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Genentech chairman Arthur D. Levinson is resigning from Google's Board of Directors, the Mountain View company announced earlier this morning.

A member of a U.N.-backed panel set up to investigate fraud complaints in Afghanistan's election resigned Monday, blaming what he called "the interference of foreigners" in a vote already mired in controversy.

Indian airline Jet Airways said Chief Executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer will step down on Oct. 15. Senior Vice President Nikos Kardassis will take over as the acting head.

The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two months after his wife stepped down as Alaska governor and shortly before the release of her highly anticipated memoir in a deal rumored to be worth millions....

Chevron Chairman and Chief Executive David J. O'Reilly will retire after a decade at the helm of the oil company. He will be succeeded by Vice Chairman John S. Watson.

A South African government minister called on Leonard Chuene to resign after the national athletics chief admitted he knew Caster Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the world championships.