Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates

This page provides editors a forum to suggest items for inclusion in Template:In the news (ITN), a protected Main Page template, as well as the forum for discussion of candidates.

This candidates page is integrated with the daily pages of Portal:Current events. Under each daily section header below is the transcluded Portal:Current events items for that day (with a light green header). Each day's portal page is followed by a subsection for suggestions and discussion.

Suggestions

In order to suggest a candidate:

• Start, find or modify a blurb directly in the light green box for that day's Current events.
• Update an article linked to from the blurb to include the recent developments, or find an article that has already been updated.
• Nominate the blurb for ITN inclusion under that day's ITN Candidates subheading, emboldening the link to the updated article.

  For standard entry styles, please see WP:In the news section on the Main Page/Style.

Joseph Aoun Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy. An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths. A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: John S. Hunkin Mike Rinder Peter Yarrow Ayla Erduran Claude Allègre Joseph Bendounga view - page history - related changes - Edit (admins only)

There are criteria guiding the decision on whether or not to put a particular item on In the news, based largely on the extensiveness of the updated content and the perceived significance of the recent developments. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page will not be put into the live template.

Sample candidate discussion

• The item on widgets seem to have been adequately updated. --and sign & date your entry 12:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't seem to have any references for the new content. --They've also signed their comment 12:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and added some citations. It should be ready now. --User's Name 12:07, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. Posted. --Responding administrator 12:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

And so on. When continuing the discussion please refrain from using dot points/bullets to allow the candidates to stand out from the discussion. Indent your comments for clarity.

Please refrain from straight support or oppose votes; focus the discussion on the merits of the available candidate items.

September 21

September 21, 2008 (2008-09-21) (Sunday)

• Mad Men wins the Emmy Award for Best Drama and 30 Rock wins for Best Comedy at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Reuters)
• Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
• The number of babies in China hospitalized due to adulterated milk products and infant formula reaches 12,892. (CNN)
• The Social Democrats, led by Borut Pahor, presumably win the Slovenian parliamentary election. (AFP via Melbourne Herald Sun)
• The United States wins the Ryder Cup for the first time since 1999. (The Times)
• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submits his resignation to President Shimon Peres. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni begins talks on forming a new government. (AP via Google News)
• Tyrone beat Kerry 1-15 to 0-14 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2008. (RTÉ)
• The New York Yankees beat The Baltimore Orioles, 7-3, at their last home game at Yankee Stadium. This is the last time the New York Yankees play at Yankee Stadium before moving to the New Yankee Stadium across the street. (Yankees.com)

September 20

September 20, 2008 (2008-09-20) (Saturday)

• A fire in a nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen results in 43 dead and another 51 injured. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
• The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army has launched a surprise offensive in Southern Sudan hitting an army base and villages in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC News)
• Residents of Galveston Island, Texas are advised that they can return home next Wednesday but there will be little or no services after Hurricane Ike destroyed much of the town. (CNN)
• The Bush administration asks the United States Congress for $700 billion to buy mortgage-related assets to try to resolve the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via USA Today)
• War in North-West Pakistan:
  • A suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan Army convoy, killing eight soldiers. (France 24)
  • The 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing occurs. (AP via Google News)
• South African President Thabo Mbeki agrees to resign after the ruling African National Congress requested him to step down.(Reuters Africa via Google News)
• Pakistan detains 13 Indian fishermen after they drifted in Pakistani waters. (Press Trust of India)

ITN candidates for September 20

• Nominate: At least 40 people are killed and 100 injured in a bombing of a Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Article okay...could be expanded, but an update is needed. BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 18:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

• Nom: South African President Thabo Mbeki (pictured) agrees to resign after the ruling African National Congress requested him to step down. --Hapsala (talk) 19:02, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Article needs more updates, but otherwise, it's a good candidate. Spencer^T♦C 21:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Support, but I would prefer an article about the current crisis/development in South African politics, how Mbeki was "sacked" etc. Polipopo (talk) 02:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted. When we have a page on the current crisis, we can switch the bolded link on ITN to that page. --PFHLai (talk) 04:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

