Portal:Current events/2009 February 12

February 12, 2009 (Thursday)

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:
- Japanese electronics company Pioneer Corporation will leave the television business and cut 10,000 jobs. (AFP via Google News)
- European steelmaker Corus Group cuts 3,500 jobs. (Business Standard)
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)
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)