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Contents

  • 1 March 1
  • 2 March 2
  • 3 March 3
  • 4 March 4
  • 5 March 5
  • 6 March 6
  • 7 March 7
  • 8 March 8
  • 9 March 9
  • 10 March 10
  • 11 March 11
  • 12 March 12
  • 13 March 13
  • 14 March 14
  • 15 March 15
  • 16 March 16
  • 17 March 17
  • 18 March 18
  • 19 March 19
  • 20 March 20
  • 21 March 21
  • 22 March 22
  • 23 March 23
  • 24 March 24
  • 25 March 25
  • 26 March 26
  • 27 March 27
  • 28 March 28
  • 29 March 29
  • 30 March 30
  • 31 March 31

March 1

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  • Afghan protestors shot after mosque raid sparks anger
  • Obama sets deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq
  • Record number of failed banks reported in US for February
  • Thousands take part in protests across US against government's financial policy
  • Australian football: Melbourne Victory win A-League grand final



March 2

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  • Wikinews interviews the Socialist Alliance about the upcoming Queensland State election
  • President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated
  • Broadcaster Paul Harvey dies at age 90



March 3

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  • Seven killed in gun attack on Sri Lankan cricket team
  • Two-time Eurovision entrant Edsilia Rombley discusses music, love, and her contrasting Contest experiences
  • India announces Lok Sabha elections for 2009



March 4

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  • Raúl Castro shakes up cabinet in Cuba
  • Football: FSV Mainz 05 advance to semi-final of DFB Pokal
  • Scientists say study proves chimps create termite gathering tools
  • International Criminal Court in The Hague issues arrest warrant for leader of Sudan
  • Politicians begin campaigns for Flint, Michigan replacement mayor



March 5

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  • Marine jet crash into San Diego house attributed to string of errors
  • Wikinews Shorts: March 5, 2009
  • Eurovision '09 competitor Chiara talks about her current song "What If We" and her past accolades
  • Schiphol airliner crash blamed on altimeter failure, pilot error
  • Michael Jackson to make last public concerts
  • US stock markets reach 12-year lows
  • California Supreme Court defers ruling on same-sex marriage ban
  • Football: Leverkusen, Bremen, HSV proceed in DFB Pokal



March 6

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  • Mahathma Gandhi's items auctioned for $1.8 million
  • Brawn GP take over Honda Formula One team
  • Mauritania cuts ties with Israel, expels Israeli diplomats
  • US unemployment rate reaches 8.1%
  • Philippines is culling 6500 hogs after Reston ebolavirus outbreak



March 7

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  • Earthquake strikes Melbourne, no reports of injuries
  • NASA sets launch date for Space Shuttle Discovery
  • NASA successfully launches Kepler Telescope
  • California man convicted of murdering five firefighters by starting wildfire
  • Six vehicle pileup disrupts traffic on highway in British Columbia



March 8

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  • Two killed in gun attack in Northern Ireland
  • Real IRA claims responsibility for gun attack
  • Explosion in Baghdad claims 28 lives
  • Windows 7 will allow users to disable Internet Explorer



March 9

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  • Wolfram Research’s new product Alpha to compete with Google and Wikipedia
  • Sunshine Coast Regional Council can't challenge legal appeal by McDonald's Australia
  • Number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe surpasses 4,000
  • Canadian teams vie for spot at the World Curling Championship



March 10

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  • Pennsylvania cop on trial for allegedly murdering girlfriend's estranged husband
  • Community Television consortium urges Australian government to increase funding for channels
  • Continuity IRA gunmen kill policeman in Northern Ireland
  • Philippine exports plunge to eight-year low
  • North Korea warns airlines over satellite fears



March 11

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  • Feud between CNBC and The Daily Show continues to escalate
  • Teenage gunman kills 15 in south-west Germany
  • Jury considers Curt Dagenais court case
  • Ten dead in Alabama shooting



March 12

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  • Cricket: West Indies regain Wisden Trophy
  • Fundraising to keep Avro Vulcan flying succeeds
  • Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery further delayed
  • Apple reveals new iPod shuffle with voice
  • Space debris threatened International Space Station, astronauts temporarily evacuated
  • Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to $50 billion fraud scheme
  • Shin wins Singapore HSBC Womens Golf Classic



March 13

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  • Wikinews interviews Brenton Clutterbuck, candidate for the electorate of Maroochydore at the upcoming Queensland election
  • Egyptian treasures found in ancient tomb
  • Canadian helicopter with 18 onboard crashes into Atlantic Ocean
  • Canadian jail inmates used nail clippers to escape, report finds
  • US stock markets have their best week since November
  • Obama administration drops use of term "enemy combatant"
  • Billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg dies at 91
  • "Mrs. Hockey" Colleen Howe is laid to rest



March 14

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  • Colonel Sanders statue lost in 1985 recovered from river in Japan
  • US, UK investigators seek 777 engine redesign to stop repeat of London jet crash
  • 7 killed, 50 injured in Bangladesh shopping mall fire
  • British TV presenter Rico Daniels tells Wikinews about being 'The Salvager'
  • Saskatchewan places moratorium on boar farming, says escaped boars should be killed



March 15

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  • 3 dead, 4 missing after Vietnamese cargo ship sinks in South China Sea
  • Obama calls food safety system a 'hazard to public health'
  • Recovery planned for crashed Canadian helicopter
  • Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launches after a month of delays
  • Oil spill hits Australia's Sunshine coastline



March 16

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  • US Fed chairman Bernanke says recession could end this year
  • Search for survivors of Canadian helicopter crash ends, recovery mission focuses on victims
  • Coup in Madagascar; opposition leader backs army
  • Maldives to become the world's first carbon-neutral country



March 17

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  • Five dead in murder-suicide in Miami, Florida
  • El Salvador elects leftist president Funes
  • Austrian man who imprisoned daughter pleads guilty at start of trial
  • Australian Senate to decide sport footage ownership
  • Seattle's oldest newspaper to become online-only
  • Two women in North Carolina arrested for allegedly using Family Dollar variety store as marijuana ring
  • Fossilized remains of small dinosaur rediscovered in Canada
  • All bodies recovered from Canadian helicopter crash
  • Latin America suffers drop in remittances
  • FIFA receives eleven bids for 2018 and 2022 World Cups
  • The Simpsons episode to premiere on Sky1
  • Madagascar President resigns, unclear rule in Antananarivo
  • British actress Natasha Richardson reportedly brain dead after skiing accident
  • Namibia struck by floods, president declares state of emergency
  • Wikinews previews the 2009 Queensland state election



March 18

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  • Former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo convicted of fraud, corruption
  • Madoff prosecutors want assets from wife and children
  • US president Obama, Congress call for blocking of executive bonuses at AIG insurance company



March 19

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  • Wikinews interviews Patricia Petersen, independent candidate for the electorate of Bundamba in the 2009 Queensland election
  • Usain Bolt to run 150 metre race in Manchester
  • Pennsylvania Amish farmer jailed for outhouse violations
  • British actress Natasha Richardson dies at age 45
  • Monty Python's "Holy Hand Grenade" sparks bomb scare
  • US supports UN gay rights declaration
  • 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga, tsunami generated
  • North Korean military detains two American journalists
  • Harlan Ellison sues CBS-Paramount, WGA over Star Trek royalties



March 20

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  • Pennsylvania state trooper found guilty of first-degree murder
  • England and New Zealand vie for Women's Cricket World Cup
  • New Jersey to consider bikini waxing ban
  • US lawmakers approve bill taxing executive bonuses
  • Documents show U.S. knew of Guatemalan human rights abuses
  • Portions of Wikileaks, Wikipedia blocked in Australia
  • Pink elephant spotted in Botswana
  • Bomb blast damages buildings in Athens
  • Canadian PM announces funding for US-Canada bridge crossing
  • New Jersey real estate investor charged with $2 million theft
  • Bangladesh security tightened following Pilkhana massacre and Bashundhara City fire



March 21

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  • Pennsylvania lost 41,000 jobs in February, a 13-year high
  • Emergency directive for Sikorsky S-92A helicopters
  • Obama apologizes for Special Olympics comment on The Tonight Show
  • Two US Navy vessels collide in the Strait of Hormuz; 15 lightly injured
  • New Jersey backpedals on proposed bikini waxing ban
  • US says Zimbabwe government has “a long way to go” before sanctions are lifted
  • "The Dark Knight" film director's brother arrested for murder, kidnapping
  • Australian Labor Party reelected to Queensland government: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Google removes some street view images
  • Rock music church in Pennsylvania allowed concerts under court settlement
  • Emirates jet tail strikes runway during takeoff at Melbourne airport
  • UK's BAA forced to sell three airports
  • New Zealand pilots receive bravery awards for foiling airliner hijack
  • Thousands evacuated after chemical truck overturns in Pennsylvania
  • Four Oakland, California police officers shot, all in critical condition
  • Queensland election candidates on Gold Coast back daylight saving



March 22

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  • Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents
  • New findings suggest AIG executive bonuses were larger than previously thought
  • Western Canadian justice officials to press for criminal code changes
  • Bouncer stabbed to death in Atlantic City brawl
  • England wins women's cricket World Cup
  • "Lost" actress Elizabeth Mitchell cast in ABC's "V" pilot
  • Canadian PM seeks to abandon gun registry
  • New Jersey woman identified after fifteen years in psychiatric home
  • Four police officers shot in Oakland, California die
  • Canadian Minister of National Defence withdraws from NATO candidacy
  • Madagascar's former opposition leader sworn in as president



March 23

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  • Clashes in France after anti-condom speech by Pope
  • FedEx cargo jet crashes in Narita, burns
  • Plane crashes in Montana, 17 killed
  • Alaskan Mount Redoubt volcano erupts
  • Air France-KLM interested in acquiring Czech Airlines
  • Suncor makes bid to take over Petro-Canada
  • Son of poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide
  • Longtime New York radio reporter found stabbed to death
  • Australian Football League: Clubs threaten to take home games interstate
  • US stock markets soar after bailout plan
  • British celebrity Jade Goody dies of cervical cancer at age 27



