September 8, 2009 (Tuesday)
- A shipwreck in Sierra Leone leaves "scores" dead. (The New York Times) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Police in Milwaukee, United States, arrest a man in suspicion of being the notorious North Side Strangler, believed to have killed at least seven women between 1986 and 2007. (MSNBC)
- A colossal statue of Apollo is discovered at a UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hierapolis, Turkey. (Discovery Channel)
- Two Norwegians, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, on trial for alleged murder and espionage, are found guilty on both counts and sentenced to death by a Congolese military tribunal. (Norway Post)
- Mobile network operators T-Mobile and Orange agree to merge their British businesses. (BBC)
- A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northern Georgia. (BBC) (USGS) (The Georgian Times)
- 35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in a coal mine in Pingdingshan, China. (BBC) (China Daily) (Al Jazeera)
- Kenya replaces almost all of its senior police officers after they were blamed for deaths during post-election violence in 2007 and 2008. (Daily Nation) (BBC)
- Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein is freed from one day in jail after being prosecuted for wearing trousers – the fine was paid by the Journalist Union. (Associated Press) (Al Jazeera)
- A storm, with rain, hail and winds of over 60 mph kills at least 14 people in northern Argentina and southern Brazil. (BBC)