Wikinews:2009/February
Appearance
- National Guard mobilized in Kentucky ice storm aftermath
- 15 killed and 22 injured after fire in Chinese bar
- Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza Strip
- Derailments close Australian rail routes
- British PM condemns walkouts
- Tarja Turunen reveals working title for new album
- Cyprus detains weapon-laden ship
- DS4SEQ discusses daylight savings in Queensland with Wikinews
- New Icelandic government to take office today
- Fast track offer if Iceland applies to join EU
- Supercross: Stewart wins 4th consecutive Monster Energy event in San Francisco, California
- €8bn bank bailout in Ireland
- Nuclear sites close as more UK workers walkout
- Barclays Bank credit rating cut by Moody's
- Eurovision '82 winner Nicole talks about 'Ein bißchen Frieden', her success and the Contest today
- American swimmer Michael Phelps laments "bad judgment" in marijuana controversy
- Heavy snow fall disrupts UK transportation and communications
- Canadian National buys Chicago railroad
- Automobile sales in the United States down sharply
- GM, Chrysler offer buyouts and early retirement to workers
- Scandinavian Airlines System to cut 8,600 jobs
- Baby in California born with 12 functioning fingers and toes, in a rare case of polydactylism
- Shoe thrown at Chinese PM during speech at Cambridge University in the UK
- Yahoo announces closure of Briefcase
- Man arrested in India after mid-air hijack threat on domestic flight
- Report: Man tries to hang himself on an American Airlines flight
- UK television presenter sacked after "golliwog" comment
- Regulator bans UK video-on-demand service
- Stanford physicists print smallest-ever letters 'SU' at subatomic level of 1.5 nanometres tall
- North Queensland Fury sign former Liverpool great Fowler
- Obama cabinet nominees withdraw over tax issues
- Australian teenager sentenced to three months in jail for graffiti
- UN demands return of aid seized by Hamas
- Queensland state Green party to run environmental lawyer in treasurer's electorate
- Bill Gates releases mosquitoes during conference for malaria awareness
- Ukrainian ship MV Faina with cargo of tanks freed by pirates
- Six indicted over jet crash at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport
- US Supreme Court judge Ginsburg undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer
- ITV Wales drops local news sign language
- Wikinews Shorts: February 5, 2009
- England's Football Association complains over missed goal
- Strike ends at UK oil refinery
- UK rail firm cuts 180 jobs
- MySpace removes 90,000 sex offenders
- Plane makes emergency water landing in Darwin Harbour
- Somali pirates agree to release Egyptian ship with fertiliser cargo and 28 crew
- US job cuts last month highest since 1974, unemployment rate rises
- US swimmer Phelps suspended over 'pot pipe'
- Denny's Super Bowl free 'Grand Slam Breakfast' brings 2 million diners
- Wikinews Shorts: February 6, 2009
- Zimbabwean parliament passes unity government bill
- British court 'threatened' by United States
- Obama expands Bush's faith-based initiatives
- Kyrgyzstan announces decision to close US base
- UN halts aid to Gaza after tons of food aid is seized
- 14 killed by bushfires in Australia
- Microsoft Flight Simulator series grounded after layoffs
- Southern Gaza hit by new Israeli air strikes
- One person dead, hundreds rescued from ice drift in Lake Erie in US
- Automobile manufacturer Toyota triples annual loss prediction
- US Court of Appeals reduces sentence for former Philippines officer in spy case
- No injuries, deaths after car-bomb explodes in Madrid, Spain
- Saudi most-wanted list includes former Guantanamo captives
- More than 160 dead in bushfires in Australia
- Airplane crash in Brazil kills 24
- Man in Florida, USA, arrested for using 911 to complain about fast food
- 'Tim Hortons' coffee shops to go 'Cold Stone'
- Subject of high-profile Italian euthanasia case dies
- EU warns France about auto rescue plan
- Mayor of Flint, Michigan resigns for health reasons
- American baseball star Rodriguez admits to using performance enhancing drugs
- US Senate passes stimulus package
- Pakistani nuclear scientist released from house arrest
- Fake impotence drugs linked to low blood sugar outbreak
- Many US TV stations preparing to make digital switch despite new legislation
- Canadian lawyer urges Prime Minister to repatriate Omar Khadr
- Judd Gregg withdraws as US Commerce Secretary nominee
- Japan, Australia draw in World Cup qualifier
- Fifty killed in commuter plane crash in Clarence Center, New York
- Russian and US satellites collide
- US lawmakers reach stimulus package deal
- Six killed in UK car crash
- Germany's GUN Records closes
- Australia's Queensland Roar through to A-League football preliminary final
- Virgin Atlantic jet fire investigation finds faulty wiring in A340 fleet
- British Airways jet makes rough landing at London City Airport
- Israel elects 18th Knesset
- Queensland Premier denies March 28 election
- 500 stranded melon-headed whales rescued in Philippine bay
- Australian football: Melbourne through to A-League Grand Final, Adelaide to play Queensland in preliminary final
- Burning debris from satellites spotted over several US cities
- "The Simpsons" announces change in title sequence and move to HD
- Japanese tanker MV Chemstar Venus freed by Somali pirates
- Woman with world's longest fingernails loses them in car crash
- Thousands flee after volcano begins to erupt in Colombia
- North Korea says it's preparing to launch space program, denies preparations to test missile
- US Congress passes $787 billion stimulus package
- US military says 'fireballs' spotted over Texas are not related to satellite collision
- Eurovision '73 winner Anne Marie David discusses her four-decade career and the Contest, past and present
- Japan's economy sees biggest decline since 1974
- Airplane that crashed near Buffalo, New York 'was on autopilot'
- Obama signs $787 billion stimulus package
- Large chimpanzee shot and killed by police in US after it attacks woman, officers
- General relativity effect confirmed: satellite experiment
- British writer Edward Upward dies at 105
- Helicopter ditches in the North Sea; all 18 on board rescued
- Buffalo, New York plane crash may have resulted from pilot error
- Colombian military spy plane crashes
- US automakers GM and Chrysler seek more government aid
- Two nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic Ocean
- Venezuelan referendum ends presidential term limits
- 20,000 Californian state workers may lose their jobs
- NATO report on Afghanistan leaked
- Class action launched by Australian bushfire survivors against SP AusNet
- Wikinews Shorts: February 19, 2009
- Violence erupts in Guadeloupe after labor dispute
- Court rejects Polanski bid to have child sex charges dismissed
- Magnitude 5.4 earthquake shakes Pakistan
- European Court of Human Rights orders UK to compensate Islamist
- AIM activist, Leonard Peltier defender Robert Robideau dies
- Sheffield pub is CAMRA's Pub of the Year
- New South Wales, Queensland to have electorates redrawn: Australian Electoral Commission
- Israel seizes West Bank land
- Jury acquits three in Politkovskaya murder trial
- Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at lowest level in six years
- Slovak bus accident kills 12
- Church of Scientology blames Pearl Harbor, 9/11 on psychiatry
- LTTE strikes Sri Lanka capital
- UK firm gets ESA funding to ground test new jet engine for spaceplane
- Chinese cargo ship sinks after being shot by Russian navy
- Turbulence on Northwest Airlines flight injures 47
- Australian football: Adelaide United defeat Queensland Roar, through to A-League Grand Final
- Over a dozen injured, one killed in bomb blast in Egypt
- Endangered Luzon Buttonquail photographed alive by Philippines documentary
- California's violent video game ban law ruled unconstitutional by US Court of Appeals
- Number of cholera cases in Zimbabwe reaches 80,000
- Launch of space shuttle Discovery delayed indefinitely
- Adela Lupșe, outburst TV presenter, gives her side
- At least 73 dead after blast in Chinese coal mine
- Bulgarian chess grandmaster attempts to break chess record
- Guantanamo captive returned to the United Kingdom
- Brazil's Embraer plans to cut around 4,200 jobs
- New comet to be visible to naked eye for several days
- Rocket carrying NASA carbon dioxide satellite crashes into ocean
- AU peacekeepers killed in Somalia, Islamists vow more attacks
- US stock markets fall to lowest levels since 1997
- Airplane crashes at Schiphol Airport; 9 killed
- Japan's January exports fall by 46% from last year
- Fed chairman Bernanke says US recession 'may last into 2010'
- U.S. team unveils plans for F1 entry in 2010
- Baldwin, Seymour among attendees at Oscar viewing party held by Children Uniting Nations
- Engine failure may have been factor in Amsterdam plane crash
- Al-Shabaab and AU peacekeepers clash in Somalia
- Australian state of Queensland will go to the polls on March 21
- Hilda Solis begins new job as US Secretary of Labor
- Australian Sex Party to run independents in Queensland election
- Obama budget calls for record US deficit
- Wedding next year for Sweden's crown princess
- Former Serbian president Milutinovic acquitted of war crimes