April 9, 2018 (2018-04-09) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
- List of shipwrecks in 2018
- A school bus plunges into a gorge in the foothills of the Himalayas, in Himachal Pradesh, India, killing three adults and at least 27 children. (CBS News)
- A wall collapses onto playing children in Doornfontein, South Africa, killing three. (Times Live)
- A school charter bus traveling illegally on a parkway on Long Island, New York, collides with a bridge. Dozens of students are injured. (ABC News)
- The Norfolk Southern Railway sues two staff members involved in a train collision last month in Georgetown, Kentucky, that derailed 13 cars and injured four. (Cincinnati)
- A double decker tourist bus collides with low-lying tree branches in Żurrieq, Malta, killing two adults with six others being critically injured. (The Times of Malta)
- A Piper PA-24 Comanche crashes after takeoff in Scottsdale, Arizona, killing all six people aboard. (USA Today)
- Investigators say Trump Tower, where a man died in a fire yesterday, had no working smoke alarms. (CNN)
- A Gol Transportes Aereos Boeing 737-800 passenger jet takes off over the top of an Air Force Embraer C-95 Bandeirante that was blocking the runway at Brasilia International Airport. (The Aviation Herald)
Health and environment
International relations
Law and crime
- Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations
- Terrorism in Finland
- Abderrahman Bouanane goes on trial in a courtroom set up within a prison in Turku, Finland, accused of two murders and eight attempted murders in an alleged terror attack. The charges, the first terrorism crimes ever charged in Finland, relate to a stabbing in Turku's main market square. Bouanane is charged with two counts of terror-related murder and eight counts of attempted murder with a terror-related motive. (ABC)
- Terrorism in the United States, Orlando nightclub shooting
- Terrorism in France
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- Extremist Muslim preacher Kiki Muhammad Iqbal is sentenced to nine years for inciting terrorism for a sermon he gave last year at a mosque in Bandung. The sermon is alleged to have caused two suicide bombers to launch a May 2017 attack that killed three policemen in East Jakarta. (The Straits Times)
- Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
- Around 2,500 police armed with tear gas launch a raid in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, in a bid to force the removal of 250 activists who have occupied the site of the proposed Aéroport du Grand Ouest for ten years to prevent its construction. The proposed airport is abandoned but the activists refuse to leave their community. (The Guardian)
- A day after a woman and her family tried to burn themselves in protest alleging she was raped by a local official and her husband murdered whilst in custody, six policemen are arrested in Unnao, India. (The Quint)
- Berlin Half Marathon, terrorism in Germany
- Terrorism in the United Kingdom
Politics and elections
Science and technology
Sports