Portal:Current events/2009 February 8

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• 51st Grammy Awards: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win Record of the Year for "Please Read the Letter" and Coldplay wins Song of the Year for "Viva la Vida." [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/plant-krauss-coldplay-wayne-score-grammy-1003939582.story (Billboard)]
• Venezuela arrests 11 people over an attack last week on a Caracas synagogue. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211105748/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1062512.html (Haaretz)]
• A roadside bomb kills at least two people and injures 11 near Karbala, Iraq. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.main/index.html?eref=rss_world (CNN)]
• Palestinian militants fire two rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090416080431/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1062454.html (Haaretz)]
• Switzerland votes on a referendum to make permanent freedom of movement for workers from the European Union. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7877218.stm (BBC)]
• Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have killed at least 108 people and destroyed at least 750 homes. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5685378.ece (The Times)]
• Twenty-four people are confirmed dead in the crash of an Embraer 110P1 air taxi in Amazonas, Brazil. [http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/136346/amazon-plane-crash-kills-24 (Bangkok Post)]
• Romanian handball player Marian Cozma is killed and two others are injured after a knife attack in Veszprém, Hungary. [http://www.ehfcl.com/2008-09/article/12080/Tragic+incident+of+Veszpr%C3%A9m+handballers (EHF)]
• United States Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner delays announcing a bailout of the banking industry until Tuesday. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29085097/ (MSNBC)]

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