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US News Archive for August 2006:
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49 die in Kentucky plane crash
Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard Delta Flight 5191 were killed when the aircraft crashed Sunday morning shortly after take-off from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, according to Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn...
CNN - August 27, 2006
49 Killed in Airplane Crash in Kentucky
A Comair passenger plane bound for Atlanta crashed shortly after takeoff into a field in Lexington, Ky., killing all but one person on board. The cause was being investigated...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Tennis: Agassi takes centre stage
Two-time US Open winner Andre Agassi is given the showcase match on day one of the US Open on Monday...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Basketball: USA crush Australia
The USA ease past Australia 113-73 to reach the last eight of the World Basketball Championship in Japan...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Obama draws crowds in slums
US Senator Barack Obama addresses cheering crowds as he tours a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Woods sees off Cink in play-off
Tiger Woods continues his rich vein of form with a play-off victory in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Many dead in Kentucky plane crash
Only one person of the 50 on board survives a plane crash in Kentucky, after it took off from the wrong runway...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
1 known survivor as plane crashes
A Delta commuter plane carrying 50 people crashes after take-off from Lexington airport in the American state of Kentucky. Only one person is known to have survived...
CNN - August 27, 2006
Plane carrying 50 crashes in Kentucky; 1 known survivor
A Delta commuter flight carrying 50 people crashed Sunday morning near Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, airport and airline officials said. One person is known to have survived...
CNN - August 27, 2006
Jet With 50 Aboard Crashes in Kentucky
A regional jet operated by Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, crashed just after takeoff in Lexington, Ky. Rescue officials said many of the people aboard were killed...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
US senator to visit Kenyan slums
US Senator Barack Obama is due to visit slums in the Kenyan capital as part of his trip to his father's homeland...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
US journalist on Sudan spy charge
US journalist Paul Salopek, arrested earlier this month in Darfur region of Sudan, is charged with spying...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Kidnapped Fox journalists released
Two Fox journalists kidnapped two weeks ago in Gaza have been released, according to the Palestinian news service Ramattan and Fox News...
CNN - August 27, 2006
Hurricane Ernesto heads for Florida
Ernesto grew into a hurricane Sunday morning as forecasters predicted it would hit central or northern Florida by Thursday morning. The latest advisory from the hurricane center said conditions in the Gulf were "highly conducive" for the "rapid intensification in the near term and for the potential development of a major hurricane in the longer term."...
CNN - August 27, 2006
Bomb hits Iraqi newspaper; 2 dead
At least two people were killed and 20 others wounded in a car bomb explosion Sunday outside Al-Sabah, Iraq's state-owned daily newspaper, an Iraqi emergency official said...
CNN - August 27, 2006
The World: In Britain-Pakistan Ties, Cricket's the Easy Part
In sport, as in global politics, a history of perceived slights coalesces easily into a moment of rage when pride and vengeance dictate extreme measures...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Free-scoring USA crush Australia
The United States produced a ruthless display to defeat Australia 113-73 and reach the quarter-finals of the World Basketball Championship in Japan...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
Tribal leader killed in Pakistan
One of Pakistan's leading ethnic nationalist leaders -- Nawab Akbar Bugti, above -- was killed in a massive military operation, the government said...
CNN - August 27, 2006
Big Easy shudders as Ernesto nears
As the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, some residents prepared Saturday to evacuate amid forecasts of another hurricane entering the Gulf of Mexico...
CNN - August 27, 2006
The Katrina Year | A Future, Dimly Seen: Outlines Emerge for a Shaken New Orleans
Somewhere between the extravagant visions of the boosters and the gloomy predictions of the pessimists lies a glimpse of the city’s real future...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Corrections
A picture caption with the Economic View column last Sunday, about protecting the nation’s infrastructure against terrorism, referred incorrectly to a site in Tooele, Utah. It houses a chemical weapons disposal facility, not a chemical plant...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Chad Expels Oil Companies
President Idriss Déby said that the American oil company Chevron and Petronas of Malaysia had not honored their tax obligations...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Milan Bank Merger Makes It Italy’s No. 1
Banca Intesa of Milan agreed Saturday to buy a smaller rival, Sanpaolo IMI of Turin, Italy, for 29.6 billion euros...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Editors’ Note
The Off the Shelf column last Sunday reviewed “The Accidental Investment Banker” by Jonathan A. Knee. The reviewer was Roger Lowenstein. In 2004, Mr. Lowenstein’s book “Origins of the Crash” was reviewed by Mr. Knee in The New York Observer. The Times does not normally assign anyone to review a book by a writer who has reviewed the reviewer’s own work. It was unaware of the background in this case...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Turks Knock on Europe’s Door With Evidence That Islam and Capitalism Can Coexist
As Turkey seeks to join the European Union, the Anatolia region has been able to blend Muslim religious fervor, hard work and marketplace values...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Wal-Mart Posts Slightly Improved Sales in August
Wal-Mart Stores said that same-store sales for August in the United States rose about 2.7 percent...
New York Times - August 27, 2006
Golf: Woods stumbles in Akron
Paul Casey storms into contention at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational as Tiger Woods suffers an unexpected slump...
BBC News - August 27, 2006
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