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The first particle beam is successfully steered around the Large Hadron Collider accelerator ring at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
In tennis, Serena Williams (pictured) and Roger Federer win the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the 2008 U.S. Open.
In one of the largest banking interventions in United States history, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Flooding along the Brahmaputra River displaces 2.1 million people and causes 24 deaths in Assam, India.
On the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor General Michaëlle Jean dissolves the 39th Canadian Parliament and calls early elections to be held October 14.
Hurricanes Hanna and Ike result in at least 590 deaths, mostly due to floods and mudslides, in Haiti.
The 2008 Summer Paralympics open in Beijing, China.

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September 11, 2008 (Thursday)

A new survey of residents of 17 countries by WorldPublicOpinion.org reveals that only 46 percent believe that Al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks of 2001. (Al Jazeera) (Voice of America News) (UPI) (Reuters)
Two Russian Air Force Tu-160 bombers arrive in Venezuela to carry out training flights over a course of several days. (BBC News)
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Ternate, Indonesia, followed by a 7.2 magnitude quake near Hokkaido, Japan. (BBC News)
Forty people go missing in Bihar state in northern India after a boat capsizes in the Harohar River. (Associated Press via Google News)
A fire occurs in Channel Tunnel and the tunnel closed until further notice. (BBC News)
The Pentagon Memorial in Washington, DC, dedicated to the 184 people who died in the attack on the building on September 11, 2001, is opened to the public. ABC News

September 10, 2008 (Wednesday)

President of Bolivia Evo Morales calls for the expulsion of the United States ambassador, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly encouraging anti-government protests. (CBS)
OPEC announces it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day; prices rise accordingly. (AP via Google News)
U.S.-based financial services company Lehman Brothers announces a third-quarter loss of $4.9 billion and plans to sell assets. (CNN Money)
The European Commission predicts the U.K., Germany, and Spain 'to fall into recession'; the outlook for rest of the Eurozone is gloomy. (BBC News)
The Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reports North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a serious health problem. (AFP via Google News)
- Western intelligence officials say Kim Jong-il might have suffered a stroke.(BBC News) (NPR), which North Korea denies. (Reuters)
CERN successfully circulates a beam through the entire Large Hadron Collider for the first time. (Wired) (Wired)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- Some members of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs have stated opposition to Georgia's original action. Senator Hillary Clinton called for a special fact-finding commission. (RT via YouTube) (RT)

September 9, 2008 (Tuesday)

Al Franken wins a primary election for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to challenge incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate election. (AP via Google News)
The military of Sri Lanka declares 12 of its soldiers and one policeman killed in a suicide attack by the Tamil Tigers in Mullaittivu. (BBC News)
Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi states that the governing United Malays National Organization (UMNO) will punish Ahmad Ismail, a party official, for a series of statements he made about Malaysia's ethnic Chinese population. (Wall Street Journal)
The United Nations decides to withdraw aid workers from Tamil Tiger-held areas of Sri Lanka. (BBC News)
Hurricane Ike makes its second landfall on Cuba, near San Cristóbal, north of the Isle of Youth, on its way into the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN)
A Thai court rules that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej must be removed from office for receiving payment for appearing on a television cooking show. (AP via Google News)
US President George W. Bush pledges 4,500 troops to Afghanistan over the next few months and orders 8,000 troops currently stationed in Iraq to be home by February. (CBC News)
Apple Inc. unveils the revamped iPod line-up including the redesigned, fourth-generation iPod Nano. (Reuters)

September 8, 2008 (Monday)

