Wikinews:2009/January
January 1Edit
- Mathematician Martin Taylor awarded knighthood
- Mount Everest plane crash blamed on pilot error
- New Year fire kills at least 59, injures 212 more at Bangkok pub
- Wikinews Shorts: January 1, 2009
January 2Edit
- Maria de Jesus, the world's oldest person, dies at age 115
- NASA issues survivability report on Columbia crash
January 3Edit
- Ghanaians elect new President
- Wikinews Shorts: January 3, 2009
- Israel begins ground assault on Gaza Strip
- Criminal appeals denied for American Evangelists
- Mexican billionaire denies buying Honda Formula One team
- Philippines Senate and House of Representatives to probe ‘P50-million drug bribe mess’
- Illinois Governor Blagojevich appoints Roland Burris for vacated U.S. Senate seat
January 4Edit
- Belgian king swears in PM Van Rompuy, cabinet
- Sri Lanka Army captures Tamil Tiger's capital of Kilinochchi
- USC defeats Penn State in 95th Rose Bowl Game
- Bangkok nightclub owner to face charges over New Year's fire
- South Africa defeats Australia in second cricket test
January 5Edit
- Helicopter crash kills eight, injures one in Louisiana
- Imperial College London geology students fined in China for "illegal map-making"
- Protester killed in West Bank; world reacts to Gaza conflict
- UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Gaza
- Female suicide bomber kills 40 Shi'ite pilgrims at Baghdad shrine
January 6Edit
January 7Edit
- CNN medical correspondent to be named US Surgeon General
- Australian Tax Office warns against tax return scam
- China targets Google, Baidu and Internet portals over porn
- Ice, snow, and cold strike throughout Europe
January 8Edit
- Washington flooded by rain and melting snow
- International experts probe deadly Ebola Reston virus outbreak in Philippine pigs
- Princess Beatrice's unlocked BMW stolen
- Ziff Davis sells 1UP to UGO Networks/Hearst, closes Electronic Gaming Monthly
- Matt Smith revealed as 11th incarnation of Doctor Who
- Rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon
- Palestinian president pleads with UN Security Council for help in Gaza
January 9Edit
- Chemical firm LyondellBasell collapses
- Spider-Man to save Obama's Inauguration Day in upcoming Marvel comic
- Israeli rocket targets Press TV building in Gaza
- Florida wins BCS National Championship Game over Oklahoma
- United Nations suspends operations in Gaza after schools and trucks are hit by Israeli forces
January 10Edit
- MV Sirius Star oil tanker released by pirates
- Major merger among American LGBT media outlets announced
- Magazine closures, cuts, for January 5-9, 2009
- Chinese version of Wikinews gets blocked in China
- Strongest earthquake in 150 years hits Costa Rica
- Mayor of Baltimore indicted on theft, perjury
- Illinois House impeaches Blagojevich
- Canadian trio claim South Pole record for trans-Antarctic trip
January 11Edit
- Waves of arrests in Turkey on suspicion of involvement in 'Ergenekon' organization
- US salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, brand recalls product
- UN Security Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution
- Too Grimm? Mother Goose cartoonist sued by Colombian coffee growers
- Cristiano Ronaldo crashes Ferrari at Manchester Airport
January 12Edit
- Five Toronto teenagers charged with armed robbery
- Eight killed by flooding in Fiji
- Former Satyam CEO Raju, his brother and CFO arrested and detained in profit-fraud scandal
- Indonesia ferry sinks near Majene, more than 260 people missing
January 13Edit
- Human Rights Watch: Israel used white phosphorus on densely populated areas in Gaza
- US financier Madoff to remain free on bail
- Israel bans two Arab political parties
- Heavy fighting continues in the Gaza Strip
- Wikinews Shorts: January 13, 2009
January 14Edit
- British Columbia avalanche death toll rises
- Paris rail terminus temporarily shut down by unplanned strike
- Clinton confirmation hearing raises concerns about funding for husband's foundation
January 15Edit
- US Airways jet makes emergency landing in river by New York City
- Main UN compound in Gaza shelled with 'white phosphorus'
- Canadian energy company offers reward for info on pipeline bombings
January 16Edit
- US actor Patrick McGoohan dead at age 80
- Tighten 'noose' so Osama can't operate: Obama
- Burris sworn in as US Senator for Illinois
January 17Edit
- Man arrested in Mississippi over Internet assassination threats against Barack Obama
- 22 million counterfeit cigarettes found in Wales
- Israeli shelling on UN school on the Gaza Strip kills six
- Cadillac unveils Obama's 'Beast', the 2009 Presidential State Car
January 18Edit
- Obama's Inaugural Celebration "We are One" attracts 400,000
- Israel announces ceasefire in Gaza Strip; rocket fire into Israel continues
- Gunmen abduct 3 ICRC representatives in the Philippines
- US Airways jet recovered from Hudson River
- UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes at Texas A&M, kills one, injures four
- Queensland win W-League Grand Final
January 19Edit
- Steelers, Cardinals win championship games to advance to Super Bowl XLIII
- Royal Bank of Scotland shares plummet
- Conficker computer worm infections soar
- Seven dead, one missing, two survive French helicopter crash off Gabon coast
- US Senators push for DTV delay
January 20Edit
- US Senator Ted Kennedy collapses during inaugural luncheon
- Obama succeeds Bush as 44th president of the United States
- Irish millionaire found dead, suicide suspected
- Parajet Skycar expedition takes off from London to Timbuktu
January 21Edit
- Portland, Oregon mayor admits to sexual relationship he previously denied
- ASEAN basketball league moves closer to reality
- Australian writer Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years for insulting Thai Royal Family
