Portal:Current events/2009 October 13
October 13, 2009 (Tuesday)
- The planned 200 million US$ rebuilding and expansion of Stockholm's central library, built by architect Gunnar Asplund, is cancelled. (SR)
- Members of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize jury speak out in defense of selecting U.S. President Barack Obama for the award. (AP via Google News)
- Czech President Václav Klaus tells his supporters he will never sign the Treaty of Lisbon. (The Times)
- Séamus Kirk is elected the 16th Ceann Comhairle of Ireland following the resignation of John O'Donoghue. (RTÉ)
- An autopsy on the body of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately finds he died of natural causes. (The Irish Times) (CNN) (CBC) (The Times of India) (Sofia Echo)
- New Zealand police say an autopsy on two-year-old Aisling Symes reveals she drowned. She had initially been thought abducted but lay in a drain for one week as police searched. (news.com.au) (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A previously unrecognized painting, La Bella Principessa, is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on fingerprint evidence. (BBC)
- The Philippines deploys soldiers and gunboats to surround the strongholds of suspected militants and pressure them to release an abducted Irish priest. (CBC)
- The Romanian government loses a motion of no confidence, the first government to fall in 20 years since the fall of communism in the country. (HotNews) (AFP)
- A Russian court rejects a libel suit by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Joseph Stalin, who claimed the Novaya Gazeta newspaper lied about Stalin personally signing death warrants. (RIA Novosti) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Spanish authorities arrest five members of the banned Basque political group Batasuna. (BBC) (Press TV)
- North and South Korea agree to hold talks on flood control and family reunions, after North Korea fired several short range missiles earlier this week. (Joongang Daily) (Yonhap) (BBC)
- Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree to stop deporting each other's citizens in a dispute between the two countries. (The New York Times) (BBC)
- More than 260 Sri Lankan asylum seekers threaten to blow up their boat if Indonesian authorities force them to disembark. (The Australian)
- South African police use tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against poor living conditions in several towns. (Al Jazeera) (Associated Press)
- The United States Senate Finance Committee approves a bill for major healthcare reform. (BBC News)
- An investigation begins into the deaths of two Irish Army Air Corps pilots in a plane crash in County Galway on Monday. (BBC) (RTÉ) (RIA Novosti) (Sky News)