May 1, 2010 (2010-05-01 ) (Saturday)
Part of
New York City 's
Times Square is evacuated and sealed off as a
car bomb is
discovered and deactivated before it could be detonated.
(ABC News)
(BBC)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
(Sydney Morning Herald )
Dozens of people are killed by
twin bomb blasts inside a
Mogadishu
mosque .
(Reuters)
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(San Francisco Chronicle )
(The Times )
Four soldiers are killed and several sustain wounds in a rocket, rifle and grenade attack on a military outpost near
Nazimiye in
Turkey .
(BBC)
In
thoroughbred racing ,
Super Saver , ridden by
Calvin Borel , wins the
2010 Kentucky Derby .
(AP)
At least one person is killed and 21 others are injured at a horse race in
Nalchik ,
Kabardino-Balkaria .
(Al Jazeera)
At least two civilians are killed and ten more are wounded by a suicide attack on a market in
Swat Valley .
(Al Jazeera)
Johnson & Johnson announces the recall of 43 over-the-counter medicines intended for infants and children, affecting the
United States and nine other markets.
(Washington Post )
At least 150,000 people gather in
Kathmandu to support
Maoists who want the Prime Minister to resign; a general strike is called for on Sunday, May 2.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The News International )
(CNN)
Greek police shoot
tear gas at protesters in
Athens during an anti-government march.
(BBC)
(Sky News)
(The Times )
Thousands of people protest in
Tirana , demanding a recount of votes from last June's parliamentary elections.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(Deutsche Welle)
(France24)
In a non-title
boxing
match ,
welterweight champion
Shane Mosley loses to
Floyd Mayweather by unanimous decision.
(LA Times )
Bolivia nationalises four electricity companies.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform
Legion of Christ (LC), whose
Mexican founder,
Marcial Maciel , abused children before being dismissed in 2006.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Albania becomes the 37th member of the
European Patent Organisation .
(EPO)
Taiwan employs
capital punishment for
the first time since 2005 , executing four men for "grave offences such as fatal kidnappings and murders".
(BBC)
Two retired generals tell
The Washington Post that, with more than 25 per cent of young
Americans being "too fat to fight",
obesity is threatening the future of the United States military.
(BBC)
(The New Zealand Herald )
(Radio New Zealand)
A
Taipei -
Shanghai flight makes an emergency landing in
Hangzhou after an
American passenger makes an inappropriate reference to a bomb.
(The Times of India )
(The Age )
(BBC)
A major pipe rupture in Weston, Massachusetts leaves up to 2 million people in the Greater
Boston area without drinkable tap water for 59 hours.
(Boston Globe)
May 2, 2010 (2010-05-02 ) (Sunday)
The death toll from the
Mogadishu bombings on May 1 rising to at least 45; authorities say
al Qaeda is likely to blame for the attack.
(CNN)
(VOA)
The
Pakistani military kills approximately 40
Taliban militants in a
helicopter attack.
(UPI)
Approximately 70
Iraqi
Christian students are wounded and one other
Iraqi killed in bombing on the outskirts of
Mosul , Iraq.
(The New York Times )
Notable
Hollywood personalities, including
Steven Spielberg ,
Martin Scorsese ,
Robert De Niro ,
Robert Redford and
Francis Ford Coppola , sign a petition asking the
Iranian government to release director
Jafar Panahi , who was arrested alongside his wife, daughter and 15 other guests at his home on 1 March.
(BBC)
The
European Union and the
International Monetary Fund agree to a bailout package for
Greece that will provide approximately €120 billion to end the
sovereign debt crisis in that country.
(Bloomberg )
The
United Nations investigates reports of a possible massacre of 100 people by
Ugandan rebels in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
After
Iran ’s selection to the
Commission on the Status of Women , a
United Nations panel on
women’s rights ,
Canada cites “serious concerns” about Iran’s participation in the panel and
Iran’s human-rights record.
(The Vancouver Sun )
(The Jerusalem Post )
Hizbul Islam members enter
Harardhere in
Somalia , and meet no resistance; they promise to enter other towns in the region.
(Al Jazeera)
A large
Maoist -led strike in
Kathmandu shuts down the city in a bid to force
Prime Minister
Madhav Kumar Nepal to resign.
(The Guardian )
Five people are killed and at least 12 others are injured in a stampede at an
Intocable concert in
Guadalupe, Nuevo León .
(BBC)
Thai Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva says his government is preparing to take back
Bangkok and end the seven-week-long
protests .
(VOA)
A group of Asian finance ministers announce a new
US$ 700 million bond fund to promote the issuance of local bonds because of the guarantee the new funds would provide potential investors.
(The Wall Street Journal )
Chris Solinsky becomes the first non-
African runner to break the 27 minute mark in the
10,000 meters , improving the
American record by 14 seconds.
(The Flint Journal )
The
World number one snooker player
John Higgins and his manager are reported by the
News of the World to have been videoed accepting a £261,000 bribe in
Ukraine to lose frames in four separate matches later this year; an investigation is launched and the player is immediately suspended on the final day of his reign as
world champion ahead of the final of the
2010 World Snooker Championship .
(BBC)
(News of the World )
(The Daily Telegraph )
Roman Polanski speaks out about his possible extradition to the
United States after several months of silence.
(The New York Times )
Japanese supercentenarian and oldest living person in the world
Kama Chinen dies 8 days short of 115 and leaves French supercentenarian
Eugénie Blanchard as the oldest living person.
May 3, 2010 (2010-05-03 ) (Monday)
Ajmal Kasab , the only surviving terrorist involved in the
2008 Mumbai attacks , is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against
India .
(AP)
(NDTV)
American air carriers
United and
Continental officially announce a merger that will create the world's largest airline.
(CNN)
(Bloomberg) [
permanent dead link ]
Darfur rebel group, the
Justice and Equality Movement , breaks off peace talks with the
Sudanese government , accusing it of a renewing the
conflict with a military offensive that has included airstrikes and ground attacks over the past week.
(USA Today )
(The Washington Post )
The death toll reaches 28 as flooding from weekend storms worsens in southern US towns and cities, including
Nashville in
Middle
Tennessee , and parts of
Kentucky ,
Alabama and
Mississippi .
(USA Today )
(CNN)
Thai Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva proposes to hold elections on 14 November to end the
political crisis in the country.
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
World Press Freedom Day :
The
Irish Aviation Authority closes
Donegal Airport , cancels at least two flights and announces the closure of all airspace in Ireland on Monday due to
Icelandic volcanic ash, while
British Airports, including some in
Scotland , may also be affected due to continued
eruptions of
Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
(Herald Sun )
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
United States Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton exchange criticism of each other’s countries nuclear policies at the opening of the
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
Review Conference at the
United Nations Headquarters in
New York .
(Chicago Tribune ) [
permanent dead link ]
(CNN)
(USA Today )
Australian
mining stocks plummet after the
government passes a new 40% profit tax on the industry. International
mining companies warn that many new mining projects may be canceled.
(Reuters)
Norsk Hydro secures 100 years worth of
bauxite supply in a
US$ 4.9 billion deal.
(Bloomberg)
Hundreds of
Egyptian workers protest outside Egypt's cabinet building to request a rise in their minimum wage.
(Al Jazeera)
A manual recount gets underway in
Baghdad .
(Al Jazeera)
Neil Robertson becomes the first
Australian to
win the
World Snooker Championship since 1952 and the first player from outside the UK and Ireland to win the world title since 1980.
(BBC)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il arrives in
China on a rare foreign visit.
(Hong Kong Standard )
(The Times )
(Yonhap)
(China Daily )
(Al Jazeera)
The
European Commission proposes rules for imports of fishery products from
Greenland into the
EU .
(EU Business)
Uganda 's highest
ice cap in the
Rwenzori mountain range splits.
