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FEBRUARY 9 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2008
A stampede at an Indonesian punk rock concert left 10 people dead and dozens more injured, most of them teenagers.
2008
In Haiti a man blamed for kidnappings in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville was pummeled with rocks and killed by neighbors in the seaside Cite Soleil slum. The next day UN and Haitian police rescued a suspected kidnapper (27) from a mob in downtown Port-au-Prince.
2008
Iraqi police killed Abu Omar al-Dori, a local al-Qaida in Iraq leader, in his home in Samarra. 12 decomposed bodies were discovered in a mass grave near Baqouba. Iraqi police arrested 31 Shiite activists in early morning raids south of Baghdad.
2008
An 8-year-old boy lost his leg in a rocket attack on Sderot, one of the 11 rockets fired at southern Israel. Four Israeli airstrikes after the attack killed a Gaza gunman and targeted weapons-making operations of the Islamic militant Hamas group.
2008
In Japan the world's leading economies pledged to work together to secure stability in volatile markets but brushed off the idea of a single uniform remedy for the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations.
2008
Raila Odinga, Kenya's opposition leader, demanded that Pres. Kibaki resign, a sharp turnaround from his conciliatory tone during talks with the government earlier this week.
2008
In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber struck at an election rally in Peshawar, killing 27 people and wounding more than 25.
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