Portal:Current events/2009 February 1

The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XLIII defeating the [[Arizona Cardinals]. (AAP via WA Today)
The wreck of the British warship HMS Victory is allegedly found in the English Channel. (The Melbourne Age)
Four people are killed in a café shooting in Russia's Dagestan Republic. (Reuters via IHT)
Rafael Nadal of Spain defeats Roger Federer of Switzerland to win the 2009 Australian Open men's singles. (AP via Google News)
Japan Airlines conducts the first successful test flight of a Boeing 747-300 partly powered by biofuel. (Sky News Australia)
Palestinian militants in Gaza fire four rockets and sixteen mortar shells into sourthern Israel. Israel retialiates with airstrikes. (Haaretz)
The United States contributes an additional US$20 million in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. (Jerusalem Post)
The Japan Meteorological Agency warns that Honshū Island's Mount Asama could erupt within the next two days. (Reuters)
Kirill I is officially enthroned as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. (BBC)
The Sri Lankan Army bombs a hospital in Puthukkudiyiruppu twice, killing at least six Tamil civilians and wounding countless more patients. (AP)

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