8 August 2006 (Tuesday)
- England defeat Pakistan by 167 runs to clinch the series in the Third Test at Headingley (Cricinfo)
- Three men, including the Royal Correspondent of the News of the World newspaper, are arrested following allegations of phone-tapping of staff in Prince Charles's household (BBC)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
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