September 19

September 19, 2008 (2008-09-19) (Friday)

• Four people die in a plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina with Travis Barker, formerly of Blink 182, and DJ AM being critically injured. (AP via CNN)
• Financial crisis of 2007–2010
  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Kingdom Financial Services Authority take emergency action to temporarily ban short-selling of financial companies stock. (AP via Google News)
  • The United States Department of the Treasury guarantees money market mutual funds up to an amount of $50 billion to guarantee their viability. (The New York Times)
  • The New York Stock Exchange responds positively to these initiatives with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 390 points. (The New York Times)
• Nigerian Oil Crisis
  • The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announces that it has blown up a pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell. (BBC News)
  • Nigerian oil production has been reduced by 280,000 barrels per day since renewed attacks on oil facilities began. (Bloomberg)
• Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. (BBC News)
• Travis Barker, drummer of Pop Punk band Blink-182 suffers life threatening injuries in a plane crash. (Today.com)

ITN candidates for September 19

• If someone created and article for the 2008 Nigerian Oil Crisis, I think we could have a good candidate...I've been seeing several stories in Portal:Current events days about related stuff. 00:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

September 18

September 18, 2008 (2008-09-18) (Thursday)

• 2008 South Ossetia war:
  • US President George W. Bush will urge Russia to honor its commitment to fully withdraw troops from Georgia during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly next week, a top White House official said Friday. (AFP via Google News)
  • Russia says EU observers and extra Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors should monitor situation on the border land of Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia. On September 1 Tbilisi has withdrew from Dagomys peace agreement, which was providing legal basis for OSCE monitors in the two states. (EurAsia)
• Rozi Khan, the Governor of the Chora District in Afghanistan, is killed in a firefight involving Australian Army soldiers. (ABC News Australia)
• Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy sinks 10 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) boats and kills 25 LTTE rebels in heavy fighting off the port of Nachikkudah in Sri Lanka, according to the navy. (Reuters via The International Herald Tribune)
• 2008 Russian financial crisis:
  • Trading is suspended for the third day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges, the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS, amidst fear of financial collapse. News agencies are quoting Russia's Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin, as saying trading on Russian exchanges won't resume until September 19. (MarketWatch)
  • Officials at MICEX stock exchange describe conditions in the Russian markets as "extraordinary". (The Times)
  • Russia is facing its worst stock market decline in a decade mainly because of a confidence crisis rather than liquidity problems, Deputy Finance Minister Pyotr Kazakevich says. (Hurriyet)
  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders ministers to inject another 500 billion rubles (£10.8 billion, US$20 billion) of funds from the state budget into the markets and pledges in remarks broadcast on national television that the financial system would receive "all necessary support". (The Times)
• Subprime mortgage crisis:
  • British bank Lloyds TSB completes a £12.2bn takeover of rival HBOS, the UK's largest mortgage lender. The Competition Commission has allowed the deal as it has government backing, despite the fact that it will leave Lloyd's HBOS in control of a third of the UK mortgage market. (BBC News)
  • The Swedish National Debt Office announces it is putting a temporary hold on its market commitment in treasury bills due to the spike in demand for treasury bonds, which are seen as a safe investment during rocky periods in the financial markets. (Riksgäldskontoret)
  • Following the recent rapid fall of the share value of HBOS, The Financial Services Authority restricts short selling in an attempt to bring about market stability in the United Kingdom. This action follows a similar move by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States on Wednesday. (BBC News)
  • Republican presidential candidate John McCain calls for Christopher Cox, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to be dismissed. (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Kraft Foods replaces American International Group in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. (Reuters via Forbes)
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission declares an emergency ban on shorting financial-sector stocks. (MSNBC)
• A United States Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashes in southern Iraq killing seven United States soldiers. (AP via The New York Times)
• Pirates hijack a Greek bulk carrier with 25 crew aboard off the coast of Somalia. (AP via Google News) (Wikinews)
• Bruessel/EU:In European media, journalists report that some US politicians and military personnel supported with financial help the Anti-Europe Movement in Ireland against the Treaty of Lisbon. Ftd:USA sollen EU-Vertrag sabotiert haben

ITN candidates for September 18

Tzipi Livni

Tzipi Livni

Nominate — Foreign Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni is selected as the new leader of the Kadima party, putting her in line to become Prime Minister.

It's in the portal news under Sept. 17, but I think the full results weren't confirmed until today. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Can we wait until she actually becomes the Prime Minister? - Mark 05:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking that the change of party leadership in a parliamentary system was roughly equivalent to the nomination of the Presidential candidates in the US — Obama and McCain made ITN when they secured the leadership of their parties, so why shouldn't Livni? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 08:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

That was rather controversial and really only got through because of the level of international coverage the/this US election buildup is receiving. (Plus with Obama since he was the first African American.) Changes of leadership of parties in countries with parliamentry systems are not necessarily uncommon (for example one happened several days ago in Australia) and definitely are not usually ITN worthy in themselves (the change of leader of opposition for example is definitely not in itself of sufficient significance for ITN). If there is something special about this change (is she the first female leader of a major party in Israel?) then there may be a case, but if the only thing here is she may become the Prime Minister then we should wait until she becomes Prime Minister. If she doesn't become Prime Minister then really there's no reason it should have been there anyway. Nil Einne (talk) 13:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I think this was discussed before. It is not for sure she will become PM, she's only the predisent of the party now. We can put this on when she becomes PM. --Tone 13:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Nominate 'Lloyds TSB complete a £12.2bn takeover of rival HBOS, the United Kingdom's largest mortgage lender' -- Huge repecussion of current economic crisis and one not in the US! Also it will create one of the largest financial institutions in the world --Daviessimo (talk) 06:47, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Support adding this to the current item on the subprime mortgage crisis and rewording accordingly. Perhaps something like "In the ongoing subprime mortgage crisis, Lloyds TSB purchases rival HBOS, the United States Federal Reserve bails out AIG, Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy protection, and Bank of America purchases Merrill Lynch." —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:01, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

This blurb is becoming longer and longer, maybe we should drop one or two events that happened a few days ago and focus on the latest? --Tone 13:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Drop the Merrill Lynch-Bank of America story for this one. Or the AIG story since nothing really happened yet. –Howard the Duck 16:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I do not support Lloyds news. Not as big as US corp news. --gppande «talk» 18:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh so the rule is now that only US firms or banks going belly up are 'big' enough to get on ITN. £12.2bn is over $21Bn which is huge some of money. Also the newly merged firm will have over 35m customers and even with the expected 40,000 job losses will employ over 100,000 people (which is 4 times more than Lehmann brothers about 15,000 fewer than AIG). Oh but I forgot AIG 'nearly' collapsing is a bigger than this 'actual' development --Daviessimo (talk) 19:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted, by dropping Merrill Lynch from the existing blurb, adding in the HBOS news and rejigging it a bit. The fourth and fifth biggest banks in the United Kingdom merging is definitely 'as big as US corp news'. And HBOS is bigger than Merrill Lynch anyway. - Mark 03:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion Can the blurb be shortened down? -c4v3m4n 03:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but the other side of the Main Page is unusually long today, so we'd end up having to add some old news back on the end to balance it out. - Mark 03:32, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, hopefully shortened down enough now. - Mark 03:44, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

• I definitely support this news piece as well and I agree with the removal of Merrill Lynch since both AIG and Lehman supersede that item in terms of market impact. Given the condition of English financial markets, we definitely need more coverage of the subprime crisis in the UK too. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 04:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate "Somchai Wongsawat is selected to be the next Prime Minister of Thailand during that country's current political crisis."

  Or something like that. New PM seems pretty newsworthy to me. - Mark 09:28, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Support, we usually include such type of news. --Tone 13:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Support. --gppande «talk» 18:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Support. New national leaders are always newsworthy. Benjaminx (talk) 22:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted. - Mark 03:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

September 17

September 17, 2008 (2008-09-17) (Wednesday)

• The emerging 2008 baby milk scandal shows evidence of coverup by officials during the Olympics. (MSNBC)
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 440 points as the bailout of the American International Group by the Federal Reserve fails to reassure jittery investors. (The New York Times)
• Foreign Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni is selected as the new leader of the Kadima party, putting her in position to possibly become the first female Prime Minister of Israel since Golda Meir. (Reuters)
• Rwanda becomes the first nation where women outnumber men in parliament. (BBC News)
• 2008 Russian financial crisis:
  • Trading is suspended for the second day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges (the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS) after shares fall dramatically, forcing the central bank in Moscow to intervene. (The Times) (Bloomberg)
  • Russia's government lends the country's three biggest banks, Sberbank, VTB Bank and Gazprombank, as much as 1.13 trillion rubles ($44 billion) for at least three months to boost liquidity. (Bloomberg)
• Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen that results in 16 confirmed deaths. (The New York Times)
• The BBC reports that British bank HBOS is in advanced talks with Lloyds TSB as HBOS share prices plummet as a result of exposure to the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
• India deploys Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Jammu and Kashmir amidst continuing ceasefire violations with Pakistan along the Line of Control. (Times of India)
• 2008 Thai political crisis: Somchai Wongsawat has been elected as the next Prime Minister of Thailand by the National Assembly of Thailand with King Bhumibol Adulyadej having to endorse the selection. (AFP via The Canberra Times)
• BAA Limited decides to sell Gatwick Airport following a recent ruling by the United Kingdom Competition Commission. (BBC News)
• The International Astronomical Union classifies Haumea as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System and names it after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth and fertility. (IAU press release)
• Papua New Guinea launches the National Television Service, a free-to-air state-run channel which competes with EM TV. (ABC News Australia)

ITN candidates for September 17

• More than 6,200 children in China fall ill due to adulterated milk products and infant formula. --PFHLai (talk) 06:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted. No one objects, eh? --PFHLai (talk) 03:05, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest an update to the lead Subprime Crisis item indicating that Lehman Brothers is to be partially acquired by Barclays plc. Radagast (talk) 21:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

• Comment The 2008 unrest in Bolivia really needs to be mentioned, its been going on for days. Medvedenko (talk) 21:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

  Do you have any wording ideas in mind? Spencer^T♦C 01:12, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

  The article doesn't seem to be updated enough for a story about the reported 'tentative agreement reached for talks to commence', really. - Mark 02:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I posted at blurb near the bottom of ITN about the state of emergency and the arrest of the Governor of Pando. Please feel free to update the blurb as the story develops. --PFHLai (talk) 05:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate the Haumea classification. Nergaal (talk) 21:50, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

  Posted. - Mark 03:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

  I've taken this back off again, because there appear to be a lot of sourcing problems on the article which should be fixed. - Mark 05:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

• More on the subprime crisis; the UK press are reporting that Lloyds TSB has agreed to take over HBOS to avoid the latter's collapse. --Kwekubo (talk) 22:12, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

  I haven't read that it was to avoid HBOS's collapse. We need to be careful what we say. Perhaps: "Lloyds TSB agrees to merge with HBOS amidst ongoing instability in global financial markets." - Mark 02:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

• Nom 2008 Yemeni American embassy attack...It needs some updates, and I'll try to do that. Spencer^T♦C 01:15, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. Wording: 16 are killed in an attack on the American embassy in San‘a’, Yemen.

Should American embassy link to United States–Yemen relations? Thanks, Spencer^T♦C 02:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted. - Mark 03:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

September 16

September 16, 2008 (2008-09-16) (Tuesday)

• Unrest in Bolivia:
  • Governor of Pando Leopoldo Fernández is taken into custody by the armed forces, on charges of hiring hitmen to attack pro-government protesters. (BBC News)
  • The United States organises at least two evacuation flights from Bolivia as the political situation worsens. (AP via Google News)
• Fighting in Somalia has killed 838 people since June, according to local rights activists, bringing the total to have died in an insurgency that began early last year to 9,474. (Reuters)
• 2008 Russian financial crisis:
  • Russia's most liquid stock exchange MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS suspend trade for one hour after the worst one-day fall in ten years as Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin reassured markets there was no "systemic" crisis. (Reuters)
• Subprime mortgage crisis: The United States Federal Reserve agrees to lend the American International Group $85 billion in return for a 79.9% stake. (The New York Times)
• Six men have been found guilty of terrorism-related offences in Melbourne, Australia. Abdul Nacer Benbrika was found guilty of intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organization while five other men were found guilty of being members of the same organization. Four other men were acquitted and the jury is still considering its verdict on two men. (ABC News Australia)
• The United States government opens up a partnership with the Swedish municipality of Södertälje, a city of 80,000 that has received nearly 6,000 Iraqi refugees since the beginning of the Iraq war. (The Local)
• Hamas-Fatah conflict: Fierce fighting between Hamas security forces and the pro-Fatah Doghmush organised crime family leaves 5 dead in Gaza City. (BBC News)
• Ukraine's ruling coalition is formally dissolved after parties supporting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in alliance with the Party of Regions, pushed legislation limiting the powers of President Viktor Yushchenko resulting in his party's withdrawal from the coalition. Tymoshenko's party is expected to form an alliance with the Party of Regions or new elections will be held. (AFP via Google News)
  • Viktor Yushchenko earlier accused pro-Western Yulia Tymoshenko of committing a high treason for not supporting Georgia during the 2008 South Ossetia war. (AFP via Rawstory) (The Telegraph)
• The employees (not the members) of Oregon's largest teachers' union go on strike against the union itself. (OPB News)
• Malcolm Turnbull is elected as the new leader of the Federal Liberal Party of Australia and Leader of the Opposition following a leadership spill. (News Limited)
• The Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese romanization, switching from the previously-official Tongyong Pinyin.(Taipei Times), (China Post)

ITN candidates for September 16

• Nominating 2008 Ukrainian political crisis since past situations tended to result in problems, greater attention will be given here following the conflict in Georgia, and it could lead to a major shift in Ukraine's political situation as well as impacting its potential NATO membership.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 09:26, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Support IF the parliament has officially been dissolved because snap elections are normally ITN material --Daviessimo (talk) 10:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Snap elections announcement makes it to ITN. Otherwise... maybe, what would the headline be? Even the formation of different government would be ITN. Let's wait a day or two to see the development. --Tone 11:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Coalition is down; posted.--chaser - t 03:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Comment - as it is now - "related to the South Ossetia war" - it gives an wp:undue weight to South Ossetia war as a main reason of the crisis. This is disputable and sources like BBC doesn't even mention the war as a reason for the crisis. See also latest edits to the article and article talk page. --windyhead (talk) 17:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

• Comment - The New York Times has reported that American International Group may file for bankruptcy protection as early as Wednesday, September 17. This would be the largest bankruptcy in United States history and possibly the largest bankruptcy in world history. AIG is the largest insurance company in the world and its collapse will, according to the Times, have far reaching global financial impact. This could be combined with the news on Lehman and Merrill Lynch, provided that it's reposted at the top to provide more updated coverage. Otherwise, it can stand by itself as a major news event. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 16:44, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Support if this happens and if the article is updated properly. From natural didasters to bank disasters in a couple of days... --Tone 17:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Gov't rescue added to the other news items.--chaser - t 03:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

The AIG item seems to be toing the line of WP:CRYSTALBALL... "The Federal Reserve rescues insurer AIG from likely bankruptcy"...yes, I know it was probably going to happen. Can we have a change of wording, say (?) "The Federal Reserve loans AIG $85 billion, ..." Spencer^T♦C 11:04, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Wording looks much better now. Thanks, Spencer^T♦C 22:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

September 15

September 15, 2008 (2008-09-15) (Monday)

