Wikinews:2006/August/31/Latest news
- Kids TV star Lunar Jim to tour malls in Canada
- Annan demands Hezbollah free abducted soldiers and Israel lift blockade
- Pilot dies as Dutch F-16 fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan
- Space shuttle Atlantis set to launch on September 6
- Portuguese troops leave for Lebanon in October
- Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna found
- Canadian union upset over Scugog councilor lowering flag
- Hard shoulder gets the soft treatment on British motorways
- New UK donor laws may reduce organ shortages
- Plane carrying arms to Nepal detained in Gujarat
- Bull kills New Zealand man
- Astronomers witness supernova
- FBI most-wanted fugitive, polygamist Warren Jeffs, arrested
- Wikinews interview with America's Got Talent finalists Celtic Spring
- Canadian Idol top four eliminations
- Iraqi activist forced to change t-shirt with Arabic peace slogan
- Tropical Storm Ernesto weakens
- Canadian Prime Minister Harper plays small role in television show Corner Gas
- U.S. calls for sanctions against Iran
- Rebel leader, 56 inmates escape from East Timorese jail
- Thailand may create new province to honour King
- New Zealand police to trial tasers from Friday
- Audience in Ireland watches circus acrobat fall to his death
- 27 die from pipeline explosion in Diwaniya, Iraq
- Canada's Defence Minister visits Canadian troops in Afghanistan
- Jimmy Carter blasts Blair for "subservience" to Bush
- Historian Beckett names Thatcher & Attlee greatest Brit PMs
- Iran voices defiance towards nuclear deadline
- Canadian Idol top four perform
- Canadian MP Benoit Sauvageau dies in car crash
- Alberta's opposition filibuster anti-gay marriage bill
- President Bush mocked in two Canadian ad campaigns
- Ugandan ceasefire takes effect
- Water level of Great Lakes is falling
- Film from Nunavut in Canada's north to open TIFF
- GAO report says federal anti-drug Ad-campaign ineffectual
- India's Secretary-General candidate Tharoor suggests UN reform agenda
- U.S. commuter blows up section of Washington D.C. Bridge
- BC man is selling the boat from old TV series Gilligan's Island
- Mexican ruling boosts Calderon, rival vows parallel government
- Turkey to decide on sending troops to Lebanon
- 25 drown as van plunges into Krishna river in India
- HUD hoaxer calls attention to lack of affordable housing
- 4,400 kilograms of drugs seized in New Delhi
- New Zealand police want bus driver to pay reparation
- 5 killed as bus from New York City to Montreal crashes
- Watchdog group StopBadware.org warns against free AOL software
- Case against Karr dropped: no DNA link to JonBenet Ramsey murder
- Sri Lanka - Government Army strikes at Tamil Tiger enclaves in the north east
- Amnesty: "looming human rights crisis" in Darfur
- Pentagon considers using non-nuke ICBMs for preemptive strikes against alleged "terrorists"
- Russian fire-fighting helicopter crashes in Antalya, Turkey
- Afghanistan: 17 killed, 47 injured in Afghan suicide attack on market
- Austrian teenager mourns captor's suicide
- Iraq; Another day of violence in Baghdad and the south
- South Dakota killer wants to drop death sentence appeals
- Ministry of Defence names dead British soldier
- Pakistan on high alert as violence spreads in Balochistan
- TV3 banned from New Zealand Parliament for three days
- Multiple bombs set off in Turkish resort
- 49 dead after Comair regional jet crashes in Kentucky
- PlayStation 3 will be used to help cure cancer and Alzheimer's
- Afghanistan sees worst days of violence since 2001
- Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, Gaza-held journalists released
- Felipe Massa wins 2006 Turkish Grand Prix
- Tropical Storm Ernesto nears the US Coast
- National Geographic reporter faces espionage charges in Sudan
- 5 Afghans, Canadian soldier injured in mortar attack
- Chad orders oil companies out of the country
- Guantanamo inmate Murat Kurnaz transferred to Germany and released
- British soldier shot and killed in southern Afghanistan
- Eleven year-old boy arrested on suspicion of assaulting a four year-old boy in East Yorkshire
- Canadian soldiers kill Afghan police officer