In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

In 2009 she presented the Leslie Oliver Oration at Queen's Hospital.

In April 2009 it was revealed that Eileen Grimshaw's father, Colin had slept with Eileen's old classmate, Paula Carp while she was still at school, and that Paula's daughter, Julie was in fact also Colin's daughter.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

On February 2, 2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode " Smoke Gets In Your CSI's ".

On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón in Mexico, to help raise funds to treat cancer and children rehabilitation.

On 7 January 2009 CNN Travel broadcasted a segment called " MyCity_MyLife " featuring Nina Persson taking the camera to some of the sites in Malmö that she enjoys.

* The Boston Globe reported on October 5, 2009, that the newly announced Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was asked if she had expected to win the honor.

In March 2009 she praised President Barack Obama for reversing the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

When she was made a life peer in 2009, they became one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right.

In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying " Where is My Vote?

Also in 2009, she appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

In 2009, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4, 419, 974 ( about two and a half million of whom were in Greater Vancouver ).

Since then, Nike then Adidas have had more overt branding on the shirts, with sponsors Scottish Provident ( 1997 ), NTL ( 2001 ), Zurich ( 2005 ) and HSBC ( 2009 ).

Campbell had a starring voice role in the hit films 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Cars 2.

About this time Wills purchased and performed with an old Guadagnini violin that had once fetched $ 7, 600 for $ 1, 600, the equivalent of about $ 24, 000 in 2009.

However in 2009 GFC, Cambodia's inflation rate had a weak deflation of-0. 7 %.

However, by 2009, it has been reported that $ 21 billion had been lost from the pension system to the global financial crisis.

A news story appeared in April 2009 claiming that the CNP had reformed following a conference in Bodmin, however it did not contest any elections that year.

In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus.

By late 2009 39 % of households had internet access Colombia had 581, 877 Internet hosts in 2006.

In 2009, CAMRA announced that it had reached the 100, 000 members mark and has since surpassed the 144, 000 members mark.

In 2009, the Panthers finished with an 8 – 8 record, before finishing 2010 with a record of 2 – 14 ; following the 2010 season, Jerry Richardson decided not to re-sign John Fox, whose contract had expired.

Also, in 2006, Tampa Bay QB Chris Simms lost his spleen on a hit, and in 2009 Carolina CB Dante Wesley laid into PR Clifton Smith before he had caught the ball, knocking Smith out and getting Wesley ejected.

The singer, who died in 2009, was not a Fulham fan and had no interest in football whatsoever, but attended a Fulham match once, saying " Fulham fans were like people at my concerts.

Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.