(BBC)
Natavia Lowery ,
PA to former
Ramones manager
Linda S. Stein , is given a 25 year to life jail sentence for beating Stein to death on 30 October 2007.
(BBC)
(CNN)
(Houston Chronicle )
(The Washington Post )
May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04 ) (Tuesday)
Thailand 's Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva and anti-government
"Red Shirt" protesters reach a qualified agreement to hold
general elections in November, but questions over the dissolution of parliament prevent an end to the
two-month standoff in central
Bangkok .
(ABC News)
(AP)
Former
Argentine
President
Néstor Kirchner is unanimously elected the first Secretary General of the
Union of South American Nations (Unasur) at a
heads of state summit held in
Campana ,
Argentina .
Télam (Argentina) ,
Washington Post ,
ABC (Spain) ,
Semana (Colombia)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrest
Faisal Shahzad , a naturalized U.S. citizen from
Pakistan , in connection with the
attempted car bombing in Times Square as he tried to flee the country.
(MSNBC)
(CNN)
(USA Today )
Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption :
Rising floodwaters from the
Cumberland River flood the
Grand Ole Opry House with several feet of water, and cause evacuations in
Nashville ,
Tennessee .
(USA Today )
(The New York Times )
(The Washington Post )
The
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the
Gulf of Mexico causes slowing shipping and increased prices for gasoline, food and other items in the United States.
(CBS News)
(MSNBC)
Pablo Picasso 's
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for US$106 million at
Christie's in
New York , becoming the
most expensive work of art sold at auction .
(Reuters)
A new European Jewish group,
JCall , supported by thousands of European Jews is founded to lobby for a resolution to the Middle East conflict.
(Jerusalem Post)
(Al Jazeera)
At least 10 people die and 14 are injured in a fire at a dormitory for railway workers in
Hohhot ,
Inner Mongolia .
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Dozens of people are injured when panic breaks out at the
Remembrance of the Dead in
Amsterdam , the
Netherlands .
(NOS)
Experts announce a rescue plan intended to preserve the existence of the endangered
snubfin dolphin , the only dolphin unique to
Australia .
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
May 5, 2010 (2010-05-05 ) (Wednesday)
Umaru Yar'Adua ,
President of Nigeria , dies at age 58. Acting President
Goodluck Jonathan succeeds Yar'Adua as President in his own right.
(Sky News)
(CNN)
2010 Greek riots
The
Supreme Court of India in a
landmark judgment declares the use of
narco tests ,
brain mapping tests and
lie detector tests by investigative agencies unconstitutional.
(HindustanTimes)
Landsides killed 15 Chinese workers in the
Tengchong County ,
Yunnan Province .
(China.com)
(People)
Somali pirates seize the Russian oil tanker
Moscow University with 23 people on board, 500 miles off the
Somali coast.
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
An Egyptian-led proposal for a
nuclear arms
free Middle East receives support from the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and China. Israel is the only Middle Eastern nation believed to
possess nuclear weapons .
(Reuters)
Around 23 people are killed when a bus overturns while traveling to
Cape Town , South Africa.
(AP)
(IOL)
(Daily Nation )
The
European Parliament calls on Canada to ensure visa-free travel for all
EU citizens in a wide-ranging resolution, while expressing hope that the
EU-Canada summit will speed up negotiations on a comprehensive trade agreement.
(Europarl)
(Isria)
(MSNBC)
A prominent journalist in Somalia,
Sheikh Nur Abkey , is kidnapped and then killed in
Mogadishu .
(Press TV)
(Reuters India)
(BBC)
Two men are killed and another one is wounded when unidentified gunmen open fire at a
Lexus in the capital of Russia’s
Caucasian republic of
Dagestan ,
Makhachkala .
(ITAR)
The
European Parliament calls for tougher
EU fiscal rulebook.
(EU Business)
(Expatica)
Twenty-one-term
U.S. Rep.
Dave Obey , a
Wisconsin
Democrat and chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee , announces he will not run for re-election in November.
(AP at Yahoo)
Democracy Now! producers file a lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies for allegedly unjustifiably encroaching on their
First Amendment rights at the
2008 Republican National Convention .
(StarTribune)
May 6, 2010 (2010-05-06 ) (Thursday)
The ruling
Mauritian Labour Party under
Prime Minister
Navin Ramgoolam wins re-election after the opposition
Mauritian Militant Movement concedes the
2010 general election .
(Times of India)
Egypt ,
Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates become the first countries to have non-
Latin
ccTLDs .
(BBC)
A powerful
tornado hits
Chongqing municipality in
south-western China , killing at least 25 and injuring more than 160 people in
Dianjiang and
Liangping counties.
(The Independent )
(BBC)
(news.com.au)
(China Daily )
(Xinhua)
Former chief executive of collapsed
Kaupthing Bank ,
Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson , is arrested on suspicion of
embezzlement ,
Iceland 's first high-profile arrest since the 2008 financial collapse.
(BBC)
Burma 's main opposition party, the
National League for Democracy led by
Aung San Suu Kyi , disbands after it refuses to register under new
election laws .
(Al Jazeera)
(AFP)
Nigeria 's acting President,
Goodluck Jonathan , is sworn in as
President of Nigeria following the death of
Umaru Yar'Adua .
(The Punch )
(AP)
The
Irish Aviation Authority announces new flight restrictions at several airports, including
Shannon Airport and
Ireland West Airport Knock , from midnight because of the (Iceland) volcano.
(RTÉ)
Hundreds of people in
Afghanistan demonstrate against alleged mistreatment and executions of Afghan refugees in
Iran .
(BBC)
Robert Mugabe ,
Morgan Tsvangirai and
Arthur Mutambara , in a rare display of solidarity, call for an end to international sanctions on
Zimbabwe and instead request investment.
(BBC)
United Kingdom general election :
Ajmal Kasab , the only surviving member of a group responsible for the
2008 Mumbai attacks , is sentenced to death.
(The Times of India )
(BBC)
United States Baptist minister
George Rekers , a campaigner who opposes
homosexuality , responds to allegations of a holiday in
London /
Madrid with a male prostitute he met at
Rentboy.com .
(BBC)
Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of
Joseph Duffy , a bishop mentioned in the reports into child sexual abuse by clergy.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 1,000 points for a
record intraday loss before recovering about 70% of its losses.
(Reuters)
(CNBC)
(The Wall Street Journal)
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il allegedly meets with Chinese President
Hu Jintao in
Beijing .
(Straits Times )
(BBC)
Russian military sailors release the tanker
MV Moscow University from
Somali pirates .
(RIA Novosti)
Ireland's
Supreme Court rules, after a ten-year campaign, that there is no constitutional obligation for political and legal acts to be written in both the English and
Irish languages
(RTÉ)
The inaugural
African Grandmother Gathering convenes in
Swaziland to discuss
HIV /
AIDS .
(BBC)
(The Hindu )
The
funeral of broadcaster
Gerry Ryan takes place in
Dublin , attended by many public figures and broadcast live on
RTÉ 2fm .
U2 perform a special version of "
With or Without You ", while
Westlife also perform.
(Irish Examiner )
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
May 7, 2010 (2010-05-07 ) (Friday)
United Kingdom general election, 2010 :
Caroline Lucas becomes the first ever
Green Party MP, having won the
Brighton Pavilion constituency with a majority of 1,252.
(BBC)
Liberal Democrat leader
Nick Clegg describes the election as a "disappointing night" for his party, in his speech at the count for his
Sheffield Hallam constituency .
Two former Labour Home Secretaries,
Charles Clarke (2004–2006) and
Jacqui Smith (2007–2009, first woman in the post), lose their seats.
(BBC)
(BBC)
Peter Robinson , the
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Northern Ireland
First Minister , loses the seat he has held for 31 years in
Belfast East to
Naomi Long of the
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland .
