Wikinews:2009/October
- Tropical Storm Olaf forms in the Pacific
- Protests in Ecuador kill one, injure 49
- Philippines braces for next storm
- Rhode Island borrows $90 million from US for jobless claims
- Suspected US missile strike kills eight Taliban fighters
- US to withdraw over 4,000 troops from Iraq
- British nursery worker admits sexually abusing children
- Over 700 killed after earthquake in Indonesia
- Police describe bloody evidence in NY Sen. Monserrate assault trial
- Typhoon Ketsana reaches Cambodia; up to eleven people killed
- Death toll from tsunami in Southeast Asia increases
- Plaintiffs and Amazon propose settlement to Kindle deletion lawsuit
- US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%
- Mudslides kill at least thirteen in Italy
- UN report says number of "abject poor" tripled in Gaza
- New 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes South Pacific
- Rio de Janeiro to host 2016 Olympics
- Militant factions clash in Somalia
- Romanian coalition government collapses
- Afghan policeman opens fire on US troops, kills two
- 130 dead after torrential rains in India
- More bodies recovered from capsized boat in Kerala, India
- Six soldiers killed in Senegal after ambush
- Three aid workers released by Somali gunmen
- Top militant in Pakistan killed by suspected US missile drone
- Typhoon Parma spares Philippines capital
- Indian Maoists blamed for the deaths of sixteen villagers
- U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels to be contested
- US free speech lawyer defends satire of Glenn Beck
- Israeli police and Palestinians clash in Jerusalem
- FBI arrests, charges man over nude videos of US presenter Erin Andrews
- Greek man arrested over alleged plot to hijack Emirates airliner at Karachi airport
- Sebastian Vettel wins 2009 Japanese Grand Prix
- Typhoon Parma threatens Taiwan
- Eight US soldiers killed in Afghanistan after clash with millitants
- Report says global warming may cause 25m malnourished children by 2050
- France considers chemically castrating sex offenders
- Second stone circle found one mile from Stonehenge
- Greece to hold general elections
- Ireland votes 'Yes' to Lisbon Treaty
- Suicide bomber at Iraqi funeral kills at least six
- Rebels in Nigeria surrender weapons under amnesty
- Greek Socialist party wins general elections
- Chilean court jails ex-army officers for murdering witness in Croatian arms deal
- Tropical Storm Henri forms in the Atlantic
- Nine killed by car bomb in Iraq, 31 injured
- Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" wins Man Booker Prize 2009
- Typhoon Melor on path towards Japan
- Former Costa Rican president sentenced to jail on charges of corruption
- Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Uganda
- Istanbul to host 2009 IMF meetings
- UN offices in Pakistan hit by suicide bomber
- Wikinews interviews Rich Mann and Kevin Smith of the United States Australian Football League about the upcoming National Championship
- Large magnitude 7.8 earthquake, aftershock strikes Vanuatu region
- 40 injured after attacks in Thailand
- Italian court overturns law preventing trial of Prime Minister Berlusconi
- Over two million people displaced by flooding in India
- New ring discovered around Saturn, could explain dark side of its moon
- Demonstrators and police clash at IMF meetings in Istanbul
- Greek Prime Minister sworn in, new cabinet appointed
- No-confidence vote initiated against Romanian cabinet
- Romanian trade unions threaten more protests
- Powerful car bomb blast hits Kabul, Afghanistan
- Guinea to launch investigation into killing of protestors
- Two people killed after Typhoon Melor hits Japan
- UK Royal Mail workers vote in favour of strike action
- Bus driver convicted of killing eleven after falling asleep in California crash
- Coulthard says Piquet should have been punished for F1 cheating
- Iran court sentences opposition activist to death
- Aid agencies warn of food shortages in flood-hit India
- BBC receives 487 complaints after 'Dancing' race row
- Bomb explosion in Pakistani market kills 49
- At least 160 killed by landslides in the Philippines
- 18 hospitalized after gas attack in school in Valga, Estonia
- Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
- European Parliament committee backs visa-free travel for Balkan countries
- Macedonia says compromise with Greece over name dispute possible
- 26 killed after mine accident in China
- US deficit reaches record $1.4 trillion
- US Senate finance committee to vote on health care bill
- Two people killed in fire in Greater Manchester, England
- UN plane crashes in Haiti; eleven dead
- 70 killed after tanker explosion in Nigeria
- Former UN head Annan warns Kenya over future poll violence
- Bosnian football fan's suspected killer escapes police custody
- 17 killed after Cambodian ferry capsizes
