August 1, 2011, US debt ceiling Both houses of the United States Congress will vote on a deal to resolve the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis. (Bloomberg)
August 1, 2011,
August 1, 2011, Anna Bligh, the Premier of Queensland, releases the results of an inquiry into the 2010–2011 Queensland floods which killed 35 people. (Courier Mail)
August 1, 2011, North Korea agrees to further talks with the United States as part of efforts to restore Six Party talks on its nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap)
August 2, 2011,
August 2, 2011,
August 2, 2011, Egypt's military police and riot police end a three-week Tahrir Square sit-in. (The Washington Post)
August 2, 2011, The United Nations warns that Uganda could be the next country to be affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa. (Reuters)
August 2, 2011, Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner is arrested and later bailed as part of the ongoing investigation into the affair. (BBC)
August 2, 2011, The United States Senate passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling in order to avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis and President Barack Obama signs it into law. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 2, 2011, French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. (Reuters)
August 3, 2011, Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak leaves the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh to return to Cairo for his trial. (AFP via The Melbourne Age)
August 3, 2011,
August 3, 2011,
August 3, 2011,
August 3, 2011, More than 26,000 people have permanently left New Zealand's Canterbury Region since the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake in February. (AAP via News Limited)
August 3, 2011, The Chinese Dagong Global Credit Rating downgrades the United States credit rating from A+ to A with a negative outlook. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 3, 2011, Charity campaigner Heather Mills has told the BBC's Newsnight that a senior Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by Sir Paul McCartney while they were together. (BBC)
August 3, 2011, Charity campaigner Heather Mills has told the BBC's Newsnight that a senior Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by Sir Paul McCartney while they were together. (BBC)
August 4, 2011, Release of Watch The Throne album
August 4, 2011,
August 4, 2011, Stock markets around the world fall on the back of concerns about global economic growth with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 4%. (New York Times)
August 4, 2011,
August 4, 2011,
August 4, 2011, Sky News reports new evidence that North Korean officials have been involved in the illegal drugs trade. (SKy News)
August 4, 2011,Tropical Storm Emily is expected to make landfall on Haiti where it is expected to cause heavy flooding. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
August 4, 2011, The Japanese government led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan announces that it is firing three senior bureaucrats responsible for nuclear energy policy as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster earlier this year. (AP via Washington Post)
August 4, 2011, The shutdown of the United States Federal Aviation Administration will end August 8th. (Washington Post)
August 5, 2011, Release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
August 5, 2011, Release of The Change Up
August 5, 2011, Release of The Whistleblower
August 5, 2011, The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. (Reuters)
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August 5, 2011,
August 5, 2011,
August 5, 2011,
August 5, 2011,
August 5, 2011, Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue falls from Europe and the United States. (SBS)
August 6, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: The Gulf Co-operation Council urges an end to the "bloodshed" in Syria, and calls for reforms. (Al Arabiya)
August 6, 2011, A NATO Chinook helicopter crashes in the Sayd Abad district of Afghanistan's Wardak province after being shot down by the Taliban with 37 deaths. (Dawn)
-At least 20 of the U.S. Navy SEALs killed in the attack were members of SEAL Team Six, the unit that carried out the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. The Associated Press and CNN later reported that none of the unit members that participated in the raid were involved. (AP)
August 6, 2011, British rioters set police cars on fire on the High Road in the London suburb of Tottenham after Metropolitan Police shoot Mark Duggan on Thursday. (BBC)
August 7, 2011, The Metropolitan Police Service restores order in Tottenham, north London, after a riot on Saturday night in which twenty-six police officers were injured. (AFP via Hindustan Times)
August 8, 2011, Stock markets in Asia, Australia, and the United States fall further after the credit rating of the United States is downgraded with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 600 points. (Market Watch)
August 8, 2011, 2011 London riots: More than 215 people have been arrested in London, England since the riots began. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
-Fresh violence breaks out in Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham, Croydon and several other areas of London as Home Secretary Theresa May meets with police chiefs to discuss the crisis. (BBC)
