Portal:Current events/2009 April 2
April 2, 2009 (Thursday)
- Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace will cut 3,000 jobs. (AP via Washington Post)
- United States Federal Judge John D. Bates rules that enemy combatants incarcerated at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, have rights to legal trials. (BBC)
- The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC)
- Reinsurer Swiss Re will cut 1,000 jobs. (Sky News)
- Lewis Hamilton of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is disqualified from the 2009 Australian Grand Prix for 'deliberately misleading' the International Automobile Federation. (BBC) (Bloomberg)
- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
- Mexico's Federal Investigations Agency arrests alleged drug trafficker Vicente Carrillo Leyva in Mexico City. (BBC)
- The South African National Congress condemns the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu's criticism of the party. (BBC)
- Bangladesh's government outlaws begging in order to eliminate it by 2014. (BBC)