August 1, 2012, Power is restored in India following an earlier blackout in three grids that left over 600 million people without power. (AFP via France 24)
August 2, 2012,
August 3, 2012, Release of Total Recall
August 3, 2012, Release of Whimpy Diaries: Dog Days
August 3, 2012, Release of 360
August 3, 2012, Release of Celeste and Jesse
August 3, 2012,
August 5, 2012, A gunman opens fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator later dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. (CNN)
August 5, 2012, 2012 Summer Olympics: In tennis, Andy Murray defeats Roger Federer to win the men's singles final, securing Britain's 16th gold medal in the process. (BBC Sport)
-In athletics, sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the 100 metres final. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lands safely on the surface of Mars. (Reuters)
August 6, 2012,
August 6, 2012,
August 6, 2012,
August 7, 2012,
August 8, 2012, Release of Hope Springs
August 8, 2012, China announces plan to close one-third of the nation's 23 rare earth mines and about half of 99 smelting companies. (CNN)
August 8, 2012, A preliminary magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes Orange County, California, near Whittier and Anaheim, five miles from Placentia, California near Chino Hills, California, and Orange, California, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), as reported by NBC News Los Angeles, hours after a 4.4-magnitude temblor affected Yorba Linda, California, along with two other quakes with magnitudes 2.7 and 1.2. Minimal damage was reported.(NBC) August 8, 2012, Anthropologists find the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial in Templo Mayor, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. This finding is "unprecedented for the Aztec culture." (The Huffington Post)
August 8, 2012, Marvin Lee Wilson is executed by the state of Texas despite the low IQ results that could have invalidated his punishment. (CBS News)
August 8, 2012, Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter in the 2011 Tucson shooting, pleads guilty to all charges and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (CBS News)
August 9, 2012,
August 9, 2012,
August 9, 2012, Barclays plc appoints Sir David Walker as its new chairman following the Libor scandal. (BBC)
August 10, 2012, Release of Bourne Legacy
August 10, 2012, Release of The Campaign
August 10, 2012, Release of 2 Days in New York
August 10, 2012, Release of Red Hook Summer
August 10, 2012, The United States says they are planning to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas of Vietnam, the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. (CNN)
August 11, 2012, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the United States presidency, names Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the presidential election in November. (BBC)
August 11, 2012, Two earthquakes, the strongest a magnitude 6.4, strike near the northwestern Iranian cities of Tabriz and Ahar, killing at least 250 people and injuring up to 1,800 others. (BBC)
August 12, 2012, The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony is held, featuring a celebration of British pop music and the handover of the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the 2016 Games. (BBC)
August 12, 2012,
August 13, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Grimm
August 13, 2012, WikiLeaks revelations and attack: WikiLeaks reveals data showing that the U.S. government has been secretly spying on the public using civilian security cameras with Trapwire. (Wired)
August 13, 2012, American publisher and editor Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and a leader of 1960s sexual revolution dies at the age of 90 in New York City. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
August 13, 2012, Two new potential pyramid sites are discovered in Egypt. (Daily Mail)
August 13, 2012, Iran announces that the death toll from the 2012 Ahar-Varzaqan earthquakes is 306 with 3,037 injured. (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 13, 2012, The Vatican orders Pope Benedict XVI's former butler to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leaking allegations of corruption in the Holy See. (Reuters)
August 14, 2012, Release of Sleeping Dogs video game
August 14, 2012, Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda, California, is arrested and charged with residential burglary and selling stolen property from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs. (MSN)
August 15, 2012, Release of Timothy Green
August 15, 2012, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is taken to hospital as a "precautionary measure" after a recurrence of a bladder infection that affected him earlier in the year. (BBC)
August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández pitches the 23rd Perfect Game in Major League Baseball history for the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field. (Seattle Times)
