Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/September

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 * Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due to a refusal to reinstate elections by 2010 following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.
 * Felipe Cusanero is sentenced to 150 years in prison for his part in the disappearance of 6 Mayan farmers during the Guatemalan Civil War in the 1980s.
 * Iolu Abil is sworn in as President of Vanuatu following the Vanuatuan presidential election, 2009.
 * Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India, is killed in a helicopter crash.
 * Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of late President Omar Bongo, is elected President of Gabon.
 * At least 63 people are killed and more than 87,000 homes destroyed in Java in Indonesia's deadliest earthquake since 2006.
 * The journal Scientist published a study that found temperatures in the Arctic were higher over the last ten years than any other similar period in 2,000 years.
 * At least 18 people are shot dead at a drug treatment clinic in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
 * A tourist boat sinks in Lake Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, killing at least 15 people.
 * A NATO airstrike on two Taliban-controlled fuel tankers kills at least 56 people near Kunduz, Afghanistan.
 * At least nine people are killed and thirty are missing after SuperFerry 9 (pictured) capsizes near Zamboanga City in the Phillipines.
 * In the United Kingdom, three men are found guilty of plotting to detonate liquid explosives on board several transatlantic flights to Canada and the United States.
 * Traffic in Samoa now drives on the left side of the road: Samoa is the first country to make such a switch in nearly 40 years.
 * Two former Norwegian soldiers are sentenced to death for murder and espionage by a military tribunal in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 * In hurling (equipment pictured), Kilkenny beat Tipperary in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final to win their fourth consecutive championship.
 * At least 31 people are killed by flash floods during Turkey's heaviest rainfall for 80 years.
 * The Bosavi Woolly Rat, a new species of rat (pictured), is discovered at Mount Bosavi in Papua New Guinea.
 * The first JAXA H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV-1 is launched to the International Space Station from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
 * In football, Germany beat England 6–2 in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final, claiming their seventh European title.
 * Former President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian (pictured) receives life sentences for corruption.
 * UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the "inhumane" treatment of World War II code-breaker Alan Turing, who was sentenced to chemical castration.
 * Nigeria commences a 36 billion naira dredging of the Niger River.
 * Uruguay becomes the first Latin American country to legalise LGBT adoption.
 * The Israeli film Lebanon wins the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.
 * At least 38 people are killed during a fire at a drug abuse clinic in Taldykorgan, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan.
 * President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin (pictured) resigns.
 * Agronomist Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, dies the age of 95.
 * Cuban revolutionary and Vice President Juan Almeida Bosque dies of a heart attack at the age of 82.
 * In tennis, Juan Martín del Potro and Kim Clijsters win the singles titles at the 2009 US Open.
 * South Africa defeat New Zealand 32-29 to win the 2009 Tri Nations rugby union series.
 * Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the Red-Green Coalition win the Norwegian parliamentary election.
 * Noordin Mohammad Top, Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant, is killed in a police raid in Central Java.
 * Kenya begins clearing Kibera, the largest slum in Africa with 2 million residents.
 * The 15,762nd and final episode of Guiding Light, a 72-year long soap opera, airs on the American television network CBS.
 * At least thirteen miners are killed and thirty others hospitalised following a mine blast in Ruda Śląska, Poland.
 * Trafigura reaches an out of court settlement with 31,000 people affected by its 2006 dumping of toxic chemicals in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
 * In basketball, Spain defeats Serbia 85–63 to win EuroBasket 2009 at the Spodek arena, Katowice, Poland.
 * Renault F1 is given a two-year suspended race ban by the FIA, after accepting a charge of conspiring to cause a deliberate crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
 * The German ships Beluga Fraternity and Beluga Foresight become the first Western commercial vessels to navigate the Northern Sea Route.
 * The drama film Precious, directed by Lee Daniels, wins the People's Choice Award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
 * José Manuel Barroso is re-elected for a second term as President of the European Commission.
 * A Spanish surgeon is sentenced to one year in prison and disqualified from medical practise for three years for his role in the death of Nigeria's First Lady Stella Obasanjo in 2005.
 * Irina Bokova (pictured) is elected Director General of UNESCO, the first female and first Eastern European to fill the role.
 * A dust storm (pictured in Gold Coast, Queensland), described as "the worst in at least 70 years", sweeps across several Australian states, covering Brisbane and Sydney in red dust.
 * A 6.3 Mw earthquake strikes Bhutan and India, killing at least 11 people.
 * The discovery of the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure trove ever found (pictured), in Staffordshire, England, is announced.
 * Ertuğrul Osman, the last surviving pretender to the Ottoman throne, dies of renal failure aged 97.
 * The collapse of a chimney following a lightening strike in Korba in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh traps at least 100 construction workers and kills 25.
 * Three men are sentenced to death after admitting they murdered and mutilated a 14-year-old albino boy in Shinyanga Region, Tanzania.
 * Tropical Storm Ketsana causes record amounts of rainfall in Manila, Philippines, leading to the declaration of a "state of calamity" in 25 provinces.
 * The CDU/CSU led by Angela Merkel (pictured) wins a renewed plurality in elections to the Bundestag in Germany.
 * The Aruban People's Party wins a majority of seats in the general election of Aruba in the Caribbean Sea.
 * Award-winning pianist Alicia de Larrocha from Catalonia dies at age 86.
 * 157 people are killed as military troops open fire at a protest rally against the junta government in Conakry, Guinea.
 * An 8.3 magnitude earthquake on the Samoa Islands causes a tsunami and kills at least 50 people.