Portal:Current events/2009 September 13
September 13, 2009 (Sunday)
- Russia announces that it will assist Venezuela in the building of a nuclear energy program.[1]
- At least 19 people die and 80 are missing after a ferry sinks in the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP via Google News)
- Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark to win the 2009 US Open Women's Singles. (New York Times)
- Cork beat Kilkenny in the final of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009. (RTÉ)
- Police arrest more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in Uganda's capital Kampala, as the death toll rises to 14. (IOL)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis. (BBC)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears with her main rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in a TV debate, two weeks ahead of an election. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (The Guardian) (Bangkok Post) (Miami Herald)
- Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal undergoes successful spine surgery in the United States. (Reuters)
- 38 people are killed in a fire at a drug abuse clinic in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. (Kazakhstan News) (AFP) (RIA Novosti) (IOL)
- Hundreds of people protest in Hong Kong over alleged beatings of its journalists in mainland China covering unrest in Xinjiang. (RTHK) (BBC) (Straits Times)
- At least 6 people die in a fall down an elevator shaft of a skyscraper under construction in Hong Kong. (BBC) (IOL) (The New Zealand Herald)
- 4 people die and 3 are injured when a mud house collapses in floods at Lazaret, a poor district of the Nigerien capital Niamey. (IOL)
- Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. (BBC)
- Teeth and bones from a range of animals, including hyenas, deer and rhinos, are discovered by archaeologists inside a cave in Devon, England. (BBC)