March 9, 2014 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A suicide car bomber kills 42 people at a police checkpoint in Hillah, Iraq. (Voice of America)
- Mexican authorities confirm that Nazario Moreno González, the top leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, was killed in the state of Michoacán. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 42 migrants from the Horn of Africa drown when their boat overturns off the coast of Shabwah Governorate, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- A Boeing 787 controlled by Japan Airlines makes an emergency landing at Honolulu Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, after oil pressure in their right engine dropped. (AP via CBS)
Law and crime
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
- The Ministry of Transport of Vietnam orders local airports and airlines to tighten their security, after the Malaysian plane vanished, on the first level of a three-level security alert system. (Thanh Nien News)
Religion
- Swedish charismatic pastor Ulf Ekman, who established the Livets Ord ministry, breaks with his megachurch and converts to Roman Catholicism. (Charisma News)
Politics and elections
- Vice President of Afghanistan Mohammed Fahim dies at the age of 57 due to natural causes. (Reuters)
- Colombian parliamentary election, 2014
- President Juan Manuel Santos' coalition wins a reduced majority, while former President Alvaro Uribe is elected to the Senate. (Reuters)
Sports
- In U.S. college basketball, Wichita State defeats Indiana State 83–69 to win the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, becoming the first Division I men's team to enter the NCAA Tournament unbeaten since UNLV in 1991. (Sports Illustrated)