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
Gloria De Piero , the former
GMTV newsreader, wins the
Ashfield constituency for the Labour party with a majority of just 192.
(BBC)
4 policemen are killed and another seriously injured when militants open fire in
Pakistan 's
Mansehra district of
North-West Frontier Province .
(PTI)
Dubai police name five new suspects in connection with the
assassination of
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January, involving passports from
Australia ,
Britain and
France . An
Israeli citizen, Zev Barkan, wanted by
New Zealand since 2004 for passport fraud, may have used a New Zealand passport.
(Al Jazeera)
(The Guardian )
(Xinhua)
Dozens of people are reported dead or disappeared after a boat carrying 125 people capsizes in a river in
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
(Al Jazeera)
(TVNZ)
(AP)
Thousands rally in
Kathmandu and other cities against the six-day shut down of public transport, businesses and schools across
Nepal by millions of the country's poor.
(Al Jazeera)
(The Hindu )
(The New York Times )
The death toll from
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in
South Africa has risen to 17.
(Xinhua)
An appeals court in
Lithuania overturns a ruling which had earlier, due to fears over
homophobic violence, prevented the country's first
gay pride parade going ahead in
Vilnius tomorrow.
(BBC)
Lobbying for the role of
Nigeria 's new vice-president begins after
Goodluck Jonathan 's inauguration and
Umaru Yar'Adua 's death.
(BBC)
5 insurgents and 2 soldiers die in a
gunbattle between
Islamic rebels and
Indian security forces in
Kashmir .
(Arab News )
2 die and 2 are wounded in an attack on an aid vehicle near the village of
Dembia in the
Central African Republic .
(IOL)
2
Egyptian peacekeepers are killed and 3 are injured by gunmen near
Edd al-Fursan ,
South Darfur .
(BBC)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
(The Warpington Post )
(UN)
Confederation of African Football (CAF) president
Issa Hayatou asks his executive committee to lift sanctions imposed on the
Togo national football team following
an attack on their team bus ahead of the
2010 Africa Cup of Nations in
Angola .
(BBC)
A faction of the
National League for Democracy in
Burma forms its own political party to compete in elections, one day after the party disbanded.
(Arab News )
The head of
Sierra Leone 's Anti-Corruption Commission,
Abdul Tejan-Cole , resigns.
(BBC)
Flights take to the skies again in Ireland following recent Icelandic volcanic disruption.
(Al Jazeera)
(RTÉ)
The
Supreme Court of the Philippines rejects several petitions calling for a presidential election to be postponed and asking for manual counting of votes to be maintained.
(Arab News )
Starlin Castro makes his
MLB -debut, hitting a home run in his first career at-bat, and later adding a three-run triple to set the MLB record for RBI's in an MLB Debut.
May 8, 2010 (2010-05-08 ) (Saturday)
2010 Philippine general election
United Kingdom general election, 2010 :
U.S. Senator
Bob Bennett ,
Republican from
Utah , is ousted from his party's
primary ballot at the state's Republican convention, meaning he will not have a chance for a fourth term.
(AP at Yahoo)
Mudslides and floods have killed 16, and more than 40 are missing in some districts of the southern
Khatlon region in
Tajikistan .
(ITAR)
Icelandic volcanic
disruption :
Hundreds of people take part in a two-hour march, "For Equality", in
Vilnius at
Lithuania 's first
gay pride , with police shooting
tear gas and arresting at least 12 people who threw stones and fireworks at marchers.
(BBC)
(The Washington Post )
(iafrica.com)
Naxalite rebels blow up a bullet-proof vehicle of the
Central Reserve Police Force in the
Bijapur district of
Chhattisgarh ,
India , killing seven officers.
(PTI)
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon discusses
climate change with
Bolivian
president
Evo Morales Ayma .
(UN)
Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of
Walter Mixa of
Augsburg , a bishop who admitted physically abusing children after initially denying accusations.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(The Washington Post )
Former
Venezuelan defence minister
Raúl Baduel is sentenced to almost eight years in prison for corruption.
(BBC)
Italy 's first
divorce fair,
Ex? Punto e a capo , opens in
Milan .
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Times of India )
London 's
Harrod's department store is sold to the
Qatari
royal family by
Mohamed Al-Fayed who retires after 25 years as its chairman.
(Al Jazeera)
(CNN)
(The Times )
(RTÉ)
In
mixed martial arts ,
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua wins the
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship from fellow
Brazilian
Lyoto Machida at
UFC 113 in
Montreal, Quebec ,
Canada .
(Sherdog)
May 9, 2010 (2010-05-09 ) (Sunday)
BP 's containment chamber fails, prolonging the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill .
(Reuters)
The regional coalition of Christian-Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) are
voted out of office in
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which may lead to the federal government of Chancellor
Angela Merkel losing its majority in the upper house.
(BBC)
(Financial Times )
(The Guardian )
(The Independent )
Sandro Bondi ,
Italy 's
minister of culture , calls for a boycott of the
2010 Cannes Film Festival after a documentary on the
2009 L'Aquila earthquake was included in the programme.
(AFP)
(Reuters)
An earthquake strikes
Sumatra sparking fears of a
tsunami .
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(France24)
(IAfrica.com)
A mine explosion in
Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast) ,
Russia , kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for.
(BBC)
(TVNZ)
U.S. missiles kill five people in
North Waziristan ,
Pakistan .
(AP)
A Chinese man is freed from prison after 10 years after the man he had been convicted of killing is found alive.
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
Somali pirates seize MS Marida Marguerite , a German-owned tanker, off the coast of
Somalia .
(Press TV)
Dallas Braden of the
Oakland Athletics throws the 19th
perfect game in
Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the
Tampa Bay Rays .
(ESPN)
The 26th annual
Vancouver Sun Run happens today in
Vancouver ,
British Columbia ,
Canada .
May 10, 2010 (2010-05-10 ) (Monday)
Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of
suicide bombings from
Mosul to
Basra in
Iraq , the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal.
(The Times )
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as
Leader of the Labour Party , and calls for a
leadership election to be completed by September.
(BBC)
Stock markets rise significantly and bond prices fall around the world after investors are reassured by the
European Union and
International Monetary Fund ’s nearly $1 trillion plan to avoid a
European debt crisis .
(USA Today )
(The Times )
President
Obama nominates
Solicitor General
Elena Kagan as the youngest
Justice and third woman for the
Supreme Court of the United States .
(USA Today )
(The Times )
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel ’s government loses its majority in the
upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the
Greek debt crisis .
(The Australian )
(Los Angeles Times )
BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive
undersea oil leak in the
Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day.
(USA Today )
A mass grave containing the bodies of 250 ethnic
Albanians from the
Kosovo War is discovered in
Serbia .
(USA Today )
(B92)
(AFP)
Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections start today in the
Philippines .
(Philippine Inquirer )
(BBC)
The
South Korean Defence Minister
Kim Tae-Young announces that investigators have found traces of explosives in the wreck of the
ROKS Cheonan that
sank in March .
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(Kyodo) [
permanent dead link ]
Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of the
May 2010 Siberia mine explosion .
(RIA Novosti)
A senior
U.S. official,
Kurt M. Campbell , meets with
Burmese opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi .
(AP)
(The New York Times )
(Press TV)
Severe rainstorms have killed at least 70 people since a powerful
tornado hit
Chongqing municipality in
south-western China in
Dianjiang and
Liangping counties. Inclement weather in the next two days will affect
Guangdong ,
Fujian ,
Hunan ,
Jiangxi ,
Zhejiang ,
Guizhou and
Yunnan provinces.
(Sina)
Multiple
tornadoes across
Oklahoma and
Kansas result in at least 5 deaths and 58 injuries. Twisters hit a truck stop near
Midwest City and locations in
Oklahoma City .