August 16, 2012,
August 16, 2012, WikiLeaks British police mass near the Ecuadorean embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resides, after Britain threatens to use force to extract him. (Reuters)
August 16, 2012, Two Louisiana sheriff's deputies are killed and two others wounded in a shooting outside a steel plant, Bayou Steel Plant, in LaPlace, Louisiana, Louisiana State Police report. Two suspects are in custody and one remains on the loose. (CNN)
August 16, 2012, Nuclear regulators from 9 countries hold an emergency meeting in Brussels after fissures were found in the Doel 3 pressurized water reactor steel vessel. This vessel type was built by now-defunct Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in 22 operating reactors worldwide, among which 10 in the US. (Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control)
August 17, 2012, Release of The Expendables 2
August 17, 2012, Release of Paranorman
August 17, 2012, Release of Sparkle
August 17, 2012, Release of Cosmopolis
August 17, 2012, Russia: A Moscow court has found three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot guilty under "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity" and has jailed them for two years. (Al Jazeera)
-Gay pride events are banned in Moscow for 100 years. (BBC)
August 17, 2012, The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rules that the German constitution allows its military to start operations inside Germany, for the first time since 1945.(Der Spiegel, in German)
August 18, 2012,
August 18, 2012, The Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons releases the first volume of a planned two-volume report on the LIBOR fixing scandal. (Commons Committees)
August 19, 2012, In the stand-off between Britain and Ecuador over Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a speech critical of the United States' policy against Wikileaks, "dragging us all in a dark, repressive world in which journalists live under fear of prosecution", from the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy. (Channel 4)
August 19, 2012, British-born film director Tony Scott dies after leaping 200ft from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. (The Telegraph)
August 19, 2012, A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits off the West coast of Washington state. (Reuters)
August 19, 2012, Radioactive contamination causes hereditary genetic mutations in life forms. This has been proven on butterfly generations. At stated times, the effect on humans remains unclear. (20 minutes, in German)
August 20, 2012,
August 20, 2012, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh is discharged from hospital following treatment for a bladder infection. (BBC)
August 20, 2012, American comedian Phyllis Diller dies at the age of 95. (USA Today)
August 20, 2012, Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chongqing Politburo leader Bo Xilai, is given a suspended death sentence for the murder of Neil Heywood in China. (AP via The Washington Post)
August 21, 2012, Release of Counterstrike: Global Offense
August 21, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac forms in the Atlantic Ocean with tropical storm warnings in place for Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St Martin, St Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Anguilla, Saba, St Eustatius, St Maarten, Culebra and Vieques. (AAP via News Limited)
August 21, 2012, United States Congressman Todd Akin, who is also a candidate for the United States Senate, vows to continue as the US-wide fall-out over his rape, pregancy and anti-abortion comments rages on. (RTÉ News)
August 21, 2012, In the debate on cosmogony, Physical Review publishes a study describing the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, possibly explaining better how our well-known spacetime could originate from original matter. (Space.com)
August 22, 2012, Release of Hit and Run
August 22, 2012, Penn State's ex-president rejects the FBI report accusing the university of a cover-up, saying he never heard even a hint of child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky, despite indications of "horseplay", having never met a higher level of awareness. (Reuters)
August 22, 2012, Russia becomes the 156th member of the World Trade Organization. Vanuatu becomes the 157th member. (Bloomberg)
August 23, 2012,
August 23, 2012, Israel's President Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is "at the core of Jewish identity", in a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
August 23, 2012, Pakistan again officially protests against the U.S. drone strikes, calling them unlawful, against international law and a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Pakistan states emphatically that the attacks are "unacceptable". (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
August 23, 2012, The 7th parole request of Mark David Chapman, murderer of former Beatle John Lennon, is denied.
August 23, 2012, American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he will not contest United States Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping paving the way for him to be stripped of his titles including seven Tour de France victories. (USA Today)
August 24, 2012, Release of Premium Rush
August 24, 2012,
August 24, 2012, The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it will ban former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and recommend he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles. (The Washington Post)
August 24, 2012,
August 24, 2012, A South Korean court rules that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents on mobile computing technology. (The Wall Street Journal)
August 24, 2012, A court in Oslo, Norway, deems Anders Behring Breivik sane and sentences Breivik to 21 years' imprisonment for killing 77 people in twin terror attacks in July 2011. (BBC)
August 25, 2012,
August 25, 2012,
August 25, 2012,
August 26, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac: The United States National Hurricane Center issues hurricane warnings for the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A state of emergency is in effect in these four areas. (Fox News)
August 26, 2012, A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador with tsunami warnings in place for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico. (AP via Fox News)
August 26, 2012, Several hundred earthquakes hit Southern California, with the largest one measuring 5.5 on the Richter magnitude scale near San Diego. (CNN)
August 26, 2012, Two Pussy Riot members, alleged to be the two participants in the band's Cathedral protest on February 21 who remain unarrested, "leave" Russia. (The Guardian)
August 26, 2012, 15-year-old amateur Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins the Canadian Women's Open, becoming the youngest ever winner on the LPGA Tour and the first amateur to win on that tour since JoAnne Carner in 1969. (Vancouver Sun)
August 27, 2012,
August 27, 2012,
August 27, 2012, Blockade of the Gaza Strip: A United Nations report finds that the Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 as basic infrastructure in water, health, education and sanitation "is struggling to keep pace with a growing population". (BBC)
August 27, 2012, The Mars Rover Curiosity broadcasts the first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet. The message from NASA administrator Charles Bolden is beamed to Earth along with new images of the Martian surface. (The Telegraph)
August 28, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac is upgraded to a category 1 hurricane as the storm makes landfall along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana. (CNN)
August 28, 2012, The United States Republican Party officially nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election at the National Convention in Tampa, Florida. (Boston Globe)
August 28, 2012,
August 28, 2012, IBM sells a "most powerful and advanced" server. (Wall Street Journal)
August 29, 2012,
August 29, 2012, The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics is held in London. (BBC)
August 29, 2012, The USADA claims it has stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles. The UCI again claims it has jurisdiction and asks for evidence. (Euronews)
August 29, 2012, Hurricane Isaac arrives in the US city of New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the city. Damage is limited. (Reuters)
August 29, 2012, With Operation Eagle, its biggest since 1979, the Egyptian Army says it used tanks and helicopters to kill 11 suspected terrorists and arrest 23 others in the Sinai, following the attack that killed 16 border guards. (Ahram)
August 29, 2012, The UK's Serious Fraud Office launches an investigation into payments between Barclays and Qatar Holding LLC after Barclays sought investment from the latter during the financial crisis in 2008. (The Guardian)
August 29, 2012, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expresses "serious concerns on the human rights abuses and violations" in Iran at the meeting of non-aligned nations being held in Teheran. (The Los Angeles Times)
August 29, 2012, The banana spider venom is found by Brazilian researchers in some cases to relieve erectile dysfunctions in less than 20 minutes. (Medical Daily)
August 30, 2012, Republican National Convention Closing
August 30, 2012,
August 30, 2012, Barclays bank appoints Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive. (BBC)
August 30, 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Iran to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclear program of Iran, and implicitly criticises it for its Israel policy at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. (China Post)
August 30, 2012, An ex-Navy Seal's book that seems to contradict the official version of the death of Osama bin Laden is not written with politics in mind, says the author. (NBC News)
August 30, 2012, Russian investigators find the bodies of two murdered women in an apartment in Kazan and the shout "Free! Pussy Riot" written on the wall. The perpetrator is as of yet unknown. Observers warn against radicalism and false flags. (The Guardian)
