Portal:Current events/2009 February 26
February 26, 2009 (Thursday)
- United States President Barack Obama will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (CNN)
- The Bangladesh Rifles surrender after the government promises amnesty. (BBC)
- Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah begin peace deliberations in Cairo, Egypt. (New York Times)
- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia acquits former Serbian President Milan Milutinović of committing war crimes. (New York Times)
- General Motors reports a US$9.6 billion loss, due to the current automotive industry crisis. (New York Times)
- Switzerland's UBS AG appoints former Credit Suisse CEO Oswald Grübel as its new Group CEO. (BBC)
- China's Navy and Denmark's Navy rescue Italian and Chinese merchant vessels from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)
- The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, catches fire, five months after it was bombed. (BBC)
- Latvian President Valdis Zatlers names former Finance Minister Valdis Dombrovskis as the new Prime Minister. (BBC)
- Ajmal Kasab, the 2008 Mumbai attacks' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging war against India. (Sky News)
- The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of £24.1 billion. (BBC)
- Thirteen thousand civil servants stage a one-day strike action in Ireland. (RTÉ)
- Former Guinean President Lansana Conté's eldest son confesses to drug trafficking. (BBC)
- An outbreak of dengue fever in Bolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000. (BBC)
- The University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the English language. (BBC)
- A study by the scientific journal Nature shows that HIV is evolving to resist the human immune system. (BBC)
- The earliest footprints evidencing modern human foot anatomy and gait are discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya. (BBC)
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000 food crop seed samples. (BBC)
- The United States Defense Department allows news agencies to publicize photographs of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (BBC)
- The Rocky Mountain News, one of Colorado's largest newspapers, publishes its last issue. This issue hits the streets the following morning.[www.9news.com]