(KTUL)
(AP)
(NWS Norman)
(NewsOK)
May 11, 2010 (2010-05-11 ) (Tuesday)
The
Conservative Party 's
David Cameron
kisses the hands of
Queen Elizabeth II to become
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after
Gordon Brown resigns as Prime Minister and as Leader of the British
Labour Party .
(BBC)
The son of
Corazon Aquino ,
Benigno Aquino III , appears set to win the
presidency in the
Philippine elections , which have been marred by deadly violence and malfunctioning voting machines.
(Chicago Tribune ) [
permanent dead link ]
(USA Today )
The
Egyptian parliament votes to extend the country's almost three decade
state of emergency for a further two years, drawing criticism from foreign governments, opposition groups, dissidents and human-rights organizations concerned with the effect that extensive police powers and the suspension of constitutional rights has on
human rights in Egypt .
(The Jerusalem Post )
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Star )
Lost Planet 2 is Released for
PlayStation 3 and
Xbox 360
At least three people are injured by authorities as protesters attempt to storm
Dáil Éireann in a campaign against bank bail-outs.
(RTÉ)
(Irish Independent )
(The Irish Times )
U.S. missiles kill 24 suspected insurgents in
North Waziristan ,
Pakistan , in the latest two of three strikes since an
attempted car bombing in New York linked to the Taliban. The identities of most of those killed are not known.
(Chicago Tribune ) [
permanent dead link ]
(USA Today )
Pope Benedict XVI and child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church:
Gulf of Mexico oil spill :
Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption :
9 trapped miners found dead in coal gas leak in northwest
China 's
Gansu Province Tuesday.
(China Daily )
Swedish artist
Lars Vilks is
headbutted and has his glasses broken by a man sitting in the front row while delivering a lecture about the limits of artistic freedom at
Uppsala University , with police using
pepper spray and
batons on the crowd.
(BBC)
(CBS News)
(Houston Chronicle )
(Radio Free Europe)
South Africa 's team manager
Sipho Nkumane and commercial director
Victor Nosi are suspended by the
South African Football Association (SAFA) one month before the start of the
2010 FIFA World Cup .
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
China cracks down on
dissenters , banning two leading
human rights lawyers from practicing and exiling a leading
HIV/AIDS campaigner from the country.
(The Australian )
Pakistan 's ambassador to
Iran ,
Mohammad Bakhsh Abbasi , is hospitalised after becoming injured in an attack by an
Afghan on his car in
Tehran .
(BBC)
A nearly $1 trillion rescue package to prevent the
Greek sovereign debt crisis
spreading in Europe will impact various facets of the
Chinese economy .
(Sina)
May 12, 2010 (2010-05-12 ) (Wednesday)
Global Green USA attends BioShield 2010 Tabletop Exercise in
Tbilisi ,
Georgia .
(Global Green)
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 arriving from
South Africa en route to London crashes at
Tripoli airport,
Libya , killing 104 people; a 10-year-old child is the sole survivor.
(BBC)
(AFP)
(Al Jazeera)
Airports in
Morocco ,
Spain and
Portugal reopen after days of
Icelandic volcanic disruption.
(BBC)
(NEWS.com.au)
The
International Committee of the Red Cross confirms reports of a second, secret US prison at
Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan after new allegations of torture.
(BBC)
Russia and
Turkey sign a $20 billion deal permitting
Moscow to build and own a controlling stake in
Ankara 's first nuclear power plant.
(Al Jazeera)
Philippine general election, 2010
The
Chengdu-Dujiangyan High-Speed Railway begins operation in Sichuan, China, on the second anniversary of the
2008 Sichuan earthquake .
(China Daily)
In
South Sudan there is violence for the third time in a week between the army and forces led by the former general
George Athor .
(BBC)
(Reuters)
9 people, including 7 children, are killed at a school near
Hanzhong city,
Shaanxi ,
China .
(Xinhua)
(AP)
A bomb planted inside a grocery store in a mainly
Shi'ite area of
Baghdad kills three people and wounds 23.
(TVNZ)
Irish authorities launch an investigation into last night's "violent incident" which saw protesters attempt to storm
Dáil Éireann in a campaign against bank bail-outs.
(The Irish Times )
(TV3)
Spain 's
Prime Minister
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announces wage cuts for state employees and a reduction in investment in response to his country's budget deficit.
(Al Jazeera)
Pope Benedict XVI , accompanied by tens of thousands of pilgrims, visits the famous Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary in
Fatima , as part of his four-day visit to
Portugal , and recalls the assassination attempt on his predecessor there.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(France24) [
permanent dead link ]
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
North Korea says it has undertaken
nuclear fusion , a claim disputed by international scientists.
(BBC)
(AP)
(China Daily )
A possible
supermassive black hole is witnessed being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.
(BBC)
May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13 ) (Thursday)
2010 Thai political protests :
5 people are killed and a further 19 injured in two bombings in
Baghdad .
(Xinhua)
Three alleged organisers of
Moscow suicide bombings in March 2010 are killed after apparently resisting arrest.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
Seven countries who have faced accusations of human rights violations win three-year seats on the
United Nations Human Rights Council in an uncontested election.
(AP)
(The Guatemala Times )
(Reuters Canada)
At least 21 people are killed and five are wounded in an
outburst at a
colliery in
Puding County ,
Anshun ,
Guizhou .
(Xinhua)
(Al Jazeera)
(DAWN )
(BBC)
A report from
Human Rights Watch claims that the
Israeli army unlawfully destroyed civilian property in the
Gaza War of 2008 and 2009, while the Israeli army asserts they only targeted property used for combat or terrorist activities.
(BBC)
(Ha'aretz )
President
Goodluck Jonathan nominates
Namadi Sambo to serve as
Nigeria 's vice president.
(Al Jazeera)
Following a warning, a bomb explodes outside a maximum security prison in
Korydallos ,
Greece .
(BBC)
The
Aban Pearl , a natural gas platform, sinks off the coast of
Venezuela , with all 95 workers evacuated safely.
(CBC)
As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including
India ,
China and
Vietnam , attend open-air
Mass at
Fátima, Portugal , celebrated by
Pope Benedict XVI . The Pope criticises
abortion and
same-sex marriage in a speech.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
The "
.рф " (".rf" -
Russian Federation )
Cyrillic
country code
top-level domain (ccTLD) is officially launched, the fourth
internationalized country code . The first two web sites available on “.рф” are
президент.рф (president.rf) and
правительство.рф (government.rf).
(Voice of Russia)
(ITAR-TASS)
(RIA Novosti)
The second case of
poliomyelitis in two days is reported in Russia, in Russia's first polio cases in 15 years, with the virus believed to have come from
Tajikistan .
(RT)
(RIA)
(The Moscow Times)
Supporters of ousted
Kyrgyz President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev seize government buildings in the south of the country.
(BBC)
(AFP)
One of
Nigeria 's most influential politicians,
James Ibori , is arrested on
corruption charges in
Dubai .
(NEXT)
(BBC)
Sudan asks
Interpol to arrest
Justice and Equality Movement chief
Khalil Ibrahim .
(Al Jazeera)
Five people are arrested, two in
Massachusetts , and three in New York by the
FBI in connection with the
2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
(NECN)
(NJ News)
(WJZ)
(Al Jazeera)
The
U.S. state of
Hawaii enacts a law permitting officials to ignore multiple attempts by the same person to view the birth certificate of
President of the United States
Barack Obama .
(BBC)
May 14, 2010 (2010-05-14 ) (Friday)
25 people die and 120 others are injured in a suicide attack while attending a football match in the
Iraqi city of
Tal Afar .
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(France24)
(Xinhuanet)
Death toll rises to at least 8 and up to 121 injured as anti-government protests escalate in
Thailand during a day of violence sparked by yesterday’s shooting of a key figure,
Khattiya Sawasdipol , of the
Red Shirt protesters .
