outreach Center. (The Telegraph)
-Barack Obama describes the event as "a clear recruitment bonanza for al-Qaida" and warns that it will endanger US soldiers. (MSNBC)
-US businessman Donald Trump offers to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 site in New York City where a Muslim group wanted to build a 13-story Islamic centre and mosque. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
-Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center agrees to call off the Koran burning in return for the Park51 community center being relocated, though those associated with Park51 have stated no such agreement exists. (BBC)
-Pastor Terry Jones later reassesses his position after he claimed that he received incorrect information that the Park51 community center would be relocated. (CNN)
September 9, 2010, The 2010 San Bruno, California fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line destroying dozens of houses, killing at least 6 people, and continues burning in San Bruno, California near the US city of San Francisco. (Marketwatch)
September 9, 2010,
September 9, 2010, Archaeologists date the mound of Moot Hill in Scone Palace where medieval Kings of Scotland including Robert the Bruce were crowned back to at least 1,000 years ago. (The Scotsman)
September 9, 2010, Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan. (Xinhua)
September 9, 2010, US District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips rules that the United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy violates the First Amendment rights of gay men and lesbians. (Los Angeles Times)
September 9, 2010, A woman kills two people and injures another at a shooting incident at a Kraft baking plant in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (MSNBC)
September 9, 2010, Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, pays tribute to freedom of speech at a ceremony to honour Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. (Reuters)
September 10, 2010, Release of Resident Evil: After Life
September 10, 2010,
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September 10, 2010, Details of 300 cases of sexual abuse, mainly on minors, allegedly perpetrated by Belgium's Roman Catholic clergy are released by Church investigator Peter Adriaenssens. 13 are found to have committed suicide. (BBC)
September 10, 2010, Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC)
September 10, 2010, The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America)
September 10, 2010, A large fish kill, consisting of several different fish species and other marine life, including crabs, stingrays, shrimp, starfish and a whale wash ashore in Venice, Louisiana, near Plaquemines Parish, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and involving more species than usual with localized dead zone and low oxygen events. (NOLA.com)
September 10, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama urges Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a partial construction freeze on the West Bank. (Los Angeles Times)
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010, The United States commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with events in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. (AFP via ABC News)
September 11, 2010, Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in America says the group will not burn the Koran "not now, not ever". (BBC)
September 11, 2010, A man is arrested after a minor explosion at a hotel in Copenhagen, amid heightened security fears in Denmark. (BBC)
September 11, 2010, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the ongoing War in Afghanistan, the first living recipient to be so honored since the Vietnam War. (The Guardian)
September 11, 2010, Muslims around the world celebrate the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP via Google News)
September 11, 2010, U.S. film director Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her film Somewhere. (BBC)
September 11, 2010, A doctor throws a shoe at the prime minister and is promptly arrested and locked up with two bystanders. They are later released unharmed. (The Times of India)
September 11, 2010, Officials in 3 Egyptian governorates declare a state of emergency after a barge leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River north of Aswan. (AP)
September 11, 2010, Mexico experiences its record worst ever rainy season. (The China Post)
September 11, 2010, The death toll rises to 6 from the pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)
September 11, 2010, Four people are dead and twenty-five people are hospitalised after a Coach USA Megabus crashes into a railroad overpass in Salina, New York. (CNN)
September 11, 2010, Hurricane Igor reaches Category 1 in the Atlantic Ocean. (UPI)
September 11, 2010, Jordan signs a nuclear co-operation treaty with Japan to build a nuclear power plant within 10 years. (Press TV)
September 11, 2010, Sex abuse campaigners meet at a conference in Islington, North London, to call for "action not words" from Pope Benedict XVI ahead of his visit to the UK. (BBC)
September 12, 2010,
September 12, 2010,
September 12, 2010, Danish police state that there is no evidence that a small explosives blast in a Copenhagen hotel ties into a larger terror plot. (Al Jazeera)
September 12, 2010, Lady Gaga wins eight MTV Video Music Awards at the 2010 ceremony including Video of the Year for "Bad Romance". (MTV)
September 12, 2010, The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident are permitted to smoke cigarettes after one month of underground entrapment. (BBC)
September 12, 2010, 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
-The death toll rises to 7 from a pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (Bay City News via San Francisco Chronicle)
-The California Public Utilities Commission orders Pacific Gas and Electric to perform a survey of all natural gas lines in California following the explosion. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
September 12, 2010, Hurricane Igor strengthens to Category 4 in the Atlantic Ocean. (AFP via Google News)
September 12, 2010, Tropical Storm Julia forms in the Atlantic with a tropical storm warning issued for parts of the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
September 12, 2010, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu states that 10-month restrictions on the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will no longer apply after they expire later this month. (Al Jazeera)
September 12, 2010, The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), an important trade pact, comes into force between China and Taiwan. Hundreds of thousands of people protested against it in Taiwan but it was unanimously approved by the island's parliament. (BBC)
September 12, 2010, 2009 detention of American hikers by Iran: Iran announces its willingness to release Sarah Shourd, a U.S. hiker arrested in 2009, on bail and says that she will be permitted to leave the country. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, Christine O'Donnell is elected the Republican Party candidate in the Delaware US Senate race. (The Guardian)
September 13, 2010,
September 13, 2010,
September 13, 2010, Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the Men's Singles at the 2010 US Open defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-2 becoming the seventh man in history to win all four Grand Slam titles. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, Cuba announces plans to cut up to half a million public sector jobs to revive the island's economy, in the biggest private sector shift since the 1959 revolution. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision based in Basel, Switzerland, increases capital requirements for banks around the world to be introduced on 1 January 2015. (The Australian)
September 13, 2010, A study of Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture employees shows that the food industry has been successfully withholding information from inspectors and pressuring the government agencies to withdraw or alter policies which promote food safety. (Reuters)
September 13, 2010, Monsoon flooding on the Yamuna River threatens the Taj Mahal in Agra, India after more than 800,000 cusecs of water had to be released from a barrage in Haryana, while hundreds of nearby villages flooded and flooding continues in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. (MSN India)
September 13, 2010, Russian diplomat Yuri Fedotov takes office as the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (AP)
September 13, 2010, A rare congress of the Korean Workers' Party in North Korea is postponed amid speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
September 13, 2010, André-Joseph Léonard, the Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels and head of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church, announces how the church will deal with widespread cases of sexual abuse within its ranks. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, US defense officials claim they are preparing to notify Congress of plans to sell $60 billion of military equipment to Saudi Arabia. (CNN)
September 14, 2010, Release of Linkin Park album A Thousand Suns
September 14, 2010, Release of Montreal album False Priest
September 14, 2010, Release of Weezer album Hurley
September 14, 2010, Release of Brandon Flowers album Flamingo
September 14, 2010, Release of Halo: Reach Video game
September 14, 2010, French police evacuate the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park in Paris following a bomb threat. (AFP via Google News)
September 14, 2010, British singer George Michael is given a sentence of eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis at the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London. (BBC)
September 14, 2010, Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
September 14, 2010, Iran releases United States hiker Sarah Shourd from Evin Prison following payment of bail. (CNN)
September 14, 2010, A second round of Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority concludes in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Jerusalem Post)
September 14, 2010, The Governor-General of Australia swears in Julia Gillard as Prime Minister of Australia and her Ministry. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
September 14, 2010, Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints gives up his Heisman Trophy won while playing for the USC Trojans due to receiving improper payments. (ESPN)
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010, Pieces of an ancient necropolis taken from Egypt in 1999 are discovered in an antiques shop in Spain. (BBC)
September 15, 2010, The United States and Russia establish a working group to improve relations between the United States military and Russian military. (RIA Novosti)
September 15, 2010, North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea cancels its largest political convention in thirty years officially due to floods caused by Typhoon Kompasu but sparking speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il. (ABC News)
September 16, 2010, Release of I'm Still Here
September 16, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI starts a papal visit to the United Kingdom at Edinburgh, Scotland, with groups expected to protest. (BBC)
September 16, 2010,
September 16, 2010,
September 16, 2010, The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahinga, says the situation in the country remains "dire" and the AMISOM mission is "underfunded". (Al Jazeera)
September 16, 2010, American banks set a new record for the home repossession rate, with 1.2 million homes this year. Another 3.2 million American homes remain in foreclosure proceedings currently.(Reuters)
September 16, 2010, US poverty rates hit 14.3% (43.6 million people), a 15 year high. (Reuters)
September 16, 2010, Transocean, the company that leased the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, accuses BP of covering up data about the explosion and subsequent oil spill. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 16, 2010, BP's first relief well intersects with its Gulf of Mexico Macondo well prior to pumping heavy mud and cement to seal permanently the oil reservoir adjacent to the well. (Yahoo News)
September 16, 2010, The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake is lifted. (The Press)
September 16, 2010, Hurricane Karl becomes a Category 2 hurricane as it heads across Mexico's offshore oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters)
September 16, 2010, Cocoa tree genome (DNA) raw sequence to be made public from Mars, Incorporated and combined Pennsylvania State University, French laboratories, and The Hershey Company research.(NYT)
September 16, 2010, The Seattle Storm win the WNBA Finals for the second time defeating the Atlanta Dream in Game 3 87-84 with Lauren Jackson of the Storm winning the WNBA Finals MVP Award. (NWCN)
September 17, 2010, Release of Devil
September 17, 2010, Release of Alpha and Omega
September 17, 2010, Release of The Town
September 17, 2010, Release of Easy A
September 17, 2010, Release of Jack Goes Boating
September 17, 2010, The Metropolitan Police arrest 6 people in London in connection to an alleged potential threat to the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom. (BBC)
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010, India's ban on a Satyajit Ray documentary is lifted. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, American soap opera As the World Turns airs its final episode on CBS after a 54-year run on television. (AP via MSNBC)
September 17, 2010, US entertainer Paris Hilton agrees to a plea bargain with prosecutors in Las Vegas, Nevada, to avoid a jail sentence. (AP via ABC News America)
September 17, 2010, United Airlines shareholders meeting in Elk Grove, Illinois in Cook County, approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines to create the world's biggest airline. (UPI)
September 17, 2010, The United Nations launches an appeal for more than $2 billion in the wake of the 2010 Pakistan floods: this represents the organisation's biggest response to a natural disaster. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident since 5 August; their rescue is still expected to take several weeks. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, A large storm hits New Zealand with severe weather warnings in place for both the North and South Island for several days. (MSN NZ)
September 17, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
-Hurricane Karl reaches Category 3 strength prior to making landfall in Mexico just north of Veracruz. Two people are killed in a mudslide.(AFP via Google News)
-Bermuda prepares for a potential impact from Hurricane Igor. (AFP via Google News)
September 17, 2010, BP starts pumping cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at the culmination of cleanup efforts for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AFP via Yahoo News)
September 17, 2010, The United States charges 2 married former nuclear contractors with trying to give away the country's nuclear secrets to Venezuela. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, Thailand's red shirt movement holds rallies in the lead up to the fourth anniversary of the removal of former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday. (Al Jazeera)
September 18, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom:
-Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to the victims of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church during his visit to Britain. (Voice of America)
-Thousands of people demonstrate in protest at the Pope's views on condom use, homosexuality, education, the ordination of women and the child abuse case. (BBC)
September 18, 2010,
September 18, 2010,
September 18, 2010, British pop star George Michael is transferred from Pentonville Prison to Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England, to serve out the remaining weeks of his sentence for driving under the influence of cannabis. (UKPA via Google News)
September 18, 2010, Chileans celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chilean Independence Day as do the 33 miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (CNN)
September 18, 2010, China slighty increased its holdings of United States treasury debt to US$846.7billion, this July. (China Daily)
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010, The King's Speech is premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival. (The Guardian)
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010, Hurricane Igor weakens to a Category 1 hurricane as it approaches Bermuda but cuts power to half the country. (AP via Google News)
September 19, 2010, The Metropolitan Police release six men arrested on suspicion of being terrorists during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom without charge. (CNN)
September 19, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI beatifies Cardinal John Henry Newman in an outdoor mass in Birmingham, England, on the final day of his visit to the UK. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of The Event
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of Chuck
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of Castle
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of House
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Lone Star
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Hawaii 5-O
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Chase
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Mike and Molly
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010, The director of Glastonbury Abbey issues an apology after giving Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage access to the grave of King Arthur during a live TV broadcast. (The Guardian)
September 20, 2010, More than 600 antiquities lost in mysterious circumstances due to "inappropriate handover procedures" after being repatriated by the United States in 2009 are found and returned to the National Museum of Iraq. (BBC)
September 20, 2010, Jailed U.S. entertainer Lindsay Lohan has her probation revoked by Judge Elden Fox following a failed drug test. (CNN)
September 20, 2010, Admiral Thad Allen of the United States Coast Guard, the man responsible for leading the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, declares that BP's Macondo well is sealed. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)
September 20, 2010, The 54th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference opens in Vienna with attendance by 151 countries. (Xinhua)
September 20, 2010, World leaders arrive in New York City for a United Nations summit to discuss progress in implementing Millennium Development Goals. (CNN)
September 20, 2010, Jupiter becomes the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963. (UPI)
September 20, 2010, Kenny McKinley, a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos in the US National Football League is found dead. (USA Today)
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Raising Hope
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Running Wilde
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Detroit 1-8-7
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of NCIS
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of Glee
September 21, 2010, Lawrence Summers announces that he will leave as head of the United States National Economic Council, responsible for advising President Barack Obama on economic policy. (New York Times)
September 21, 2010, Release of Civilization Video game
September 21, 2010, Release of Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010, Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe. (AP)
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010, NATO fatalities rise to 529 making 2010 the most deadly year of the war since 2001. (New York Times)
September 21, 2010, Tropical Storm Lisa forms in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Canadian Business)
September 21, 2010, U.S. entertainers Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are stopped by immigrations at a Japanese airport and forbidden to enter the country due to Paris's drug conviction the day prior. (Fox News)
September 21, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-The Commonwealth Games Federation demands that India improve conditions at the athletes' village in Delhi. (BBC)
-At least 23 people are injured after a footbridge collapses near the main Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. (Reuters)
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of Undercovers
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of The Whole Truth
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of The Defenders
September 22, 2010, Season Premiere of Criminal Minds
September 22, 2010, Season Premiere of Law and Order: SUV
September 22, 2010, Release of Black Country album Communion
September 22, 2010, Release of Selena Gomez album A Year without Rain
September 22, 2010, Release of You will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
September 22, 2010, Release of F1 2010 Video game
September 22, 2010,
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September 22, 2010, An international summit titled "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue" begins in Moscow, Russia, on territorial claims and co-operation in the Arctic. (BBC)
September 22, 2010, At least 18 people are dead and 44 missing after heavy rains from Typhoon Fanapi flood parts of southern China. (CNN)
September 22, 2010, Two workers are killed and another is injured after a mine in Balıkesir collapses. 22 workers have been killed there in the past six months. (Todays Zaman)
September 22, 2010, U.S. celebrity Paris Hilton is barred from entering Japan after pleading guilty to cocaine possession in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier in the week. (Times of India)
September 22, 2010, Radio Free Asia reports that North Korea's National Defense Commission held an emergency meeting presided over by Kim Jong-un to compromise the upcoming G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. (Korea Times)
September 22, 2010, The discovery of the ceratopsids species Kosmoceratops richardsoni and Utahceratops gettyi in Utah is announced. (National Geographic)
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Fringe
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of The Mentalist
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Bones
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of CSI
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Private Practice
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Greys Anatomy
September 23, 2010, Series Premiere of My Generation
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010, The United States and other western nations including Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walk out of the United Nations General Assembly following claims by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the "majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world" say that the 9/11 attacks were the work of the Government of the United States trying to protect Israel. (Voice of America)
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010, At least six people die in a mine collapse in Kayanza Province, northern Burundi. (RTT News)
September 23, 2010, The death toll in China from Typhoon Fanapi reaches 54 with dozens more people missing. (AP via SignOn SanDiego)
September 23, 2010, Tropical Storm Matthew forms in the western Caribbean Sea with predictions that it could hit Central America on Friday or Saturday. (Reuters)
September 23, 2010, Iran withdraws its bid for a seat on the International Atomic Energy Agency board due to lack of support for its candidacy. (AFP)
September 23, 2010, The U.S state of Virginia executes its first woman since 1912; Teresa Lewis will also be the first woman in the U.S to be executed since 2005. (Sky News)
September 23, 2010, North Korea reshuffles senior officials days ahead of a meeting of the Korean Workers' Party expected to lead to a transition of power from Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un. (AFP)
September 23, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-Countries including New Zealand, Canada and Scotland delay their departure for the host city of Delhi, India, due to concerns about unsafe and unhygienic accommodation in the athletes' village.(AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
- The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh convenes an emergency meeting of Ministers to discuss problems with the facilities. (Livemint)
September 24, 2010, Release of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
September 24, 2010, Release of Legends of the Guardians
September 24, 2010, Release of You Again
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Supernatural
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Smallville
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of The Good Guys
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of CSI: NY
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Medium
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Human Target
September 24, 2010, Series Premiere of Blue Bloods
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010, The Beano is to feature a President of the United States for the first time in its history. (BBC)
September 24, 2010, Gold prices reach a record US$1,300/oz in a prolonged rally. (MarketWatch)
September 24, 2010, The Thanet Wind Farm, the world's largest offshore wind farm, opens off the southeast coast of Thanet district in Kent, England. (AP via yahoo)
September 24, 2010, Chile freezes the assets of San Esteban Mining to fund the cost of the rescue effort from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (AFP via Adelaide Advertiser)
September 24, 2010, Hurricane Lisa becomes the seventh hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (UPI)
September 24, 2010, The United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton meets with the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas to discuss an extension of the Middle East peace process. (AFP via Google News)
September 25, 2010, A specially built cage is delivered to the scene of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (Al Jazeera)
September 25, 2010,
September 25, 2010,
September 25, 2010, Those sexually abused as children by Catholic priests in Italy gather in public for the first time in Verona to campaign for the act to be made a crime against humanity and to organise an international demonstration outside the Vatican next month. (BBC)
September 25, 2010, The United Nations estimates on a preliminary basis that at least 2,000 tents were damaged or destroyed in the storm that struck Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera)
September 25, 2010, Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly, where he states that Palestinians desire "a comprehensive and just" peace agreement and requests that Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank. (Xinhua)
September 25, 2010, The Soyuz TMA-18 capsule carrying three members of the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Xinhua)
September 25, 2010, Michael Fennell, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, says that the Games will go ahead but that there "was extensive work to be done" for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, ahead of its opening on 3 October. (Reuters)
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of The Simpsons
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Family Guy
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of The Cleveland Show
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Desperate Housewives
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Brothers and Sisters
September 26, 2010,
September 26, 2010, The Stuxnet computer worm fails to harm the operating system of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr after infecting the personal computers of staff. (BBC)
September 26, 2010, America's Department of Defense (The Pentagon) admits purchasing nearly 10,000 copies of a memoir by U.S. Army Reserve officer Anthony Shaffer, destroying all of them in an effort to suppress secret information and ordering heavy redactions of the book's second printing. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 26, 2010, Australian climate change activists close down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
September 26, 2010, Towns in the U.S. state of Wisconsin evacuate residents due to flooding of the Wisconsin River. (CNN)
September 26, 2010, The Israeli settlement freeze ends at 22.00 (GMT), should Israel restart construction of buildings on the West Bank the peace talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are expected to end. (BBC)
September 26, 2010, Ed Miliband declares the death of Tony Blair's centrist New Labour in his first interview since being elected leader of the British Labour Party yesterday. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 26, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-Thousands of slum dwellers are handed eviction notices in the Indian capital Delhi, a week before the 2010 Commonwealth Games is due to open. (TV New Zealand)
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010, The US state department expresses disappointment at Israel's decision not to extend its ban on settlement building in the West Bank. (BBC)
September 27, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs a small business lending bill into law. (Reuters)
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010, Los Angeles experiences all-time record high temperature day at 45°C or 113F. (Los Angeles Times)
September 27, 2010, Gloria Stuart, the oldest-ever nominee for an Academy award, specifically the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the elder Rose in the 1997 film Titanic, dies in Los Angeles, aged 100. (Variety)
September 27, 2010, Unilever plc, an Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, has entered into an agreement to buy Alberto-Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin care products, for $3.7 billion. (TheStreet)
September 28, 2010, Series Premiere of No Ordinary Family
September 28, 2010, Season Premiere of The Good Wife
September 28, 2010, Release of TI album King Uncaged
September 28, 2010, Release of Bad Religion album Dissent of Man
September 28, 2010, Release of Jimmy Eat World album Invented
September 28, 2010, Release of Soundgarden album Telephantasm
September 28, 2010, Release of Dead Rising 2
September 28, 2010, Release of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
September 28, 2010, Release of Lara Croft Guardian of the Light (Full Release)
September 28, 2010, Release of FIFA 11
September 28, 2010, Release of Front Mission Evolved
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010, Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is named as a General, the clearest sign that he will be named the successor to his father. (The Guardian)
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010, US movie director Arthur Penn best known as the director of Bonnie and Clyde dies of congestive heart failure in New York City. (Los Angeles Times)
September 28, 2010, The business-software giant Oracle files a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleging that Micron Technology, a manufacturer of memory chips, colluded with other manufacturers to fix prices. (Reuters)
September 28, 2010, The Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park are evacuated due to a bomb threat but nothing is found. (ABC Online)
September 28, 2010, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit permanently lifts an injunction thereby allowing the United States Government to fund embryonic stem cell research. (CNN)
September 28, 2010, The Workers' Party of Korea conference begins in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Time)
September 29, 2010, Astronomers discover the first Earth analog extrasolar planet that may be capable of supporting life, Gliese 581 g, located within the habitable zone and orbiting Gliese 581, a red dwarf star twenty light years from the solar system. (Washington Post)
September 29, 2010,
September 29, 2010,
September 29, 2010, Series Premiere of Law and Order: LA
September 29, 2010, Comedian Greg Giraldo dies at the age of 44 in a New Brunswick, New Jersey, hospital after an accidental drug overdose four days ago. (E Online)
September 29, 2010, A magnitude 5,9 aftershock of March 11, 2010 Pichilemu, Chile earthquake hits the Lolol, O'Higgins Region area. Power outages were reported in Lolol. (BBC)
September 29, 2010, Germany makes the final payment of its World War I reparations. (ABC News)
September 29, 2010, The European Commission issues a statement saying it will take legal action against France unless it complies with European Union rules on freedom of movement in relation to recent expulsion of Roma within the next two weeks. (National Post)
September 29, 2010, Kim Jong-un, the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is appointed to two party posts in a move seen as a gradual transfer of power. (BBC)
September 30, 2010, Release of Final Fantasy XIV
September 30, 2010, North Korea releases the first official image of Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un. (BBC)
September 30, 2010,
September 30, 2010,
September 30, 2010, 2010 Ecuador crisis:
-A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état. (The Telegraph)
-President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country. (AFP)
-The Ecuadorian Army rescues President Correa from hospital where he was being held by rebel troops. (CNN)
September 30, 2010, A convoy of at least 27 fuel tankers headed for NATO forces in Afghanistan is attacked in Pakistan's Sindh province. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)
September 30, 2010, US actor Tony Curtis, who appeared in more than 100 films including Some Like It Hot and The Defiant Ones, dies in Henderson, Nevada. (People)
September 30, 2010, The International Monetary Fund calls for tighter regulation of credit rating agencies. (BBC)
September 30, 2010, Two earthquakes occur off the coast of West Papua in Indonesia of 6.2 and 7.2 in magnitude. (AFP via Google)
September 30, 2010, Heavy rain from former Tropical Storm Nicole causes flooding the US states of North Carolina and Virginia and delays in airline flights on the east coast. (CNN)
September 30, 2010, China and the United States officially resume military ties after a 10-month break following US arms sales to Taiwan, with the two countries emphasizing the importance of a close military dialogue. The two countries will also confer on maritime issues next month.(Business Week}
September 30, 2010, The new right wing coalition in the Netherlands have agreed to ban full Islamic veils, such as the Burqa and Niqab (BBC)
September 30, 2010, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that the computer worm Stuxnet has affected 6 million computers and almost 1,000 enterprises in the country. (Wall Street Journal)
September 1, 2010,
September 1, 2010,
September 1, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama meets with a range of Middle East leaders in pursuit of peace between Israel and Palestine, including Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, King of Jordan Abdullah II and President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, A man upset with the Discovery Channel's environmental programs takes several people hostage at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, DC. Police snipers eventually kill him with the hostages being safe. (UKPA via Google)
September 1, 2010, Apple launches Ping. (BBC)
September 1, 2010, 2010 Pakistan floods:
-The World Bank pledges to loan an additional $100 million to Pakistan. (Hindustan Times)
-Flood taxes are imposed in principle. (People's Daily)
-UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg visits a relief camp in Sukkur to witness the devastation caused by the ongoing floods. (BBC)
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September 1, 2010, 2010 Copiapó mining accident:
-The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile receive their first hot meal in 26 days: it consists of meatballs, chicken and rice through a tube. (BBC)
-As the isolation of the miners is similar to a space mission, NASA sends a team of doctors, who recommend the miners abstain from cigarettes and alcohol while trapped. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 1, 2010, 2010 China Flooding:
-Eight people are killed and 40 missing in landslides that hit Wama village in Yunnan province, near Baoshan. The overall death toll from the 2010 China floods rises to 3,185, with 1,050 more missing. (AFP)
September 1, 2010, 57,000 people are made homeless by heavy floods near Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan. (BBC)
September 1, 2010, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography A Journey goes on sale in the United Kingdom and becomes a bestseller. (The Guardian)
September 1, 2010, United States rapper T.I. and his wife singer Tameka Cottle are arrested on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for illegal drug possession. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, Archaeologists discover 200 year old bottles of beer in a shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea believed to be the world's oldest. (CNN)
September 1, 2010, A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port. (ABC Online)
September 2, 2010, Hurricane Earl:
-A tropical storm warning is issued for the coast of Long Island in New York as Hurricane Earl approaches the east coast of the United States. (AP via Washington Post)
-The U.S. state of North Carolina orders the evacuation of Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island ahead of Hurricane Earl. (Christian Science Monitor)
-A state of emergency is declared in the states of North Carolina and Virginia. (Bloomberg)
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010, An oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in April, killing no people. (AP)
September 2, 2010,
September 2, 2010,
-Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Hussain Haroon calls for an inquiry after allegations emerge of Pakistani floodwaters being diverted into vulnerable villages in a bid to preserve crops. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, The Mexican Army claims to have killed 25 drug cartel gunmen in a clash in Tamaulipas state near the United States border. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, Police in Brazil arrest almost the entire council in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, on suspicion of fraud and corruption, leaving the city without a government. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, Figures show that at least 2,000 British police officers had 3 or more complaints made against them in 2009-10. (BBC)
September 2, 2010, BP warns the United States Congress that it might not be able to pay compensation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill if it is barred from getting new offshore drilling permits. (New York Times)
September 3, 2010, Release of Machete
September 3, 2010, Release of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 Video game
September 3, 2010, Unemployment in the United States rises to 9.6% for August. (Market Watch)
September 3, 2010, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs near Christchurch, New Zealand causing widespread damage and power cuts but no deaths. (The New Zealand Herald)
September 3, 2010, Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, Indonesia, erupts again. (AP via MSNBC)
September 3, 2010, Forest fires flare up in the southern Russian regions of Volgograd and Saratov, killing two people and burning down 500 buildings. (AFP via The Courier Mail)
September 3, 2010, Japan approves additional sanctions against Iran due to concerns over Iran's nuclear program. (AP via ABC News America)
September 3, 2010, The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization calls a special meeting for 24 September to discuss rising food prices. (BBC)
September 3, 2010, The Royal Mail in the United Kingdom launches the first intelligent postage stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology. (BBC)
September 3, 2010, A study published in the journal Cell reports the discovery that the cerebral cortex of mammals shares a common evolutionary origin with mushroom bodies, brain structures involved in learning and memory in insects and other invertebrates.(Science Daily)
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010,
September 4, 2010, Tony Blair is met with a three-hundred person antiwar demonstration and has a small number of individuals throw objects (shoes, bottles and eggs), and encounters an attempted citizen's arrest for war crimes at Eason's in Dublin, Ireland, at his first public book signing for A Journey; four are arrested. Clashes between protesters and police lead to the closure of businesses and the Luas tram system. (The Guardian)
September 4, 2010, A state of emergency and curfew are declared in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (The Guardian)
September 4, 2010, Australian floods: Heavy rain in the Australian state of Victoria causes flooding in the towns of Ballarat, Maryborough and Bendigo with landslides blocking roads in the Victorian Alps. (ABC News Online)
-Floodwaters isolate the town of Birdsville in Queensland. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
September 4, 2010, A plane crash near Fox Glacier in the South Island of New Zealand is believed to have killed 9 people. (ABC News Online)
September 4, 2010, NASA scientists advise the 33 miners trapped in Chile to regulate sleeping patterns, boost intake of Vitamin D and take exercise. (BBC)
September 4, 2010,The President of Guatemala Alvaro Colom declares a state of emergency after weeks of heavy rain results in landslides with at least 21 people dead. (AFP via ABC Online)
September 4, 2010, Former Hurricane Earl loses its tropical storm status after making landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada but left one person dead and a million people without power in Canada. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 4, 2010,Thousands of people protest across France against the government's policy of deporting of Roma people. (Aljazeera)
September 4, 2010, The News of the World alleges that a 4th cricketer from Pakistan is being probed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) into the corruption allegations it broke last week. (BBC)
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010,
September 5, 2010, A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala after heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people. (BBC)
September 5, 2010, The Australian Army is called in to assist with flood relief in the state of Victoria. (ABC News Australia)
September 6, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Hermine slams into northern Mexico near the border with Texas. (Reuters via Swiss Info)
September 6, 2010, The number of deaths for members of the International Security Assistance Force in the War in Afghanistan reaches 500 for the first 9 months of 2010 as opposed to 521 for all of 2009. (Reuters)
September 6, 2010, New Zealand Army soldiers begin providing security at the centre of Christchurch following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake as a state of emergency is extended until Wednesday. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 6, 2010, Over fifty-thousand Australians have been placed on evacuation alert in the Australian state of Victoria in eleven towns since Saturday due to the 2010 Victorian floods. (AFP via The West Australian)
September 6, 2010, Emergency teams in Guatemala resume rescue efforts after mudslides bury dozens of people. (BBC)
September 6, 2010, A wind-driven wildfire in the United States state of Colorado leads to the evacuation of 1,000 houses. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 6, 2010, China investigates the qualifications of all its commercial pilots after 200 of them had falsified their résumés. (BBC)
September 7, 2010, Release of Kid Rock Album Born Free
September 7, 2010, Release of Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place the upcoming fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin
September 7, 2010, Release of NHL 11
September 7, 2010, Release of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
September 7, 2010, Release of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
September 7, 2010, Release of R.U.S.E
September 7, 2010,
September 7, 2010, Current Barclays Capital chief Robert Diamond, one of the world's highest paid bankers, is to become chief executive of Barclays Bank plc succeeding the present incumbent John Varley next year. (BBC)
September 7, 2010, Some 3,500 people are evacuated in Boulder County, Colorado due to wildfires concerns. (AFP via Google News)
September 7, 2010, Japan experiences its record-hottest summer. (Mercury News)
September 7, 2010, Around 85 fires break out in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan, with at least 20 homes destroyed. Winds of 40 to 50 mph cause 113,000 customers to lose electricity. (ABC News America)
September 7, 2010, Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is denied parole by the New York State Division of Parole in the U.S.. (CNN)
September 7, 2010, United States Army General David Petraeus, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, condemns plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks as inflammatory. (New York Times)
September 8, 2010, Series Premiere of Hellcats
September 8, 2010, Release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010, Eight people are missing and at least fifty-four houses are destroyed in a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colorado, in the United States. (CNN)
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010,
September 8, 2010, Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen suspected in participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. (AP via Fox News)
September 8, 2010, Two workers are missing and more than thirty workers are trapped in an oil rig in the Shengli oil field off Dongying in China's Shandong province. (AFP via Google News)
September 8, 2010, The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, is extended for another week following an aftershock to Saturday's earthquake in Lyttelton. (Sydney Morning Herald)
September 8, 2010, The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine causes widespread flooding in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma with at least two people dead. (AP via Yahoo! News)
September 8, 2010, Police in Europe shut down 49 servers and detain ten people in a raid across thirteen countries in a crackdown on film piracy. (AFP via the Melbourne Age)
September 9, 2010,
"Ground zero" mosque and cultural center controversy:
-Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, and Asif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan, call on President of the United States, Barack Obama, to stop International Burn a Koran Day being organised by the Dove World Outreach Center. (The Telegraph)
-Barack Obama describes the event as "a clear recruitment bonanza for al-Qaida" and warns that it will endanger US soldiers. (MSNBC)
-US businessman Donald Trump offers to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 site in New York City where a Muslim group wanted to build a 13-story Islamic centre and mosque. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
-Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center agrees to call off the Koran burning in return for the Park51 community center being relocated, though those associated with Park51 have stated no such agreement exists. (BBC)
-Pastor Terry Jones later reassesses his position after he claimed that he received incorrect information that the Park51 community center would be relocated. (CNN)
September 9, 2010, The 2010 San Bruno, California fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line destroying dozens of houses, killing at least 6 people, and continues burning in San Bruno, California near the US city of San Francisco. (Marketwatch)
September 9, 2010,
September 9, 2010, Archaeologists date the mound of Moot Hill in Scone Palace where medieval Kings of Scotland including Robert the Bruce were crowned back to at least 1,000 years ago. (The Scotsman)
September 9, 2010, Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan. (Xinhua)
September 9, 2010, US District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips rules that the United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy violates the First Amendment rights of gay men and lesbians. (Los Angeles Times)
September 9, 2010, A woman kills two people and injures another at a shooting incident at a Kraft baking plant in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (MSNBC)
September 9, 2010, Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, pays tribute to freedom of speech at a ceremony to honour Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. (Reuters)
September 10, 2010, Release of Resident Evil: After Life
September 10, 2010,
September 10, 2010,
September 10, 2010,
September 10, 2010,
September 10, 2010, Details of 300 cases of sexual abuse, mainly on minors, allegedly perpetrated by Belgium's Roman Catholic clergy are released by Church investigator Peter Adriaenssens. 13 are found to have committed suicide. (BBC)
September 10, 2010, Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC)
September 10, 2010, The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America)
September 10, 2010, A large fish kill, consisting of several different fish species and other marine life, including crabs, stingrays, shrimp, starfish and a whale wash ashore in Venice, Louisiana, near Plaquemines Parish, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and involving more species than usual with localized dead zone and low oxygen events. (NOLA.com)
September 10, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama urges Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a partial construction freeze on the West Bank. (Los Angeles Times)
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010,
September 11, 2010, The United States commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with events in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. (AFP via ABC News)
September 11, 2010, Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in America says the group will not burn the Koran "not now, not ever". (BBC)
September 11, 2010, A man is arrested after a minor explosion at a hotel in Copenhagen, amid heightened security fears in Denmark. (BBC)
September 11, 2010, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the ongoing War in Afghanistan, the first living recipient to be so honored since the Vietnam War. (The Guardian)
September 11, 2010, Muslims around the world celebrate the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP via Google News)
September 11, 2010, U.S. film director Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her film Somewhere. (BBC)
September 11, 2010, A doctor throws a shoe at the prime minister and is promptly arrested and locked up with two bystanders. They are later released unharmed. (The Times of India)
September 11, 2010, Officials in 3 Egyptian governorates declare a state of emergency after a barge leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River north of Aswan. (AP)
