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Current topics
- Japan defeats Korea 5–3 in 10 innings to win the 2009 World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, U.S.
- A FedEx Express cargo aircraft (similar aircraft pictured) crash-lands at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing two people in the first fatal accident at the Japanese airport.
- A Pilatus PC-12 crashes into a cemetery in the U.S. state of Montana, killing at least 14 people.
- Ireland win their first Six Nations Grand Slam in rugby union since 1948.
- A 7.6 Mw earthquake occurs off the coast of Tongatapu, Tonga, shortly after a large scale undersea volcanic eruption begins in the region.