Wikinews:2009/March
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March 1 [edit]
- Australian football: Melbourne Victory win A-League grand final
- Thousands take part in protests across US against government's financial policy
- Record number of failed banks reported in US for February
- Obama sets deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq
- Afghan protestors shot after mosque raid sparks anger
March 2 [edit]
- President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated
- Wikinews interviews the Socialist Alliance about the upcoming Queensland State election
- Broadcaster Paul Harvey dies at age 90
March 3 [edit]
- Two-time Eurovision entrant Edsilia Rombley discusses music, love, and her contrasting Contest experiences
- Seven killed in gun attack on Sri Lankan cricket team
- India announces Lok Sabha elections for 2009
March 4 [edit]
- Football: FSV Mainz 05 advance to semi-final of DFB Pokal
- Raúl Castro shakes up cabinet in Cuba
- International Criminal Court in The Hague issues arrest warrant for leader of Sudan
- Politicians begin campaigns for Flint, Michigan replacement mayor
- Scientists say study proves chimps create termite gathering tools
March 5 [edit]
- Football: Leverkusen, Bremen, HSV proceed in DFB Pokal
- California Supreme Court defers ruling on same-sex marriage ban
- US stock markets reach 12-year lows
- Michael Jackson to make last public concerts
- Schiphol airliner crash blamed on altimeter failure, pilot error
- Eurovision '09 competitor Chiara talks about her current song "What If We" and her past accolades
- Wikinews Shorts: March 5, 2009
- Marine jet crash into San Diego house attributed to string of errors
March 6 [edit]
- Mahathma Gandhi's items auctioned for $1.8 million
- Mauritania cuts ties with Israel, expels Israeli diplomats
- US unemployment rate reaches 8.1%
- Brawn GP take over Honda Formula One team
- Philippines is culling 6500 hogs after Reston ebolavirus outbreak
March 7 [edit]
- NASA successfully launches Kepler Telescope
- California man convicted of murdering five firefighters by starting wildfire
- NASA sets launch date for Space Shuttle Discovery
- Six vehicle pileup disrupts traffic on highway in British Columbia
- Earthquake strikes Melbourne, no reports of injuries
March 8 [edit]
- Explosion in Baghdad claims 28 lives
- Real IRA claims responsibility for gun attack
- Two killed in gun attack in Northern Ireland
- Windows 7 will allow users to disable Internet Explorer
March 9 [edit]
- Number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe surpasses 4,000
- Canadian teams vie for spot at the World Curling Championship
- Wolfram Research’s new product Alpha to compete with Google and Wikipedia
- Sunshine Coast Regional Council can't challenge legal appeal by McDonald's Australia
March 10 [edit]
- Philippine exports plunge to eight-year low
- Pennsylvania cop on trial for allegedly murdering girlfriend's estranged husband
- Community Television consortium urges Australian government to increase funding for channels
- Continuity IRA gunmen kill policeman in Northern Ireland
- North Korea warns airlines over satellite fears
March 11 [edit]
- Jury considers Curt Dagenais court case
- Feud between CNBC and The Daily Show continues to escalate
- Ten dead in Alabama shooting
- Teenage gunman kills 15 in south-west Germany
March 12 [edit]
- Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to $50 billion fraud scheme
- Shin wins Singapore HSBC Womens Golf Classic
- Apple reveals new iPod shuffle with voice
- Space debris threatened International Space Station, astronauts temporarily evacuated
- Fundraising to keep Avro Vulcan flying succeeds
- Cricket: West Indies regain Wisden Trophy
- Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery further delayed
March 13 [edit]
- "Mrs. Hockey" Colleen Howe is laid to rest
- US stock markets have their best week since November
- Obama administration drops use of term "enemy combatant"
- Billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg dies at 91
- Canadian jail inmates used nail clippers to escape, report finds
- Egyptian treasures found in ancient tomb
- Wikinews interviews Brenton Clutterbuck, candidate for the electorate of Maroochydore at the upcoming Queensland election
- Canadian helicopter with 18 onboard crashes into Atlantic Ocean
March 14 [edit]
- British TV presenter Rico Daniels tells Wikinews about being 'The Salvager'
- Colonel Sanders statue lost in 1985 recovered from river in Japan
- Saskatchewan places moratorium on boar farming, says escaped boars should be killed
- US, UK investigators seek 777 engine redesign to stop repeat of London jet crash
- 7 killed, 50 injured in Bangladesh shopping mall fire
March 15 [edit]
- Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launches after a month of delays
- Recovery planned for crashed Canadian helicopter
- Obama calls food safety system a 'hazard to public health'
- 3 dead, 4 missing after Vietnamese cargo ship sinks in South China Sea