September 11, 2010, Mexico experiences its record worst ever rainy season. (The China Post)
September 11, 2010, The death toll rises to 6 from the pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)
September 11, 2010, Four people are dead and twenty-five people are hospitalised after a Coach USA Megabus crashes into a railroad overpass in Salina, New York. (CNN)
September 11, 2010, Hurricane Igor reaches Category 1 in the Atlantic Ocean. (UPI)
September 11, 2010, Jordan signs a nuclear co-operation treaty with Japan to build a nuclear power plant within 10 years. (Press TV)
September 11, 2010, Sex abuse campaigners meet at a conference in Islington, North London, to call for "action not words" from Pope Benedict XVI ahead of his visit to the UK. (BBC)
September 12, 2010,
September 12, 2010,
September 12, 2010, Danish police state that there is no evidence that a small explosives blast in a Copenhagen hotel ties into a larger terror plot. (Al Jazeera)
September 12, 2010, Lady Gaga wins eight MTV Video Music Awards at the 2010 ceremony including Video of the Year for "Bad Romance". (MTV)
September 12, 2010, The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident are permitted to smoke cigarettes after one month of underground entrapment. (BBC)
September 12, 2010, 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion
-The death toll rises to 7 from a pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (Bay City News via San Francisco Chronicle)
-The California Public Utilities Commission orders Pacific Gas and Electric to perform a survey of all natural gas lines in California following the explosion. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
September 12, 2010, Hurricane Igor strengthens to Category 4 in the Atlantic Ocean. (AFP via Google News)
September 12, 2010, Tropical Storm Julia forms in the Atlantic with a tropical storm warning issued for parts of the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
September 12, 2010, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu states that 10-month restrictions on the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will no longer apply after they expire later this month. (Al Jazeera)
September 12, 2010, The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), an important trade pact, comes into force between China and Taiwan. Hundreds of thousands of people protested against it in Taiwan but it was unanimously approved by the island's parliament. (BBC)
September 12, 2010, 2009 detention of American hikers by Iran: Iran announces its willingness to release Sarah Shourd, a U.S. hiker arrested in 2009, on bail and says that she will be permitted to leave the country. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, Christine O'Donnell is elected the Republican Party candidate in the Delaware US Senate race. (The Guardian)
September 13, 2010,
September 13, 2010,
September 13, 2010, Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the Men's Singles at the 2010 US Open defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-2 becoming the seventh man in history to win all four Grand Slam titles. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, Cuba announces plans to cut up to half a million public sector jobs to revive the island's economy, in the biggest private sector shift since the 1959 revolution. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision based in Basel, Switzerland, increases capital requirements for banks around the world to be introduced on 1 January 2015. (The Australian)
September 13, 2010, A study of Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture employees shows that the food industry has been successfully withholding information from inspectors and pressuring the government agencies to withdraw or alter policies which promote food safety. (Reuters)
September 13, 2010, Monsoon flooding on the Yamuna River threatens the Taj Mahal in Agra, India after more than 800,000 cusecs of water had to be released from a barrage in Haryana, while hundreds of nearby villages flooded and flooding continues in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. (MSN India)
September 13, 2010, Russian diplomat Yuri Fedotov takes office as the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (AP)
September 13, 2010, A rare congress of the Korean Workers' Party in North Korea is postponed amid speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
September 13, 2010, André-Joseph Léonard, the Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels and head of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church, announces how the church will deal with widespread cases of sexual abuse within its ranks. (BBC)
September 13, 2010, US defense officials claim they are preparing to notify Congress of plans to sell $60 billion of military equipment to Saudi Arabia. (CNN)
September 14, 2010, Release of Linkin Park album A Thousand Suns
September 14, 2010, Release of Montreal album False Priest
September 14, 2010, Release of Weezer album Hurley
September 14, 2010, Release of Brandon Flowers album Flamingo
September 14, 2010, Release of Halo: Reach Video game
September 14, 2010, French police evacuate the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park in Paris following a bomb threat. (AFP via Google News)
September 14, 2010, British singer George Michael is given a sentence of eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis at the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London. (BBC)
September 14, 2010, Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
September 14, 2010, Iran releases United States hiker Sarah Shourd from Evin Prison following payment of bail. (CNN)
September 14, 2010, A second round of Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority concludes in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Jerusalem Post)
September 14, 2010, The Governor-General of Australia swears in Julia Gillard as Prime Minister of Australia and her Ministry. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
September 14, 2010, Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints gives up his Heisman Trophy won while playing for the USC Trojans due to receiving improper payments. (ESPN)
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010,
September 15, 2010, Pieces of an ancient necropolis taken from Egypt in 1999 are discovered in an antiques shop in Spain. (BBC)
September 15, 2010, The United States and Russia establish a working group to improve relations between the United States military and Russian military. (RIA Novosti)
September 15, 2010, North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea cancels its largest political convention in thirty years officially due to floods caused by Typhoon Kompasu but sparking speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il. (ABC News)
September 16, 2010, Release of I'm Still Here
September 16, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI starts a papal visit to the United Kingdom at Edinburgh, Scotland, with groups expected to protest. (BBC)
September 16, 2010,
September 16, 2010,
September 16, 2010, The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahinga, says the situation in the country remains "dire" and the AMISOM mission is "underfunded". (Al Jazeera)
September 16, 2010, American banks set a new record for the home repossession rate, with 1.2 million homes this year. Another 3.2 million American homes remain in foreclosure proceedings currently.(Reuters)
September 16, 2010, US poverty rates hit 14.3% (43.6 million people), a 15 year high. (Reuters)
September 16, 2010, Transocean, the company that leased the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, accuses BP of covering up data about the explosion and subsequent oil spill. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 16, 2010, BP's first relief well intersects with its Gulf of Mexico Macondo well prior to pumping heavy mud and cement to seal permanently the oil reservoir adjacent to the well. (Yahoo News)
September 16, 2010, The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake is lifted. (The Press)
September 16, 2010, Hurricane Karl becomes a Category 2 hurricane as it heads across Mexico's offshore oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters)
September 16, 2010, Cocoa tree genome (DNA) raw sequence to be made public from Mars, Incorporated and combined Pennsylvania State University, French laboratories, and The Hershey Company research.(NYT)
September 16, 2010, The Seattle Storm win the WNBA Finals for the second time defeating the Atlanta Dream in Game 3 87-84 with Lauren Jackson of the Storm winning the WNBA Finals MVP Award. (NWCN)
September 17, 2010, Release of Devil
September 17, 2010, Release of Alpha and Omega
September 17, 2010, Release of The Town
September 17, 2010, Release of Easy A
September 17, 2010, Release of Jack Goes Boating
September 17, 2010, The Metropolitan Police arrest 6 people in London in connection to an alleged potential threat to the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom. (BBC)
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010,
September 17, 2010, India's ban on a Satyajit Ray documentary is lifted. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, American soap opera As the World Turns airs its final episode on CBS after a 54-year run on television. (AP via MSNBC)
September 17, 2010, US entertainer Paris Hilton agrees to a plea bargain with prosecutors in Las Vegas, Nevada, to avoid a jail sentence. (AP via ABC News America)
September 17, 2010, United Airlines shareholders meeting in Elk Grove, Illinois in Cook County, approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines to create the world's biggest airline. (UPI)
September 17, 2010, The United Nations launches an appeal for more than $2 billion in the wake of the 2010 Pakistan floods: this represents the organisation's biggest response to a natural disaster. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident since 5 August; their rescue is still expected to take several weeks. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, A large storm hits New Zealand with severe weather warnings in place for both the North and South Island for several days. (MSN NZ)
September 17, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
