Tagagamit:Bluemask/In the news/2009-08
- 100x100px|Usain Bolt
- August 17: The bombing of a police headquarters in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia kills 20 and injures 138.
- 100x100px|Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station
- 100x100px|Usain Bolt
- August 16: At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Usain Bolt (pictured) of Jamaica sets new world records of 9.58 seconds for the 100 m sprint and 19.19 seconds for the 200 m sprint.
- August 16: In badminton, Lu Lan wins the women's singles and Lin Dan wins the men's singles at the 2009 BWF World Championships in Hyderabad, India.
- August 16: Y. E. Yang wins the 2009 PGA Championship, becoming the first Asian-born golfer to win a men's major golf championship.
- 100x100px|Kim Dae-jung
- 100x100px|Usain Bolt
- August 16: President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez meet in Montevideo, Uruguay, to sign an accord worth $500 million.
- August 15: A suicide bomber attacks the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 7 and wounding 91.
- August 14: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani inaugurates Pakistan's first international container train from Islamabad to Istanbul. (Wikinews)
- August 14: Romania's deadliest road accident since 1994, a bus and train collision, kills at least 13 people in Scânteia, Iaşi County.
- August 14: The British government suspends the self-governance of the Turks and Caicos Islands for up to two years.
- August 13: Electric guitar innovator Les Paul dies at the age of 94.
- August 13: The discovery of exoplanet WASP-17b, the first planet known to have a retrograde orbit, is announced.
- 100x100px|Yousaf Raza Gillani
- August 12: Rafael Correa is sworn in for a second term as President of Ecuador.
- 100x100px|Les Paul
- August 12: After 15 years in hiding, Grégoire Ndahimana is arrested in North Kivu for the alleged murder of 6,000 Tutsi civilians during the Rwandan Genocide.
- August 12: A mine fire and explosion in Handlová, Trenčín Region, kills 20 people in Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster.
- August 8: A suicide bombing in Nouakchott, Mauritania, becomes the country's first and leads to a French government investigation.
- 100x100px|Rafael Correa
- August 8: Typhoon Morakot kills at least 94 people and leaves more than 10,000 missing in the Philippines, Taiwan and China.
- August 7: At least 14 people are killed in a series of shootouts between drug cartel suspects and police in the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Hidalgo.
- August 6: Thirteen years after the countries ceased diplomatic relations, President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda meet in Goma.
- August 6: The first successful captive breeding of the critically endangered Slender-billed Vulture is announced in India.
- 100x100px|Typhoon Morakot, taken over Taiwan on August 7, 2009
- August 6: Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, making her the first Hispanic American named to the position.
- August 5: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as President of Iran for a second term amid protests.
- August 5: The MV Princess Ashika, an inter-island ferry operating in Tonga, sinks, leaving at least 26 people missing.
- August 5: North Korea pardons two imprisoned American journalists during a visit by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 100x100px|The Slender-billed Vulture, Gyps tenuirostris
- August 4: Three people are killed in a pneumonic plague outbreak in Ziketan Town, Qinghai, China.
- August 3: More than 180 people are killed and 30 others injured in nomadic conflicts in Sudan.
- 100x100px|Sonia Sotomayor
- August 3: Bolivia becomes the first country in South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
- August 2: A new strain of the human immunodeficiency virus is discovered in a woman from Cameroon.
- 100x100px|Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- August 2: Eight Christians are killed in religious unrest in Punjab, Pakistan, triggered by an alleged desecration of a Qur'an.
- August 1: At least two people are killed and 15 others injured in a shooting attack at the Gay and Lesbian Association building in Tel Aviv, Israel.
