Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes in Clarence Center , New York , killing 50 people. (Buffalo News) (CNN) The United States National Transportation Safety Board concludes that Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into New York City 's Hudson River . (CNN)
Pope Benedict XVI condemns any denial of the Holocaust as "intolerable and altogether unacceptable". (New York Times ) Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire withdraws his nomination as U.S. Secretary of Commerce . (BBC) Iraq 's Parliament demands reparations from Israel for an attack on a nuclear reactor in 1981 . (Haaretz) .Hamas agrees to an 18-month truce in its conflict with Israel , which has not yet responded. (Al Jazeera ) Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. reopens for the bicentennial of assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln 's birth. (BBC) Late 2000s recession :
A man is arrested after threatening self-immolation outside the Government Buildings in Dublin , Ireland . (RTÉ)
Taliban militants kill 26 people in attacks on three government buildings in Kabul , Afghanistan . (Sky News) Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez alleges that the Army attempted to overthrow his government . (AFP via France 24) [permanent dead link Australia announces a national day of mourning for victims of bushfires in Victoria . (CNN) The European Parliament in Brussels , Belgium , is robbed . (RTÉ)
Indian businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant , Surender Koli , are convicted of murder . (BBC) Dutch Member of Parliament and Islam critic Geert Wilders is denied entry into the United Kingdom . (BBC) Microsoft places a US$ 250,000 bounty on the Conficker computer worm 's creator. (PC World ) China 's Sanlu Group declares bankruptcy , due to the country's 2008 milk scandal . (BBC)
Slumdog Millionaire Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Director for Danny Boyle . Sean Penn wins Best Actor for Milk Kate Winslet wins Best Actress for The Reader (The Daily Mail ) A bomb kills one person and injures 20 others in the Khan el-Khalili souq of Cairo , Egypt . (Reuters)
An Al-Shabaab suicide attack kills at least 11 and injures 15 more Burundian peacekeepers on an African Union military base in Mogadishu , Somalia . (BBC)
Greek convicts Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizai escape from Athens ' Korydallos Prison via a helicopter. (BBC) Iraq 's Abu Ghraib prison reopens under the new name Baghdad Central Prison . (Washington Post ) Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng inaugurates the country's first oil refinery . (AFP via Google News) At least 73 miners die following an explosion in a coal mine in Gujiao , Shanxi , China . (Bloomberg)
Australia holds a national day of mourning for the 209 confirmed victims of recent bushfires in Victoria . (Melbourne Herald Sun ) The Tamil Tigers kill 10 people in Kirimetiyagara , Sri Lanka . (AFP via The Melbourne Age )
An outbreak of hepatitis B in Gujarat , India , kills at least 38 people. (CNN)
Somali pirates hijack Greece 's MV Saldanha in the Gulf of Aden . (AFP via Google News) The European Council meets in Berlin , Germany , to discuss the current economic crisis . (BBC)
United States President Barack Obama will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (CNN) The Bangladesh Rifles surrender after the government promises amnesty . (BBC)
Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah begin peace deliberations in Cairo , Egypt . (New York Times ) The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia acquits former Serbian President Milan Milutinović of committing war crimes . (New York Times )
General Motors reports a US$ 9.6 billion loss, due to the current automotive industry crisis . (New York Times ) Switzerland 's UBS AG appoints former Credit Suisse CEO Oswald Grübel as its new Group CEO. (BBC) China 's Navy and Denmark 's Navy rescue Italian and Chinese merchant vessels from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden . (BBC) The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad , Pakistan , catches fire, five months after it was bombed . (BBC)
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers names former Finance Minister Valdis Dombrovskis as the new Prime Minister . (BBC) Ajmal Kasab , the 2008 Mumbai attacks ' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging war against India . (Sky News) The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of £ 24.1 billion. (BBC)
Thirteen thousand civil servants stage a one-day strike action in Ireland . (RTÉ)
Former Guinean President Lansana Conté 's eldest son confesses to drug trafficking . (BBC)
An outbreak of dengue fever in Bolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000. (BBC)
The University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the English language . (BBC)
A study by the scientific journal Nature HIV is evolving to resist the human immune system . (BBC)
The earliest footprints evidencing modern human foot anatomy and gait are discovered in Koobi Fora , Kenya . (BBC)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000 food crop seed samples. (BBC)
The United States Defense Department allows news agencies to publicize photographs of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan . (BBC)
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