Portal:Current events/2007 September 9

• 2007 MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna wins Video of the Yeat for Umbrella while Justin Timberlake won four awards. (Reuters)
• South African police arrest Helen Zille, the leader of the Democratic Party and Mayor of Cape Town, while she was taking part in an anti-drug protest at the Cape Flats slum area. (AP)
• An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hits near the north coast of Colombia. (Reuters Alertnet)
• Israeli police arrest eight men originally from the former Soviet Union accused of forming a neo-Nazi cell. (Scotsman)
• 2007 U.S. Open: Roger Federer of Switzerland defeats Novak Đoković in the final of the men's singles in straight sets 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4. (Bloomberg)
• Five thousand Algerians protest in Algiers after two recent suicide bomb attacks. (Reuters)
• Voters in Guatemala go to the polls in the Guatemalan general election, 2007. (AFP)
• Jamaican Asafa Powell set a new men's world 100 meters record of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix at Rieti, Italy. (AP)
• At least 15 dead and many injured when a flyover under construction at Panjagutta junction, Hyderabad, India collapsed. (AndhraNews.net) Wikinews
• The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is forced to cut short a speech in Kabul after gunfire is heard outside. (Reuters)
• A landslide in West Bengal, India kills seven people; over 500 houses buried or damaged. (AndhraNews.net)
• Pakistan
  • Pakistan's airports are placed on the highest alert due to concerns over an imminent terrorist threat. (BBC)
  • Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif boards a Pakistan International Airlines flight from London to Islamabad with his return likely to provoke a confrontation with the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. (ABC News Australia)
  • Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N) claims that 2,000 of its members have been arrested prior to his return. (BBC)
• Tropical Storm Gabrielle makes landfall near the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, United States. (CNN)
• APEC Australia 2007:
  • The APEC summit draws to a close with most leaders preparing to leave and the President of the United States George W. Bush having left. (ABC News Australia)
  • The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard meets with the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe to discuss security and climate change. (Times of India)

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