Wiktionary:Words in the News/2009

Words in the News - Archive - 2009


 * praying - Mar 25 - Pilots in 16-death crash jailed for praying instead of flying
 * soar - Mar 23 - US stock markets soar after bailout plan
 * airport - Mar 21 - UK's BAA forced to sell three airports
 * actress - Mar 19 - British actress Natasha Richardson dies at age 45
 * brain dead - Mar 17 - British actress Natasha Richardson reportedly brain dead after skiing accident
 * carbon-neutral - Mar 16 - Maldives to become the world's first carbon-neutral country
 * coastline - Mar 15 - Oil spill hits Australia's Sunshine coastline
 * enemy combatant - Mar 13 - Obama administration drops use of term "enemy combatant"
 * fraud - Mar 12 - Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to $50 billion fraud scheme
 * gunman - Mar 11 - Teenage gunman kills 15 in south-west Germany
 * cholera - Mar 9 - Number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe surpasses 4,000
 * altimeter - Mar 5 Schiphol airliner crash blamed on altimeter failure, pilot error
 * arrest warrant - Mar 4 - International Criminal Court in The Hague issues arrest warrant for leader of Sudan
 * cricket - Mar 3 - Seven killed in gun attack on Sri Lankan cricket team
 * assassinated - Mar 2 - President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated
 * deadline - Mar 1 - Obama sets deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq
 * mutiny - Feb 28 - Bangladesh mutiny leaves scores of officers dead
 * deficit - Feb 27 - Obama budget calls for record US deficit
 * comet - Feb 23 - New comet to be visible to naked eye for several days
 * coal mine - Feb 22 - At least 73 dead after blast in Chinese coal mine
 * spaceplane - Feb 21 - UK firm gets ESA funding to ground test new jet engine for spaceplane
 * West Bank - Feb 20 - Israel seizes West Bank land
 * ditch - Feb 18 - Helicopter ditches in the North Sea; all 18 on board rescued
 * chimpanzee - Feb 17 - Large chimpanzee shot and killed by police in US after it attacks woman, officers
 * autopilot - Feb 16 - Airplane that crashed near Buffalo, New York 'was on autopilot'
 * fingernails - Feb 15 - Woman with world's longest fingernails loses them in car crash
 * collide - Feb 13 - Russian and US satellites collide
 * stimulus - Feb 11 - US Senate passes stimulus package
 * bushfire - Feb 7 - 14 killed by bushfires in Australia
 * malaria - Feb 5 - Bill Gates releases mosquitoes during conference for malaria awareness
 * golliwog - Feb 4 - UK television presenter sacked after "golliwog" comment
 * buyout - Feb 3 - GM, Chrysler offer buyouts and early retirement to workers
 * bailout - Feb 2 - €8bn bank bailout in Ireland
 * airstrike - Feb 1 - Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza Strip
 * alliteration: - Jan 30 - Post-probe, problematic peanut paste products pulled
 * openly - Jan 28 - First openly gay prime minister to be appointed in Iceland
 * administration - Jan 27 - Two British footwear chains enter administration
 * tainted - Jan 26 - Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
 * bribery - Jan 25 - British newspaper makes House of Lords bribery claims
 * 44th - Jan 20 - Obama succeeds Bush as 44th president of the United States
 * plummet - Jan 19 - Royal Bank of Scotland shares plummet
 * ceasefire - Jan 18 - Israel announces ceasefire in Gaza Strip; rocket fire into Israel continues
 * beast - Jan 17 - Cadillac unveils Obama's 'Beast'
 * white phosphorus - Jan 15 - Main UN compound in Gaza shelled with 'white phosphorus'
 * peanut butter - Jan 11 - US salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, brand recalls product
 * earthquake - Jan 10 - Strongest earthquake in 150 years hits Costa Rica
 * comic - Jan 9 - Spider-Man to save Obama's Inauguration Day in upcoming Marvel comic
 * incarnation - Jan 8 - Matt Smith revealed as 11th incarnation of Doctor Who
 * cold - Jan 7 - Ice, snow, and cold strike throughout Europe
 * condemn - Jan 6 - Australian Jews condemn Israeli ground attack on Gaza
 * humanitarian - Jan 5 - UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Gaza
 * Gaza Strip - Jan 3 - Israel begins ground assault on Gaza Strip
 * survivability - Jan 2 - NASA issues survivability report on Columbia crash
 * mathematician - Jan 1 - Mathematician Martin Taylor awarded knighthood