Current events of 15 March 2009 (2009-03-15) (Sunday) edit history watch

Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (CNN) More than 500 Zenit St. Petersburg fans are arrested in Moscow after a riot during a Russian Premier League match with Spartak Moscow. (AFP via ABC News Australia) Bombs kill 12 people in Nangarhar Province, Kabul, and Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Voice of America) A bomb kills four people and injures three others in Shibam, Yemen. (CNN) Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front wins El Salvador's presidential election. (VoA) (AP via Google News) (Xinhua) Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is placed under house arrest to prevent the Pakistani Muslim League's proposed demonstration in Islamabad on March 16. (BBC) An Iraqi footballer is shot and killed during a game in Al Hillah. (BBC) Two hundred protestors are arrested after a riot against police brutality in Montreal, Canada. (CTV)