August 31, 2012, Release of Lawless
August 31, 2012,
August 31, 2012,
August 31, 2012, A shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey, kills at least three people. (BBC)
August 31, 2012, A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Philippine province of Eastern Samar kills at least one person. (CNN)
August 31, 2012, Apple loses a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets in Tokyo, Japan. (Bloomberg)
August 2, 2012,
August 3, 2012, Release of Total Recall
August 3, 2012, Release of Whimpy Diaries: Dog Days
August 3, 2012, Release of 360
August 3, 2012, Release of Celeste and Jesse
August 3, 2012,
August 5, 2012, A gunman opens fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator later dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. (CNN)
August 5, 2012, 2012 Summer Olympics: In tennis, Andy Murray defeats Roger Federer to win the men's singles final, securing Britain's 16th gold medal in the process. (BBC Sport)
-In athletics, sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the 100 metres final. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lands safely on the surface of Mars. (Reuters)
August 6, 2012,
August 6, 2012,
August 6, 2012,
August 7, 2012,
August 8, 2012, Release of Hope Springs
August 8, 2012, China announces plan to close one-third of the nation's 23 rare earth mines and about half of 99 smelting companies. (CNN)
August 8, 2012, A preliminary magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes Orange County, California, near Whittier and Anaheim, five miles from Placentia, California near Chino Hills, California, and Orange, California, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), as reported by NBC News Los Angeles, hours after a 4.4-magnitude temblor affected Yorba Linda, California, along with two other quakes with magnitudes 2.7 and 1.2. Minimal damage was reported.(NBC) August 8, 2012, Anthropologists find the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial in Templo Mayor, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. This finding is "unprecedented for the Aztec culture." (The Huffington Post)
August 8, 2012, Marvin Lee Wilson is executed by the state of Texas despite the low IQ results that could have invalidated his punishment. (CBS News)
August 8, 2012, Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter in the 2011 Tucson shooting, pleads guilty to all charges and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (CBS News)
August 9, 2012,
August 9, 2012,
August 9, 2012, Barclays plc appoints Sir David Walker as its new chairman following the Libor scandal. (BBC)
August 10, 2012, Release of Bourne Legacy
August 10, 2012, Release of The Campaign
August 10, 2012, Release of 2 Days in New York
August 10, 2012, Release of Red Hook Summer
August 10, 2012, The United States says they are planning to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas of Vietnam, the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. (CNN)
August 11, 2012, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the United States presidency, names Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the presidential election in November. (BBC)
August 11, 2012, Two earthquakes, the strongest a magnitude 6.4, strike near the northwestern Iranian cities of Tabriz and Ahar, killing at least 250 people and injuring up to 1,800 others. (BBC)
August 12, 2012, The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony is held, featuring a celebration of British pop music and the handover of the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the 2016 Games. (BBC)
August 12, 2012,
August 13, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Grimm
August 13, 2012, WikiLeaks revelations and attack: WikiLeaks reveals data showing that the U.S. government has been secretly spying on the public using civilian security cameras with Trapwire. (Wired)
August 13, 2012, American publisher and editor Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and a leader of 1960s sexual revolution dies at the age of 90 in New York City. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
August 13, 2012, Two new potential pyramid sites are discovered in Egypt. (Daily Mail)
August 13, 2012, Iran announces that the death toll from the 2012 Ahar-Varzaqan earthquakes is 306 with 3,037 injured. (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
August 13, 2012, The Vatican orders Pope Benedict XVI's former butler to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leaking allegations of corruption in the Holy See. (Reuters)
August 14, 2012, Release of Sleeping Dogs video game
August 14, 2012, Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda, California, is arrested and charged with residential burglary and selling stolen property from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs. (MSN)
August 15, 2012, Release of Timothy Green
August 15, 2012, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is taken to hospital as a "precautionary measure" after a recurrence of a bladder infection that affected him earlier in the year. (BBC)
