Portal:Current events/2005 September 15

September 15, 2005 (Thursday)

Nintendo finally reveals the controller for its next generation console on its website. Reactions from gamers are mixed. (Nintendo)Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the nation from Jackson Square in New Orleans saying: "We have witnessed the kind of devastation no citizen of this great and generous nation should ever have to know. We will do what it takes and stay as long as it takes to help New Orleans to return their community and their lives." He provides the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) phone number to assist families in reuniting: 877‒568‒3317. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Clinton Global Initiative is inaugurated in New York.
The Supreme court of Israel rejects the opinion of International Court of Justice for the removal of Israeli West Bank barrier, but calls on part of the wall to be re-routed so as not to encroach on Palestinian lands. The world court had called the barrier illegal and ordered the wall be torn down. (ABC News) (Ireland Online)^{[permanent dead link]}
Conflict in Iraq: At least 26 Iraqi police die following two car bombs in the Baghdad. Elsewhere, 3 Shia pilgrims are shot dead by a passenger in a passing car traveling to Karbala, two Iraqi police members are killed near Kirkuk and three civil servants die following an attack on the Ministry of Industry in East Baghdad. (BBC)
Australia: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation rushed to air its interview with former Labor Party Opposition leader Mark Latham after fending off legal challenges from News Corporation, publishers of The Australian and the Herald Sun. (The Age) (ABC News)^{[permanent dead link]}.
Most of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly call for eliminating poverty. (UN)