Langbahn Team – Weltmeisterschaft
Portal : Current events/2009 October 28
Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell is mauled to death by coyotes at the age of 19. (CBC) (The Star ) Voters in Mozambique go to the polls for the general election . (AFP via Google News) (IOL)
A blast in Meena Bazar, Peshawar , Pakistan , kills at least 95 people while 110 are injured. (Geo TV) (The Times )
12 people – including six United Nations staff – are killed after Taliban militants assault an international guesthouse in the Afghan capital Kabul . (Associated Press) (New York Times )
One of Germany 's last Nazi war crimes trials begins, with Heinrich Boere charged with the killings of three civilians in the Netherlands . (The Local ) (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)
Ares I-X , the first test article for NASA 's Ares I rocket, launches successfully from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a sub-orbital test flight. (CNN) The Lebanese army says it has found and deactivated four 107-mm rockets in the garden of a partly built house a day after a rocket fired from Houla hit the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona . This is the fifth time rocket attacks have been used to try to break the cease-fire. (Reuters)
Chinese police rescue over 2,000 children in a six month campaign against human trafficking . (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph ) Ireland and the United Kingdom agree to ensure drivers disqualified from driving are disqualified in all their countries. (RTÉ) The United Nations Torture Investigator, Manfred Nowak , is prevented last minute from entering Zimbabwe . (Al Jazeera) (Associated Press) (The Herald )
Hamas orders Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not to vote in a January election called by West Bank leader Mahmoud Abbas . (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Press TV) Mongolia 's parliament approves the resignation of Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar , who stepped down due to ill health. He was replaced by the Foreign Minister Sükhbaataryn Batbold . (AFP) (Xinhua) The main opposition Democratic Party wins three out of five seats in by-elections in South Korea . (The Seoul Times ) (Bangkok Post )
The Matthew Shepard Act , providing legal protection against hate crimes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people , is signed into law in the United States by President Barack Obama . (Associated Press)
Federal agents attached to the FBI fatally shoot the leader of a Sunni Muslim group wanted on firearm charges in Detroit , USA . (New York Times ) (Al Jazeera)
In an appearance before the House of Lords Communications Select Committee , BBC Director-General Mark Thompson denies that the appearance of British National Party leader Nick Griffin on Question Time (The Daily Telegraph )
