A judge in Aruba orders the conditional release of Joran Van Der Sloot , the 18-year-old Dutch citizen being held in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway .
Al Jazeera broadcasts a video tape claimed to be supplied by Al-Qaeda which apparently shows suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan prior to the 7 July 2005 London Bombings stating that he would take part in the attacks. He warned Westerners that they would not be safe because of their "crimes against humanity." (Guardian/AP)
---US financial markets opened with mixed volatility in reaction to disruptions to the nation's oil distribution system along the Gulf coast and concerns for consumer spending. By the closing bell the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped two percent. President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and top economic advisers gave the markets a favorable bump after a noon meeting to consider financial impacts of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. (MarketWatch)
---Both houses of the United States Congress are set to reconvene later in the day, prior to their scheduled return September 6 , to pass $10.5 billion in emergency spending Legislation relating to storm relief. (Bloomberg)
Russia marks the first anniversary of the BeslanTragedy in which militants seized nearly 1,200 hostages, killing 331, more than half of them children. (The Guardian)
The Common ChimpanzeeGenome sequence has been released, revealing genetic differences between chimps and Human s including differences in a region of the genome thought to be involved in speech acquisition. (VoA) )
