Current events of 8 March 2009 (2009-03-08) (Sunday) edit history watch

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav will be charged with rape and indecent assault. (Bloomberg) A gunman kills one person and injures two others at a Baptist church in Maryville, Illinois, United States. (CNN) A suicide attack kills at least 28 people and injures 57 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC) U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Operation Enduring Freedom's forces are "not winning" the war in Afghanistan. (BBC) Two members of the British Army's 38 Engineer Regiment are killed in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. (BBC) North Korea holds elections for its Supreme People's Assembly. (AP)