- Boyzone member Stephen Gately dies at age 33
- 22 hostages freed after raid in Pakistani army headquarters
- Denver win 2009 USAFL National Championship
- Irish priest seized by gunmen in the Philippines
- British FTSE index reaches one-year high, other European markets rise
- Greece’s newly elected Prime Minister pays first foreign visit to Turkey
- Chinese court sentences six to death for Xinjiang riots
- Body found in Auckland, New Zealand drain
- 41 killed by suicide bombing near Pakistan's Swat valley
- 3,000 protest plan to construct skyscraper in St Petersburg, Russia
- Minor tears found in Gordon Brown's retina
- Leader of Indian BJP party visits Navi Mumbai to support candidates for general election
- China and Russia sign trade deals worth US$3.5 billion
- Gabon court upholds presidential candidate Bongo's win after protest
- Local and regional elections held in Russia
- Post-mortem examination reveals Stephen Gately "died of natural causes"
- Turkey and Armenia sign historic agreement
- Chomsky book banned from Guantanamo Bay
- American singer and actor Al Martino dies at age 82
- US Senate panel approves healthcare reform bill
- Luis Soltren surrenders in 1968 hijacking of Pan Am 281
- South African police clash with demonstrators
- 6-year-old boy in Colorado found alive, unhurt after runaway balloon allegedly carried him away
- Obama signs Pakistan aid bill worth US$7.5 billion
- Leona Lewis assaulted at book signing in London, England
- UK sending additional 500 troops to Afghanistan
- WWE Hall of Fame manager Captain Lou Albano dies at 76
- Boyzone manager Louis Walsh pays tribute to Stephen Gately
- Zimbabwe's MDC pulls out of unity government
- UN rights council endorses Gaza report
- Man charged with assaulting British singer Leona Lewis
- Bank of America reports losses of over US$2.2 billion
- Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi mosque; twelve dead
- World Wrestling Entertainment heir Shane McMahon resigns from the company
- Son of Indian hospital CEO commits suicide by jumping out of window
- European Commission publishes progress report on Western Balkans
- China sentences six more to death over riots
- NY Sen. Monserrate found guilty of misdemeanor assault
- At least 40 dead after string of attacks in Pakistan
- One million protest against Spanish abortion liberalisation
- International pressure mounts on Guinean military junta to withdraw from elections
- 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia
- Crude oil prices reach one-year high
- Botswana holds parliamentary elections
- Buffalo, NY firefighter injured while battling blaze
- Politicians call for NY Sen. Monserrate to resign after assault conviction
- Baby survives after stroller hit by train in Melbourne, Australia
- Philippines prepares for new typhoon
- UN claims over a quarter million human trafficking victims in EU
- Hurricane Rick becomes Category 5 storm
- IBEX satellite releases first all sky map
- Suicide attack hits Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders
- Democratic Republic of Congo: UN expert accuses soldiers of killing 50 Hutu refugees in North Kivu
- Wikinews Shorts: October 18, 2009
- Gun battle between gang members and police kills 12 in Rio de Janeiro
- Ali Bongo sworn in as president of Gabon
- Bull moose shot by police in Alaska
- 33 killed by firecracker blaze in India
- Iran uranium talks "off to a good start"
- Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones
- EU observers: up to one fourth of votes in Afghan election suspicious
- Kidnappers release two aid workers in Darfur, Sudan after more than 100 days
- US free speech lawyer Marc Randazza discusses Glenn Beck parody
- Whitney Houston has 'wardrobe malfunction' during UK debut on TV show 'X Factor'
- Insurgent attack in South Thailand injures 24
- Mark Webber wins 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, Jenson Button and Brawn win championship
- Israel cabinet rejects UN war crimes report
- Zimababwe Zanu-PF party dismisses Tsvangirai unity boycott
- Pakistani military launches ground offensive against Taliban and al-Qaeda
- ECOWAS suspends Niger in dispute over constitution
- Zimbabwe cabinet meets without MDC ministers after boycott
- US scientist from Maryland accused of spying for Israel
- New Gabonese president names new government
- Afghan president accepts runoff vote; UN seeks to fire 200 officials
- Scottish lawyer denies death of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi
- At least 21 dead after train accident in India
- France confirms deportation of illegal Afghan immigrants
- Suicide bombers close Pakistani schools
- Iran nuclear talks enter third day
- US Supreme court to hear Guantanamo Bay cases
- Five cholera deaths recorded in Zimbabwe amid fears of new epidemic
- Indian Human Resources minister to reform technology sector
