Portal:Current events/2009 July 16

July 16, 2009 (Thursday)

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A Ugandan study finds circumcising men who already have HIV does not protect their female partners from the virus. (BBC)
A United Nations Security Council committee imposes further sanctions on North Korea. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Japan Today)
China's GDP grows 7.9% year by year in the second quarter of 2009, despite the global economic crisis. (Xinhua) (China Daily) (BBC)
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns for unknown reasons. (ISNA) (BBC) (Jerusalem Post) (Xinhua)
Former South Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-jung is in an intensive care unit in a Seoul hospital being treated for pneumonia. (Yonhap) (BBC)
President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan announces the latest stage of a plan to channel drainage water from the country's cotton fields through desert. (BBC)
Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of debate. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Independent) (The Telegraph)
The Holy See acknowledges Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti says he is willing to step down, only if Jose Manuel Zelaya ceases his claim to the presidency. (CNN) (AFP)
Omar Bongo's son, Ali-Ben Bongo, is chosen to stand as the ruling party's presidential candidate in Gabon. (BBC)
Chinese athletes withdraw from the opening ceremony of the World Games but say they will compete. (BBC)
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs off the coast of Papua New Guinea but causes little damage. (RTÉ)
The 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, United States is renamed the Willis Tower. (BBC)
The black boxes from crashed Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 in Iran are recovered. (Bernama) (Press TV) (Press Association)
Zac Sunderland, at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone. (BBC)
Madonna's concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP) (BBC) (Boston Globe) (CBC) (Japan Today) (MSNBC) (Pravda) (The Telegraph)