JANUARY 2009 WIKI NEWS

January 1

• Mathematician Martin Taylor awarded knighthood
  
• Mount Everest plane crash blamed on pilot error
  
• New Year fire kills at least 59, injures 212 more at Bangkok pub
  
• Wikinews Shorts: January 1, 2009
  

 

January 2

• Maria de Jesus, the world's oldest person, dies at age 115
  
• NASA issues survivability report on Columbia crash
  

 

January 3

• Ghanaians elect new President
  
• Wikinews Shorts: January 3, 2009
  
• Israel begins ground assault on Gaza Strip
  
• Criminal appeals denied for American Evangelists
  
• Mexican billionaire denies buying Honda Formula One team
  
• Philippines Senate and House of Representatives to probe 'P50-million drug bribe mess'
  
• Illinois Governor Blagojevich appoints Roland Burris for vacated U.S. Senate seat
  

 

January 4

• Belgian king swears in PM Van Rompuy, cabinet
  
• Sri Lanka Army captures Tamil Tiger's capital of Kilinochchi
  
• USC defeats Penn State in 95th Rose Bowl Game
  
• Bangkok nightclub owner to face charges over New Year's fire
  
• South Africa defeats Australia in second cricket test
  

 

January 5

• Helicopter crash kills eight, injures one in Louisiana
  
• Imperial College London geology students fined in China for "illegal map-making"
  
• Protester killed in West Bank; world reacts to Gaza conflict
  
• UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Gaza
  
• Female suicide bomber kills 40 Shi'ite pilgrims at Baghdad shrine
  

 

January 6

• Australian Jews condemn Israeli ground attack on Gaza
  

 

January 7

• CNN medical correspondent to be named US Surgeon General
  
• Australian Tax Office warns against tax return scam
  
• China targets Google, Baidu and Internet portals over porn
  
• Wikinews Shorts: January 7, 2009
  
• Ice, snow, and cold strike throughout Europe
  

 

January 8

• Washington flooded by rain and melting snow
  
• International experts probe deadly Ebola Reston virus outbreak in Philippine pigs
  
• Oldest ex-Major League Baseball player, Billy Werber dies at age 100
  
• Princess Beatrice's unlocked BMW stolen
  
• Ziff Davis sells 1UP to UGO Networks/Hearst, closes Electronic Gaming Monthly
  
• Matt Smith revealed as 11th incarnation of Doctor Who
  
• Rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon
  
• Palestinian president pleads with UN Security Council for help in Gaza
  

 

January 9

• Chemical firm LyondellBasell collapses
  
• Spider-Man to save Obama's Inauguration Day in upcoming Marvel comic
  
• Israeli rocket targets Press TV building in Gaza
  
• Florida wins BCS National Championship Game over Oklahoma
  
• United Nations suspends operations in Gaza after schools and trucks are hit by Israeli forces
  

 

January 10

• MV Sirius Star oil tanker released by pirates
  
• Major merger among American LGBT media outlets announced
  
• Magazine closures, cuts, for January 5-9, 2009
  
• Chinese version of Wikinews gets blocked in China
  
• Strongest earthquake in 150 years hits Costa Rica
  
• Mayor of Baltimore indicted on theft, perjury
  
• Illinois House impeaches Blagojevich
  
• Canadian trio claim South Pole record for trans-Antarctic trip
  

 

January 11

• Waves of arrests in Turkey on suspicion of involvement in 'Ergenekon' organization
  
• US salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, brand recalls product
  
• UN Security Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution
  
• Too Grimm? Mother Goose cartoonist sued by Colombian coffee growers
  
• Cristiano Ronaldo crashes Ferrari at Manchester Airport
  

 

January 12

• Five Toronto teenagers charged with armed robbery
  
• Eight killed by flooding in Fiji
  
• Former Satyam CEO Raju, his brother and CFO arrested and detained in profit-fraud scandal
  
• Indonesia ferry sinks near Majene, more than 260 people missing
  

 

