Portal:Current events/2009 February 11

Current events of February 11, 2009 (2009-02-11) (Wednesday)

Economy of the United States: The budget deficit reached US$84 billion in January 2009, due to the financial crisis. (Market Watch) The Senate and House of Representatives reach a compromise on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (Reuters) The number of worldwide connections to cellular networks reaches four billion. (Reuters) Azerbaijan Air Force Lieutenant General Rail Rzayev is killed in Baku. (BBC) Palestinian militants launch four mortar shells and one Qassam rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel. (Haaretz) Movement for Democratic Change President Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister. (BBC) A mysterious deposit of cosmic dust is discovered inside the Red Rectangle Nebula. (MSNBC) Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City. (Reuters) Twenty-seven people die during a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Sky News) Chinese fishing vessels desert the Northern Limit Line, signaling a possible North Korean missile test. (Reuters) An oil tanker and a container ship collide off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP via Google News) The Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources rescues more than 200 dolphins after a mass beaching in Bataan. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) U.S. Democrat John Dingell of Michigan becomes the House of Representatives' longest-serving member. (NPR) Oscar Temaru is elected President of French Polynesia for the fourth time in five years. (RNZI) The United Kingdom's Conservative Party admits to altering the Italian painter Titian's Wikipedia entry following a confrontation with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (BBC) Renowned Molecular Biologist Dr Abdul Majid Cheema escaped death when unknown armed men opened fire on his vehicle on Quetta,Pakistan. [1]