March 3, 2009 (Tuesday)
- National People's Assembly Speaker Raimundo Pereira becomes Guinea-Bissau's interim President following the assassination of João Bernardo Vieira. (Reuters)
- The European Court of Human Rights rules that Turkey's government violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and fines it €105,000. (Reuters)
- The 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's National Committee begins its annual session with a focus on the global financial crisis. (Xinhua News)
- Former Yukos businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky again stands trial for alleged financial crimes. (Moscow Times)[permanent dead link]
- Seven Sri Lankan cricket players are wounded and six policemen killed in shootings near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. (Sky News) (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at the White House. (BBC)
- Three people are believed trapped after Cologne's municipal archives building collapses. (Spiegel)
- German frigate Rheinland-Pfalz foils a Somali pirate attack on a German container ship in the Gulf of Aden. (Deutsche Welle)[permanent dead link]