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Scientists at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University have announced that the planet Pluto may have two new moons. Based on surveys using the Hubble Space Telescope, lead scientist Hal Weaver said "If, as our new Hubble images indicate, Pluto has not one, but two or three moons, it will become the first body in the Kuiper Belt known to have more than one satellite." See http://www.jhuapl.edu/stories/plutomoons.asp for further details (preceding unsigned comment by70.92.160.56 (talk·contribs) 01:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC) )[reply]
Police raids the home of Cypriot MEP, Marios Matsakis. Matsakis will be charged with the smuggling of antiquities and attempted blackmail against a police officer. Ok, I don't know if it qualifies as headline material here, but it is the front page of the internet edition of Cyprus Mail (www.cyprus-mail.com, 30 October 2005). Last week, his home was been raided twice by CID and police officers. The European Parliament has lifted his immunity and he will be charged with smuggling illegal antiquities from the Turkish controlled part of Cyprus. He will also be charged with attempted blackmail against a Drug Squard officer. It is apparently an unfolding story, I believe I've found four relevant articles in the newspaper's archive from this month. --Valentinian11:30, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I know it's still way too short. But I was optimistic and hoped that other users - preferably from Cyprus - would have added to the article by now. So far, no luck in that direction. I would have done it myself, if I had the time. --Valentinian22:44, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
As the relief operation of 2005 Kashmir earthquake is facing great difficulties in reaching victims due to bad weather, mountainous terrain, landslides and blocked roads, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz makes an appeal to millions of survivors in the mountains to leave their villages and come down to the valleys and cities for shelter before the start of winter in about three weeks. (Bloomberg) --Vsion07:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to be relocated from the south island of Okinawa to the main island, affecting thousands of U.S. Marines. Protests from residents, environmental groups, and local businessmen and politicians on both sides are likely to ensue. The move is partially due to the rape of a local Okinawa girl, a helicopter crash into a university campus in Ginowan last year, and racial tensions between locals and soldiers.
Rosa Parks, whose famous refusal in 1955 to surrender her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama triggered a bus-boycott and the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement died at the age of 92. The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was known to have suffered from dementia. Sources state that she died at her home in Detroit of natural causes.128.253.53.14104:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Was Ronald Reagan's death omitted from the front page on this basis? This is not some obscure old entertainer. This is a major figure in U.S. 20th Century history.--Pozole13:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Posted. I avoided giving an exact number of people on board as different press sources give slightly different numbers.--Pharos03:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest an entry about Trafalgar Day celebrations in the UK and around the world? One page from the BBC [[1]] shows about the service on HMS Victory this morning, but there will be more later.
Two weeks after the Kashmir earthquake that killed more than 79,000 people, United Nations estimates that half a million affected people are still being cut off from relief aid. The UN appeals to the international community for more aid and warns that tens of thousands of people could die if aid do not reach them in time as the harsh winter is approaching. (Guardian) (preceding unsigned comment byVsion (talk·contribs) 23:20, 20 October 2005. UTC)
Man charged with trespassing on farm in horse-sex death: A truck driver identified in court papers as taking part in an incident in which a friend died after having sex with a horse on an Enumclaw, Washington farm was charged Tuesday with having trespassed on the farm.[2] (preceding unsigned comment by24.18.218.239 (talk·contribs) 23:24, 19 October 2005)
On October 17 the Garbuna volcano in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, erupted without warning after being dormant for 1,700 years (see Garbuna Group). (preceding unsigned comment by58.104.143.251 (talk·contribs) )
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway finished. The line includes the Tanggula Mountain Pass, which at 5,072 meters above sea level will become the world's highest rail track.
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake map on the main page needs to be changed and look more like this one:[[4]]. The map on the main page barely shows the quake area and instead shows India with Pakistan and Afghanistan cut-off! Makes no sense. (preceding unsigned comment byTombseye (talk·contribs) 04:45, 2005 October 11 UTC)
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".
Note that Kitch is correct, and the current version on the main page is not correct. The Jamaica coalition is specifically CSU/CDU, FDP, and Greens; but what was actually announced was CSU/CDU and SDP. As the two major German parties, these two form a Grand coalition. - Keith D. Tyler¶21:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Korrekt, this is absolutely not a Jamaica coalition!
Sports events generally are not notable enough for ITN. The Ashes got a pass (from me at least) for "parity" with the Superbowl earlier this year, but I really think in future we should only cover the Olympics, the one sporting event which is clearly of worldwide interest.--Pharos01:09, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that this doesn't deserve to be front page. While I do believe that some sports deserve mention (the Olympics, Super Bowl), pretty much any college football game isn't notable enough for ITN purposes (I might make an exception for the championship, but even then...) Ral315WS13:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
For the first time, researchers observe wild gorillas using tools.
Two female gorillas in the Congo have been observed using tools in the wild, meaning that all the great apes are now known to use tools.
This was added, but the word "(pictured)" should be removed. Judge John Roberts cannot possibly be a female gorilla who uses as a stabilizing stick while dredging aquatic herbs, as the ALT text indicates. Please fix. -- 199.71.174.10007:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe we should establish consensus first... is there any objection? :) BTW, it's really a great thing that the study was published in an open-access journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License. It's just fantastic to have the free images from the paper.--Pharos07:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That is good. I didn't notice the open-access bit when I was adding the story - just that it was possible to read the original article. I guess that's a side effect of banner advertising on the web, which leads you to tune out anything in a box at the top of the page. -- Solipsist08:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I've made a slight rewording to the main page string, since the news item is that this is the first time tool use has been observed in the wild. Wild gorillas have presumably been using tools for many years, and gorillas have previously been taught to use tools in captivity. I've also temporarily removed the reference to Congo, as we've got some organisational problems there. Ideally we probably want to say 'The Congo' which I believe (but am not sure) is an area of jungle that spans both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (where the gorillas actually wereweren't) and possibly a wider area still. We don't really want to tie the one line summary down to an individual country, since the location isn't particularly relevant and it could end up implying that this is the first time tool use was observed in that particular country. -- Solipsist08:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the study was done in the Republic of Congo (this is in the paper). I don't really think "the Congo" has much meaning in a modern context, except as the river. I would think, though, that a geographic context is important for any story we have here, and tying it to a country on a map can't hurt. I tend to think "for the first time" was implicit (why else would it be news?), but I guess that's alright.--Pharos09:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, it looks like I've got the Congos back to front. I've no objection to mentioning the country, if it can be phrased in such a way that it doesn't detract from the 'first time' element - which I think does need to be emphasised, as these days, people tend to assume that tool use is normal amoungst all apes (as the page history illustrates). -- Solipsist14:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Algeria votes to support the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, in the first step to the cessation of the Algerian Civil War
It's much more like the last step than the first, but OK. Is there an article about the referendum? Maybe someone can make this link blue. Thanks.--Pharos09:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
