Portal:Current events/2005 October 10
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October 10, 2005 (Monday)
- New Orleans:
- Three New Orleans officers accused of near fatally beating Robert Davis and assaulting a cameraman who taped the ordeal, plead not guilty.
- Allegations that New Orleans police looted 200 cars (41 Cadillacs) are under investigation by Louisiana police.(Yahoo)
- Widespread desertion, suicide, and crime among New Orleans police officers has been reported in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. (Reuters)
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully tests the model of a $10 million jet that travels at twice the speed of sound. The test takes place at the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in Australia and is part of the Next Generation Supersonic Transport programme. (Reuters)
- 2005 Kashmir earthquake: SOS Children have reported that despite the destruction of much of their Children’s Village in Muzaffarabad all of the children in their care are believed safe. [1]
- Conflict in Iraq: Insurgent attacks throughout Iraq leave seven Iraqis, two security officials from the Arab league and one U.S. soldier dead. (BBC)
- Following the German federal election, 2005, Christian Democrat Angela Merkel will become the next Chancellor of Germany, replacing Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder, although Schröder's party will be the dominant party in the grand coalition.(BBC) (Reuters)
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". (nobelprize.org)
- Aardman Animations, the company behind films such as Chicken Run, Creature Comforts, and the just-released Wallace and Gromit film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit lose their entire history, but not their film library, in a fire. (BBC)
- The former President of Uganda, Milton Obote, has died of kidney failure at the age of 80. Obote led the East African country from 1962-1971 and again from 1980-1985. (BBC)