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Current events of
September 22, 2006
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2006-09-22
)
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The U.S. military officially retires the
F-14 Tomcat
, famous from the movie
Top Gun
.
(AP)
Patricia Dunn
announces her resignation as
Hewlett-Packard
's chairman and board member, following a
pretexting scandal
.
Mark Hurd
has replaced Dunn as chairman of the company, effective immediately.
(WSJ)
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert
ranks fifth (7% support) in an Israeli poll of potential prime ministers.
(JTA)
Thousands riot in
Central Sulawesi
,
Indonesia
, following the execution of three
Christian
militants found guilty of taking part in an attack on a
Muslim
boarding school
.
(Reuters)
Richard Hammond
is released from intensive care and is walking and talking after a car crash whilst filming for the
BBC
show,
Top Gear
.
(News Limited/Reuters)
A prototype
Transrapid
Maglev
train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on elevated track in
Emsland
,
Germany
, killing 23 people and severely injuring 10.
(Washington Post/Reuters)
(BBC)
(Deutsche Welle)
The reported number of people fallen ill after eating
tainted spinach
reaches 166 in 25 U.S. states.
(CDC)
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