August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández pitches the 23rd Perfect Game in Major League Baseball history for the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field. (Seattle Times)
August 16, 2012,
August 16, 2012, WikiLeaks British police mass near the Ecuadorean embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resides, after Britain threatens to use force to extract him. (Reuters)
August 16, 2012, Two Louisiana sheriff's deputies are killed and two others wounded in a shooting outside a steel plant, Bayou Steel Plant, in LaPlace, Louisiana, Louisiana State Police report. Two suspects are in custody and one remains on the loose. (CNN)
August 16, 2012, Nuclear regulators from 9 countries hold an emergency meeting in Brussels after fissures were found in the Doel 3 pressurized water reactor steel vessel. This vessel type was built by now-defunct Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in 22 operating reactors worldwide, among which 10 in the US. (Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control)
August 17, 2012, Release of The Expendables 2
August 17, 2012, Release of Paranorman
August 17, 2012, Release of Sparkle
August 17, 2012, Release of Cosmopolis
August 17, 2012, Russia: A Moscow court has found three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot guilty under "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity" and has jailed them for two years. (Al Jazeera)
-Gay pride events are banned in Moscow for 100 years. (BBC)
August 17, 2012, The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rules that the German constitution allows its military to start operations inside Germany, for the first time since 1945.(Der Spiegel, in German)
August 18, 2012,
August 18, 2012, The Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons releases the first volume of a planned two-volume report on the LIBOR fixing scandal. (Commons Committees)
August 19, 2012, In the stand-off between Britain and Ecuador over Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a speech critical of the United States' policy against Wikileaks, "dragging us all in a dark, repressive world in which journalists live under fear of prosecution", from the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy. (Channel 4)
August 19, 2012, British-born film director Tony Scott dies after leaping 200ft from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. (The Telegraph)
August 19, 2012, A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits off the West coast of Washington state. (Reuters)
August 19, 2012, Radioactive contamination causes hereditary genetic mutations in life forms. This has been proven on butterfly generations. At stated times, the effect on humans remains unclear. (20 minutes, in German)
August 20, 2012,
August 20, 2012, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh is discharged from hospital following treatment for a bladder infection. (BBC)
August 20, 2012, American comedian Phyllis Diller dies at the age of 95. (USA Today)
August 20, 2012, Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chongqing Politburo leader Bo Xilai, is given a suspended death sentence for the murder of Neil Heywood in China. (AP via The Washington Post)
August 21, 2012, Release of Counterstrike: Global Offense
August 21, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac forms in the Atlantic Ocean with tropical storm warnings in place for Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St Martin, St Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Anguilla, Saba, St Eustatius, St Maarten, Culebra and Vieques. (AAP via News Limited)
August 21, 2012, United States Congressman Todd Akin, who is also a candidate for the United States Senate, vows to continue as the US-wide fall-out over his rape, pregancy and anti-abortion comments rages on. (RTÉ News)
August 21, 2012, In the debate on cosmogony, Physical Review publishes a study describing the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, possibly explaining better how our well-known spacetime could originate from original matter. (Space.com)
August 22, 2012, Release of Hit and Run
August 22, 2012, Penn State's ex-president rejects the FBI report accusing the university of a cover-up, saying he never heard even a hint of child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky, despite indications of "horseplay", having never met a higher level of awareness. (Reuters)
August 22, 2012, Russia becomes the 156th member of the World Trade Organization. Vanuatu becomes the 157th member. (Bloomberg)
August 23, 2012,
August 23, 2012, Israel's President Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is "at the core of Jewish identity", in a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
August 23, 2012, Pakistan again officially protests against the U.S. drone strikes, calling them unlawful, against international law and a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Pakistan states emphatically that the attacks are "unacceptable". (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
August 23, 2012, The 7th parole request of Mark David Chapman, murderer of former Beatle John Lennon, is denied.