• The government of Samoa recognizes the independence of Kosovo. (New Kosova Report)
• Morelia Bomb Attacks: Eight people are killed and 100 injured in a presumed terrorist attack at El Grito Independence Day celebrations in the main square of Morelia, Michoacán. (BBC News) (El Universal)
• Hewlett-Packard announces plans to cut 24,600 jobs. (Reuters)
• Shots are fired into the air in a confrontation between US and Pakistani forces; US forces retreat; Pakistan denies involvement of their forces. (BBC News)
• Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Secretary General of NATO, visits Georgia in a show of support. (AP via USA Today)
• Richard Wright, a founding member of the English rock group Pink Floyd, dies at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. (CNN)
• At least 11 spectators die in a stampede at a club football match in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a riot incited when a goalkeeper used an animist spell in an attempt to rally his team. (Radio Okapi via ESPN)
• Twelve tourists are killed and 37 injured when a coach collides with a delivery truck outside of Ras Sidr in Egypt. Reports suggest 7 of the 12 dead are foreign nationals. (Sky News)
• A power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is officially signed, making Tsvangirai Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and chair of cabinet meetings. Mugabe maintains his position as president and remains in control of the country's army. (The Telegraph)
• Nigerian Oil Crisis: Nigeria's main rebel group claim to have destroyed an oil installation owned by Shell in the Rivers State region in the south of the country. (BBC News)
• A stampede in the Indonesian town of Pasuruan leaves 21 people dead, most of whom are thought to be women. (BBC News)
• At least one person has died and 26 are missing after a Ro-ro ferry sinks near the Turkish city of Bandirma. (Sky News)
• Subprime mortgage crisis
  • Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by over 500 points as the New York Stock Exchange responds to events over the weekend. (The New York Times)
• Six men have been found guilty of terrorism-related offences in Melbourne, Australia. Abdul Nacer Benbrika was found guilty of intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organization while five other men were found guilty of being members of the same organisation. Four other men were acquitted and the jury is still considering its verdict on two men. (ABC News Australia)
• Hurricane Ike (2008)
  • The remnants of Ike are blamed for 13 more deaths in the Midwestern United States. (Boston Herald)
  • More than one million households in the Midwestern United States are left without electricity due to high winds. (Columbus Dispatch)
  • President George W. Bush warns that motorists will face a "pinch" from rising costs caused by Hurricane Ike. (AP via Fox News)
• NASA scientists report that the ozone hole over the Antarctic has reached its largest expanse, 27 million square kilometers, vs 26 million square kilometers in 2006. (NASA) European Scientists at ESA concur. [1]

ITN candidates for September 15

• Nominating Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Very important development of the US banking crisis with international ramidications. Dovetails with the takeover of Fannie and Freddie, and shows that the crisis is far from over and that the entire US banking system is verging on collapse, a collapse which many assert would cause a meltdown of the global financial system. Very, very serious. __meco (talk) 06:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

We need a headline with no redlinks. Anyways, pls see on-going discussion on Subprime mortgage crisis and related wikiarticles at #ITN candidates for September 14 below. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 07:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• Suggest an update of the Zimbabwe power sharing deal to show it is official and that Tsvangarai in the now PM --Daviessimo (talk) 10:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• As part of a power-sharing agreement with President Robert Mugabe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai takes office as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, a post previously abolished by Mugabe's regime in 1987. --PFHLai (talk) 06:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

That sounds good to me. Although the emboldened link should be power-sharing agreement so it links to the 2008 Zimbabwean political negotiations article which has more info --Daviessimo (talk) 10:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Upon further review, we can't put this on ITN yet. Tsvangirai has not yet taken office. The 'new' post has to be (re)created by a constitutional amendment, which won't be done till next month. --PFHLai (talk) 05:58, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

• Amateur supernova hunters Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda rediscovered on September 10 the long-lost comet D/1896 R2, which had been discovered by the French astronomer Michel Giacobini at Nice on September 4, 1896. With a period of a little less than 7 years, this comet had returned sixteen times without being seen until now. It was added to the list of periodic comets as the 205th such comet.
• Nominating 2008 Morelia bombings in Morelia, Mexico. Scanlan (talk) 02:09, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Posted at the bottom of ITN. --PFHLai (talk) 04:43, 21 September 2008 (UTC)