Portal:Current events/2009 March 15
March 15, 2009 (Sunday)
- Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (CNN)
- More than 500 Zenit St. Petersburg fans are arrested in Moscow after a riot during a Russian Premier League match with Spartak Moscow. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Bombs kill 12 people in Nangarhar Province, Kabul, and Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Voice of America)
- A bomb kills four people and injures three others in Shibam, Yemen. (CNN)
- Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front wins El Salvador's presidential election. (VoA)[permanent dead link] (AP via Google News) (Xinhua)
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is placed under house arrest to prevent the Pakistani Muslim League's proposed demonstration in Islamabad on March 16. (BBC)
- An Iraqi footballer is shot and killed during a game in Al Hillah. (BBC)
- Two hundred protestors are arrested after a riot against police brutality in Montreal, Canada. (CTV)