May 9, 2004

Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. (Reuters) (AP) (BBC)
The scandal about U.S. torture in Iraq widens as The New Yorker reports about guards setting dogs against naked prisoners. (newyorker)
Twenty-two passengers, two stoweaways and crew are injured when an American Eagle ATR 42, flight 1450, crash-lands in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP)