February 13, 2009 (Friday)
- The United States Congress approves the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. (BBC)
- Zimbabwe's Republic Police charge Roy Bennett of the Movement for Democratic Change with treason. (BBC)
- The Peanut Corporation of America files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidation. (Reuters via Forbes)
- Germany's economy shrank by 2.1 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- A suicide bomber kills 40 people and injures 60 others in Karbala, Iraq. (AP via Fox News)
- China's government urges Yves Saint Laurent's estate to return two Qing Dynasty sculptures scheduled for auction in Paris. (Bloomberg)
- Australia's Senate approves a $42-billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
- Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip discover grenades made by Hamas from humanitarian supplies. (Jerusalem Post)
- Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the United States' 454 Life Sciences map the Neanderthal genome. (AP via Google News)
- Lloyds Banking Group warns that HBOS will register a loss of £8.5 billion for 2008. (Sky News)
- Unix time equalled "1234567890" at 23:31:30 UTC. (The Times)
- British Airways CityFlyer Flight 8456 crash-lands at London's City Airport. (RTÉ)
- A passenger train derails in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others. (Thaindian News)
- The Air Accident Investigation Unit finds that Virgin Atlantic Airways' Airbus A340s contain faulty electrical wiring. (AAIU)
- Six crew members are missing after China's MV Changhai 178 capsizes in the South China Sea. (Xinhua)
- At least 40 FDLR members are killed in airstrikes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC)