Portal:Current events/2009 April 21
April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)
- Yahoo! will cut between 600 and 700 jobs. (AP via Forbes)
- Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)[permanent dead link]
- The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
- The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
- The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
- Twenty-four people are killed during combat between the Mungiki criminal organization and citizens of Karatina in Kenya. (BBC)
- The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)