Portal:Current events/2014 September 9
September 9, 2014 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
- The Dutch Safety Board issues a preliminary report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which crashed on 17 July. It finds that the aircraft was probably hit by multiple "high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside” indicating a missile. (BBC), (The Australian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2014 India–Pakistan floods
- The death toll from the floods rises to at least 205 in Pakistan and 200 in India. (AP via ABC News America)
- At least nine people are killed as a roof collapses in a mosque in the low income neighbourhood of Daroghawala in the Pakistani city of Lahore. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- A massive explosion occurs at a chemical plant in the German town of Ritterhude near Bremen. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Health
- 2014 Taiwan food scandal
- Products from at least 900 food makers are being recalled after authorities say a factory illegally used 243 tonnes of recycled waste oil disguised as lard, some of which may have been exported overseas. (Taipei Times) (Bloomberg)
Sports
- Former Formula One driver Michael Schumacher leaves hospital in Switzerland to go home after a skiing accident last December. (AP)