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Current events of
August 9, 2011
(
2011-08-09
)
(Tuesday)
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Arts and culture
Australians
fill out the
2011 Australian census
.
(ABC News Australia)
Business and economy
August 2011 stock markets fall
The
Australian
Commonwealth
and
Westpac
banks cut fixed home loan rates.
(News Limited)
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
(
Market Watch
)
(Reuters)
South Korea
's financial authorities promise to take action to stabilise markets as stocks on the
Korea Exchange
continue to fall.
(Yonhap)
The
Australian
and
New Zealand dollars
continue to fall as investors seek security with the Aussie dollar falling below parity.
(Bloomberg)
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
on the
New York Stock Exchange
as world stock markets recover after recent falls.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
The U.S.
Federal Reserve
announces it will keep interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" at least through mid 2013, though it makes no commitment for further
quantitative easing
.
(Reuters)
Disasters
Tropical Storm Mufia
At least four people are dead and two missing after former
Typhoon Muifa
hits
South Korea
- 600 homes had earlier been destroyed in the
People's Republic of China
.
(
Chosun Ilbo
)
(AFP via Google News)
At least ten people are reported to have died in
North Korea
.
(CNN)
Law and crime
English
riots:
Rioting
continues in
London
with lawlessness spreading to other
English
cities such as
Liverpool
,
Manchester
,
Bristol
and
Birmingham
.
(BBC)
,
(
The Australian
)
The
Prime Minister
David Cameron
returns to Britain to chair an emergency meeting on the crisis and later recalls
Parliament
on Thursday.
(BBC)
(BBC)
Police arrest 334 people and charge 69 after last night's riots.
(Al-Jazeera)
The Football Association
calls off a friendly match between the
England
and
Netherlands
national teams.
(
The Guardian
)
The far-right
English Defense League
says it will send its members onto the streets to quell riots.
(AP via
Houston Chronicle
)
Warren Jeffs
, former leader of the
FLDS Church
and formerly on the
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
list, is sentenced to
life in prison
plus 20 years for a
conviction
on child
sexual assault
charges.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Voters in some parts of the US state of
Wisconsin
go to the polls for
recall elections
for six
Republican Party
State Senators
with Republicans retaining four of the six seats and their majority in the chamber.
(
The New York Times
)
,
(Bloomberg)
Penny Wong
, the first openly gay member of the
Australian Cabinet
, announces that her partner will be having a baby.
(
Adelaide Advertiser
)
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