Portal:Current events/2009 August 2
- One person is killed and 75 injured after an outdoor stage collapses at the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival in Alberta, Canada. (CBC) (CNN)
- One person dies of pneumonic plague and eleven of his relatives are quarantined in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. (People's Daily Online)
- Three workers from the Russian Emergency Ministry are killed in Ingushetia. (Kyiv Post) (RIA Novosti)
- Nine families who have been living in East Jerusalem since 1956 are evicted by force. (Previous reports of 'two families' are wrong.) (Al Jazeera) (AFP) (BBC)
- Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760, a Twin Otter plane with 16 on board, disappears over Papua, Indonesia. (Japan Today) (Bernama) (AFP)
- Two newly discovered works by Mozart—a prelude and concerto movement—are performed in Salzburg, Austria. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Reuters)
- A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS is discovered in a woman from Cameroon. (MSNBC)
- Chinese police detain a further 319 people over unrest in the Xinjiang region last month. (Xinhua) (Press TV) (Reuters India)
- Hundreds of firefighters on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands are continuing to battle wildfires. (The Times) (The Telegraph)
- At least 33 people die and several are injured as a bus flips over thrice in Zimbabwe. (BBC)
- Around 2700 people are evacuated as 530 forest fires burn in British Columbia, Canada. (The Age) (AFP)
- A large oil spill occurs in Langesund, Norway, after a Chinese ship, the Full City, drifted aground. (Stockholm News) (The Local)
- Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami criticizes the "show trial" of election protestors currently underway in the country. (Press TV) (The Independent)
- The death toll from sectarian clashes in northern Nigeria rises to 700. (This Day) (CNN)
- The BBC obtains a photograph showing Yusuf Mohamed, leader of the Boko Haram sect, was alive when captured by the Nigerian army. (BBC)
- The remains of Michael Scott Speicher, the first United States Gulf War casualty, are located in the Al Anbar Governorate desert. (The Irish Times)