-Hurricane Karl reaches Category 3 strength prior to making landfall in Mexico just north of Veracruz. Two people are killed in a mudslide.(AFP via Google News)
-Bermuda prepares for a potential impact from Hurricane Igor. (AFP via Google News)
September 17, 2010, BP starts pumping cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at the culmination of cleanup efforts for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AFP via Yahoo News)
September 17, 2010, The United States charges 2 married former nuclear contractors with trying to give away the country's nuclear secrets to Venezuela. (BBC)
September 17, 2010, Thailand's red shirt movement holds rallies in the lead up to the fourth anniversary of the removal of former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday. (Al Jazeera)
September 18, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom:
-Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to the victims of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church during his visit to Britain. (Voice of America)
-Thousands of people demonstrate in protest at the Pope's views on condom use, homosexuality, education, the ordination of women and the child abuse case. (BBC)
September 18, 2010,
September 18, 2010,
September 18, 2010, British pop star George Michael is transferred from Pentonville Prison to Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England, to serve out the remaining weeks of his sentence for driving under the influence of cannabis. (UKPA via Google News)
September 18, 2010, Chileans celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chilean Independence Day as do the 33 miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (CNN)
September 18, 2010, China slighty increased its holdings of United States treasury debt to US$846.7billion, this July. (China Daily)
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010, The King's Speech is premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival. (The Guardian)
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010,
September 19, 2010, Hurricane Igor weakens to a Category 1 hurricane as it approaches Bermuda but cuts power to half the country. (AP via Google News)
September 19, 2010, The Metropolitan Police release six men arrested on suspicion of being terrorists during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom without charge. (CNN)
September 19, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI beatifies Cardinal John Henry Newman in an outdoor mass in Birmingham, England, on the final day of his visit to the UK. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of The Event
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of Chuck
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of Castle
September 20, 2010, Season Premiere of House
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Lone Star
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Hawaii 5-O
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Chase
September 20, 2010, Series Premiere of Mike and Molly
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010,
September 20, 2010, The director of Glastonbury Abbey issues an apology after giving Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage access to the grave of King Arthur during a live TV broadcast. (The Guardian)
September 20, 2010, More than 600 antiquities lost in mysterious circumstances due to "inappropriate handover procedures" after being repatriated by the United States in 2009 are found and returned to the National Museum of Iraq. (BBC)
September 20, 2010, Jailed U.S. entertainer Lindsay Lohan has her probation revoked by Judge Elden Fox following a failed drug test. (CNN)
September 20, 2010, Admiral Thad Allen of the United States Coast Guard, the man responsible for leading the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, declares that BP's Macondo well is sealed. (Wall Street Journal via The Australian)
September 20, 2010, The 54th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference opens in Vienna with attendance by 151 countries. (Xinhua)
September 20, 2010, World leaders arrive in New York City for a United Nations summit to discuss progress in implementing Millennium Development Goals. (CNN)
September 20, 2010, Jupiter becomes the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963. (UPI)
September 20, 2010, Kenny McKinley, a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos in the US National Football League is found dead. (USA Today)
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Raising Hope
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Running Wilde
September 21, 2010, Series Premiere of Detroit 1-8-7
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of NCIS
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles
September 21, 2010, Season Premiere of Glee
September 21, 2010, Lawrence Summers announces that he will leave as head of the United States National Economic Council, responsible for advising President Barack Obama on economic policy. (New York Times)
September 21, 2010, Release of Civilization Video game
September 21, 2010, Release of Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010, Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe. (AP)
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010,
September 21, 2010, NATO fatalities rise to 529 making 2010 the most deadly year of the war since 2001. (New York Times)
September 21, 2010, Tropical Storm Lisa forms in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Canadian Business)
September 21, 2010, U.S. entertainers Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are stopped by immigrations at a Japanese airport and forbidden to enter the country due to Paris's drug conviction the day prior. (Fox News)
September 21, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-The Commonwealth Games Federation demands that India improve conditions at the athletes' village in Delhi. (BBC)
-At least 23 people are injured after a footbridge collapses near the main Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. (Reuters)
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of Undercovers
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of The Whole Truth
September 22, 2010, Series Premiere of The Defenders
September 22, 2010, Season Premiere of Criminal Minds
September 22, 2010, Season Premiere of Law and Order: SUV
September 22, 2010, Release of Black Country album Communion
September 22, 2010, Release of Selena Gomez album A Year without Rain
September 22, 2010, Release of You will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
September 22, 2010, Release of F1 2010 Video game
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010,
September 22, 2010, An international summit titled "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue" begins in Moscow, Russia, on territorial claims and co-operation in the Arctic. (BBC)
September 22, 2010, At least 18 people are dead and 44 missing after heavy rains from Typhoon Fanapi flood parts of southern China. (CNN)
September 22, 2010, Two workers are killed and another is injured after a mine in Balıkesir collapses. 22 workers have been killed there in the past six months. (Todays Zaman)
September 22, 2010, U.S. celebrity Paris Hilton is barred from entering Japan after pleading guilty to cocaine possession in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier in the week. (Times of India)
September 22, 2010, Radio Free Asia reports that North Korea's National Defense Commission held an emergency meeting presided over by Kim Jong-un to compromise the upcoming G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. (Korea Times)
September 22, 2010, The discovery of the ceratopsids species Kosmoceratops richardsoni and Utahceratops gettyi in Utah is announced. (National Geographic)
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Fringe
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of The Mentalist
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Bones
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of CSI
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Private Practice
September 23, 2010, Season Premiere of Greys Anatomy
September 23, 2010, Series Premiere of My Generation
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010, The United States and other western nations including Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walk out of the United Nations General Assembly following claims by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the "majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world" say that the 9/11 attacks were the work of the Government of the United States trying to protect Israel. (Voice of America)
September 23, 2010,
September 23, 2010, At least six people die in a mine collapse in Kayanza Province, northern Burundi. (RTT News)
September 23, 2010, The death toll in China from Typhoon Fanapi reaches 54 with dozens more people missing. (AP via SignOn SanDiego)
September 23, 2010, Tropical Storm Matthew forms in the western Caribbean Sea with predictions that it could hit Central America on Friday or Saturday. (Reuters)
September 23, 2010, Iran withdraws its bid for a seat on the International Atomic Energy Agency board due to lack of support for its candidacy. (AFP)
September 23, 2010, The U.S state of Virginia executes its first woman since 1912; Teresa Lewis will also be the first woman in the U.S to be executed since 2005. (Sky News)
September 23, 2010, North Korea reshuffles senior officials days ahead of a meeting of the Korean Workers' Party expected to lead to a transition of power from Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un. (AFP)
September 23, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-Countries including New Zealand, Canada and Scotland delay their departure for the host city of Delhi, India, due to concerns about unsafe and unhygienic accommodation in the athletes' village.(AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
- The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh convenes an emergency meeting of Ministers to discuss problems with the facilities. (Livemint)
September 24, 2010, Release of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
September 24, 2010, Release of Legends of the Guardians
September 24, 2010, Release of You Again
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Supernatural
