Portal:Current events/2009 February 9

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• Ten-year-old Sussex spaniel Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee wins the 2009 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show's Best-in-Show Award. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/02/westminster-w-1.html (Los Angeles Times)]
• Thirty mummies are discovered in a 2,600-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb at Saqqara. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090209-ml-egypt-AP.html?source=rss (AP via National Geographic)]
• Bishop Richard Williamson is removed from a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina after denying the Holocaust. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7878580.stm (BBC)]
• Automotive industry crisis of 2008-2009:
• Japan's Nissan Motors cuts 20,000 jobs because of the global economic downturn. [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/09/nissan.job.cuts/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (CNN)]
• France's government announces a €6.5-billion bailout for the automotive industry. [http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/09/business/auto.4-426347.php (International Herald Tribune)]
• Cécile Manorohanta resigns as Madagascar's Minister for Defense. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gA7e1eB8l_WeByiWnHnU5dBfjwTw (AFP via Google News)]
• Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have now killed at least 130 people and destroyed at least 750 homes. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25027055-421,00.html (Daily Telegraph)]
• A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber kills 28 people and injures 90 others at a Sri Lankan refugee camp. [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Sri-Lanka-Tamil-Tiger-Suicide-Bomber-Strikes-At-Refugee-Camp-Among-Soldiers-And-Civilians/Article/200902215219180?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15219180_Sri_Lanka%3A_Tamil_Tiger_Suicide_Bomber_Strikes_At_Refugee_Camp_Among_Soldiers_And_Civilians (Sky News)]
• The Associated Press receives a video showing Pakistani militants beheading kidnapped Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD967UBLO0 (AP via Google News)]
• A video confirms that al-Qaeda has kidnapped Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler in Niger. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090209.wfowler09/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090209.wfowler09 (The Globe and Mail)]
• Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs between {{mlby|2001}} and {{mlby|2003}}. [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847 (ESPN)]
• A fire destroys the Television Cultural Center in Beijing, China. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html?ref=world (New York Times)]
• The mythical birthplace of Zeus is possibly discovered at Mount Lykaion, Greece. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490244,00.html (FOX News)]

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