Current events of 2 April 2009 (2009-04-02) (Thursday) edit history watch

Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace will cut 3,000 jobs. (AP via Washington Post) United States Federal Judge John D. Bates rules that enemy combatants incarcerated at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, have rights to legal trials. (BBC) The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC) Reinsurer Swiss Re will cut 1,000 jobs. (Sky News) Lewis Hamilton of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is disqualified from the 2009 Australian Grand Prix for 'deliberately misleading' the International Automobile Federation. (BBC) (Bloomberg) The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC) Mexico's Federal Investigations Agency arrests alleged drug trafficker Vicente Carrillo Leyva in Mexico City. (BBC) The South African National Congress condemns the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu's criticism of the party. (BBC) Bangladesh's government outlaws begging in order to eliminate it by 2014. (BBC)