Portal:Current events/2009 February 14
February 14, 2009 (Saturday)
- An oil spill occurs in the Celtic Sea near County Cork, Ireland. (Department of Transport)
- Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow wins the Golden Bear at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. (ABC/Reuters)
- Two missiles fired from American drone aircraft kill at least 25 people in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (New York Times)
- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will not negotiate any long-term ceasefire in its conflict with Hamas unless prisoner-of-war Gilad Shalit is released. (Al Jazeera)
- Japan's National Astronomical Observatory completes the first topographic map of the Moon. (Daily Yomiuri)
- Somali pirates release the Japanese oil tanker Chemstar Venus and its 23 crew members. (Reuters)