-London Mayor Boris Johnson says he will return early from his family holiday on Tuesday to deal with the riots. (The Telegraph)
-British Prime Minister David Cameron returns home early to chair a meeting of the COBRA Committee. (Daily Mail)
-Unrest breaks out in Birmingham City Centre and Liverpool. (BBC)
August 8, 2011,
August 8, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: The Syrian opposition reports that the Army has entered the town of Maarat an-Numan. (Al Jazeera)
-Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, again warns the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad to stop violence against civilians. (Ynet)
-The website of the Ministry of Defense of Syria is taken over by Anonymous. (Huffington Post)
-Syria rejects a statement by the Gulf Cooperation Council condemning its crackdown on protests. (Syrian Arab News Agency)
August 8, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: Fighting continues on the eastern and western fronts. (Al Jazeera)
August 8, 2011, The Royal Navy appoints its first female war ship commander; Lieutenant Commander Sarah West, 39, will take command of HMS Portland in April 2012. (BBC)
August 9, 2011,
August 9, 2011, English riots: Rioting continues in London with lawlessness spreading to other English cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. (BBC)
-The Prime Minister David Cameron returns to Britain to chair an emergency meeting on the crisis and later recalls Parliament on Thursday. (BBC)
-Police arrest 334 people and charge 69 after last night's riots. (Al-Jazeera)-
-The Football Association calls off a friendly match between the England and Netherlands national teams. (The Guardian)
-The far-right English Defense League says it will send its members onto the streets to quell riots. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
August 9, 2011, August 2011 stock markets fall The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates. (News Limited)
-South Korea's financial authorities promise to take action to stabilise markets as stocks on the Korea Exchange continue to fall. (Yonhap)
-The Australian and New Zealand dollars continue to fall as investors seek security with the Aussie dollar falling below parity. (Bloomberg)-
-The Dow Jones Industrial Average on the New York Stock Exchange as world stock markets recover after recent falls. (Wall Street Journal)
August 9, 2011, The U.S. Federal Reserve announces it will keep interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" at least through mid 2013, though it makes no commitment for further quantitative easing. (Reuters)
August 9, 2011,Warren Jeffs, former leader of the FLDS Church and formerly on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, is sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for a conviction on child sexual assault charges. (CNN)
August 9, 2011, Voters in some parts of the US state of Wisconsin go to the polls for recall elections for six Republican Party State Senators with Republicans retaining four of the six seats. (New York Times)
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011, England riots: Rioting hits other English cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham, though London is largely quiet.(BBC)
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, holds another cabinet meeting to discuss responses to the riots with police authorised to use water cannon and rubber bullets. (CNN)
-Police from Scotland are being sent to England to help combat riots and disorder. (BBC)-
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011,
August 10, 2011, The People's Republic of China's first aircraft carrier, the refitted Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, commences its first sea trial under the Chinese flag. (Bloomberg)
August 10, 2011, Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue to rebound after the United States Federal Reserve promises to keep interest rates near zero for two years. (CNBC)
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011,
August 11, 2011, August 2011 stock markets fall and rebound Stock markets in Asia and Australia fall on the back of a sharp decline in Wednesday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (MarketWatch)
-The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 423.37 points, the fourth-straight day U.S. stocks have changed by over 400 points. The market dropped on Monday and Wednesday, and registered increases Tuesday and today. (Hartford Courant)
August 11, 2011,The City Council in the New Zealand city of Christchurch announces plans to rebuild its central business district after the recent earthquake. (TV New Zealand)
August 12, 2011, Release of 30 Minutes or Less
August 12, 2011, Release of Final Destination 5
August 12, 2011,
August 12, 2011, The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit strikes down the health insurance mandate of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (AP via Washington Post)
August 12, 2011,
August 13, 2011, The first electoral contest of the 2012 United States Presidential election takes place in the Iowa town of Ames with the Ames Straw Poll for Republican Party candidates with Michele Bachmann emerging as the winner. (AP via Yahoo! News)
August 13, 2011,
August 14, 2011, Stage rigging collapses at the Indiana State Fair, killing at least five and injuring dozens of fans of the musical group Sugarland and singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles. (CNN)
August 14, 2011, Anti-Muammar Gaddafi rebels make major progress in the 2011 Libyan civil war, advancing into Az Zawiyah, only 50 km west of the capital city, Tripoli. (Reuters)
August 15, 2011, Release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
August 15, 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gives a live address to the nation after rebels claim a number of victories in the 2011 Libyan civil war. (CNN)
August 15, 2011, Japan's economy shrinks by 0.3% in the April-June quarter confirming the country is in a recession caused in part by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Market Watch)
August 15, 2011, Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appears in court for the second session of his trial with his two sons Alaa and Gamal who share corruption charges with him; the trial is subsequently adjourned and ordered to be merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly. (PressTV)
August 15, 2011, In baseball, Jim Thome of the Minnesota Twins becomes the eighth player in the history of North American Major League Baseball to hit 600 career home runs. (MSNBC) August 16, 2011, The economy of Germany grows by only 0.1% in the second quarter of 2011, raising concerns about the European economy as a whole. (AP via Washington Post)
August 17, 2011,
August 17, 2011,
August 17, 2011, The price of gold reaches a new record after the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez announces plans to nationalize the Venezuelan gold industry. (Dow Jones via The Australian)
August 18, 2011, August 2011 stock markets fall The DAX, CAC 40, Nasdaq drop over 5%, the FTSE 100 index by 4.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 3.7%. (BBC)
August 18, 2011,
August 18, 2011,
August 19, 2011, Release of Conan
August 19, 2011,
August 19, 2011,
August 19, 2011,
August 19, 2011, August 2011 stock markets fall: The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei Stock Average falls by 1.9% in early trading as the trend of stock market falls continues. (Wall Street Journal)
-The All Ordinaries Index on the Australian Stock Exchange falls by 4.4% with Asian markets generally down. (AAP via The Australian)
August 19, 2011,The announcement of possible wreck relocation of Swedish 16th century warship Mars in the Baltic Sea. (AFP via Dawn.com)
August 20, 2011, Heavy fighting is reported in the capital Tripoli as the rebel advance continues. (The Telegraph)
August 20, 2011,
August 20, 2011, Striking Verizon Communications workers will return to work from a strike on the night of Monday, August 22, 2011, even without a formal contract. (Journal Star of Peoria)
August 21, 2011, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, calls on Muammar Gaddafi to "relinquish power once and for all." (MSNBC)
-Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, the Vice Chairman of the National Transitional Council, says that "the zero hour has started" with fighting continuing in Tripoli. (Xinhua)
-Gaddafi appears on Libyan television claiming to be the "father of Libya". (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 21, 2011,
August 21, 2011,
August 21, 2011, A team of Australian and British geologists claim to have the found the world's oldest fossils in the Strelley Pool rock formation in the outback of the Australian state of Western Australia. According to the Monday, August 22 Huffington Post online video and short article about them they "are thought to be 3.4 billion years old. Some believe that the organisms could also have lived on Mars, as at the time when they lived there was very little oxygen on Earth, and Mars was known to have had both the water and sulphur necessary to sustain the life forms." (New York Times)
August 22, 2011, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the National Transitional Council, announces that Muammar Gaddafi's regime has collapsed. (TABNAK)
-National Transitional Council forces take control of Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is reported captured by rebels. (ABC News Australia)
-In an audio message, Gaddafi urges the people of Tripoli to "purge the capital" even as fighters sweep through the city and take control of the symbolic Green Square, which is subsequently renamed Martyrs' Square. (Press TV)
-People celebrate their victory in the streets of Tripoli by saying Shahada, ending to 42 years of dictatorship. (TABNAK)
August 22, 2011,
August 22, 2011, Hurricane Irene reaches hurricane strength over Puerto Rico, becoming the first of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
August 23, 2011, A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Mineral, Virginia; a nearby nuclear reactor is automatically shutdown due to the quake. This is the most powerful earthquake to hit Virginia since 1897. (New York Times)
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August 23, 2011, Heavy fighting continues in the Libyan capital Tripoli as Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi leads a counterattack despite earlier reports of his capture. (ABC News Australia)
-Rebels capture Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizia compound after heavy fighting. (BBC)
August 23, 2011, A judge in New York City rules in favour dropping sexual assault charges against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (New York Times)