- Wikinews Shorts: January 21, 2009
- UN chief visits Gaza, demands investigation into attacks on UN facilities
January 22Edit
- Oldest ex-Major League Baseball player, Billy Werber dies at age 100
- Explosion in Bay Area, California suburb damages cigarette store
- US Senate confirms Clinton as Secretary of State
- Caroline Kennedy drops bid for New York Senate seat
- Photo source for Barack Obama presidential campaign "HOPE" poster discovered
January 23Edit
- Gillibrand named as Clinton's Senate replacement
- United Kingdom officially enters economic recession
- Strong earthquakes in Indian and Pacific Oceans
- Fatal stabbings kill three at Belgian day care center
- Israeli military confirms the use of white phosphorus bombs in the Gaza Strip
- Trial date scheduled for Austrian man who kept his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years
- Obama's choice for Treasury issues warning on China
- Internet group Anonymous hacks No Cussing Club's website, owner's e-mail account
January 24Edit
January 25Edit
- British newspaper makes House of Lords bribery claims
- Former Prime Minister of Senegal Mamadou Dia dies
- Thousands of jobs to go at Corus
- Thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to railway station and stonework in Bath, England
- Indian Premier Manmohan Singh undergoes heart bypass; Pranab Mukherjee takes charge
- Hurricane-force winds kill 15 people as storm hits Europe
January 26Edit
- Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
- Bolivia's Evo Morales wins referendum on a new leftist constitution
- Republican leaders in US want more tax relief in economic stimulus
- Sumo: Asashoryu wins New Year Grand Tournament
- Confusion over British cannabis status
- BBC and Sky networks reject Gaza appeal
January 27Edit
- SLM shareholders led by Martin Garbus sue Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and Marvel for $750m
- Belgium's Queen Fabiola seriously ill
- Anger and unrest continue over US raid in Laghman, Afghanistan
- Accident on set of British television program Heartbeat
- Sprinter Allan Davis wins the Tour Down Under
- Two British footwear chains enter administration
- Obama to Muslims: 'Americans are not your enemy'
- Widespread strike action may hit France
- Woman gives birth to octuplets
- Israeli foreign minister says another war with Hamas possible
- Fast food chain McDonald’s set to open up 1000 more stores by end of year
- Tamil Tigers promise to fight back against Sri Lankan forces
- Search and rescue beacons soon to make the digital jump
- British Airways issues profits warning
- Iceland's coalition government falls in economic crisis
January 28Edit
- Australia celebrates Australia Day 2009
- First openly gay prime minister to be appointed in Iceland
- Scottish politician to face perjury trial
- Scottish budget rejected
- 93-year-old Michigan man freezes to death after electric company limits his power usage
- New Zealander discovers US military data on MP3 player
- British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough receives hate mail from creationists
- UK home shopping retailer Shop Direct group to cut 1,150 jobs
- New BBC Radio 2 boss announced
- British government launches car industry aid package
- GLAAD Media Awards nominees announced
- Encyclopædia Britannica fights back against Wikipedia, soon to let users edit contents
- BBC announces pay freeze and no bonuses for managers
- US novelist John Updike dies age 76
- Russian Orthodox Church elects first new patriarch of post-Soviet era
January 29Edit
- Red Cross urges Sri Lanka to respect lives of Tamil civilians
- Zimbabwe submits to popular pressure: foreign currencies now legal tender
- Philippine fireworks factory explosion kills at least 8, injures 70 more
- Dairy cattle with names produce more milk, according to new study
- Heat wave, industrial action cripples Melbourne railways
- Strike threat at UK's Northern Rail
- Starbucks Coffee set to cut 6,700 staff, 300 stores to close
- Father throws 4-year-old daughter from bridge
- Bart Simpson used to promote Scientology
- Former Indian President R. Venkataraman dies age 98
- Iran's Ahmadinejad wants change in US policies, not 'tactics'
- Sir Paul Stephenson to head London's police
- Global economy could lose up to 51 million jobs this year, says UN agency
January 30Edit
- Nebraska senators may not support stimulus plan
- Winners and losers on UK's East Coast rail line
- Proposition 8 donors to be named
- Zimbabwe opposition agrees to join government
- Lawmakers ask US Secretary of State for Gaza crisis help
- Failed suicide bomber imprisoned for life
- Illinois governor Blagojevich removed from office
- Mass industrial walkouts in UK
- Post-probe, problematic peanut paste products pulled
- Israel resumes attacks in Gaza, Rice asks for war crimes investigations
- Wikinews interviews Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party about the upcoming Queensland State election
- Musician John Martyn dies at age 60
- North Korea cancels all military, political agreements with South Korea
January 31Edit
- Sony net profit falls by 95%
- Discworld author films his battle with Alzheimer's
- Trial date set for fraud case against Church of Scientology in France
- Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden fights back after invasion of German naked hikers
- US Republicans elect first African-American chairman
- Jack Herrick, wikiHow founder interviewed by Wikinews
- Iraqi provincial elections relatively peaceful
- British Airways plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2050
- Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to restructure, lose 900 jobs
- Holocaust denial bishop apologizes
- Brain chemical Serotonin behind locusts’ swarming instinct