Bibliography for World Events: 2008Q3
Date Published	Date Published	Date Posted	Venue	Country	Author	Article/URL*	Media	Listed Sources	Contributors
1-Jul-08	1-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve will offer $75 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility on July 14 and 28, 2008	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
7-Jul-08	7-Jul-08		Tokyo	Japan		G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
8-Jul-08	8-Jul-08		San Francisco, CA	U.S.	Jonathan Burton	John Templeton, pioneer investor, dies at 95: In finance and philanthropy, legendary fund manager opened doors to world	MarketWatch
	8-Jul-08		West Conshohocken, PA	U.S.		Sir John Templeton, Pioneer Investor and Philanthropist	John Templeton Foundation
9-Jul-08	9-Jul-08		Hokkaido	Japan		Summary of the Hokkaido Toyako Summit	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
10-Jul-08	10-Jul-08		Midland, MI	U.S.		Dow Acquires Rohm and Haas, Creating World’s Leading Specialty Chemicals and Advanced Materials Company: $18.8 Billion Transaction Marks Pivotal Point in Dow’s Transformation	Dow Chemical	News Release
	10-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		H.R.6304: To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes (FISA Amendments Act of 2008)	Library of Congress	THOMAS
	10-Jul-08		London	U.K.		Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 5.0%	Bank of England	News Release
	10-Jul-08		San Francisco, CA	U.S.	Moming Zhou; Polya Lesova	Oil jumps to above $141 on geopolitical concerns	MarketWatch
	10-Jul-08		New York, NY	U.S.	Christopher Hinton	Dow Chemical to buy Rohm & Haas for $15 billion	MarketWatch
	10-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		President Bush Signs H.R. 6304, FISA Amendments Act of 2008	The White House	News Release
11-Jul-08	11-Jul-08		Dusseldorf; New York, NY	Germany: U.S.		Citi to Sell German Retail Banking Operation to Credit Mutuel	Citigroup	News Release
	11-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Failed Bank List	FDIC
	11-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Failed Banks	FDIC
	11-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Failed Bank Information: Information for IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., Pasadena, CA	FDIC
	11-Jul-08		Philadelphia, PA	U.S.		H.R. 6304--110th Congress (2008): FISA Amendments Act of 2008, GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation) (accessed 31-Jul-08)	GovTrack		Joshua Tauberer (site maintainer)
	11-Jul-08		London	U.K.	Simon Kennedy	Citi to sell German unit to Credit Mutuel for $7.7 bln	MarketWatch
	11-Jul-08		Istanbul	Turkey	Sebnem Arsu	Four Detained After Deadly Istanbul Attack	NYT		Anahad O’Connor; Alan Cowell
12-Jul-08	12-Jul-08		Houston, TX	U.S.		In Memoriam: Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	News Release
	12-Jul-08				Kathy M. Kristof; Andrea Chang	IndyMac Bank seized by federal regulators	Los Angeles Times
	12-Jul-08		Istanbul	Turkey	Laura King	Attackers of U.S. Consulate in Turkey shared a bleak background	Los Angeles Times
	12-Jul-08				Charles Duhigg	Putting Their Houses in Order	NYT
	12-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Stephen Labaton	Worst Fears Ease, for Now, on Mortgage Giants’ Fate	NYT		Michael M. Grynbaum
	12-Jul-08		Houston, TX	U.S.		Dr. Michael DeBakey Is Dead at 99	NYT	AP
	12-Jul-08				Jeffrey H. Birnbaum; Neil Irwin	U.S. Weighs Rescue of Mortgage Giants: After Allaying Anxiety About Fannie and Freddie, Officials Stop Short of Action	Washington Post		David Cho; David S. Hilzenrath; Lori Montgomery; Michael Shear
	12-Jul-08				Dina ElBoghdady; Renae Merle	Struggling Mortgage Lender Taken Over by Regulators: IndyMac to Reopen Monday Under Federal Control	Washington Post
13-Jul-08	13-Jul-08		Leuven; St. Louis, MO	Belgium; U.S.		InBev and Anheuser-Busch Agree to Combine, Creating the Global Leader in Beer with Budweiser as its Flagship Brand	Anheuser-Bush	News Release
	13-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Board grants Federal Reserve Bank of New York the authority to lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should such lending prove necessary	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	13-Jul-08		Leuven; St. Louis, MO	Belgium; U.S.		InBev and Anheuser-Busch Agree to Combine, Creating the Global Leader in Beer with Budweiser as its Flagship Brand	InBev	News Release
