In July 2009, a group of residents calling themselves " University City citizens for Transparency and Accountability " said they would begin collecting the 2, 233 signatures necessary to have the State of Missouri audit the City's finances.

The Sustainable Endowments Institute awarded Michigan State with an overall grade of " B " on the 2009 Campus Sustainability Survey, including " A " s in the categories of Administration, Transportation, Endowment Transparency, and Investment Policies.

In March 2009, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified Diebold's GEMS version 1. 18. 19 after the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project discovered that GEMS had silently dropped 197 ballots from its tabulation of a single precinct in Eureka, California.

* Remittance Transparency: Strengthening Business, Building Community ( February 2009 )

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

* 1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009

* See International Year of Natural Fibres 2009

2009, Materials Park, OH: ASM International.

* The International Telecommunications Union showed Internet penetration ( Internet users per 100 population ) in 2009 at 27 % for Belarus, 42 % for Serbia, 37 % for Romania, 29 % for Russia, and 17 % for Ukraine.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

De Palma at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

The novel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and will be published in English under the title Azazeel, is set in 5th-century Egypt and Syria and deals with the early history of Christianity.

) ( 2009 ) International Don Quixote.

* Kampala International University-began operations in January 2009 operating from Quality Plaza along Pugu road. Currently, the University Centre is situated on a of land, at Gongo la Mboto area in Ilala District, 7 km from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport along Pugu road.

* 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

Tostan, France, 2009 ; link courtesy of Tostan International, YouTube.

The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 72nd most visited in 2009, with 1, 685, 000 visitors.

The first International Exhibition was only held in 2009.

Climate Change Reconsidered: 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change ( NIPCC ) ( 2009 ).

In 2009 Point Salines International Airport was renamed Maurice Bishop International Airport in tribute to the former Prime Minister.

On 28 September 2009, in what became known as the ' Bloody Monday ' massacre / 2009 Guinea protest, Amnesty International said that Guinea security forces killed more than 150 people and raped over 40 women during and following the protests.

The International Crisis Group said in September 2010 that from 2001 to 2009 the size of the armed forces has risen dramatically from 10, 000 in 2001 to a reported 45, 000 in 2010 ( though the latter figure needs to be treated with great caution.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

As of 2009 the city was ranked Europe's third and one of the world's most successful as a city brand.

In 2009, Cuba ranked 51st out of 182 with an HDI of 0. 863 ; remarkably high considering its GDP per capita only places it 95th.

The following table shows annual production of cereals, in 1961, 2008, 2009, and 2010 ranked by 2010 production.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the # 1 mid sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development.

" In addition, the National Science Foundation and the 2009 Lombardi Report also ranked Drexel among the top 50 private comprehensive research universities.

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

" In 2009 and 2011, Geneva was ranked as, respectively, the fourth and fifth most expensive city in the world.

Also in 2009, Forbes ranked it 33rd among their list of the 600 best American colleges.

She then crushed Veselin Topalov, a former world champion and ranked No. 1 in the world in 2009, 3½ – ½ to win the tournament.

* Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 10th in India, 2009 ( Mint C-Fore )

* Faculty of Engineering and Technology ranked 12th in India, 2009 ( Outlook )

In July 2009, women's magazine Cosmopolitan ranked Pink Prison as No. 1 in its Top Five of the best women ’ s porn, calling it the " role model for the new porn-generation ".

As of Dec. 20, 2009 the top ranked archiver is NanoZip 0. 07a and the top ranked single file compressor is ccmx 1. 30c, both context mixing.

In a survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

In 2009 Morocco was ranked among the top thirty countries in the offshoring sector.

The university has recently declined consistently in these rankings: of the top 200 universities, after being placed 67th in 2005, it ranked equal 168th in 2007, 182nd in 2008 and 189th in 2009.

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University ’ s Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2009 ranked Macquarie University as 7th in Australia ( following University of Western Australia and UNSW ), while the UK ’ s Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings published in October 2009 ranked Macquarie 9th in Australia ( behind the University of Adelaide and the University of Western Australia ).

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.