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Current events of
February 9, 2009
(
2009-02-09
)
(Monday)
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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)
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