	13-Jul-08				Gretchen Morgenson	Fair Game: The Fannie and Freddie Fallout	NYT
14-Jul-08	14-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve will offer $75 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility today	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
15-Jul-08	15-Jul-08		Tokyo	Japan		Announcement of Monetary Policy (Policy Unchanged, Announced at 1:34 pm)	Bank of Japan	News Release
	15-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Agencies Issue Final Guidance on Supervisory Review Process (Pillar 2) Related to Implementation of Basel II Advanced Approaches Rule	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	15-Jul-08				E. Scott Reckard; Andrea Chang	Banks hit by fallout from the crisis at IndyMac	Los Angeles Times
	15-Jul-08				Louise Story; Eric Dash	Confidence Ebbs for Bank Sector and Stocks Fall	NYT		Christopher Maag
	15-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Steven R. Weisman	Fed Sets Rules Meant to Stop Deceptive Lending Practices	NYT
	15-Jul-08		Kabul	Afghanistan	Carlotta Gall; Eric Schmitt	Taliban Breached NATO Base in Deadly Clash	NYT		Abdul Waheed Wafa
23-Jul-08	23-Jul-08		Veruppamkulam	Sri Lanka	Roland Buerk	Sri Lankan families count cost of war	BBC News
24-Jul-08	24-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Conference to Explore Implications of New Technologies For Open Source Analysis	Office of the Director of National Intelligence	News Release
	24-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	James R. White	TAX ADMINISTRATION: Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005	U.S. Government Accountability Office		Kevin Daly, Assistant Director; Amy Bowser; Sara Daleski; Laurie King; Donna Miller; and John Mingus
25-Jul-08	25-Jul-08		Mountain View, CA	U.S.	Jesse Alpert; Nissan Hajaj	We Knew the Web Was Big . . .	Google	The Official Google Blog
	25-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		XM and Sirius: MB Docket No. 07-57	FCC
	25-Jul-08					Vilsack Breaks Down Obama Berlin Speech	FOX News	Hannity & Colmes, 24-Jul-08 (rush transcript)
	25-Jul-08		Berlin	Germany	Christian Retzlaff	Obama's Berlin speech appears to resonate with crowd	Los Angeles Times
	25-Jul-08		Irvine, CA	U.S.		Foreclosure Activity Up 14 Percent in Second Quarter: Activity Increases 121 Percent From Q2 2007; 95 of 100 Largest Metro Areas Post Annual Increases	RealtyTrac	News Release
26-Jul-08	26-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		H.R. 3221: A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes	Library of Congress	THOMAS
	26-Jul-08		Colombo	Sri Lanka	Ranga Sirilal	Sri Lanka fighting kills 74	Reuters		Mary Gabriel (ed.)
	26-Jul-08					Obama Wraps up Trip in UK, Denies it was 'Victory Lap'	Deutsche Welle		DW staff (jam)
	26-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Merger of Sirius and XM Approved by F.C.C.	NYT	AP
	26-Jul-08		Colombo	Sri Lanka		Dozens die in Sri Lanka fighting	UPI
	26-Jul-08		New Delhi	India	Steve Herman	More Deadly Bomb Blasts Rock India	VOA News
27-Jul-08	27-Jul-08					Iran 'expands' nuclear programme	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	27-Jul-08		Colombo	Sri Lanka		Sri Lankan security forces hand over 19 LTTE bodies to ICRC	Colombo Page
	27-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Richard Simon	Sweeping housing relief bill sent to Bush after approval by Senate	Los Angeles Times
	27-Jul-08					NATO Counter-Attack Kills Dozens of Insurgents in Afghan Battle	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	27-Jul-08					Severe Floods in Western Ukraine, Romania Kill 17	VOA News	AP-Reuters
	27-Jul-08		Istanbul	Turkey	Dorian Jones	Turkey Strikes Kurdish Bases in Northern Iraq	VOA News
	27-Jul-08					Militants, Pakistani Troops Clash Near Baluchistan Gas Fields; 15 Dead	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	27-Jul-08				Lori Montgomery; Paul Kane	Housing Bill Won't 'Perform Miracles': Senate Approves Measure, but Critics Say Law Unlikely to Prevent Most Foreclosures	Washington Post