- Indonesian president sworn in for a second term
- BBC's Mock The Week 'breached guidelines' with Olympian humour, say corporation's Trust
- EU to give 280 million euro in aid to dairy farmers
- Ousted Honduran president Zelaya says coup talks suspended
- UNHCR: Thousands of Angolans expelled from DRC in "dire" need of aid
- Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder rate becomes world's highest
- Big Ben dropped from ITV News at Ten opening sequence
- US Defense Secretary Gates to seek extra aid for Afghanistan
- UN says more investment in agriculture needed to tackle world hunger
- India's ruling Congress party leads in three key state polls
- Red Cross member abducted in Darfur, Sudan
- Panama-flagged ship hijacked off Somali coast by pirates
- British soldier dies in Afghanistan, UK death toll rises to 222
- Colombian drug lord receives 45-year jail sentence in US
- Windows 7 gets 'early release' in China; software pirates beat Microsoft to the punch
- Shelling in Somalia's capital kills twenty
- Satirical website criticizes Glenn Beck for 'hypocritical' attempts to silence free speech
- Demonstrators clash with police in Algeria after slum protest
- With arrival of rainy season, perennial scramble in Zimbabwe for seed, fertilizer
- Massachusetts man charged with conspiring to attack US mall, kill Iraq troops
- SADC calls for transparent Mozambique elections
- More than 300 arrested in over two days after US drug operation
- Ethiopia appeals for food aid for over 6 million
- Kenya government reform record to be reviewed by AU experts
- Canada acquits man wrongly jailed for over a decade over teen girl's murder
- 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Suicide bomb blast hits air force base in Pakistan
- Jet flies 150 miles past destination in US; pilots say they were distracted
- Official: Military aircraft crashes in Afghanistan
- Pakistani army seizes Taliban stronghold after week-long battle
- Car bombings near Iraq government offices kill at least 130
- At least 25 dead after train crash in Egypt
- British pilot dies in plane crash; nine passengers survive
- Obama declares swine flu emergency in US
- Heavy 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia
- Niger’s ruling party wins majority in parliament after elections
- Russian passenger airliner makes safe landing in Moscow after concerns of gear damage
- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić boycotts genocide trial
- Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis leaves Scientology
- Hopes for treaty on climate begin to wither
- Wikinews Shorts: October 26, 2009
- At least nine dead after cholera outbreak in Kenyan slum
- Tunisia holds presidential and parliamentary elections
- Afghanistan prepares for presidential runoff election
- Zimbabwean police raid MDC party's offices
- Dozens killed after car bomb explodes in market in Peshawar, Pakistan
- Tunisian president re-elected for fifth term
- Nine killed after bombings in southern Afghanistan
- Court in France convicts Scientology of organized fraud
- UN Security Council votes to extend Ivory Coast sanctions
- Two 10-year-old UK boys arrested for alleged rape of girl aged 8
- Newcastle United's St. James' Park naming rights go up for sale
- State of emergency declared in New York over H1N1 swine flu virus
- NASA completes successful test flight of new Ares IX rocket
- Home demolitions in East Jerusalem continue
- Date set for Bradfield, Higgins by-elections: Australian Electoral Commission
- AFL provides insufficient support for European leagues: Germany
- McDonald's restaurant to close all locations in Iceland
- Mozambique holds presidential and parliamentary elections
- Vigil for hate victims takes place in London
- Attack on UN guesthouse by Taliban in Afghanistan kills nine
- Canadian folk singer attacked and killed by coyotes in Nova Scotia
- Strong earthquake hits northern Pakistan
- Typhoon Mirinae heads towards the Philippines
- English actor Norman Painting dies at age 85
- Nine missing after US Coast Guard plane and Navy helicopter collide
- Nokia files lawsuit against Apple
- Mike Ashley takes Newcastle United off the market for a second time
- Chris Hughton appointed permanent manager of Newcastle United
- US president Obama honors soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah may boycott runoff election
- Denmark holds nationwide light show to mark digital switchover
- Iraqi officials arrest over 60 in connection with recent bombings
- Bomb blast kills seven in northwest Pakistan
- Indian Air Force chopper crashes in Jammu and Kashmir
- Man jailed for manslaughter of wife in Hampshire, England
- Ukraine closes schools after reports of swine flu deaths
- Former French president Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges
- England rail users highlight Teesside Airport 'ghost station'