Portal:Current events/2006 March 23
March 23, 2006 (Thursday)
- Xbox 360 was released in Australia and New Zealand.
- French youths set fire to cars and loot shops in Paris during protests against the contrat première embauche law that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin had agreed to discuss with unions. (Reuters)
- Adwaitya, a tortoise that once belonged to British colonial Lord Clive in the 18th Century has died at the age of 250 in a zoo in Calcutta. (BBC)
- More than 100 people die after their boat capsizes in Cameroon. (BBC)
- The British Embassy in Baghdad confirms the rescue of three Christian Peacemaker hostages held in Iraq for nearly four months; Briton Norman Kember and Canadians Harmeet Singh Sooden and James Loney. They were freed during a British led multinational military operation involving American, British, Canadian and Iraqi forces. (Channel 4 News), (BBC), (CTV) Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine