Current events of 16 April 2009 (2009-04-16) (Thursday) edit history watch

Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local) China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua) The Naxalite movement kills 17 people as India's general election begins. (Times Online) A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills at least 16 people. (BBC) Bolivian police kill three people - Hungarian Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Irishman Michael Dwyer, and Romanian Magyarosi Arpak - and arrest two others over an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera. (RTÉ) (BBC)