Portal:Current events/2007 August 2
August 2, 2007 (Thursday)
- The first-ever United Nations plenary session on climate change is extended into a third day due to the large number of 'worried nations' wanting to describe their climate-related problems. (Fox News)
- Mary Peters, the United States Secretary of Transportation, orders an immediate inspection of all truss bridges in the United States following the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis. (CNN)
- Kafeel Ahmed, who was one of the instigators of the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, dies in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary of the injuries he sustained in the attack. (AP via the Melbourne Age)
- United States Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins III is convicted of murder and related offences in relation to the killing of an Iraqi man. (CNN)
- A Cabinet Minister and four junior ministers belonging to the Ceylon Workers Congress leave the Government of President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa due to "political differences". (The Hindu)
- The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rules that three insurers are not responsible for flood damage in New Orleans resulting from Hurricane Katrina. (Reuters)
- 100 people are killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when a train derails. Government officials attribute the accident to faulty brakes. (CBC)
- Two aides of al Qaeda and Taliban are arrested at different places in Pakistan.
- 2007 Russian North Pole expedition: Two Russian bathyscaphes, MIR submersibles have reached the seabed below the North Pole, at a depth of 4.2 km, for the first time ever. (BBC)
- An offshore earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Vanuatu measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale but no tsunami is triggered. (TV3 New Zealand)
- South Korea suspends beef imports from the United States following the discovery of banned parts in a recent shipment. (AP via Forbes)
- Journalists in the Indian state of Manipur refuse to put out newspapers as a protest against threats from rebel groups. (BBC)
- An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale hits the southern part of Sakhalin off the coast of Russia causing a death. It also triggered a small tsunami that struck the coast of HokkaidÅ in Japan. (Russian News and Information Agency)
- The Dandy comic relaunched as Dandy Xtreme.