Current events of 8 February 2009 (2009-02-08) (Sunday) edit history watch

51st Grammy Awards: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win Record of the Year for "Please Read the Letter" and Coldplay wins Song of the Year for "Viva la Vida." (Billboard) Venezuela arrests 11 people over an attack last week on a Caracas synagogue. (Haaretz) A roadside bomb kills at least two people and injures 11 near Karbala, Iraq. (CNN) Palestinian militants fire two rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. (Haaretz) Switzerland votes on a referendum to make permanent freedom of movement for workers from the European Union. (BBC) Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have killed at least 108 people and destroyed at least 750 homes. (The Times) Twenty-four people are confirmed dead in the crash of an Embraer 110P1 air taxi in Amazonas, Brazil. (Bangkok Post) Romanian handball player Marian Cozma is killed and two others are injured after a knife attack in Veszprém, Hungary. (EHF) United States Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner delays announcing a bailout of the banking industry until Tuesday. (MSNBC)