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Portal:Current events/2009 April 21

April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)

Yahoo! will cut between 600 and 700 jobs. (AP via Forbes)
Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
Twenty-four people are killed during combat between the Mungiki criminal organization and citizens of Karatina in Kenya. (BBC)
The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)

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