- August 9, 2003
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* A historicheat wave continues to afflictEurope and is expected to continue for another week.Spain andPortugal are particularly hard hit;forest fire s in Portugal are declared a national disaster, with damages estimated at €1 billion. Other fires are reported onMajorca and in theCanary Islands . Temperatures of 49°C are recorded inAndalusia .Scotland records its highest temperature in history, 32.9°C (91.2°F) at Greycrook, nearNewtown St. Boswells , Borders, the previous record had stood since1908 . The cause of the heat wave is believed to be a stagnant air mass over theSahara sending hot air as far north asSweden . [http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/09/euro_heat030809]
* Occupation of Iraq: United States Central Command military officials confirm that Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed, the Iraqi Minister of Interior was in its custody. He occupies the number 29 position on theU.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis . The Iraqi Minister of Interior surrendered to coalition forces yesterday. He was the "seven of spades" on the deck of cards distributed to U.S. troops. [http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3250184] [http://www.sabcnews.com/world/north_america/0,1009,63678,00.html] [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1F538256-D067-4BCD-875A3A32D37AD90C]
*SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit :Aduva , Inc., a Linux developing company, releases this week a tool to allow companies to replace any offending Linux code, if it exists, with code that does not infringe on SCO's intellectual property rights. [http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13000487] [http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13000458] [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&ncid=74&e=1&u=/cmp/20030809/tc_cmp/13000487] It is unknown how this tool will work, as SCO has not disclosed which code it considers infringing.
* The city ofVyborg commence the 600-years anniversary of KingEric of Pomerania establishing the town's trading privileges in aRoyal Charter . [http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20030812IE18]
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