Wikinews:2009/March
- 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
- Wikinews interviews the Socialist Alliance about the upcoming Queensland State election
- President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated
- Broadcaster Paul Harvey dies at age 90
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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