Portal:Current events/2009 February 9
February 9, 2009 (Monday)
- Ten-year-old Sussex spaniel Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee wins the 2009 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show's Best-in-Show Award. (Los Angeles Times)
- Thirty mummies are discovered in a 2,600-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb at Saqqara. (AP via National Geographic)
- Bishop Richard Williamson is removed from a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina after denying the Holocaust. (BBC)
- Automotive industry crisis of 2008-2009:
- Japan's Nissan Motors cuts 20,000 jobs because of the global economic downturn. (CNN)
- France's government announces a €6.5-billion bailout for the automotive industry. (International Herald Tribune)
- Cécile Manorohanta resigns as Madagascar's Minister for Defense. (AFP via Google News)
- Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have now killed at least 130 people and destroyed at least 750 homes. (Daily Telegraph)
- A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber kills 28 people and injures 90 others at a Sri Lankan refugee camp. (Sky News)
- The Associated Press receives a video showing Pakistani militants beheading kidnapped Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak. (AP via Google News)
- A video confirms that al-Qaeda has kidnapped Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler in Niger. (The Globe and Mail)
- Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003. (ESPN)
- A fire destroys the Television Cultural Center in Beijing, China. (New York Times)
- The mythical birthplace of Zeus is possibly discovered at Mount Lykaion, Greece. (FOX News)