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Current events of
September 22, 2011
(
2011-09-22
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
At least five people are killed in a bus bombing in
Pakistan
's
Bajaur Agency
.
(Xinhua)
Business and economy
World
stock markets
plunge amid growing global fears of
recession
.
(Sky News)
Facebook
makes major changes to its
social networking
interface, updating its profile page, adding an
app store
, and amending its news feed with a "timeline" feature.
(CNN)
(MSNBC)
Hewlett-Packard
fires
CEO
Leo Apotheker
, replacing him with former
EBay
CEO
Meg Whitman
.
(
Wall Street Journal
via
The Australian
)
Disasters
Typhoon Roke
passes through the
Japanese
island of
Honshu
, causing 13 deaths, and arrives in
Hokkaido
.
(AP via ABC News America)
At least four people are killed and 18 injured in a factory fire in the suburb of
Dombivli
in the
Indian
city of
Mumbai
.
(IBN Live)
Heavy
floods
and related disasters across
China
, especially in the
drainage basin
of the
Han
and
Wei Rivers
, leave 90 dead and 22 missing.
(Xinhua)
(AFP via Google)
2011 Pacific hurricane season
: Hurricane
Hilary
reaches
category-three
strength off the coast of
Mexico
, but is not expected to make landfall.
(NHC)
International relations
The
Anniston Chemical Activity
destroys its last
mustard gas
shells, becoming the fifth of nine US
chemical weapons
depots to close under terms of the
Chemical Weapons Treaty
.
(
Anniston Star
)
Pope Benedict XVI
commences a state visit to
Germany
.
(
The Telegraph
)
China
warns the
United States
over its proposed sale of newer versions of the
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
to
Taiwan
.
(Reuters)
Representatives of the
United States
and
European
nations walk out of the
General Assembly of the United Nations
during an accusatory speech by the
President of Iran
,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
.
(AFP via
The Australian
)
Law and crime
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
arrests suspected members of the
computer hacking
groups
LulzSec
and
Anonymous
in the US cities of
Phoenix
,
Arizona
and
San Francisco
,
California
.
(Fox News)
Politics and elections
The first
President of
Cape Verde
,
Aristides Pereira
, dies in
Portugal
at the age of 87.
(
Washington Post
)
The
Italian Chamber of Deputies
rejects a request to arrest Marco Milanese, a former aide to the Minister of Economy and Finance,
Giulio Tremonti
, on corruption charges.
(Bloomberg)
Tens of thousands of students protest in the
Chilean
capital
Santiago
for increased education expenditure.
(AP)
Former television journalist
Shelly Yachimovich
is elected as the head of the
Israeli Labor Party
.
(AP via Yahoo News)
Science
CERN
researchers affiliated with the
OPERA Experiment
report experimental results that appear to show
neutrinos
exceeding
the
speed of light
.
(BBC)
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