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Current events of September 9, 2010 (2010-09-09) (Thursday)

Archaeologists date the mound of Moot Hill in Scone Palace where medieval Kings of Scotland including Robert the Bruce were crowned back to at least 1,000 years ago. (The Scotsman)

Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan. (Xinhua)
The San Bruno fire began with a massive explosion and continues burning in San Bruno, California.

Iran
- An Iranian diplomat at the United Nations states that United States citizen Sarah Shourd will be released "very soon". (AFP via Google News)
- The National Council of Resistance of Iran claims that Iran is building a secret uranium enrichment facility in Abyek. (Haaretz)
International Burn a Koran Day/Park51 cultural centre
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, and Asif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan, call on President of the United States, Barack Obama, to stop International Burn a Koran Day being organised by the Dove World Outreach Center. (The Telegraph)
- Barack Obama describes the event as "a clear recruitment bonanza for al-Qaida" and warns that it will endanger US soldiers. (MSNBC)
- US businessman Donald Trump offers to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 site in New York City where a Muslim group wanted to build a 13-story Islamic centre and mosque. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center agrees to call off the Koran burning in return for the Park51 community center being relocated, though those associated with Park51 have stated no such agreement exists. (BBC), (MSNBC), (CNN), (The Wall Street Journal)

Wang Huayuan, a top anti-corruption official in China's Shandong province, is sentenced to death for accepting $1 million in bribes. (AP via Google News)
Investigators in the Philippines admit that Manila Police District officers may have shot dead some of the tourists killed in the Manila hostage crisis in August. (AFP via Google News)
Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California rules that the United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy violates the First Amendment rights of gay men and lesbians. (Los Angeles Times)
A woman kills two people and injures another at a shooting incident at a Kraft baking plant in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (MSNBC)