August 2006 Timeline
August 1North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire along the border
August 1
Cuban leader Fidel Castro has temporarily handed power to his brother Raul
August 4
Viktor Yanukovych became Ukraine Prime minister
August 4
Typhoon Prapiroon in southern China killed at least 80 people
August 6
Over 200 people were killed by flash floods in eastern Etiopia and another 10,000 people have been displaced
August 6
15 aid workers were found dead in Sri Lankan town of Muttur
August 8
Gustavo Arcos, a prominent critic of the communist government, died in age 79
August 10
At least 34 people and 108 others were wounded by a suicide bomber in a holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq
August 10
A terrorist plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US was disrupted
August 14
A ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel came into force
August 16
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's military leader for 35 years, from 1954 to 1989, died in exile in Brazil
August 21
An explosion at a Moscow market killed 10 people and injured at least 40 people
August 21
At least 58 people were killed and nearly 150 injured in Egypt in a collision between two rush-hour trains
August 21
At least three people died and more than 250 were injured in the rainstorm in Budapest, Hungary
August 22
A Russian plane crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board
August 23
18-year old Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch escaped her abductor after more than 8 year of captivity
August 27
Comair Flight 5191 crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 from 50 people on board
August 29
At least 19 people were killed and 30 others were wounded in explosion on an oil pipeline 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq