January 24, 2009 (Saturday)
- Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated in 1988 by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. (AP via Google News)
- A suicide car bomb targeting African Union peacekeepers kills 14 civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)
- A European windstorm across France and Spain kills 15 people with hurricane-force winds. (BBC)
- An avalanche in the Scottish Highlands kills three mountain climbers. (RTÉ)