February 8, 2009 (Sunday)
- 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)