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)^{[permanent dead link‍]} (Miami Herald)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
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)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
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)