March 27, 2009 (Friday)
- Serial Shooter Dale Hausner receives six death sentences for six murders committed between 2005 and 2006. (AP via KSWO)[permanent dead link]
- All six people in a recent helicopter accident are discovered dead in Turkey. (AP via Fox News)
- A flash flood and the Situ Gintung dam's failure kill at least 58 people in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. (BBC)
- A suicide attack kills at least 50 people and injures 100 others in Jamrud, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- A radioactive lead ball containing caesium-137 is missing from a deconstructed factory in Tongchaun, Shaanxi, China. (RTÉ)
- Russia will establish a military force to protect its territorial claims in the Arctic. (BBC)
- The Lancet accuses Pope Benedict XVI of "distorting...science" in his argument against the use of condoms. (BBC)
- The United Kingdom's economy contracted by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. (Sky News)
- Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna is imprisoned for life for murdering Corse-du-Sud Prefect Claude Érignac in 1998. (France 24)