28-Jul-08	28-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve will offer $75 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility today	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	28-Jul-08				Peter S. Goodman	Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans	NYT
	28-Jul-08		New Delhi	India	Somini Sengupta	Facing a Wave of Violence, India Is Rattled	NYT		Hari Kumar
	28-Jul-08					Bombings During Shi'ite Pilgrimage in Baghdad Kill 28; Kirkuk Blast Kills 22	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	28-Jul-08					Missile Attack in Pakistan Kills 6	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	28-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Press Briefing by Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jim Nussle and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Dr. Ed Lazear on the Mid-Session Review	The White House	News Release
	28-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Budget of the United States GovernmentFiscal Year 2009	OMB
	28-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Fiscal Year 2009: Mid-Session Review, Budget of the U.S. Government	OMB
29-Jul-08	29-Jul-08		Tehran	Iran	George Jahn	Iranian president: 'Big powers' going down	AP
	29-Jul-08					Richard Viguerie: Bush White House hides true scope of federal deficit	ConservativeHQ.com
	29-Jul-08		Denver, CO	U.S.		Magnitude 5.4 - Greater Los Angeles Area, California	USGS
	29-Jul-08		Beijing	China		The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 8-24, 2008	The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
	29-Jul-08					Iraq hit by wave of suicide attacks	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	29-Jul-08		Havana	Cuba		Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)	NAM
	29-Jul-08					U.S. skeptical of Iranian president's comments	China View	Xinhua	Yan Liang (ed.)
	29-Jul-08		Tehran	Iran		Cuba calls for more active NAM role in UN Security Council	China View	Xinhua	Sun Yunlong (ed.)
	29-Jul-08		London	U.K.		BP p.l.c.Group: Second quarter 2008 results	BP	News Release
	29-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	James Politi	Record deficit of $482bn forecast for 2009	Financial Times
	29-Jul-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Robert Pear; David M. Herszenhorn	White House Predicts $482 Billion Deficit	NYT		Stephen Labaton
	29-Jul-08					Editorial: A deficit dilemma	San Francisco Chronicle
	29-Jul-08					WTO Talks Collapse Over Agricultural Disputes	VOA News	AFP-Bloomberg-Reuters
	29-Jul-08		Geneva	Switzerland		Day 9: Talks collapse despite progress on a list of issues	WTO
	29-Jul-08		Tehran	Iran		World order needs dramatic change: Mottaki	IRNA
	29-Jul-08		Tehran	Iran		NAM can play key role in settlement of challenges: president	IRNA
31-Jul-08	31-Jul-08					Another record profit for Exxon	BBC News
	31-Jul-08		Houston, TX	U.S.	Joe Carroll	Exxon Profit Rises Less Than Estimated; Output Drops (Update4)	Bloomberg
	31-Jul-08				Kristen Hays	Exxon earns record $11.7B, misses expectations: Shell also reports massive profit despite decline in oil production	Houston Chronicle		David Ivanovich; Bloomberg News
	31-Jul-08		Irving, TX	U.S.		Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Estimated Second Quarter 2008 Results	Exxon Mobil	News Release
	31-Jul-08		New York, NY	U.S.	Steve Gelsi	Exxon Mobil net climbs 14%, misses estimate: Analysts flag lower production, higher costs, $2 bln drop in refining profit	MarketWatch
	31-Jul-08		New York, NY	U.S.	Steve Gelsi	Exxon Mobil, Shell weigh on sector: Natural gas shares lose 20% in July in dismal month for energy stocks	MarketWatch
	31-Jul-08		London; The Hague	U.K.; The Netherlands		2nq Quarter 2008 Results	Royal Dutch Shell	News Release
1-Aug-08	1-Aug-08		Istanbul	Turkey	C. Onur Ant	17 die as explosion destroys girls dorm in Turkey	AP
	1-Aug-08		Detroit, MI	U.S.		GM Reports Preliminary Second Quarter Financial Results	GM	News Release
	1-Aug-08		Detroit, MI	U.S.	John D. Stoll; Sharon Terlep	UPDATE: GM Loses $15.5 Billion As Sales Plunge, Charges Mount	CNN Money	Dow Jones Newswires
	1-Aug-08					Afghan blasts kill Nato soldiers	BBC News
	1-Aug-08		Kabul	Afghanistan		Roadside bombings kill 5 NATO soldiers, civilian in E.Afghanistan	China View	Xinhua	Yan Liang (ed.)