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Smallville
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of The Good Guys
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of CSI: NY
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Medium
September 24, 2010, Season Premiere of Human Target
September 24, 2010, Series Premiere of Blue Bloods
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010,
September 24, 2010, The Beano is to feature a President of the United States for the first time in its history. (BBC)
September 24, 2010, Gold prices reach a record US$1,300/oz in a prolonged rally. (MarketWatch)
September 24, 2010, The Thanet Wind Farm, the world's largest offshore wind farm, opens off the southeast coast of Thanet district in Kent, England. (AP via yahoo)
September 24, 2010, Chile freezes the assets of San Esteban Mining to fund the cost of the rescue effort from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (AFP via Adelaide Advertiser)
September 24, 2010, Hurricane Lisa becomes the seventh hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (UPI)
September 24, 2010, The United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton meets with the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas to discuss an extension of the Middle East peace process. (AFP via Google News)
September 25, 2010, A specially built cage is delivered to the scene of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (Al Jazeera)
September 25, 2010,
September 25, 2010,
September 25, 2010, Those sexually abused as children by Catholic priests in Italy gather in public for the first time in Verona to campaign for the act to be made a crime against humanity and to organise an international demonstration outside the Vatican next month. (BBC)
September 25, 2010, The United Nations estimates on a preliminary basis that at least 2,000 tents were damaged or destroyed in the storm that struck Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera)
September 25, 2010, Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly, where he states that Palestinians desire "a comprehensive and just" peace agreement and requests that Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank. (Xinhua)
September 25, 2010, The Soyuz TMA-18 capsule carrying three members of the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Xinhua)
September 25, 2010, Michael Fennell, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, says that the Games will go ahead but that there "was extensive work to be done" for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, ahead of its opening on 3 October. (Reuters)
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of The Simpsons
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Family Guy
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of The Cleveland Show
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Desperate Housewives
September 26, 2010, Season Premiere of Brothers and Sisters
September 26, 2010,
September 26, 2010, The Stuxnet computer worm fails to harm the operating system of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr after infecting the personal computers of staff. (BBC)
September 26, 2010, America's Department of Defense (The Pentagon) admits purchasing nearly 10,000 copies of a memoir by U.S. Army Reserve officer Anthony Shaffer, destroying all of them in an effort to suppress secret information and ordering heavy redactions of the book's second printing. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 26, 2010, Australian climate change activists close down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
September 26, 2010, Towns in the U.S. state of Wisconsin evacuate residents due to flooding of the Wisconsin River. (CNN)
September 26, 2010, The Israeli settlement freeze ends at 22.00 (GMT), should Israel restart construction of buildings on the West Bank the peace talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are expected to end. (BBC)
September 26, 2010, Ed Miliband declares the death of Tony Blair's centrist New Labour in his first interview since being elected leader of the British Labour Party yesterday. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 26, 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games:
-Thousands of slum dwellers are handed eviction notices in the Indian capital Delhi, a week before the 2010 Commonwealth Games is due to open. (TV New Zealand)
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010, The US state department expresses disappointment at Israel's decision not to extend its ban on settlement building in the West Bank. (BBC)
September 27, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs a small business lending bill into law. (Reuters)
September 27, 2010,
September 27, 2010, Los Angeles experiences all-time record high temperature day at 45°C or 113F. (Los Angeles Times)
September 27, 2010, Gloria Stuart, the oldest-ever nominee for an Academy award, specifically the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the elder Rose in the 1997 film Titanic, dies in Los Angeles, aged 100. (Variety)
September 27, 2010, Unilever plc, an Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, has entered into an agreement to buy Alberto-Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin care products, for $3.7 billion. (TheStreet)
September 28, 2010, Series Premiere of No Ordinary Family
September 28, 2010, Season Premiere of The Good Wife
September 28, 2010, Release of TI album King Uncaged
September 28, 2010, Release of Bad Religion album Dissent of Man
September 28, 2010, Release of Jimmy Eat World album Invented
September 28, 2010, Release of Soundgarden album Telephantasm
September 28, 2010, Release of Dead Rising 2
September 28, 2010, Release of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
September 28, 2010, Release of Lara Croft Guardian of the Light (Full Release)
September 28, 2010, Release of FIFA 11
September 28, 2010, Release of Front Mission Evolved
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010, Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is named as a General, the clearest sign that he will be named the successor to his father. (The Guardian)
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010,
September 28, 2010, US movie director Arthur Penn best known as the director of Bonnie and Clyde dies of congestive heart failure in New York City. (Los Angeles Times)
September 28, 2010, The business-software giant Oracle files a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleging that Micron Technology, a manufacturer of memory chips, colluded with other manufacturers to fix prices. (Reuters)
September 28, 2010, The Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park are evacuated due to a bomb threat but nothing is found. (ABC Online)
September 28, 2010, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit permanently lifts an injunction thereby allowing the United States Government to fund embryonic stem cell research. (CNN)
September 28, 2010, The Workers' Party of Korea conference begins in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Time)
September 29, 2010, Astronomers discover the first Earth analog extrasolar planet that may be capable of supporting life, Gliese 581 g, located within the habitable zone and orbiting Gliese 581, a red dwarf star twenty light years from the solar system. (Washington Post)
September 29, 2010,
September 29, 2010,
September 29, 2010, Series Premiere of Law and Order: LA
September 29, 2010, Comedian Greg Giraldo dies at the age of 44 in a New Brunswick, New Jersey, hospital after an accidental drug overdose four days ago. (E Online)
September 29, 2010, A magnitude 5,9 aftershock of March 11, 2010 Pichilemu, Chile earthquake hits the Lolol, O'Higgins Region area. Power outages were reported in Lolol. (BBC)
September 29, 2010, Germany makes the final payment of its World War I reparations. (ABC News)
September 29, 2010, The European Commission issues a statement saying it will take legal action against France unless it complies with European Union rules on freedom of movement in relation to recent expulsion of Roma within the next two weeks. (National Post)
September 29, 2010, Kim Jong-un, the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is appointed to two party posts in a move seen as a gradual transfer of power. (BBC)
September 30, 2010, Release of Final Fantasy XIV
September 30, 2010, North Korea releases the first official image of Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un. (BBC)
September 30, 2010,
September 30, 2010,
September 30, 2010, 2010 Ecuador crisis:
-A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état. (The Telegraph)
-President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country. (AFP)
-The Ecuadorian Army rescues President Correa from hospital where he was being held by rebel troops. (CNN)
September 30, 2010, A convoy of at least 27 fuel tankers headed for NATO forces in Afghanistan is attacked in Pakistan's Sindh province. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)
September 30, 2010, US actor Tony Curtis, who appeared in more than 100 films including Some Like It Hot and The Defiant Ones, dies in Henderson, Nevada. (People)
September 30, 2010, The International Monetary Fund calls for tighter regulation of credit rating agencies. (BBC)
September 30, 2010, Two earthquakes occur off the coast of West Papua in Indonesia of 6.2 and 7.2 in magnitude. (AFP via Google)
September 30, 2010, Heavy rain from former Tropical Storm Nicole causes flooding the US states of North Carolina and Virginia and delays in airline flights on the east coast. (CNN)
September 30, 2010, China and the United States officially resume military ties after a 10-month break following US arms sales to Taiwan, with the two countries emphasizing the importance of a close military dialogue. The two countries will also confer on maritime issues next month.(Business Week}
September 30, 2010, The new right wing coalition in the Netherlands have agreed to ban full Islamic veils, such as the Burqa and Niqab (BBC)
September 30, 2010, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that the computer worm Stuxnet has affected 6 million computers and almost 1,000 enterprises in the country. (Wall Street Journal)
whew, whutta month...
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