August 23, 2011, President Obama provides temporary relief for illegal immigrants who are students, veterans, the elderly, crime victims and those with family, including same-sex partners, as part of immigration reform in the United States. (Los Angeles Times)
August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs resigns as the CEO of Apple Inc. Tim Cook took over the CEO position for the company. (Wall Street Journal)
August 24, 2011, National Transitional Council Chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil announces legislative and presidential elections within eight months, and promises that Muammar Gaddafi will be tried in Libya. (Ynetnews)
-Muammar Gaddafi vows to fight until "death or victory" despite the capture of his Bab al-Azizia compound in southern Tripoli. (The Telegraph)
August 24, 2011,
August 24, 2011, Hurricane Irene strengthens to Category 3 status as it heads towards The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos and then the East Coast of the United States. (News Limited via The Herald Sun)
August 24, 2011, Moody's credit rating agency downgrades Japan to Aa3 due to weak economic growth prospects and high levels of public debt. (Bloomberg)
August 24, 2011, A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits near the Amazon region of Peru (MSNBC)
August 24, 2011, North Korea indicates it is ready to bring about a self-imposed moratorium on its nuclear weapons program. (AP via USA Today)
August 24, 2011, A Progress resupply vehicle destined for the International Space Station experiences a catastrophic engine failure and fails to reach orbit impacting in the Altai Republic
August 25, 2011, Hurricane Irene: New York City announces its plans to shut down subways, buses and commuter trains ahead of the likely arrival of Hurricane Irene. (NBC News)
-The US city of Norfolk, Virginia declares a mandatory evacuation of lowlying areas by 8am Saturday morning. (Norfolk Government)
August 25, 2011,
August 25, 2011,
August 25, 2011,
August 25, 2011, The New York Yankees hit three grand slam home runs in a single game, the first time such a feat has occurred, to win over the Oakland Athletics. (The New York Times)
August 25, 2011, London's Metropolitan Police Service says that it has now made over 2,000 arrests in connection with the riots which occurred in London. (BBC)
August 26, 2011, Release of Colombiana
August 26, 2011, Release of Don't be Afraid of the Dark
August 26, 2011, Release of Our Idiot Brother
August 26, 2011, Hurricane Irene: Hurricane Irene approaches the east coast of the United States ahead of making landfall on Saturday with 50 million people in its path. (WRAL)
August 26, 2011,
August 26, 2011,
August 26, 2011, Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, gives a keynote address at a central banks conference at the US resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming as statistics show that the US economy grew by 1%. (Reuters via CNBC)
August 26, 2011, The Associated Press reports that President Barack Obama's uncle, Onyango Obama, 67, is stopped on suspicion of drunken driving in Framingham, Massachusetts. (Peoria Journal Star)
August 26, 2011, Scientists at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne announce their discovery of J1719-143, a planet made entirely of diamond orbiting a pulsar - only the second time such a planetary mass has been discovered. (CBC)
August 27, 2011, Hurricane Irene makes landfall in the U.S. state of North Carolina near Cape Lookout. (Washington Post)
August 28, 2011, The storm reaches New York City with 370,000 people having been evacuated from low lying areas. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 28, 2011,
August 28, 2011, The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards conclude in Los Angeles with Katy Perry winning Video of the Year for Firework. (Entertainment Weekly)
August 29, 2011, Release of The Carter IV
August 29, 2011, Release of Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with you
August 29, 2011,
August 29, 2011,
August 30, 2011, Release of Madden 12
August 30, 2011, Release of Bodycount videogame
August 30, 2011, Several members of the Gaddafi family are reported as having fled to Algeria. (BBC)
August 30, 2011, Muslims celebrate Eid ul-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. In Indonesia, however, the government rules that the end of Ramadan should be delayed one day. (Wall Street Journal)
August 30, 2011, Hurricane Irene: The death toll from Hurricane Irene reaches 40 in the continental United States plus three people in the Dominican Republic and one in Puerto Rico. (NZ Stuff)
-The New England state of Vermont suffers its worst flooding in 100 years. (Associated Press)
-The U.S. state of New Jersey suffers extensive flooding with Passaic County, Mercer County and Middlesex County worst affected. (International Business Times)
August 30, 2011, Kenneth E. Melson is replaced as the acting head of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a result of a controversial gun trafficking operation called Operation Fast and Furious. (Washington Post)
August 31, 2011, Release of The Debt
August 31, 2011,
August 31, 2011, Hurricane Katia becomes the second hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. (National Hurricane Center)
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