Portal:Current events/2009 February 11
February 11, 2009 (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]