March 24

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  • Kangaroos escape in France
  • World's cheapest car launched in India, will go on sale in April
  • "Twilight" DVD sells 3 million copies in first day
  • Japanese ship escapes after pirates open fire in Somalia
  • Obama considers 'comprehensive' exit strategy from Afghanistan
  • Fargo, North Dakota, prepares for record flooding
  • TV late night show host David Letterman marries girlfriend of 23 years
  • EPA proposes using Clean Air Act to fight global warming
  • Youth charged with murdering Northern-Irish police officer
  • IDF soldiers' account of Gaza incursion sparks new war crimes investigations



March 25

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  • New Jersey files lawsuit against federal sports betting ban
  • Morning-after pill to be made available to 17-year-olds, U.S. federal judge rules
  • US Treasury Secretary: "We need the ability to seize firms"
  • Canada commits C$127.4 million to fighting tuberculosis
  • WHO says Zimbabwean cholera epidemic 'past its peak'
  • Pilots in 16-death crash jailed for praying instead of flying
  • Canadian annual seal hunt begins amid controversy
  • Four-storey building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria; two dead
  • Comedian Stephen Colbert wins NASA space station name contest
  • Authorities search home of owner of German Wikileaks domain
  • European Parliament agrees on unified airspace
  • U.S. Postal Service running out of money
  • Czech PM calls Obama's rescue plan a 'road to hell'
  • Priests jailed for $8.6 million theft
  • NATO soldiers honour fallen Canadians



March 26

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  • One day after attempted rescue, six stranded whales die on Australian beach
  • Judge refuses to dismiss charge against Barack Obama assassination plotter
  • Girls in Florida sell pink lemonade, donate money to breast cancer research
  • Tornadoes rampage through Mississippi
  • NATO and Iran talk for first time in 30 years
  • Irish economy sees biggest contraction in decades
  • US Air Force jet crashes in California



March 27

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  • Turks and Caicos Islands Premier resigns
  • North Korea missile launch looks imminent
  • Businesses and individuals worldwide to turn lights off as part of Earth Hour 2009
  • US secretary of state Hillary Clinton says America helps fuel illegal drug trade
  • Preliminary investigation results released on Canadian helicopter crash
  • Parts of US airplane fall from sky in Brazil
  • Study of soft cheese wins oddest book title award
  • Royal Commission recommends single council for Auckland
  • New Jersey teen faces child porn charges for posting nude photos of herself online
  • Relics of 39 saints found by British Museum



March 28

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  • Manitoba residents receive evacuation flood alerts
  • Courts uphold firing of Pennsylvania cop who lost sense of smell
  • Dam in Indonesia bursts, dozens killed
  • 'Freedom Tower' renamed '1 World Trade Center'
  • 14 killed in Russian bus-truck collision
  • Dozens of cats removed from feces-ridden New Jersey house
  • Wind-powered land vehicle breaks speed record
  • Somali pirates seize two European tankers, Seychelles yacht



March 29

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  • Robber holds retired NYC police officer at gunpoint during convention
  • Helicopter crash in Turkey kills six
  • Space Shuttle Discovery lands in Florida
  • Radioactive part mistakenly sold, melted with scrap metal in China
  • Canadian neighbourhood protected from bully for three years
  • 'Recession gardens' replace victory gardens
  • Spanish court considering torture criminal case against former U.S. officials
  • New Jersey officials: Stimulus bill hurting Atlantic City casinos
  • Volcano near Anchorage, Alaska erupts, airport closed
  • Stadium disaster claims lives at football World Cup qualifier match in Ivory Coast
  • Utah legalizes homebrewing



March 30

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  • Eight people dead after shooting in North Carolina nursing home
  • Chinese spy network infiltrated foreign affairs, embassies
  • Fugitive arrested in connection with January murder in Pennsylvania
  • Varun Gandhi charged for inciting community tensions
  • 'Killing Fields' trial for S-21 chief Duch underway in Cambodia
  • Eurovision '04 winner Ruslana discusses her paths as singer, spokesmodel, stateswoman and source of inspiration
  • 4.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the San Francisco region
  • US sergeant pleads guilty to four murders in Iraq
  • Highly contagious Hand, foot and mouth disease killing China's children



March 31

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  • Volunteers and food needed for flooded Manitoba, Canada
  • New romantic comedy film to star Drew Barrymore, Justin Long
  • 77 names added to fallen journalist memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • South Downs to get National Park status in UK
  • Forces capture Somali pirates who mistakenly attacked naval ship
  • U.S. Congress considers lifting Cuba travel ban
  • US home prices drop at record levels
  • Fireball lights up sky across Canadian prairies
  • Shipwreck off coast of Libya; hundreds of African migrants feared dead
  • Jenson Button wins 2009 Australian Grand Prix, Brawn teammate comes second
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