The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins the 2008 legislative election. (Reuters via The New York Times)
Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray to win the U.S. Tennis Open for a record-breaking fifth consecutive time. (Fox Sports)
Washington Mutual, the largest savings and loan in the United States, ousts Chief Executive Kerry Killinger as a result of losses incurred as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
A landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a warehouse in Linfen in Shanxi province, China, killing at least 26 people and injuring others. (Canadian Press)
Hurricane Ike makes landfall near Banes, Cuba, and weakens. (AP via Biloxi Sun Herald)
The US military is to 'review an inquiry' into an air raid on a village in Herat province, Afghanistan, after a new video evidence emerged indicating 'scores of civilian deaths'. The US air raid in Afghanistan left up to 90 people dead, 'many of them women and children', the Afghan government and the UN said. However, US officials claimed earlier that 'no more than seven civilians died'. The bodies of 'at least 10 children and many more adults' appear in two videos made with cell phones in the Afghan village Azizabad after the raid. (BBC News) (AP)
2008 South Ossetia war:
- President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and President of France Nicolas Sarkozy announced after talks in Moscow that an agreement to pull Russian forces from Georgia within a month has been reached. The agreement has become possible as EU will send 200 civilian monitors to the area and guarantee that Georgia signs a pledge to not use military force in Abkhazia and South Ossetia again. (Reuters) (The Globe and Mail)
- 'Senior US soldiers and two military contractors' were training 80 Georgian special forces serviceman only 'month prior' these commandos entered South Ossetia on the night of August 8. MPRI, one of the contractors, is known also for training the Croatian military in 1995 'prior to their invasion of the ethnically-Serbian Krajina region, which led to the displacement of 200,000 refugees'. However, 'there is no evidence' that the contractors or US military knew these commandos 'were likely be used in the assault on South Ossetia'. (Financial Times)
Three British Muslim men are found guilty of conspiracy to murder relating to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot. (The Times)

September 7, 2008 (Sunday)

Serena Williams defeats Jelena Janković to win the U.S. Open for the third time, regaining the World Number 1 ranking for the first time in five years. (The New York Times)
Hurricane Ike damages 80 percent of homes in the Turks and Caicos Islands. (The Australian)
Two suicide bombers strike in the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing six officers and wounding several more. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
Subprime mortgage crisis: The United States federal government places mortgage financing companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into conservatorship. The Federal Housing Finance Agency will manage the companies on a temporary basis. (Reuters)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced an early election scheduled for October 14. (BBC News)
Kurt Beck, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany steps down. According to media reports, Frank Walter Steinmeier will become the candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 2009 elections. (ARD German)
Floods in Brahmaputra river have displaced estimated 2.1 million people and caused 24 deaths in north-eastern state of Assam, India. (Times of India)
Voters in Hong Kong go to the polls for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008. The Democratic Alliance remains the largest party in the legislature. (Xinhua) (Bloomberg)
Xinhua reports that 20 people are trapped in a coal mine in the Henan province of China following flooding. (AP via Charlotte Observer)

September 6, 2008 (Saturday)

2008 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Lowell forms off the coast of Mexico. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Komlan Mally resigns as prime minister of Togo, after less than a year in office. (Xinhua)
Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler wins the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. (AP via Google News)
Nuclear Suppliers Group clears Indo-US nuclear deal. (CNN-IBN)
At least 18 people are killed and 22 injured when dozens of homes in northern Cairo collapse after being hit by a massive rockslide. (AFP via Google News)
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games begin in Beijing. (BBC News)
2008 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Hanna makes landfall in the United States on the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. (AFP via the Melbourne Age)
- Hurricane Ike reaches Category 4 strength as it prepares to hit Turks and Caicos. (AP via Google News)
Pakistan
- The Electoral College of Pakistan elects Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan People's Party as the next President of Pakistan. (The New York Times)
- A car bomb in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan kills at least thirty people. (BBC News)

September 5, 2008 (Friday)

Five hundred people have died in the Haitian town of Gonaïves as a result of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Hanna. (Reuters via News Limited)
According to several news reports, the US government plans to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a takeover plan. (MSNBC)
Estimates of sea-level rise due to global warming are scaled back. (Reuters)
Condoleezza Rice becomes the first United States Secretary of State to visit Libya since 1953. (AP via the New York Daily News)
Pakistan reinstates Supreme Court judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf. (CNN)
The unemployment rate in the United States rises to its highest level since December 2003 after the US economy loses 84,000 jobs in August 2008. (BBC News)
La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider, starts to roam the streets of Liverpool, England, as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations. (BBC News)
The European Union's Rosetta spacecraft performs a flyby of the asteroid 2867 Steins. (AFP)
Australia:
- Quentin Bryce is sworn in as the first female Governor-General of Australia. (AAP via The Melbourne Age)
- Morris Iemma resigns as Premier of New South Wales following a loss of support in the Australian Labor Party caucus, and is replaced by Nathan Rees. (Sydney Morning Herald)

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