Portal:Current events/2009 October 6
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October 6, 2009 (Tuesday)
- An "industry-wide phishing scheme" targets sites such as Google, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL, with passwords posted online and more than a quarter of a million accounts at risk. (BBC) (The Wall Street Journal) (The Guardian)
- Madagascar's political rivals agree on cabinet posts in a unity government; the President is Andry Rajoelina, the Vice-President is Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, and the Prime Minister is Eugene Mangalaza. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Ireland's Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue announces his resignation following a scandal over his expenses claims. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- One of the most wanted suspects involved in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, is arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala. (BBC) (Press TV)
- Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith win the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for the achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor. (The Guardian)
- Typhoon Parma makes landfall at Luzon, the Philippines. (ABS-CBN)
- The death toll from floods in the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka rises to 269, with a further 1.5 million people homeless. (Press Trust of India) (Outlook India) (AFP)
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for improved relations with "hostile" countries at the opening of Parliament. (Xinhua) (Associated Press) (ZimOnline)
- Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Somalia's State Minister for Defence Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad is detained by security forces in Uganda. Siad's detention was originally reported as a kidnapping. (France 24)