September 2005 - 8 September 2005 (Thursday)

8 September 2005 (Thursday)

• One woman was killed and over a dozen were injured following a stampede when people fled the Saudi Arabian Airlines plane they were on after a hoax bomb threat was made. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 00:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
• Up to 33 Indian troops die when a bridge they are crossing collapses in Himachal Pradesh, North India. (BBC)
• Several people were injured when bombs exploded in a KFC and McDonalds restaurants in the Pakistani city of Karachi. (BBC)
• Hosni Mubarak wins the first multi-candidate presidential election in the history of Egypt with 78 percent of the vote. Ayman Nour is the nearest runner-up with 12 percent. (Fox News)
• News Corporation says it will buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million. IGN is one of the largest multimedia sites on the Internet and also owns the GameSpy Network and AskMen.com. (BBC)
• Hurricane Katrina:
  • Emergency officials requisition 25,000 body bags as search and rescue operations continue in Louisiana. A spokesman for the state's department of health and hospitals said: "We don't know what to expect ... It means we are prepared." (The Guardian)
• Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko fires Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and most of his cabinet amid accusations of graft and serious infighting. (Yahoo! News) (Link dead as of 00:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
• Guy Theunis, a Catholic priest from Belgium, has been arrested on a charge of republishing articles in a magazine that the authorities cite as encouraging genocide in Rwanda. (BBC)
• Reporters Without Borders accuses Yahoo! of assisting the People's Republic of China government to identify Shi Tao, the journalist sentenced to 10 years jail in April 2005. Shi released on the Internet a government letter which advised the Chinese media not to report on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. (Reporters sans frontières) (Daily Telegraph)
• 103 Croatians were arrested in Malta following supporter disturbances after a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match which Croatia unexpectedly failed to win. (HINA)
• Apple Computer has unveiled a pencil-thin iPod nano digital music player and a long-anticipated cell phone that plays music like an iPod, both aimed at extending its domination of the digital music market. Also, Apple discontinued their iPod mini. (New York Times) (registration required), (CNN) (Link dead as of 00:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
• California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would veto a bill allowing same-sex marriage citing the March 2000 Proposition 22 ballot initiative that stated "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California". (LA Times) (Link dead as of 00:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC))