In a 2009 poll conducted by the newspaper Daily News and Analysis Kapoor was voted one of India's most popular icons ; with her partner Saif Ali Khan, she was listed amongst the top celebrity endorsers for brands and products worldwide.

Since 1997, he was serving with another younger half-brother Sheikh Hamdan as Deputy Prime Minister, until 2009 given the post to their young brother and half-brother Sheikh Saif and Sheikh Mansour.

He coaches the Kenyan-born Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen ( 3000m steeplechase world record holder ), 10, 000 meter runner Nicholas Kemboi ( 26: 30. 03 ), Dorcus Inzikuru ( 2005 World 3000m steeplechase Champion ), Moses Mosop ( 2005 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist and 2007 World Cross Country Championships silver medalist, and 25000m and 30000m world record holder in 1: 12: 47. 4 and 1: 26: 25. 4 ), Florence Kiplagat ( 2009 World Cross Country Champion and 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion ), Wilson Kiprop ( 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion and 10000m altitude world record holder in 27: 26. 93 ), Silas Kiplagat ( 2011 World Championships 1500m silver medalist ), Sylvia Kibet ( 2009 and 2011 World Championships 5000m silver ), Imane Merga ( 2011 World Cross Country Champion and 2011 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist ), and Abel Kirui ( 2009 and 2011 World Marathon Champion ).

Also in 2009, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi welcomed Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East division, into Libya, accompanying her in meeting with many government officials and others during her visit.

Meera lodged a complaint on 7 September 2009 at Punjab's Chief Minister's Complaint Cell that Faisal Saif was trying to defame her reputation by creating a fake marriage between her and an agent working for Saif.

On 15 October 2009, Meera presented audio tapes to the press, revealing conversations between her and Saif.

On 28 August 2009, The Herald published an interview conducted with Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, in which he stated that Megrahi's release was not tied to any oil deals but was an entirely separate issue.

Muammar Gaddafi at the 2009 African Union | AU summit in Addis Ababa.

In February 2009, Gaddafi was selected to be chairman of the African Union for one year.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Libyan National Security Adviser Mutassim Gaddafi in 2009

On 23 September 2009, Colonel Gaddafi addressed the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, his first visit to the United States.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on 24 September 2009, the day after his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Colonel Gaddafi said: " As a case, the Lockerbie question: I would say it's come to an end, legally, politically, financially, it is all over.

At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Muammar Gaddafi called Switzerland a " world mafia " and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.

In August 2009 Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz visited Tripoli and issued a public apology to Libya for the arrest of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife.

In 1975 Wilson secretly offered Libya's Muammar Gaddafi £ 14 million (£ 500 million in 2009 values ) to stop arming the IRA, but Gaddafi demanded a far greater sum of money.

In April 2011, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. cited a 2009 letter sent from CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, to Muammar Gaddafi asking Gaddafi for funding for a project called the Muslim Peace Foundation at a U. S. House of Representatives Appropriations sub-committee hearing with Robert Mueller.

In his speech to the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2009, Colonel Gaddafi called upon the Libyan president of UNGA, Ali Treki, to institute a UN investigation into the assassinations of Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, who was overthrown in 1960 and murdered the following year, and of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.

According to Giulio Andreotti ( the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy ) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham ( Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009 ), Craxi was the person who phoned Muammar al-Gaddafi to warn him of the impending Operation El Dorado Canyon air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986, permitting Gaddafi and his family to evacuate their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.

Gaddafi said the United States had " humiliated " his father during his visit to New York in 2009, and said that his father's tent and residence issues were disappointing and his UN speech had been misinterpreted.

Gaddafi held a standoff with US officials in November 2009, refusing to send a shipment of Highly Enriched Uranium back to Russia unless the United States renewed its commitment to cooperation with Libya.

Other controversies include the murder of Professor Ezio Tarantelli in 1985, the murder of Marta Russo in 1997, the " Law School scandal " in 2003, the " Parentopoli scandal " in 2010 and the award given to Muammar Gaddafi on June 10, 2009 ( Medaglia d ' Oro dell ' Università degli Studi di Roma " La Sapienza ").

Muammar Gaddafi, main theoretician behind the Third International Theory, here in 2009.

On 3 March 2009, the scheduled third day of second Test of 2008 – 09 Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan, the Sri Lankan team's convoy was attacked by armed militants at Liberty Roundabout, near Gaddafi stadium.

In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: " I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

Most recently, the boys ' cross country and track & field teams both claimed MHSAA State Championships during the 2009 – 10 school year.

* 2009: Volvo claimed the world's strongest truck with their FH16 700.

On June 2, 2009, Entertainment Weekly reported that Ryder had claimed that there will be a sequel to Heathers with Christian Slater coming back " as a kind of Obi-Wan character ".

The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.

In 2009, temperatures in the deep tunnels were recorded as reaching as high as 32 ° C, and this is combined with poor air quality, which a 2003 study claimed was 73 times worse than at street level, with twenty minutes on the Northern Line having " the same effect as smoking a cigarette ".

In Zinder, a 2009 local newspaper report claimed there were no more than " three to five " automobile taxis operating in a diffuse city which subsequently relies upon the only partially regulated motorcycle taxi sector.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Bremen-based Beluga Group claimed in 2009 to be the first Western company to attempt crossing the Northern Sea Route for shipping without assistance from icebreakers, cutting 4000 nautical miles off the journey between Ulsan, Korea and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

According to Neilsen in 2009 Victoria Bitter was claimed to be Australia's only billion dollar retail beer brand, selling the equivalent of one slab every second.

** Sahan Dosova, she claimed to be 130 before she died ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List claimed he was worth over £ 130 million.

Article 96 of the PRC Law on Food Safety adopted on February 28, 2009 raises the punitive damages to ten times the purchase price additional to the compensatory damages that the victim has already claimed from the producer or seller for food with poor quality not compliant to food safety standards.

In 2009, Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew, held that while MI5 kept a file on Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP – because communist civil servants claimed that he had similar political sympathies – there was no bugging of his home or office, and no conspiracy against him.

In 2009, the New York Times reported that, according to human rights groups, the repressions had claimed " at least 2, 000 " lives.

" On 15 February 2009 the INLA claimed responsibility for the shooting dead of Derry drug-dealer Jim McConnell.

By October 2009, the CIA claimed to have killed more than half of the 20 most wanted al-Qaeda terrorist suspects in targeted killings using drones.

On March 31, 2009 it was reported by various news outlets that a Conservative official claimed Mulroney was no longer a member of the party.

Alberta Africa, who initially acknowledged the murder, claimed in 2009 that Gilbride " is out hiding somewhere ".

On 16 May 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dalyell had claimed £ 18, 000 for three bookcases just months before his retirement from the House of Commons.

Berlusconi claimed in 2009 that work would be completed by 2016.

In November 2009, the Washington Times claimed that Omar, assisted by the ISI, had moved to Karachi in October.

In an interview in Time magazine, 10 August 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship.

On that basis KCBS has claimed to be the world's oldest broadcast station and celebrated its 100th anniversary in the summer of 2009.

As of 2009, 18 % of the city population claimed Czech ancestry.