Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/August

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 * The Convention on Cluster Munitions, banning the use, production and transfer of cluster bombs, comes into effect.
 * Malawi changes its national flag.
 * Salanoia durrelli, a carnivoran species from Lake Alaotra, Madagascar, is officially described as a new species.
 * Israeli and Lebanese troops exchange fire on the border between the two countries.
 * The Sun undergoes a series of four large coronal mass ejections.
 * At least 63 people are killed and more than 200 others injured during rioting in Karachi, Pakistan.
 * Wildfires kill 48 people and cause evacuation of thousands in western Russia.
 * The worst flooding in Pakistan's history kills over 1,100 people and displaces thousands more.
 * The U.S. Senate votes to confirm Elena Kagan as an associate justice on the country's Supreme Court.
 * Kenya holds a referendum on a proposed new constitution.
 * 10 people, including 2 Afghan civilians and 8 international aid workers, are killed in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
 * A landslide in Gansu province, People's Republic of China kills 127 people, with 2,000 more missing.
 * Researchers announce that diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be made with up to 100 percent accuracy using a cerebrospinal fluid test.
 * The death rate in Moscow doubles to 700 people per day due to poisonous smog from wildfires and a heat wave in western Russia.
 * Paul Kagame is re-elected President of Rwanda.
 * Colombia and Venezuela re-establish diplomatic relations after Juan Manuel Santos becomes the President of Colombia.
 * The World Health Organization announces the end of the swine flu pandemic.
 * Former President of Malta and President of the United Nations General Assembly Guido de Marco dies suddenly.
 * The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the first of the Youth Olympic Games, begins in Singapore with 3,531 participating athletes aged 14–18 from 205 National Olympic Committees.
 * Agricultural Bank of China completes the world's largest ever initial public offering, raising US$22.1 billion.
 * In golf, Martin Kaymer of Germany wins the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
 * The economy of the People's Republic of China is the second-largest during the second quarter, having surpassed Japan's quarterly gross domestic product for the first time.
 * A bombing outside an Iraqi Army recruitment center in Baghdad kills more than sixty people.
 * Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has died, aged 82.
 * In association football, Nicolas Anelka is suspended for 18 games with the national team, and three other players for for shorter periods for their roles in a player strike at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
 * At least seven people are killed and fourteen others wounded in a bomb attack in Xinjiang province, north-western China.
 * Ngô Bảo Châu, Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanislav Smirnov, and Cédric Villani are awarded the Fields Medal for their work in mathematics.
 * Bolivia declares a state of emergency as forest fires rage across move than 1500000 ha.
 * Iran launches its first nuclear power plant in Busher.
 * A national election is held in Australia, with results indicating a hung parliament with neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal/National Coalition able to form a majority government.
 * David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya breaks the world record in the 800 metres at the ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meeting in Berlin.
 * A man shoots dead nine people, including himself, after taking hostages on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
 * Thirty-three miners are found alive but trapped, three weeks after a mine collapse near Copiapó, Chile.
 * Al-Shabaab militants storm a hotel killing dozens, including parlamentarians, amid heavy fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * A traffic jam outside Beijing, China extends for over 60 miles (100 kilometres), leaving many drivers stranded for days.
 * A plane crash in Heilongjiang, north-west People's Republic of China, kills 42 people.
 * A series of bombings across thirteen cities in Iraq kill more than fifty people.
 * Archeologists excavate arrowheads in Sibudu Cave, South Africa, indicating the use of the bow and arrow up to 64,000 years ago.
 * Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra produced its first volcanic eruption in over 400 years, causing over 12,000 residents to flee and killing one person.
 * Danny Philip is elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, following general election.
 * Mad Men wins the drama prize and Modern Family wins the comedy prize at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
 * Argentine footballer Francisco Varallo, the last surviving player from the inaugural FIFA World Cup, dies at the age of 100.