2007-08-20

Miles Levin, 18, American teen with cancer and inspirational blogger, died of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
Miles Alpern Levin received world-wide attention with the blog he wrote as he fought cancer. He was interviewed for US national news. Levin died on Sunday, August 19th after a 26 month battle with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
In six more days he would have [...]

Today Lane Hudson submitted a complaint to the Federal Election Commission against Republican Fred Thompson’s “exploratory committee” for the United States presidential election, 2008.
While Federal election laws allow potential candidates to raise money to “test the waters,” the the law prohibits them “from hoarding the money for use during his actual campaign.” In addition, potential [...]

Science Daily — After performing an analysis of school shootings in the last decade, researchers at the Shyness Research Institute in Indiana say that the perpetrators are likely to suffer from cynical shyness–an extreme form of shyness that predominantly affects males and can lead to violent behavior.

 
Presenting at the 115th Annual Convention of the American [...]

Two men died and 83 were arrested at the New Jersey PNC Arts center, Holmdel the scene of this year’s New Jersey Ozzfest, an annual traveling hard rock and heavy metal show. This year’s Ozzfest includes Lordi, Static-X, Lamb of God and the show’s namesake, Ozzy Osbourne.
Raymond Guarino, 26, of Forked River, New Jersey collapsed [...]

Finland now holds the world record for the longest non-stop round of karaoke singing. The country already holds the record for the largest number of karaoke singers at any given time.
The previous record was 145 hours, as held by China. However, in a karaoke bar in Kouvola, a small town on Finland’s southern coast, the [...]

Alice Cooper, a founder of the shock rock genre, and infamous for his gory stage shows, is setting up a Christian center for at-risk youths in Phoenix.
Cooper, who has been a born again Christian for over 20 years, has already raised US$2 million for the center via his charity, the Solid Rock Foundation, founded by [...]

A fire in an office building in Karachi, Pakistan has killed one and injured four. Reports say that the fire was the second at the building, locating near the town’s shipping terminal, in half a year.
The building, which is owned by the state-owned Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), had suffered a previous fire in February. [...]

Justine Henin has defeated Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (3), 7-5 to win the prestigeous Rogers Cup.
Justine, who is ranked world number one, has defeated Jankovic on all of their seven games against each other. Jankovic is ranked world number three.
Jankovic had an early 4-1 lead, but Justine first pulled even, then went on to win the [...]

Rob Moore, the vice president of mine operator Murray Energy, said today, “It’s likely that these miners may not be found.” A fourth hole was drilled into the Utah mine yesterday, but there are still no signs of the six trapped miners who have been missing for two weeks.
A top executive of the company that [...]

The “HiFun Cyber Game League and WCG/WGT Taiwanese Gaming Athletes’ Qualification Final”, organized unity by K-Idea, ASUStek Taiwan, and Chunahua Telecom Co., Ltd., kicked off at Exhibition Center of Shinkong Mitsukoshi Department Store, Taipei City today after a typhoon named “Sempa” crossed Taiwan.
For the warming up of this championship, Chunghua Telecom held two matches named [...]

August 20, 2007
Cheonan, South Korea

Colombia
3
3
Germany

Attendance

7,741

Goalscorers for Colombia

Julio (14′) & Nazarith (66′ & 88′)

Goalscorers for Germany

Dowidat (34′ & 49′) & Sukuta-Pasu (39′)

Bookings (Colombia)

Mosquera, Nazarith & Romero (Yellow (3))

Bookings (Germany)

Wolze, Gieffer & Rudy (Yellow (3))

Germany have opened their 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup campaign with a draw against Colombia at the Cheonan, South Korea.
The opening goal of [...]

Nicki Jex, 27, from the Braunstone sub-urb of Leicester, UK has been jailed for 5 years as he robbed Ladbrokes, a bookmaker, in Narborough Road, Leicester for more than £613.
Jex threatened the shop’s manager with a Rabbit vibrator which he hid in a carrier bag pretending that it was a gun.
A customer of the Ladbrokes [...]

Portugal’s most successful team, Benfica, have sacked their manager after the 1st match. They tied Leixões 1-1 in Matosinhos, Portugal. Santos becomes the 1st coach fired this season.
the club said in a statement on today ‘Benfica have reached agreement with Fernando Santos to end his contract.’ The contract was set for 2 years. Fernando Chalana, [...]

China Airlines Flight 120, a Boeing 737 800, burst into flames at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan shortly after touchdown, with 157 passengers and 8 crew aboard. All passengers and crew have been accounted for; there were no casualties.
The plane was on the ground when the fire broke out and some reports say that all [...]

An unnamed woman from Mitchell, Queensland, Australia has died after her pet camel knocked her down to the ground, stomped on her, and then laid on top of her, in what police suspect was an attempt by the camel to mate with her. The woman was found at 18:30 (AEST) by her husband after he [...]

2007-08-17

Russia is planning to resume a Soviet-era practice of sending its bomber aircraft on long-range flights, the Russian president Vladimir Putin has said. Mr Putin said the move to resume the flights after a 15 year suspension was in response to security threats posed by other military powers.
“I made a decision to restore flights of [...]

The National Hurricane Center in Miami now says that the Atlantic’s first hurricane has reached category three status, with winds up to 125 mph. Dean is now being called a “major hurricane.”
While the storm is currently moving west through the Carribean, additional strengthening is forecasted within the next 24 hours.
A hurricane watch has now been [...]

Wikinews has learned that Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, is confirmed to be safe in Peru after a massive 8.0 earthquake struck the country on August 15. It was earlier reported that he may have been missing.
According to e-mails and forum posts obtained by Wikinews, Stallman was traveling from Lima to Chimbote [...]

Wikinews has learned that Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, might be missing in Peru after a massive 8.0 earthquake struck the country on August 15.
According to e-mails and forum posts obtained by Wikinews, Stallman was traveling from Lima to Chimbote with a man named Mario Ramos on August 15, when the quake [...]

Jose Padilla, who is a former Chicago gang member, was found by jury to be guilty of supporting Islamic terrorist groups abroad.
The co-defendants, Adham Hassoun and Kifan Jayyousi were also found guilty on conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim people in a foreign country; conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists; and providing material support [...]