Wikinews:October 2008
- Nepal names 6 year old girl a 'living goddess'
- CanadaVOTES: Animal Alliance (AAEVPC) party leader Liz White running in Toronto Centre
- Fifteen killed in apartment fire in Osaka, Japan
- 29 killed in Algerian floods
- Wikinews interviews Donald K. Allen, independent candidate for US presidency
- CanadaVOTES: Animal Alliance (AAEVPC) candidate Marie Crawford running in Toronto—Danforth
- University of Calgary scientist Keith cracks carbon capture conundrum
- Newly released script from 1970s would have been used as announcement after nuclear attack in UK
- Lordi release music video for Finnish chart-topper 'Bite It Like a Bulldog'
- Suspect in 1998 bombing of US embassy in Tanzania won't face death penalty
- Fiery collision between prison van and truck kills seven in Alabama, US
- OJ Simpson found guilty in kidnapping, armed robbery case
- U.S. Senate approves revised bailout package after controversial additions
- Mother, daughter accused of stealing of husband's $3.5 million lottery ticket
- Nebraska teacher sentenced to 6 years for sex with student
- Hurricanes may be associated with sunspots
- Study estimates first human HIV infection 100 years ago
- 18 illegal Afghan and Burmese immigrants killed in truck crash in Turkey
- Law firm tries to ban new book by Cambridge Press
- Soldier dies as military helicopters collide in Iraq
- Fannie Mae forgives mortgage debt of 90-year-old woman who shot herself
- Zimbabwean unity talks fail
- Thai PAD protest leader arrested while voting
- Despite passage of bailout bill, two US states may need loans
- Crowd in Derbyshire, UK, encourages teenager to commit suicide
- VP candidate Palin accuses Obama of terrorist links
- Man uses home-made flamethrower to set relatives on fire
- Ralph Nader calls out Democrats for financial bailout
- UK government to spy on phone, email, browsing, of entire population
- Worldwide markets fall precipitously
- Icelandic Internet bank suspends UK accounts
- Stock markets worldwide continue to fall
- Report says disappearing life threatens biodiversity
- Witnesses: Doomed train had green light
- Tattoo with identifying details leads to prosecution of thief in Bristol, UK
- Dozens injured by sudden change in altitude on Qantas jet
- Central banks worldwide cut interest rates
- Frog-killing fungus spreads across Panama Canal towards South America
- Passenger plane crashes in Nepal killing 18
- Nobel Peace Prize misused says Norwegian lawyer and activist
- Markets down across the world; Dow Jones falls below 9,000
- UK motorway closed for several hours, heavily congested due to woman on bridge
- IMF: World on brink of recession; prepares special loan program
- Rap music fan sentenced to Beethoven, pays fine instead
- Iceland nationalises Kaupthing Bank
- French author Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Leading Sky News anchor Bob Friend dies at age 70
- US presidential candidate Barack Obama has 50% support
- At least twelve killed after building collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
- Zimbabwe cancels education year for 4.5 million after political and economic troubles
- Chinese restaurant closed in Toronto after rat photos published
- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish top diplomat
- WTO calls meeting on trade finance and economic crisis
- CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Paul Arbour in Carleton—Mississippi Mills
- CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Jo-Anne Boulding in Parry Sound—Muskoka
- CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate David Sparrow in Don Valley West
- CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Anne Lagacé Dowson in Westmount—Ville-Marie
- CanadaVOTES: CHP candidate Larry R. Heather in Calgary Southwest
- CanadaVOTES: CHP candidate Vicki Gunn in York—Simcoe
- CanadaVOTES: CHP candidate Stefan Jetchick in Louis-Hébert
- Dow Jones recovers hundreds of points, before losing them in minutes
- France claims Russia has violated some terms of ceasefire with Georgia
- Global markets plunge
- Hampshire councils have £3 million invested in Icelandic banks
- Several injured in suicide bomb blast near police lane, Islamabad
- Bush attempts to reassure Americans in radio address
- NFL: Cowboys cornerback Pacman Jones can't discuss police incident
- Preliminary report released on Spanair disaster that killed 154
- PAD plan protest for Monday; Thai political crisis ongoing
- Iceland and United Kingdom in diplomatic dispute over financial crisis
- Police in Bathurst, NSW assaulted with "sex toy"
- 'Troopergate' investigation finds Palin abused her power
- G7 says "all available tools" will be used to solve crisis
- Florida officials investigating controversial MMA fight
- Zanu-PF attempts to reassign Zimbabwean ministries, MDC angered
- Fernando Alonso wins 2008 Japanese Grand Prix
- Bush deploys military in the US for active duty as federal response force
- Cook Islands rugby league player Adam Watene dies after training session age 31
- Wildfires rage north of Los Angeles
- CanadaVOTES: Libertarian John Kittridge in St. Paul's
- Global markets surge in value
- Thailand protest cancelled at last minute
- Canadian scientists protest Harper's attacks on science
- Wikinews interviews Mike Lebowitz, Chairman of the Modern Whig Party
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 released by Sun Microsystems
- US Army sergeant asserts Posse Comitatus is not being violated
- Chula Vista, California becomes model for blight control laws in the US
- American Paul Krugman wins Nobel prize for economics
- Thai Queen attends protester cremation as report indicates explosive tear gas used
- UK government stops compulsory testing of fourteen-year-olds
- Al-Qaeda in Iraq second-in-command reported killed during US raid
- Oscar Diös tells Wikinews about his hostel within a Boeing 747
- Secret memos reveal Bush administration endorsed enhanced interrogation techniques
- Sixth arrest warrant issued for Thailand's former PM Thaksin
- US Federal deficit reaches record high of $455 billion
- Excessive surgeries swell Medicare costs in United States
- Oil prices drop as inventories grow
- Spanair mechanics to be questioned under criminal suspicion over Flight 5022 crash
- NHL: Montreal Canadiens open 100th season
- Medical helicopter crashes near Chicago, Illinois killing four
- Ilham Aliyev claims landslide victory in disputed Azerbaijani elections
- Thai-Cambodian generals in talks after border clash kills two
- Oversight Committee: White House attempted to influence Congressional elections
- IMF prepares to help Hungary and Ukraine
- 'Mobile phone dermatitis' linked to nickel deposits
- Spanish airline LTE suspends all flights
- Lost tomb of 'Gladiator' real life Roman inspiration found
- Apple users criticize lack of FireWire port on MacBook
- Police fight police in Brazil protest
- Fear and loathing on the campaign trail, September 2008
- Second pipeline blast hits Canadian region
- Fire ruins historical building of Prague Exhibition Grounds
- Judge in Nebraska says thou shalt not sue God
- Clash of cultures: Somali and Latino workers at U.S. meat packing plants
- Iran to stop executing children
- Russia asks Iceland for details of bank rescue plan before giving loan
- Indian aviation sector hit by financial trouble; domestic traffic at five-year low
- NASA mission to map the boundary of solar system
- China's Premier recognises government responsibility in milk incident
- Lewis Hamilton wins 2008 Chinese Grand Prix
- Church of Scientology falsely accuses internet group 'Anonymous' of 2007 school shooting
- Teen hacker admits to attack on scientology.org
- Spanish prime minister speaks on economic crisis
- New York business receives package containing unknown powder
- Canadian farmer vows to continue providing customers with raw milk despite order
- Seven arrested in UK cruise ship drugs seizure
- Psychiatrist Dr. Jerald Block tells Wikinews about addiction to the Internet
- India's first lunar mission launched
- 2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools goes online
- UK Prime Minister: The world will enter a recession
- Thailand's fugitive ex-PM sentenced to two years for corruption
- McCain volunteer fakes mutilation by Obama supporter
- Global stock markets plunge
- Polish exercise book advertisement copies Wikipedia content, violates copyright
- UK mountain run abandoned as participants seek shelter from appalling conditions
- Djibouti says war with Eritrea is inevitable unless UN intervenes
- Two Spanish train stations bombed
- Judge demands better conditions in Maricopa County Jail, Arizona; both sides claim victory
- Mother, brother of singer Jennifer Hudson found murdered, others reported missing
- Bus accident in Buffalo, New York leaves at least eight injured
- Syrian government: U.S. helicopters attack farm on Syria-Iraq border
- All 2500 runners in Lake District race accounted for after flood
- FBI asked to assist in murder, kidnap investigation of Jennifer Hudson's relatives
- India's Jet Airways posts biggest quarterly loss in three years
- 1700 runners still unaccounted for in UK's Lake District following flood
- Scores killed by flooding in Yemen
- US Senator Ted Stevens convicted on 7 counts
- FBI says Jennifer Hudson's nephew found dead
- 20 killed in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan
- Asian stock markets slide; Nikkei at lowest level since '82
- Arctic ice thickness decreasing, suggests satellite data study
- Acting teacher and director Milton Katselas dies at age 75
- Homes of six Minnesota politicians vandalized
- More teenagers attracted to computer crime, say experts
- Mars orbiter finds widespread evidence of water-bearing minerals
- Deadly quake hits southwestern Pakistan
- Two men arrested in Tennessee for plot to kill Obama and school children
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