March 6, 2009 (Friday)
- The European Union will transfer to Kenya suspected Somali pirates captured during Operation Atalanta. (AFP via Google News)
- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is injured and his wife, Susan, killed in a car accident south of Harare. (BBC)
- A protestor from Plane Stupid throws custard at United Kingdom Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Peter Mandelson during a low-carbon summit in London. (BBC)
- Swedish writer Lotta Lotass succeeds the late Sten Rudholm at Seat 1 of the Swedish Academy. (Swedish Academy)
- A Swedish pediatrician at Karolinska University Hospital is remanded on suspicion of manslaughter for injecting a lethal overdose of morphine and sodium thiopental into an infant. (TT via The Local)
- North Korea threatens the safety of South Korean civilian aircraft flying near its territory, on the eve of annual military exercises involving the United States and the South. (Sky News)
- Australia's Transport Safety Bureau finds that the autopilot of Qantas Flight 72, which made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport in October 2008, received inaccurate information, causing a rapid change in altitude. (WA Today)