Portal:Current events/2009 October 11
October 11, 2009 (Sunday)
- Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a suspect wanted for the 1968 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281, is captured after more than 40 years. (The Associated Press) (CNN)
- Thousands of people attend the state funeral of Arturo "Zambo" Cavero in Lima, Peru. President Alan García posthumously awards him the Order of the Sun. (BBC)
- Mayoral, regional and district council elections take place in Moscow and 75 other regions across Russia. (RIA Novosti) (The Guardian) (BBC)
- Thousands of people march in protest for gay rights in Washington, D.C.. (BBC)
- An Irish priest, Michael Sinnot, is seized from a convent and taken away in a motorboat by gunmen in Pagadian City, Mindanao in the southern Philippines. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Miami Herald)
- At least 10 people die and seven are declared missing in a river ferry sinking on the Mekong in Kratié Province, Cambodia. (The News International) (Al Jazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI canonizes five new saints: Father Damien, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Francisco Coll Guitart, and Jeanne Jugan. (Reuters) (Times of India)
- A spate of car bombings kills 19 people and wounds dozens in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, in Anbar province. (MSNBC)
- Pakistani commandos storm an office building and rescue 39 people taken hostage by suspected Taliban militants after an attack on the army's headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi. (Reuters)
- The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) announces an end to violence in Northern Ireland. (Xinhua) (The Guardian) (ABC News)