	1-Aug-08		Detroit, MI; Southfield, MI	U.S.	Greg Bensinger; Jeff Green	GM's $15.5 Billion Loss Is Third-Biggest in a Century (Update2)	Bloomberg
	1-Aug-08		San Ramon, CA	U.S.		Chevron Reports Second Quarter Net Income of $6 Billion, Up 11 Percent From $5.4 Billion in Second Quarter 2007	Chevron	News Release
	1-Aug-08				Mike Barris	US Auto Woes Deepen Amid Slumping Trucks, SUVs	WSJ	Dow Jones Newswires
	1-Aug-08		Houston, TX	U.S.	Clifford Krauss; Julia Werdigier	Rising Oil Prices Swell Profits at Exxon and Shell	NYT
	1-Aug-08					Building Collapse Kills 16 Schoolgirls in Turkey	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
2-Aug-08	2-Aug-08		Kabul	Afghanistan		Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan	Daily Times	Reuters
	2-Aug-08					Chevron Posts Record Profit Despite Loss in Refinery Unit	NYT	Reuters
3-Aug-08	3-Aug-08					Bomb blast kills Somali civilians	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	3-Aug-08					Deadly bomb blast in Baghdad	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera-Agencies
	3-Aug-08		Ankara	Turkey		Eight PKK rebels killed in clash in SE Turkey	China View	Xinhua	An (ed.)
	3-Aug-08		Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh	India		80 killed in stampede at the Naina Devi temple	The Times of India	PTI
	3-Aug-08		New Delhi	India		68 killed in India temple stampede	CNN	AP
	3-Aug-08		Santa Cruz, CA	U.S.		FBI Probes UC Santa Cruz Firebomb Attacks: Attacks Target Researchers	NBC11.com
	3-Aug-08		Istanbul	Turkey	Daren Butler	Turkish army says eight Kurd rebels killed in clash	Reuters
	3-Aug-08		Delhi	India	Jeremy Page	More than 100 die in Indian temple stampede	Times Online
	3-Aug-08					Car Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	3-Aug-08		New Delhi	India		At Least 145 Hindu Pilgrims Die in Temple Stampede	VOA News
	3-Aug-08					At Least 20 Killed in Somalia Explosion	VOA News	AFP-AP
4-Aug-08	4-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.	Kenneth Musante; David Goldman	Oil falls to 3-month low	CNN Money
	4-Aug-08					Tributes to writer Solzhenitsyn	BBC News
	4-Aug-08		Urumqi	China		Terrorist plot suspected in violent attack on police in west China's Xinjiang	China View	Xinhua	Bi Mingxin (ed.)
	4-Aug-08				John Lyons	Chávez Takes a Big Chance With Bank Takeover: Economy Is at Risk If Venezuelans Lose Faith, Pull Deposits	WSJ
	4-Aug-08		Dallas, TX	U.S.	Margot Habiby	Oil Tumbles Below $120 on Signs Storm to Miss Gulf Facilities	Bloomberg
	4-Aug-08					DoD Activates Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center	US DOD
	4-Aug-08		Mumbai	India		Rupert Murdoch Unveils Plans for the Global Dow: Editors of The Wall Street Journal Will Select Global Leaders	Dow Jones	News Release
	4-Aug-08		London	U.K.		HSBC Holdings plc 2008 Interim Results - highlights	HSBC	News Release
	4-Aug-08		London	U.K.		Interim Report 2008	HSBC
	4-Aug-08					Venezuela: Lowest FDI Per GDP	Latin Business Chronicle
	4-Aug-08				Vikas Bajaj	Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults	NYT
	4-Aug-08				Alexander Osipovich	Solzhenitsyn, Chronicler of Soviet Labor Camps, Dies at 89	Moscow Times
	4-Aug-08		Moscow	Russia	Peter Heinlein	Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89	VOA News
	4-Aug-08					Russia, Georgia Trade Accusations Over Breakaway Georgian Territories	VOA News	AFP-Reuters
	4-Aug-08		Beijing	China	Daniel Schearf	China: Suspected Terrorist Attack Kills 16 Police in Xinjiang	VOA News
5-Aug-08	5-Aug-08		Moscow	Russia	Fred Weir	Solzhenitsyn: exiled then exalted in Russia -- The Nobel Prize-winning writer gave voice to millions imprisoned in Stalin's Gulag. He died Sunday	Christian Science Monitor
	5-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		FOMC statement	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	5-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Approval of proposal by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	5-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve System: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, Beijing, People’s Republic of China: Order Approving Establishment of a Branch	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	5-Aug-08				Charles Duhigg	At Freddie Mac, Chief Discarded Warning Signs	NYT		Eric Dash
	5-Aug-08		Beijing	China	Andrew Jacobs	Attack in China Kills 16 Border Patrol Officers	NYT		Jake Hooker; Tang Xuemei
6-Aug-08	6-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.
	6-Aug-08		McLean, VA	U.S.		Freddie Mac Releases Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results	Freddie Mac	News Release
	6-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Mauritania: Military Coup; Statement by Secretary Condoleezza Rice	U.S. Department of State	News Release
7-Aug-08	7-Aug-08		London	U.K.		Bank of England Maintains Bank Rate at 5.0%	Bank of England	News Release
	7-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Citi Statement on ARS Settlement	Citigroup	News Release
	7-Aug-08		Frankfurt am Main	Germany		7 August 2008 - Monetary policy decisions	European Central Bank	News Release
	7-Aug-08		Moscow	Russia	Megan K. Stack	In South Ossetia, clashes with Georgia troops escalate	Los Angeles Times
	7-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Merrill Lynch to Buy Auction Rate Securities Positions From Its Retail Clients	Merril Lynch	News Release
	7-Aug-08		London	U.K.		Barclays PLC Interim Results 2008	Barclays	News Release
	7-Aug-08				Eric Dash; Louise Story	2 Banks Buying Back $17 Billion in Securities	NYT
	7-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Jane Perlez	Pakistan Coalition Moves to Impeach Musharraf	NYT		Helene Cooper
	7-Aug-08		Moscow	Russia	Michael Schwirtz	Fiercest Fighting in Years Near Georgian Border	NYT		Anne Barnard; Neil MacFarquhar
	7-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		#VALUE!	New York Sate Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo	News Release
	7-Aug-08				David S. Hilzenrath	Freddie Mac Reports More Losses From Bad Loans	Washington Post
	7-Aug-08	6-Aug-08	Los Angeles, CA	U.S.	Karl Vick	9 Firefighters in California Helicopter Crash Are Presumed Dead	Washington Post
8-Aug-08	8-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Fannie Mae Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results	Fannie Mae	News Release
	8-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Mubashir Zaidi; Laura King	Pakistan coalition will seek to impeach President Pervez Musharraf	Los Angeles Times
	8-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Attorney General Cuomo Announces Settlement with UBS to Recover Billions for Investors in Auction Rate Securities	New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo	News Release
	8-Aug-08		New York, NY; Zurich; Basel	U.S.; Switzerland		UBS announces comprehensive settlement, in principle, for all clients holding auction rate securities at the estimated cost of USD 900 million	UBS	News Release
	8-Aug-08					Georgian, Russian Military Move Into South Ossetia	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	8-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Candace Rondeaux	Musharraf Faces Impeachment: Pakistan's Ruling Coalition Calls for No-Confidence Vote in Parliament	Washington Post		Shaiq Hussain
9-Aug-08	9-Aug-08				Dee Chisamera	FBI Still Searching For Suspects In Santa Cruz Firebombing Attacks	eFluxMedia
	9-Aug-08		Istanbul	Turkey	Mark Landler	The Debt Trap: Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip	NYT		Sebnem Arsu; Martin Fackler
	9-Aug-08		Gori	Georgia	Anne Bernard	Georgia and Russia Nearing All-Out War	NYT		Andrew E. Kramer; Michael Schwirtz; Ellen Barry; Matt Siegel; Steven Lee Myers; Katrin Bennhold; C. J. Chivers
10-Aug-08	10-Aug-08					Deaths in Algeria suicide blast	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	10-Aug-08					Fighters killed in Pakistan attack	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	10-Aug-08					Explosions rock western China	Al Jazeera	Agencies
	10-Aug-08					Georgia crisis spreads to Abkhazia	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera-Agencies
	10-Aug-08					Residents flee Toronto explosion	BBC News
	10-Aug-08		Kuqa, Xinjiang	China		Bombings kill 8, injure 4 in Xinjiang; clean-up begins	China View	Xinhua
	10-Aug-08					Firefighter dies battling huge fire at propane depot	CBC News
	10-Aug-08		Moscow	Russia	Megan Stack; Peter Spiegel	Georgia, Russia move closer to full-blown war	Los Angeles Times
	10-Aug-08					Firebomb attacks anger, worry UC scientists who use animals in research	Los Angeles Times
	10-Aug-08		Peshawar	Pakistan	Jane Perlez; Pir Zubair Shah	Pakistani Taliban Repel Government Offensive	NYT
	10-Aug-08					Bomb Blasts Kill 9 in Baghdad	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	10-Aug-08		Beijing	China	Stephanie Ho	Muslim Separatists Blamed For Blasts In China's Far Western Xinjian Region	VOA News
	10-Aug-08					Pakistani Military: 100 Militants, 9 Soldiers Die Fighting Along Afghan Border	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
	10-Aug-08					Suicide Bombing Kills 8 in Algeria	VOA News	AFP-AP-Reuters
11-Aug-08	11-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve will offer $25 billion in 84-day credit through its Term Auction Facility today	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	11-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Steve Niva	The Surge in Iraqi Female Suicide Bombers	Foreign Policy in Focus		Erik Leaver (ed.)
