Current events of August 19, 2009 (2009-08-19) (Wednesday) edit history watch

Seven car bombs are detonated in Baghdad, killing at least 95, and wounding nearly 600. (The Times) Sierra Leone's annual rains kill 15 people and displace hundreds of others. (IOL) The United States and Switzerland sign an agreement designed to end a tax evasion dispute surrounding UBS U.S. customers. (BBC) Spanish police capture two suspected members, Aitzol Etxaburu and Andoni Sarasola, of the Basque-region separatist group ETA. (CNN) John Marek becomes the 68th death row inmate in the state of Florida, United States to be executed by lethal injection since the death sentence was re-instated in 1979.(Miami Herald)