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.

2009 the Forum returned to Brazil, where it took place in Belém.

The Bengals returned to the playoffs again in 2009 in a season that included the franchise's first ever division sweep.

In late 2009, the long-running storyline involving Tony Gordon came to its conclusion when Carla returned and he suffered a heart attack.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

However, the race returned to its historical home in 2009.

In May 2009, organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival returned a £ 300 grant from the Israeli Embassy after speaking with Ken Loach.

She later returned again as Alexx Woods for more guest appearances in the episodes " Out of Time " on September 21, 2009 and " Bad Seed " on October 19, 2009.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

The same year, the United Kingdom and Libya signed a prisoner-exchange agreement and then Libya requested the transfer of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, who finally returned home in August 2009.

She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the lead role in Wallace Shawn's new play, Grasses of a Thousand Colours at the Royal Court Theatre.

In early 2009, Miyazaki returned with a new manga called, telling the story of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi.

In 2009, the Lakers with Kobe Bryant returned to the Finals, this time defeating the Dwight Howard-led Orlando Magic.

In 2009, Weber returned during the reorganization of the Opel leadership to Adam Opel GmbH as " Vice President Planning and Commercial Vehicle Operations " for the company.

An analysis of the equity funds returns of the 15 biggest asset management companies worldwide from 2004 to 2009 showed that about 80 % of the actively managed funds for US, European and Asian equities have returned below their respective benchmarks.

On August 28, 2009, a Swedish public news outlet reported that Romanov family jewelry, found in 2008 in the archives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was returned.

For the first time in 65 years, Pacific Harbor Porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ) returned to the Bay in 2009.

In Rachel Ames played Audrey Hardy in General Hospital from 1964 until 2007, and returned in 2009.

In the spring of 2009, the Bangles returned to the studio to begin work on a new album.

He returned to Darwin in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2011 to continue his nurseryfish research.

In May 2009, the United States Army returned the Ur site to the Iraqi authorities, who hope to develop it as a tourist destination.

In August 2009, two more black and white episodes, " In Sickness and in Health " and " State Visit ", were returned by a film collector.

On June 11, 2009, a spokesman for Tork reported that his cancer had returned.

About 96. 3 % of first-year students enrolled in 2009 returned for their second year, and 72. 7 % of students in the class of 2010 graduated within four years.