- Oil spill hits Australia's Sunshine coastline
March 16 [edit]
- Coup in Madagascar; opposition leader backs army
- Search for survivors of Canadian helicopter crash ends, recovery mission focuses on victims
- US Fed chairman Bernanke says recession could end this year
- Maldives to become the world's first carbon-neutral country
March 17 [edit]
- The Simpsons episode to premiere on Sky1
- All bodies recovered from Canadian helicopter crash
- FIFA receives eleven bids for 2018 and 2022 World Cups
- British actress Natasha Richardson reportedly brain dead after skiing accident
- Namibia struck by floods, president declares state of emergency
- Five dead in murder-suicide in Miami, Florida
- Madagascar President resigns, unclear rule in Antananarivo
- Seattle's oldest newspaper to become online-only
- Wikinews previews the 2009 Queensland state election
- Latin America suffers drop in remittances
- Australian Senate to decide sport footage ownership
- Fossilized remains of small dinosaur rediscovered in Canada
- Austrian man who imprisoned daughter pleads guilty at start of trial
- Two women in North Carolina arrested for allegedly using Family Dollar variety store as marijuana ring
- El Salvador elects leftist president Funes
March 18 [edit]
- US president Obama, Congress call for blocking of executive bonuses at AIG insurance company
- Former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo convicted of fraud, corruption
- Madoff prosecutors want assets from wife and children
March 19 [edit]
- US supports UN gay rights declaration
- Harlan Ellison sues CBS-Paramount, WGA over Star Trek royalties
- North Korean military detains two American journalists
- 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga, tsunami generated
- Wikinews interviews Patricia Petersen, independent candidate for the electorate of Bundamba in the 2009 Queensland election
- Monty Python's "Holy Hand Grenade" sparks bomb scare
- Pennsylvania Amish farmer jailed for outhouse violations
- Usain Bolt to run 150 metre race in Manchester
- British actress Natasha Richardson dies at age 45
March 20 [edit]
- New Jersey real estate investor charged with $2 million theft
- Canadian PM announces funding for US-Canada bridge crossing
- Bomb blast damages buildings in Athens
- Portions of Wikileaks, Wikipedia blocked in Australia
- Bangladesh security tightened following Pilkhana massacre and Bashundhara City fire
- Pink elephant spotted in Botswana
- US lawmakers approve bill taxing executive bonuses
- Documents show U.S. knew of Guatemalan human rights abuses
- England and New Zealand vie for Women's Cricket World Cup
- Pennsylvania state trooper found guilty of first-degree murder
- New Jersey to consider bikini waxing ban
March 21 [edit]
- UK's BAA forced to sell three airports
- "The Dark Knight" film director's brother arrested for murder, kidnapping
- Four Oakland, California police officers shot, all in critical condition
- Thousands evacuated after chemical truck overturns in Pennsylvania
- New Zealand pilots receive bravery awards for foiling airliner hijack
- Emergency directive for Sikorsky S-92A helicopters
- Rock music church in Pennsylvania allowed concerts under court settlement
- US says Zimbabwe government has “a long way to go” before sanctions are lifted
- Pennsylvania lost 41,000 jobs in February, a 13-year high
- Emirates jet tail strikes runway during takeoff at Melbourne airport
- Google removes some street view images
- Australian Labor Party reelected to Queensland government: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Obama apologizes for Special Olympics comment on The Tonight Show
- Queensland election candidates on Gold Coast back daylight saving
- New Jersey backpedals on proposed bikini waxing ban
- Two US Navy vessels collide in the Strait of Hormuz; 15 lightly injured
March 22 [edit]
- Western Canadian justice officials to press for criminal code changes
- Canadian Minister of National Defence withdraws from NATO candidacy
- Four police officers shot in Oakland, California die
- New Jersey woman identified after fifteen years in psychiatric home
- Canadian PM seeks to abandon gun registry
- New findings suggest AIG executive bonuses were larger than previously thought
- "Lost" actress Elizabeth Mitchell cast in ABC's "V" pilot
- England wins women's cricket World Cup
- Madagascar's former opposition leader sworn in as president
- Bouncer stabbed to death in Atlantic City brawl
- Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents
March 23 [edit]
- Australian Football League: Clubs threaten to take home games interstate
- Longtime New York radio reporter found stabbed to death
- US stock markets soar after bailout plan
- Suncor makes bid to take over Petro-Canada
- Son of poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide
- Clashes in France after anti-condom speech by Pope
- Air France-KLM interested in acquiring Czech Airlines
- Alaskan Mount Redoubt volcano erupts
- FedEx cargo jet crashes in Narita, burns
- British celebrity Jade Goody dies of cervical cancer at age 27
- Plane crashes in Montana, 17 killed
March 24 [edit]
- Kangaroos escape in France
- IDF soldiers' account of Gaza incursion sparks new war crimes investigations
- Obama considers 'comprehensive' exit strategy from Afghanistan
- EPA proposes using Clean Air Act to fight global warming
- Youth charged with murdering Northern-Irish police officer
- TV late night show host David Letterman marries girlfriend of 23 years
- Fargo, North Dakota, prepares for record flooding
- Japanese ship escapes after pirates open fire in Somalia
- World's cheapest car launched in India, will go on sale in April
- "Twilight" DVD sells 3 million copies in first day
March 25 [edit]
- Czech PM calls Obama's rescue plan a 'road to hell'
- U.S. Postal Service running out of money
- New Jersey files lawsuit against federal sports betting ban
- Priests jailed for $8.6 million theft
- Canadian annual seal hunt begins amid controversy
- Canada commits C$127.4 million to fighting tuberculosis
- Comedian Stephen Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
- Authorities search home of owner of German Wikileaks domain
- Four-storey building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria; two dead
- WHO says Zimbabwean cholera epidemic 'past its peak'
- European Parliament agrees on unified airspace
- US Treasury Secretary: "We need the ability to seize firms"
- Morning-after pill to be made available to 17-year-olds, U.S. federal judge rules
- Pilots in 16-death crash jailed for praying instead of flying
- NATO soldiers honour fallen Canadians
March 26 [edit]
- Girls in Florida sell pink lemonade, donate money to breast cancer research
- NATO and Iran talk for first time in 30 years
- Irish economy sees biggest contraction in decades
- Tornadoes rampage through Mississippi
- Judge refuses to dismiss charge against Barack Obama assassination plotter
- One day after attempted rescue, six stranded whales die on Australian beach
- US Air Force jet crashes in California
March 27 [edit]
- Royal Commission recommends single council for Auckland
- Study of soft cheese wins oddest book title award
- US secretary of state Hillary Clinton says America helps fuel illegal drug trade
- North Korea missile launch looks imminent
- Turks and Caicos Islands Premier resigns
- New Jersey teen faces child porn charges for posting nude photos of herself online
- Preliminary investigation results released on Canadian helicopter crash
- Parts of US airplane fall from sky in Brazil
- Relics of 39 saints found by British Museum
- Businesses and individuals worldwide to turn lights off as part of Earth Hour 2009
March 28 [edit]
- Manitoba residents receive evacuation flood alerts
- Somali pirates seize two European tankers, Seychelles yacht
- "Freedom Tower" renamed "1 World Trade Center"
- Dozens of cats removed from feces-ridden New Jersey house
- Wind-powered land vehicle breaks speed record
- 14 killed in Russian bus-truck collision
- Courts uphold firing of Pennsylvania cop who lost sense of smell
- Dam in Indonesia bursts, dozens killed
March 29 [edit]
- Helicopter crash in Turkey kills six
- Stadium disaster claims lives at football World Cup qualifier match in Ivory Coast
- Spanish court considering torture criminal case against former U.S. officials
- Robber holds retired NYC police officer at gunpoint during convention
- Radioactive part mistakenly sold, melted with scrap metal in China
- New Jersey officials: Stimulus bill hurting Atlantic City casinos
- Space Shuttle Discovery lands in Florida
- Volcano near Anchorage, Alaska erupts, airport closed
- Canadian neighbourhood protected from bully for three years
- 'Recession gardens' replace victory gardens
- Utah legalizes homebrewing
March 30 [edit]
- 'Killing Fields' trial for S-21 chief Duch underway in Cambodia
- Highly contagious Hand, foot and mouth disease killing China's children
- US sergeant pleads guilty to four murders in Iraq
- Chinese spy network infiltrated foreign affairs, embassies
- 4.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the San Francisco region
- Eurovision '04 winner Ruslana discusses her paths as singer, spokesmodel, stateswoman and source of inspiration
- Varun Gandhi charged for inciting community tensions
- Eight people dead after shooting in North Carolina nursing home
- Fugitive arrested in connection with January murder in Pennsylvania
March 31 [edit]
- Volunteers and food needed for flooded Manitoba, Canada
- Jenson Button wins 2009 Australian Grand Prix, Brawn teammate comes second
- US home prices drop at record levels
- Shipwreck off coast of Libya; hundreds of African migrants feared dead
- 77 names added to fallen journalist memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Fireball lights up sky across Canadian prairies
- U.S. Congress considers lifting Cuba travel ban
- Forces capture Somali pirates who mistakenly attacked naval ship
- South Downs to get National Park status in UK
- New romantic comedy film to star Drew Barrymore, Justin Long
