Portal:Current events/2009 April 24
April 24, 2009 (Friday)
- Swine influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
- A suicide attack kills at least 60 people and injures 125 more in Baghdad, Iraq. (Reuters)
- Two American Current TV journalists will be tried on criminal charges in North Korea. (Sky News)
- Northern Mariana Islands Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Villagomez is convicted of fraud, wire fraud, and bribery. (Saipan Tribune)
- Democrat Scott Murphy wins New York's 20th congressional district special election. (New York Times)
- American Southern Bank in Kennesaw, Georgia, is closed. (MarketWatch)
- The bovine genome is sequenced. (Science)