Portal:Current events/2009 March 7
March 7, 2009 (Saturday)
- Morocco terminates diplomatic relations with Iran. (AP via Google News)
- The United Kingdom's government increases its ownership stake in Lloyds Banking Group from 43% to at least 60%. (BBC)
- NASA launches its Kepler spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (CNN)
- Power Rangers RPM on ABC Kids
- A car bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least eight people. (BBC)
- Malaysia's Royal Police quell demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur against the use of the English language in schools. (BBC)
- More than 1,000 people participate in a pro-Tibet protest in London. (AFP)
- Anti-Israel protestors and Sweden's Police Service clash in Malmö, where the two countries were playing a Davis Cup tennis match. (AP)
- Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigns. (Telegraph)
- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai flies to Botswana for medical treatment following a car accident in Harare in which his wife was killed. (BBC)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai accepts the Electoral Commission's decision to hold a presidential election on August 20. (Al Jazeera)
- Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport holds a memorial ceremony for the nine victims of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951. (Radio Netherlands)[permanent dead link]