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August 31, 2012 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey, kills at least three people. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- British entertainer Max Bygraves, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dies in Hope Island, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 89. (BBC)
- The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office reports that Sage Stallone died of natural causes. (BBC)
Disasters
- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Philippine province of Eastern Samar kills at least one person. (CNN)
International relations
- Armenia suspends diplomatic relations with Hungary after Ramil Safarov's extradition to Azerbaijan. (BBC)
Law and crime
- Wang Xiaoning, a Chinese dissident who was detained in 2002 with information provided by Yahoo!, is released. (BBC)
- Apple loses a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets in Tokyo, Japan. (Bloomberg)
- Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC, wins his legal action against fellow Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. (The Guardian)
- Harvard University investigates a widespread cheating allegation on a take-home test in one of its undergraduate classes last spring. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Politics and elections
- Parliamentary elections take place in Angola. (Al Jazeera)
- Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is declared the winner of the Mexican presidential elections. (Fox News)
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