Langbahn Team – Weltmeisterschaft
Portal : Current events/2007 September 13
Miami police shot dead in an exchange of fire a man suspected of the murder of one police officer and the shooting of another three officers hours earlier. (CNN)
Google sponsors a US$ 30 million spaceflight contest to land a robotic lander on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and videos to earth . (AP via Topix)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season : Tropical Storm Ingrid forms in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles from the outer Caribbean islands. (Bradenton Herald) [permanent dead link ]
Ethiopia will deploy 5,000 troops as part of a joint United Nations - African Union mission in the Darfur region of Sudan . (Sudan Tribune)
After deliberating for 22 years, the United Nations General Assembly adopts the non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ; 143 countries vote in favour, while 11 abstain and Australia , Canada , New Zealand and the United States vote against. (BBC)
At least fifteen Pakistani Army soldiers die in a bombing at their mess at the Tarbela Ghazi base north of Islamabad . (CNN)
Pakistan Cabinet unanimously decides to re-elect President Pervez Musharraf in uniform from the present assemblies.
2007 Formula One Season : The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) fines the McLaren Formula One team $US 100 million and removes all its points in the Constructors' Championship . (AFP via News Limited)
Alexis Debat , a consultant for ABC News and writer at The National Interest , alleged expert on terrorism , is forced to resign after Rue 89 revealed that he made two bogus interviews, one with Barack Obama and another with Alan Greenspan . (Washington Post) (Rue 89) (Rue 89)
Rita Verdonk , a controversial and popular Dutch politician, is expelled from the VVD . (Expatica Netherlands) [permanent dead link ]
Iraq War :
2007 Atlantic hurricane season :
Shinzo Abe is hospitalised the day after his resignation. (Al Jazeera)
September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes