1. Nelson Mandela Dies at 95. His message of reconciliation, not vengeance, inspired the world after he negotiated a peaceful end to segregation and urged forgiveness for the white government that imprisoned him.
2. Iran Nuclear Deal. They agreed to limit their nuclear program in exchange for lighter economic sanctions.
3. US government shutdown. The government reopened its doors Thursday after a battle-weary Congress approved a bipartisan measure to end a 16-day partial shutdown and avert the possibility of an economy-jarring default on U.S. obligations.
4. China Moon Rover Lands on Moon. China's first lunar rover has successfully separated from the probe that carried it into space and made its first track upon the surface of the moon.
5. Kenya Mall Attack. Attackers killed at least 68 people and injured 175.
6. Washington DC Navy Yard Shooting. Aaron Alexis was under "the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves" before he embarked on a bloody shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard.
7. Syria Chemical Attack Allegation. A team of UN chemical weapons inspectors have confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus on the morning of 21 August.
8. Detroit files for bankruptcy. The ruling opens the door for the city to cut billions of dollars in payments that are owed to city employees, retirees, investors and other creditors.
9. London shocked after brutal machete attack. A brazen, brutal attack near a military barracks in London left one man dead and two suspects in the hospital in what British Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terror-related incident.
10. Scientists successfully cloned human stem cells. It's been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells.
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