- Bangladesh cartoonist Arifur Rahman is detained for disrespecting Prophet Muhammad. Interim Government orders confiscation of Prothom Alo newspaper that published the caricature. (AndhraNews.net)
- China confirms bird flu outbreak in Guangzhou. (AndhraNews.net)
- More than 1,000 Buddhist monks march peacefully in Myanmar as part of a wave of anti-government protests. (CNN)
- The Bank of England injects £4.4 billion of liquidity into the U.K. Financial System as a response to the Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis, after £2 billion of deposits are removed from the Northern Rock bank within one day. (BBC)
- Russia claims to have killed a top Dagestani militant Rappani Khalilov along with another militant in a day-long battle. (AP via IHT)
- North Korea denies allegations that it is helping Syria to develop a nuclear weapons facility. (BBC)
- Australia, the second largest wheat exporter in the world, cuts its forecast production by 30 per cent due to an ongoing drought. (BBC)
- 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from Shanghai, China as Typhoon Wipha approaches. (Reuters, AFP via News Limited)
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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