Current events of 8 August 2009 (2009-08-08) (Saturday) edit history watch

One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspects, Noordin Mohammed Top, is allegedly killed after a 16 hour siege at a house in Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Post) (BBC) (Al Jazeera) The second hearing in the trial of Iranian election protesters resumes. (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua) (Press TV) Local government elections take place in northern Sri Lanka, the first elections since the end of the civil war. (Daily News) (Reuters) (Press TV) A small plane and a tour helicopter collide over the Hudson River in the United States. (CNN) A suicide bomber detonates a bomb outside the French embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, wounding two. The attack is the first suicide bombing in Mauritania's history.(France 24)(RFI)