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The Boys from Baghdad High is a television documentary film, first shown at the 2007 Sheffield Doc/Fest in the United Kingdom. It documents the lives of four Iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds at the Tariq bin Ziad High School for Boys in Zayouna, a middle-class neighbourhood in a suburb of Baghdad. It was filmed by the boys themselves over the course of a year in the form of a video diary. They have high expectations and hope to graduate and attend university. They must also deal with increasing sectarian violence, and face the threats of roadside bombings, the hassles of security checkpoints, curfews, and the deterioration of their neighbourhood. The Boys from Baghdad High received high viewership and favourable reviews when it initially aired in the UK in 2008. It was named the Best News and Current Affairs Film at the European Independent Film Festival, won the Premier Prize at the Sandford St. Martin Trust Awards, and was nominated for awards at two film festivals. The documentary also received the Radio Times Readers Award, and a nomination for the Amnesty International 2008 Television Documentary and Docudrama UK Media Award. (Full article...)

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The Library of Birmingham (pictured), the largest municipal public library in the United Kingdom, opens.
Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
Verizon Communications agrees to acquire Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for US$130 billion, the third-largest corporate deal ever.
Irish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Seamus Heaney dies at the age of 74.
A newly discovered canyon under the Greenland ice sheet is found to be the world's longest.
For the first time, Saudi Arabia enacts laws against domestic violence.

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September 4: Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) begins at sunset (2013, 5774 AM)

1479 – The Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas with Afonso V of Portugal and his son, John to end the War of the Castilian Succession.
1843 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies married Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) at a state ceremony.
1886 – After over 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1949 – Anti-communist riots erupted after a concert by Paul Robeson near Peekskill, New York, US.
2010 – A 7.1 M_w earthquake struck South Island, New Zealand, causing up to NZ$3.5 billion in damages.

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The Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche carteri), at 2.55 kg (5.6 lb) in weight, 76 cm (30 in) in length, and 2 m (6.6 ft) across the wings, is the smallest of the mollymawks. These birds are found on several islands in the Indian Ocean.

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