August 23, 2012, American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he will not contest United States Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping paving the way for him to be stripped of his titles including seven Tour de France victories. (USA Today)
August 24, 2012, Release of Premium Rush
August 24, 2012,
August 24, 2012, The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it will ban former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and recommend he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles. (The Washington Post)
August 24, 2012,
August 24, 2012, A South Korean court rules that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents on mobile computing technology. (The Wall Street Journal)
August 24, 2012, A court in Oslo, Norway, deems Anders Behring Breivik sane and sentences Breivik to 21 years' imprisonment for killing 77 people in twin terror attacks in July 2011. (BBC)
August 25, 2012,
August 25, 2012,
August 25, 2012,
August 26, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac: The United States National Hurricane Center issues hurricane warnings for the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A state of emergency is in effect in these four areas. (Fox News)
August 26, 2012, A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador with tsunami warnings in place for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico. (AP via Fox News)
August 26, 2012, Several hundred earthquakes hit Southern California, with the largest one measuring 5.5 on the Richter magnitude scale near San Diego. (CNN)
August 26, 2012, Two Pussy Riot members, alleged to be the two participants in the band's Cathedral protest on February 21 who remain unarrested, "leave" Russia. (The Guardian)
August 26, 2012, 15-year-old amateur Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins the Canadian Women's Open, becoming the youngest ever winner on the LPGA Tour and the first amateur to win on that tour since JoAnne Carner in 1969. (Vancouver Sun)
August 27, 2012,
August 27, 2012,
August 27, 2012, Blockade of the Gaza Strip: A United Nations report finds that the Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 as basic infrastructure in water, health, education and sanitation "is struggling to keep pace with a growing population". (BBC)
August 27, 2012, The Mars Rover Curiosity broadcasts the first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet. The message from NASA administrator Charles Bolden is beamed to Earth along with new images of the Martian surface. (The Telegraph)
August 28, 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac is upgraded to a category 1 hurricane as the storm makes landfall along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana. (CNN)
August 28, 2012, The United States Republican Party officially nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election at the National Convention in Tampa, Florida. (Boston Globe)
August 28, 2012,
August 28, 2012, IBM sells a "most powerful and advanced" server. (Wall Street Journal)
August 29, 2012,
August 29, 2012, The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics is held in London. (BBC)
August 29, 2012, The USADA claims it has stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles. The UCI again claims it has jurisdiction and asks for evidence. (Euronews)
August 29, 2012, Hurricane Isaac arrives in the US city of New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the city. Damage is limited. (Reuters)
August 29, 2012, With Operation Eagle, its biggest since 1979, the Egyptian Army says it used tanks and helicopters to kill 11 suspected terrorists and arrest 23 others in the Sinai, following the attack that killed 16 border guards. (Ahram)
August 29, 2012, The UK's Serious Fraud Office launches an investigation into payments between Barclays and Qatar Holding LLC after Barclays sought investment from the latter during the financial crisis in 2008. (The Guardian)
August 29, 2012, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expresses "serious concerns on the human rights abuses and violations" in Iran at the meeting of non-aligned nations being held in Teheran. (The Los Angeles Times)
August 29, 2012, The banana spider venom is found by Brazilian researchers in some cases to relieve erectile dysfunctions in less than 20 minutes. (Medical Daily)
August 30, 2012, Republican National Convention Closing
August 30, 2012,
August 30, 2012, Barclays bank appoints Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive. (BBC)
August 30, 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Iran to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclear program of Iran, and implicitly criticises it for its Israel policy at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. (China Post)
August 30, 2012, An ex-Navy Seal's book that seems to contradict the official version of the death of Osama bin Laden is not written with politics in mind, says the author. (NBC News)
August 30, 2012, Russian investigators find the bodies of two murdered women in an apartment in Kazan and the shout "Free! Pussy Riot" written on the wall. The perpetrator is as of yet unknown. Observers warn against radicalism and false flags. (The Guardian)
August 31, 2012, Release of Lawless
August 31, 2012,
August 31, 2012,
August 31, 2012, A shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey, kills at least three people. (BBC)
August 31, 2012, A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Philippine province of Eastern Samar kills at least one person. (CNN)
August 31, 2012, Apple loses a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets in Tokyo, Japan. (Bloomberg)
There is a veritable plethora of topical stuff here. Scary snapshot of our place in time. Yikes.
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