January 13

• Human Rights Watch: Israel used white phosphorus on densely populated areas in Gaza
  
• US financier Madoff to remain free on bail
  
• Israel bans two Arab political parties
  
• Heavy fighting continues in the Gaza Strip
  
• Wikinews Shorts: January 13, 2009
  

 

January 14

• British Columbia avalanche death toll rises
  
• Paris rail terminus temporarily shut down by unplanned strike
  
• Clinton confirmation hearing raises concerns about funding for husband's foundation
  

 

January 15

• US Airways jet makes emergency landing in river by New York City
  
• Main UN compound in Gaza shelled with 'white phosphorus'
  
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Day 20
  
• Canadian energy company offers reward for info on pipeline bombings
  

 

January 16

• US actor Patrick McGoohan dead at age 80
  
• Tighten 'noose' so Osama can't operate: Obama
  
• Burris sworn in as US Senator for Illinois
  

 

January 17

• Man arrested in Mississippi over Internet assassination threats against Barack Obama
  
• 22 million counterfeit cigarettes found in Wales
  
• Israeli shelling on UN school on the Gaza Strip kills six
  
• Cadillac unveils Obama's 'Beast', the 2009 Presidential State Car
  

 

January 18

• Obama's Inaugural Celebration "We are One" attracts 400,000
  
• Israel announces ceasefire in Gaza Strip; rocket fire into Israel continues
  
• Gunmen abduct 3 ICRC representatives in the Philippines
  
• US Airways jet recovered from Hudson River
  
• UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes at Texas A&M, kills one, injures four
  
• Queensland win W-League Grand Final
  

 

January 19

• Steelers, Cardinals win championship games to advance to Super Bowl XLIII
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland shares plummet
  
• Conficker computer worm infections soar
  
• Seven dead, one missing, two survive French helicopter crash off Gabon coast
  
• US Senators push for DTV delay
  

 

January 20

• US Senator Ted Kennedy collapses during inaugural luncheon
  
• Obama succeeds Bush as 44th president of the United States
  
• Irish millionaire found dead, suicide suspected
  
• Parajet Skycar expedition takes off from London to Timbuktu
  

 

January 21

• Portland, Oregon mayor admits to sexual relationship he previously denied
  
• ASEAN basketball league moves closer to reality
  
• Australian writer Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years for insulting Thai Royal Family
  
• Wikinews Shorts: January 21, 2009
  
• UN chief visits Gaza, demands investigation into attacks on UN facilities
  

 

January 22

• Explosion in Bay Area, California suburb damages cigarette store
  
• US Senate confirms Clinton as Secretary of State
  
• Caroline Kennedy drops bid for New York Senate seat
  
• Photo source for Barack Obama presidential campaign "HOPE" poster discovered
  

 

January 23

• Gillibrand named as Clinton's Senate replacement
  
• United Kingdom officially enters economic recession
  
• Strong earthquakes in Indian and Pacific Oceans
  
• Fatal stabbings kill three at Belgian day care center
  
• Israeli military confirms the use of white phosphorus bombs in the Gaza Strip
  
• Trial date scheduled for Austrian man who kept his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years
  
• Obama's choice for Treasury issues warning on China
  
• Internet group Anonymous hacks No Cussing Club's website, owner's e-mail account
  

 

January 24

• Details emerge on fatal stabbing at Belgian day care centre
  

 

[edit] January 25

• British newspaper makes House of Lords bribery claims
  
• Former Prime Minister of Senegal Mamadou Dia dies
  
• Thousands of jobs to go at Corus
  
• Thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to railway station and stonework in Bath, England
  
• Indian Premier Manmohan Singh undergoes heart bypass; Pranab Mukherjee takes charge
  
• Hurricane-force winds kill 15 people as storm hits Europe
  

 

January 26

• Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
  
• Bolivia's Evo Morales wins referendum on a new leftist constitution
  
• Republican leaders in US want more tax relief in economic stimulus
  
• Sumo: Asashoryu wins New Year Grand Tournament
  
• Confusion over British cannabis status
  
• BBC and Sky networks reject Gaza appeal
  

 

January 27

• SLM shareholders led by Martin Garbus sue Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and Marvel for $750m
  
• Belgium's Queen Fabiola seriously ill
  
• Anger and unrest continue over US raid in Laghman, Afghanistan
  
• Accident on set of British television program Heartbeat
  
• Sprinter Allan Davis wins the Tour Down Under
  
• Two British footwear chains enter administration
  
• Obama to Muslims: 'Americans are not your enemy'
  
• Widespread strike action may hit France
  
• Woman gives birth to octuplets
  
• Israeli foreign minister says another war with Hamas possible
  
• Fast food chain McDonald's set to open up 1000 more stores by end of year
  
• Tamil Tigers promise to fight back against Sri Lankan forces
  
• Search and rescue beacons soon to make the digital jump
  
• British Airways issues profits warning
  
• Iceland's coalition government falls in economic crisis
  

 

January 28

• Australia celebrates Australia Day 2009
  
• First openly gay prime minister to be appointed in Iceland
  
• Scottish politician to face perjury trial
  
• Scottish budget rejected
  
• 93-year-old Michigan man freezes to death after electric company limits his power usage
  
• New Zealander discovers US military data on MP3 player
  
• British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough receives hate mail from creationists
  
• UK home shopping retailer Shop Direct group to cut 1,150 jobs
  
• New BBC Radio 2 boss announced
  
• British government launches car industry aid package
  
• GLAAD Media Awards nominees announced
  
• Encyclopædia Britannica fights back against Wikipedia, soon to let users edit contents
  
• BBC announces pay freeze and no bonuses for managers
  
• US novelist John Updike dies age 76
  
• Russian Orthodox Church elects first new patriarch of post-Soviet era
  

 

January 29

• Red Cross urges Sri Lanka to respect lives of Tamil civilians
  
• Zimbabwe submits to popular pressure: foreign currencies now legal tender
  
• Philippine fireworks factory explosion kills at least 8, injures 70 more
  
• Dairy cattle with names produce more milk, according to new study
  
• Heat wave, industrial action cripples Melbourne railways
  
• Strike threat at UK's Northern Rail
  
• Starbucks Coffee set to cut 6,700 staff, 300 stores to close
  
• Father throws 4-year-old daughter from bridge
  
• Bart Simpson used to promote Scientology
  
• Former Indian President R. Venkataraman dies age 98
  
• Iran's Ahmadinejad wants change in US policies, not 'tactics'
  
• Sir Paul Stephenson to head London's police
  
• Global economy could lose up to 51 million jobs this year, says UN agency
  

 

January 30

• Nebraska senators may not support stimulus plan
  
• Winners and losers on UK's East Coast rail line
  
• Proposition 8 donors to be named
  
• Zimbabwe opposition agrees to join government
  
• Lawmakers ask US Secretary of State for Gaza crisis help
  
• Failed suicide bomber imprisoned for life
  
• Illinois governor Blagojevich removed from office
  
• Mass industrial walkouts in UK
  
• Post-probe, problematic peanut paste products pulled
  
• Israel resumes attacks in Gaza, Rice asks for war crimes investigations
  
• Wikinews interviews Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party about the upcoming Queensland State election
  
• Musician John Martyn dies at age 60
  
• North Korea cancels all military, political agreements with South Korea
  

 

January 31

• Sony net profit falls by 95%
  
• Discworld author films his battle with Alzheimer's
  
• Trial date set for fraud case against Church of Scientology in France
  
• Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden fights back after invasion of German naked hikers
  
• US Republicans elect first African-American chairman
  
• Jack Herrick, WikiHow founder interviewed by Wikinews
  
• Iraqi provincial elections relatively peaceful
  
• British Airways plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2050
  
• Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to restructure, lose 900 jobs
  
• Holocaust denial bishop apologizes
  
• Brain chemical Serotonin behind locusts' swarming instinct