	11-Aug-08					Morgan Stanley to Repurchase Auction Rate Securities	Morgan Stanley	News Release
	11-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Attorney General Cuomo Expands Investigation Into Auction Rate Securities Scandal	New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo	News Release
	11-Aug-08					Coalition Airstrike Kills 8 Afghan Civilians, 25 Militants	VOA News	AFP-AP
12-Aug-08	12-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Carl Levin (U.S. Senator)	DORGAN AND LEVIN RELEASE STUDY SHOWING MAJORITY OF CORPORATIONS PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX	U.S. Senate	News Release
	12-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		Federal Reserve will offer $50 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility today	Federal Reserve Board	News Release
	12-Aug-08				Lynnley Browning	Study Tallies Corporations Not Paying Income Tax	NYT
	12-Aug-08		Peshawar	Pakistan	Jane Perlez; Pir Zubair Shah	13 Killed in Attack on a Bus in Pakistan	NYT
	12-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Barry Newhouse	Blast Targets Pakistani Air Force Truck in Northwest, Kills at Least 13	VOA News
	12-Aug-08		Srinagar, Kashmir	India	Shahnawaz Khan	Death Toll Rises as Protests Continue in Kashmir	VOA News
13-Aug-08	13-Aug-08					US blamed over S Ossetia crisis	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera-Agencies
	13-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.	Ruth Mantell	Interest in new rules boils over: Consumers give regulators an earful over credit-card peeves	MarketWatch
	13-Aug-08					Editorial: Russia Takes Gori	NYT
	13-Aug-08		Gori	Georgia	Sabrina Tavernise	Russian Soldiers Occupying Stalin’s Birth City Are Buoyed by Battle With Georgia	NYT
	13-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Ayaz Gul	Three Aid Workers and Driver Killed in Afghanistan	VOA News
	13-Aug-08		Beirut	Lebanon	Edward Yeranian	Explosion Targets Bus in Lebanese City of Tripoli	VOA News
14-Aug-08	14-Aug-08		Washington, DC	U.S.		An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury	U.S. Census Bureau	News Release
	14-Aug-08		Tripoli	Lebanon	Raed Rafei	Lebanon bombing kills 12	Los Angeles Times		Jeffrey Fleishman
	14-Aug-08		Islamabad	Pakistan	Laura King	Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 9 in Pakistan	Los Angeles Times
	14-Aug-08				Louise Story	The Debt Trap: Home Equity Frenzy Was a Bank Ad Come True	NYT
	14-Aug-08				Campbell Robertson; Riyadh Muhammed	Bomber Kills 18 on Shiite Pilgrimage in Iraq	NYT		Iraqi employee of the NYT
	14-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Attorney General Cuomo Announces Settlements with JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley to Recover Billions for Investors in Auction Rate Securities: Agreements will Return $7 Billion to Investors by Year’s End	New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo	News Release
15-Aug-08	15-Aug-08					Poland, U.S. sign missile shield deal	CNN International
	15-Aug-08		Warsaw	Poland	Katya Andrusz	Poland Gets U.S. Military Aid in Missile-Shield Deal (Update1)	Bloomberg
	15-Aug-08		Warsaw	Poland		U.S., Poland reach deal on missile base	Los Angeles Times	AP
	15-Aug-08		New York, NY	U.S.		Attorney General Cuomo Announces Settlement with Wachovia to Recover Billions for Investors in Auction