(The Times )
(WCNC)
At least one person is killed and 42 injured as live ammunition is fired during clashes between interim government supporters and backers of ousted president
Kurmanbek Bakiyev in southern
Kyrgyzstan .
(Xinhua)
Iran announces that it hanged 5 prisoners convicted of the so-called crime of "enmity against God", at least 4 of whom were members of
Iran's Kurdish minority .
(VOA)
The sole survivor of the
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crash in
Libya is informed of the death of his family members.
(BBC)
(Fox News)
(Sky News)
(The Guardian )
The body of a
Palestinian teenager said to have been shot dead by
Jewish settlers is found. He is the first to die since
Israel and the
Palestinian National Authority began indirect peace talks on Saturday. In a retaliation shooting, the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claims responsibility for firing on a car of Jewish civilians in the
West Bank .
(Reuters)
(The Jerusalem Post )
Pakistan arrests a suspect with connections to a Pakistani group who said he acted as an accomplice to
the man accused of
trying to bomb Times Square in
New York .
(The Washington Post )
The chairman of the
Nigerian
People's Democratic Party (PDP),
Vincent Eze Ogbulafor , resigns days after facing fraud charges in court.
(BBC)
Spanish judge
Baltasar Garzón is suspended ahead of his trial.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(The Times of India )
Tens of thousands of people protest in
Tirana against last years election, demanding a recount.
(BBC)
Hundreds of people demonstrate and police shoot dead one person after a
NATO -led raid murders civilians in
Jalalabad
Afghanistan .
(Al Jazeera)
The ban given following the
Togo national football team attack ahead of the
2010 Africa Cup of Nations in
Angola is lifted with immediate effect as confirmed by the
Confederation of African Football (CAF) at a meeting in
Cairo .
(AFP)
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
Ethiopia ,
Rwanda ,
Tanzania and
Uganda sign an agreement to seek more water from the
Nile , a move opposed by
Egypt and
Sudan .
Kenya issues a support statement.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
(The Miami Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and
China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) sign a €18 billion (£16 billion) deal.
(BBC)
Sweden expels
Syrian diplomat over suspected kidnapping plot.
(The Jerusalem Post )
British Labour
MP
Stephen Timms , a former treasury minister, is stabbed in the abdomen by a woman in east
London .
(Fox News)
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
(The Independent )
(BBC)
New Zealand and
South Africa 's rugby unions make "landmark apologies" for excluding
Maori and
black players from their teams during the
apartheid era.
(BBC)
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for
its final planned flight in the
Space Shuttle program after a quarter century of service.
(The New York Times )
The
Aviva Stadium , Ireland's new national stadium, is officially opened by
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen in
Dublin .
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
(Reuters)
May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15 ) (Saturday)
May 16, 2010 (2010-05-16 ) (Sunday)
20 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in shelling in the Somali capital,
Mogadishu .
(CNN)
Thailand 's Prime Minister,
Abhisit Vejjajiva , warns of escalating violence, and is considering a curfew after clashes with protesters kill 25 over the last 3 days.
(The Jerusalem Post )
(The Australian )
(Chicago Tribune )
At least 11 people are killed after rebels from the
Al-Shabab militant group attack the
Somali parliament as it meets for the first time this year.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(Daily Nation )
Maoist guerillas kill six villagers in an alleged revenge attack in
Chhattisgarh , India.
(Hindustan Times )
(IOL)
(AFP)
One person is killed and 28 injured in two
grenade attacks in the
Rwandan capital
Kigali .
(AFP)
Voters in the
Dominican Republic go to the polls in a
parliamentary election .
(AFP)
(AP)
A recount of votes in the March 7
Iraqi election found no change in seat allocation for any of the blocs in the most populous province,
Baghdad , in a setback for Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki , who claimed there was election fraud and won a court appeal for the recount after his coalition came in second by two seats.
(CNN)
Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flies to
Tehran to join talks also attended by President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aimed at convincing
Iran of the advantages of sending its nuclear material abroad for processing to ease fears from the West that Iran wants to build a bomb.
(BBC)
Canadian fighter jets escort a
Cathay Pacific airliner to land at
Vancouver International Airport during a bomb alert and the passengers are removed.
(BBC)
(CBC)
United States President
Barack Obama is to ask the
US Congress for an extra $200m in
military aid to help
Israel get a short-range rocket defence system called
Iron Dome in place against mortar and rocket attacks from
Gaza or
Southern Lebanon .
(BBC)
French lecturer
Clotilde Reiss , charged with spying in
Iran after last June's disputed election, is released and returns to Paris.
(The Times )
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the
Gulf of Mexico , including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots as fresh evidence that the leak from the
broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the
United States government and
BP have given.
(USA Today )
(The New York Times )
(The Times )
A
by-election takes place in Hong Kong triggered by activists calling for
universal suffrage in the territory.
(Straits Times ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters India)
(Radio Television Hong Kong)
An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude is felt on
Puerto Rico .
(Reuters)
(AP)
Brazilian President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flies from Moscow, where he met Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev , to
Tehran for a meeting with Iranian officials there on the nuclear issue.
(BBC)
The
Republic of Korea Navy fires shots at a patrol boat from
North Korea during a skirmish.
(Yonhap)
(BBC)
Airspace in Ireland is closed down again due to the
Icelandic volcanic eruptions.
(BBC)
David Triesman, Baron Triesman resigns as chairman of
The Football Association as well as England's
2018 FIFA World Cup bid after his "entrapment" by
The Mail on Sunday in which he suggested Spain could drop its bid if Russia bribed referees at the
2010 FIFA World Cup next month.
(BBC)
(The Mail on Sunday )
(The Scotsman )
Oxford United F.C. get promoted out of the
Conference National after beating
York City F.C. 3-1 at
Wembley Stadium
May 17, 2010 (2010-05-17 ) (Monday)
May 18, 2010 (2010-05-18 ) (Tuesday)
May 19, 2010 (2010-05-19 ) (Wednesday)
May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20 ) (Thursday)
May 21, 2010 (2010-05-21 ) (Friday)
May 22, 2010 (2010-05-22 ) (Saturday)
Air India Express Flight 812 :
Apa , a
Nepalese
Sherpa
mountain climber who already held the world record for summiting
Mount Everest more than any other person, reaches the summit for the 20th time.
(Xinhua)
(Press Trust of India)
(Asian Tribune )
The death toll of
Cyclone Laila in
Andhra Pradesh , the worst storm to hit the Indian state in 14 years, reaches 36.
(IndiaTimes)
(BBC)
The death toll from yesterday's car bomb at a market in
Diyala reaches 30.
(BBC)
The
Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the
Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker
Thomas Jefferson and suggesting
United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the
slave trade as the "
Atlantic triangular trade " is not implemented.
(BBC)
Irish authorities arrest two men and foil a "major dissident bomb operation".
(RTÉ)
(Press Association)
Afghan police seize a cache of hundreds of rockets hidden on the outskirts of
Kabul .
(BBC)
At least 13 people
have died in a clash between a Somali militia and Ethiopian forces who had crossed the border in Somaliland.
(BBC)
Campaigning closes ahead of the
Ethiopian general election, 2010 to be held tomorrow.
(Al Jazeera)
Abbott Laboratories buys a
Piramal Healthcare unit in India to become the country's largest drug-maker.
(The Irish Times )
(Economic Times )
Five people are shot dead by 100 armed
Maoists who storm and burn market buildings in
Sheohar ,
Bihar .
(Economic Times ) [
permanent dead link ]
(The Hindu )
British Airways chief executive
Willie Walsh is surrounded by demonstrators who storm the headquarters of the Acas building in London.
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
(CNN)
(Hindustan Times )
Ariane 5 launch vehicle carries out its 50th mission, putting two large telecommunications satellites in orbit.
(BBC)
In the
2010 UEFA Champions League Final ,
Inter Milan defeats
Bayern Munich 2–0, for their first major European title since
1965 .
(BBC)
More than 74,000 South African football fans attend the first match at
Soccer City —venue for the
2010 FIFA World Cup Final —less than three weeks before
the tournament begins.
(BBC)
Thirteen-year-old American
Jordan Romero becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest .
(AP via ESPN)
Blackpool Football Club beat
Cardiff City Football Club 3-2 in the
2010 Final of the
Football League Championship play-offs to be guaranteed "the biggest windfall in global sport from the outcome of a single event".
(The Sunday Times )
(BBC)
(The Independent )
Republic of Ireland defender
Shane Duffy undergoes life-saving surgery in
Dublin after lacerating his liver.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(ABC News)
(USA Today )
Nicolaus Copernicus is disinterred from an unmarked grave and reburied by Poland.
(AP)
(The Voice of Russia )
A range of activities occur across the United Kingdom to mark the
International Day for Biological Diversity .
(BBC)
May 23, 2010 (2010-05-23 ) (Sunday)
At least 19 passengers were killed and more than 70 were injured, when a landslide in rain-drenched
Yujiang , East China's
Jiangxi Province .
(Global Times)
A
state of emergency is declared in the
Jamaican capital
Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of a
drug lord .
(Jamaica Observer )
(BBC)
(CNN)
A five-day strike at
British Airways is announced to begin tomorrow following a breakdown in talks which were invaded by protesters yesterday.
(Al Jazeera)
(The Australian )
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Wall Street Journal )
Ethiopian general election, 2010 :
Voters in
Nagorno-Karabakh vote in a
parliamentary election as more than 70 international observers watch.
(Voice of Russia)
(Reuters)
A train traveling from
Shanghai to
Guilin
derails in a mountainous area near
Fuzhou ,
Jiangxi , China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others.
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(Al Jazeera)
The death toll in
Poland 's
worst flooding in 60 years reaches 12.
(Al Jazeera)
Clashes break out between
Indian and
Pakistani troops near the border in the
disputed
Kashmir region.
(Al Jazeera)
(Hindustan Times )
Dozens of masked gunmen from an
Islamist group break into a
United Nations -run
Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents.
(The Jerusalem Post)
(Al Jazeera)
Somalia 's presidential palace is targeted by
Al-Shabab militants in a mortar attack.
(Press TV)
(Reuters)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(AP)
Rescue teams hunt for the data recorders from
Air India Express Flight 812 .
(BBC)
(The Times )
(Japan Today)
Japanese
Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama makes an apology for breaking an election promise to get rid of a U.S. military base located in
Okinawa which he and the United States believe is "needed to guarantee regional security". Demonstrators affected by this failure order him to "go home".
(BBC)
Mordechai Vanunu , the
Israeli
nuclear
whistleblower who spent 18 years in prison, goes back to jail for violating the terms of his
parole .
(AP)
(CNN)
Sinking of the
ROKS Cheonan :
The
Cuban government eases jail conditions for
political prisoners following talks with Catholic Church leaders and President
Raúl Castro .
(Reuters)
(Press Trust of India)
(BBC)
Maria Vittoria Longhitano [
it ] , Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained.
(BBC)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
The
Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which
Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the money is paid for by the British government.
(BBC)
Nine ships under the banner
Freedom Flotilla , from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, with of 800 people from 50 nationalities, begin a trip to
Gaza , the biggest attempt by international aid groups to break
Israel 's blockade of the
Gaza Strip .
Israel informs them they will be stopped for "breaching Israeli law".
(Al Jazeera)
Two militants are killed in the woods near Serzhen-Yurt in
Shali, Chechen Republic .
(Voice of Russia)
Sarah, Duchess of York 's involvement in a "cash for royal access" scandal is filmed by undercover reporter
Mazher Mahmood ; she asked for a $40,000 (£27,650) golden handshake in cash and for £500,000 to be sent to her bank in return for access to
Prince Andrew .
(The Times )
(The Daily Telegraph )
(News of the World ) [
permanent dead link ]
(Al Jazeera)
Sweden 's "
Treskilling Yellow ", the most expensive
postage stamp in the world, retains its title at a private auction.
(AP)
(The Times of India )
The UK tourist resort of
Blackpool is expected to benefit "tens of millions" of pounds, described by the tourism chief as "unthinkable", following the
local football club 's elevation to the
Premier League as an open-top bus tour is announced.
(BBC)
The
Champs-Élysées is covered in earth and turned into a huge green space by young financially impoverished farmers.
(BBC)
(The Independent )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Thai film
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (pictured)
wins the
Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the
BBC .
(BBC)
The Rolling Stones achieve their first UK number one album for 16 years with a re-release of
Exile on Main St. .
(BBC)
Czech Republic
defeats
Russia in
2010 IIHF World Championship
final .
(The Washington Post )
May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24 ) (Monday)
(Sky News)
The people of
Huddersfield in the
Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees of
West Yorkshire in
England are ordered to remain indoors and several schools are shut down after a huge fire engulfs a chemical plant in the area.
(Sky News)
The UK's
General Medical Council bans Dr.
Andrew Wakefield , who was the first to publish research suggesting a connection between the
MMR vaccine and
autism , from practicing in the country, finding him guilty of "serious professional misconduct."
(AP)
(BBC)
(The Washington Post )
(Wall Street Journal )
Peter Harvey, the UK teacher who attacked a pupil with a
dumbbell while shouting "die, die, die", is sentenced to
community order as his trial ends in
Nottingham . The judge calls him as a "thoroughly decent man".
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
(The Irish Times )
(RTÉ)
(The Times )
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader and
South Down MP
Margaret Ritchie resigns from the
Northern Ireland Executive .
Alex Attwood is the new
Minister for Social Development .
(RTÉ)
Sarah, Duchess of York receives support from businessman
Simon Cowell and an award for her work with the disadvantaged children of the
U.S. city of
Los Angeles despite being caught in a newspaper sting in Britain.
(Sky News)
Iran 's largest water supply project is inaugurated in
Khorramshahr .
(Bernama)
(Press TV)
(Tehran Times )
Paul Gray ,
bassist and founding member of heavy metal group
Slipknot , is found dead at the age of 38 by a hotel employee in his room in
Iowa ,
United States .
(The Guardian )
(Xinhua)
(TIME )
(ABC News)
May 25, 2010 (2010-05-25 ) (Tuesday)
Curfew imposed in central
Nepal after clash. Central Nepal district
Dolakha ’s government issued curfew order on Sunday following clashes between the police and the
Communist Party of Nepal (
Maoist )-aligned
Young Communist League (YCL) activists.
(alice.boseviews) [
permanent dead link ]
The death toll from the
fighting in Kingston ,
Jamaica 's capital, jumps to 27.
(BBC)
May 2010 Central European floods :
An international operation against a major drug trafficking gang deals "a major blow" as 26 people are arrested in
Ireland ,
Spain and the
United Kingdom , including a
capo di tutti capi .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
(France24) [
permanent dead link ]
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Brazilian President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches
TV Brasil Internacional , an international television station currently broadcasting to African nations.
(BBC)
(France24) [
permanent dead link ]
(MercoPress)
Increased tensions over the sinking of the
South Korean warship
ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772) : South Korea begins broadcasting propaganda over its border with
North Korea . North Korea severs all ties and communications with the South and expels Southern workers from a jointly-run factory above the border.
(Yonhap)
(BBC)
A court in
Thailand issues an arrest warrant for former
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra on charges of terrorism, following a report by the Thai Department of Special Investigations, which concluded that he had financed
Red Shirt protesters and had helped them smuggle in weapons and fighters from Cambodia, during the
2010 political crisis .
(Al Jazeera)
At least 17 people die after a tourist bus crashes in
Antalya .
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
(CBS News)
(Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review )
(Today's Zaman )
A white teacher in
Dahlonega, Georgia is suspended after permitting non-black students to bring bed sheets and cone-shaped party hats to school to dress in the traditional costume of right-wing white supremacist nationalist organisation
Ku Klux Klan for a film project. She refuses to apologise after the issue is raised by African-American students when one of them was asked to take part in a re-enactment of a
lynching .
(BBC)
(Pretoria News )
(The Daily Telegraph )
Iran releases film director
Jafar Panahi after more than two months in custody, including a
hunger strike , following an international campaign led by the actress
Juliette Binoche .
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
The
Malaysian tanker
MT Bunga Kelana 3 and a bulk carrier collide in the
Singapore Strait , resulting in an estimated 2,000 tonnes of oil spilled.
(Reuters)
(The Times )
(Straits Times )
The
Supreme Court of Pakistan dismisses a government appeal to detain
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed , a Muslim cleric suspected by
India to have masterminded the
2008 Mumbai attacks .
(Reuters)
(AP)
Italy 's cabinet approves an austerity budget to cut its deficit by €24 billion in 2011 and 2012.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(The Miami Herald ) [
permanent dead link ]
Sicilians react with outrage to an advert for a clothing shop in
Palermo featuring
Adolf Hitler dressed in pink and a
heart instead of a
swastika .
(BBC)
Russia 's new
Cyrillic Internet domain (
.рф ) launches on 476 sites.
(RIA Novosti)
A study indicates that the
Pac-Man game
Google put on its home page Friday led to the loss of almost five million
man-hours (or 550 years) of work time.
(BBC)
(CBC News)
(Daily Mail )
Bono is released from hospital in
Munich following his spinal surgery as
U2 confirm the postponement of the
North America leg of the
U2 360° Tour and cancel their headlining slot at the
Glastonbury Festival 2010 .
(The Irish Times )
(CNN)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Swedish model
Charlotte Lindström is released from Long Bay Prison in
Sydney after serving a three year sentence for plotting to kill two people; she served the time in total isolation because of death threats towards her.
(Herald Sun )
South African opera star
Siphiwo Ntshebe , chosen by
Nelson Mandela to sing "Hope" at the opening ceremony of the
2010 FIFA World Cup next month, dies suddenly aged 34 after contracting
meningitis .
(IOL)
(BBC)
(CBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(The Guardian )
Ivor Powell , the world's oldest football coach and "one of the great footballers of his generation" retires at the age of 93.
(BBC)
May 26, 2010 (2010-05-26 ) (Wednesday)
More than 80 students are sickened in a girls' school in
Kunduz ,
Afghanistan , in a
poison gas attack suspected to have been carried out by
Taliban assailants whose version of
Islam is opposed to girls being educated.
(USA Today )
International Criminal Court judges tell the UN Security Council that the
Sudanese government is protecting suspects wanted for
war crimes in
Darfur instead of arresting them to face trial.
(The Globe and Mail )
Jamaican police arrest more than 500 people after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin in
Kingston , the capital,
results in violence that leaves at least 44 people dead.
(CNN)
(BBC)
Two of
Ethiopia 's main opposition leaders call for a rerun of Sunday's elections won by Western-backed
Meles Zenawi . They say the elections were not free and fair and that two politicians were killed by security forces.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Hindu )
(Reuters)
Brandenburg reaches level four on the disaster alert scale as water levels along the
Oder and
Neisse rivers
continue to rise .
(Deutsche Welle)
Israel launches two night-time
air strikes on the
Gaza Strip in response to
mortar attacks and the detonation of 200 kg of explosives laden on a donkey-cart next to the border fence.
(BBC)
(The Jerusalem Post )
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas condemns
Iran , saying his people were “hijacked, at the hands of the Iranians”; possibly referring to
Hamas 's refusal to reconcile with
Fatah on Iran's command by announcing on that it would boycott the
Palestinian municipal elections
(The Jerusalem Post )
Palestinian Authority security forces arrest scores of Hamas officials and supporters in the West Bank a day after Hamas announced that it would boycott the
Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for July 17.
(The Jerusalem Post )
The
chief rabbi of a
West Bank settlement declares that women should be prohibited from standing in a local community
election .
(BBC)
Nuclear program of Iran :
Lori Berenson is freed on parole after serving 15 years in a
Peruvian prison for aiding the
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement .
(BBC)
Iraq announces the dissolution of state-owned
Iraqi Airways over the next three years and the pursuit of private options to avoid asset claims made by
Kuwait over
their 1990-91 war .
(Al Jazeera)
The
International Criminal Court reports
Sudan to the
United Nations Security Council for refusing to arrest former Minister
Ahmed Haroun and militia leader
Ali Muhammad Al Abd-Al-Rahman .
(BBC)
A
Lusaka court convicts former
Zambian Finance Minister
Katele Kalumba of corruption and sentences him to five years with hard labour. Six other people, including former officials in the finance ministry, are also found guilty of corruption.
(BBC)
(IOL)
Two people are injured and several vehicles are destroyed during a blast in
Kandahar .
(Al Jazeera)
Charles Djou is sworn into the
United States House of Representatives , representing
Hawaii 's
1st congressional district .
(Fox News)
Space Shuttle
Atlantis completes
its final scheduled mission after landing at
Kennedy Space Center ,
Florida .
(Xinhua)
(CNN)
(BBC)
Elton John makes his
Moroccan debut at the
Mawazine festival in
Rabat , ignoring calls for him to be banned by Islamists who feared he would offend public morals.
(BBC)
Virtual band
Gorillaz are announced to replace
U2 as headliners of the
Glastonbury Festival 2010 .
(BBC)
(CBC)
(RTÉ)
(Reuters)
(The Times )
The
Alaotra grebe , a
grebe
endemic to
Madagascar , is declared
extinct 25 years after its last reported sighting.
(BBC)
May 27, 2010 (2010-05-27 ) (Thursday)
The death toll in the
recent violence in
Jamaica jumps to 73, and 44 in west
Kingston alone.
(Al Jazeera)
(Montreal Gazette )
At least seven people die and at least 40 others are injured after
a bomb explodes before a performance in
Stavropol .
(CBC)
(CNN)
(Deutsche Welle)
(RIA Novosti)
The
Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now the worst oil spill in U.S. history, surpassing the worst previous spill, the
Exxon Valdez wreck on the
Alaska coast in 1989, according to scientists' latest estimates.
(Chicago Tribune )
A US-born
Yemenite cleric linked to
Al-Qaeda ,
Anwar Al-Awlaki , advocates the killing of US civilians in a new Al Qaeda video.
(USA Today )
Two campaigners for
LGBT rights in Zimbabwe are freed after spending six days in custody on charges of possessing
pornographic material and insulting
President
Robert Mugabe .
(BBC)
(IOL)
(News24.com)
North Korea says it will scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with
South Korea after being blamed for a torpedo attack that
sank a South Korean warship .
(CBC)
France detains
Rwandan doctor
Eugene Rwamucyo , wanted by
Interpol since 2006 and accused of involvement in the
Rwandan Genocide .
(BBC)
Sudan :
Israeli–Palestinian conflict :
Israel summons the ambassadors of
Cyprus ,
Greece ,
Ireland ,
Sweden and
Turkey to protest the expedition as an unnecessary provocation after eight ships, including four cargo vessels and a Turkish passenger ferry carrying 600 people, including a
Nobel peace laureate and former U.S. congresswoman, set sail for
Gaza with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to break a three-year Israeli blockade on the territory.
(RTÉ)
(Associated Press)
(Voice of America)
(The Jerusalem Post )
Organizers of the aid flotilla refuse an offer of support by the family of kidnapped Israeli soldier
Gilad Shalit if they would urge
Hamas to allow the soldier to receive letters and food packages from his family and international organizations to visit him.
(Ynetnews)
(The Jerusalem Post )
(Haaretz )
Israel invites the convoy to unload its cargo at the port of
Ashdod , where the cargo will be checked for weapons and then the humanitarian goods will be distributed by land to
Gaza .
(Haaretz )
(The Jerusalem Post )
The
Israeli Army shows journalists a detention centre in
Ashdod where those on board will locked up, saying Israelis would be arrested, Palestinians would be questioned by the Israeli secret service, and foreign nationals would be sent home.
(Al Jazeera)
Cyprus bans flotilla vessels from gathering in its territorial waters, a move described by
Israel as "an ethical deed and a voice of reason".
(Ynetnews)
Two
Palestinians are wounded in an
Israeli air strike east of Gaza City in response to
Palestinians firing mortar into Israel .
(AFP)
Pakistan :
In its annual report,
Amnesty International says
human rights abuses and repression increased in
Iran and
China last year, the
African Union refused to cooperate with the
International Criminal Court after it indicted Sudanese President
Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in
Darfur , the
United Nations ’
Human Rights Council took little action while
Sri Lanka ’s army and
Tamil militants both committed potential war crimes, and
Israel and the militant group
Hamas did not follow up on reports that accused both sides of human rights abuses during the
Gaza War .
(Xinhua)
(Businessweek)
(MSNBC)
(VOA)
Licences are granted to four private daily newspapers as part of media reforms in
Zimbabwe .
(BBC)
(CNN)
Singapore closes beaches along 7.2 kilometers (4.5 miles) of its east coast as an oil spill from the damaged Malaysian tanker
MT Bunga Kelana 3 continues to spread.
(AP)
(Reuters India)
(BBC)
Libya welcomes the return of some ancient relics stolen by British soldiers in the 1950s and now on display in
Tripoli 's
Museum of Libya .
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
(BBC)
(Daily Mail )
(News24.com)
Tens of thousands of workers strike in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age in
France .
(BBC)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
(RTÉ)
(The Washington Post )
(Al Jazeera)
Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole , two ex-officers in
Zambia 's air force, are awarded 10 million
kwacha in damages following claims they were tested and treated for
HIV without their knowledge.
(BBC)
Spain 's parliament approves by one vote a €15 billion austerity package to rein in the country's budget deficit.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
French Polynesia
Vice President
Edouard Fritch is arrested in a
bribery probe.
(RNZI)
Peter James Bethune , a New Zealand
anti-whaling campaigner, pleads guilty to four charges over his alleged attacks on the Japanese whaling vessel
MV Shōnan Maru 2 in February.
(ABC)
(Radio New Zealand )
(The Jakarta Post )
The first launch of the
SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is delayed to no earlier than June 2, 2010, due to delays in a
Delta IV
GPS satellite launch.
(Space.com News)
Ten acts, including
former winner
Niamh Kavanagh , progress to the final of
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in
Bærum ,
Oslo .
Sweden fails to qualify for the first time in its history.
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
Former child actor
Gary Coleman is hospitalised in a critical condition in the
United States .
(CNN)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
May 28, 2010 (2010-05-28 ) (Friday)
Terrorists attacked two major mosques simultaneously belonging to the
Ahmadiyya Muslim community in
Lahore , Pakistan killing nearly 100 Ahmadis. See:
May 2010 attacks on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore
Contributions from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland allow the
World Bank to cancel $36 million in
Haiti 's
remaining debt following January's
devastating earthquake .
(Al Jazeera)
(The New York Times )
(Reuters)
(CNN)
At least three people die, at least four others are missing, a 15-day state of calamity is declared and the international airport is shut down due to the eruption of the
Pacaya volcano in
Guatemala .
(CNN)
Assailants
attack two mosques in
Lahore ,
Pakistan , killing at least 80 and injuring 50 more.
(Al Jazeera)
(Times of India )
(Malaysia Star )
At least 25 people are killed and 150 injured in India after a
Mumbai train with 13 passenger coaches is derailed by an explosion on the tracks and
collides with another train as it traveled through the
Paschim Medinipur district , a
rebel stronghold in eastern India.
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
(USA Today )
(The Hindu )
(Times of India )
(BBC)
Hundreds of corpses
buried in a mudslide which swept away three villages on the slopes of
Mount Elgon near
Bududa ,
Uganda , three months ago are yet to be recovered.
(BBC)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict :
Voters in the Czech Republic vote in
legislative elections .
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(France24) [
permanent dead link ]
(Reuters)
Nepal heads towards another political crisis.
(Al Jazeera)
North Korea :
Peruvian
AIDESEP indigenous leader
Alberto Pizango , detained on Wednesday as he returned from almost a year in exile in
Nicaragua and charged with objecting to oil digging in the rainforest, is released on bail.
(BBC)
President of South Africa
Jacob Zuma , in a rare disagreement with another African state, issues a statement of condemnation following
Malawi 's sentencing of a
same-sex couple to 14 years in jail.
(IOL)
The
BBC intervenes and tensions escalate after the UK cabinet members' threat to boycott
Question Time unless
Alastair Campbell , former adviser to
Tony Blair , is removed from the panel.
(The Guardian )
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
(BBC)
Foxconn increases the wages of the workers in its Shenzhen factory, where several employees have committed
suicide , increases wages, by 20 per cent in an effort to boost morale.
(BBC)
Gulf of Mexico oil spill :
Australia promises to begin legal action against Japan due to disagreeing with its annual whaling hunt in the
Southern Ocean .
(BBC)
Indonesia announces a two-year
moratorium on
rainforest logging in return for up to $1bn in aid from Norway, which will help preserve forests.
(Al Jazeera)
(The New York Times )
(ABC) ,
(The Norway Post)
(The Jakarta Post)
Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Steven Spielberg help unveil the rebuilt outdoor sets with imitation New York streets of
Universal Studios in Los Angeles, United States. The sets were destroyed in a 2008 fire.
(BBC)
(CBC)
After a personal intervention from
Nicolas Sarkozy , France beats Turkey and Italy for the right to stage the
UEFA Euro 2016 tournament.
(CBC)
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(France24)
Joe Biden ,
Bill Clinton and
Barack Obama give the
United States men's national soccer team a presidential send-off to South Africa from the
White House ahead of the
2010 FIFA World Cup .
(China Daily )
(IOL) [
permanent dead link ]
(The News International )
May 29, 2010 (2010-05-29 ) (Saturday)
BP 's effort fails to plug the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill , which is the worst in U.S. history, and is fouling marshland and beaches, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire.
(AP)
(USA Today )
Roy Halladay
pitches the 20th
perfect game in
Major League Baseball history in the
Philadelphia Phillies ' 1–0 win over the
Florida Marlins .
(AP at Yahoo!)
Tens of thousands of
Portuguese rally in central
Lisbon against the government's austerity measures in one of the biggest protests in recent years.
(Al Jazeera)
Thousands of people are evacuated as
Attabad Lake in
Pakistan 's
Hunza Valley begins to overflow.
(Al Jazeera)
Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao , Japanese Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama and South Korean President
Lee Myung-bak meet in
Jeju in a trilateral summit to discuss strengthening trade ties and the
Cheonan incident.
(Radio Australia)
(Korea Times)
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 at the
Telenor Arena in
Bærum ,
Oslo :
Israel rejects call to take part in a conference aimed at achieving a nuclear-arms free
Middle East , citing the document agreed to at the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty talks in which Israel was singled out, but which did not mention
Iran , widely suspected of having a
nuclear-weapons program , or declared nuclear states
India and
Pakistan , who have not signed the treaty.
(The Jerusalem Post )
(BBC)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
Israeli–Palestinian conflict :
Gaza prepares a welcoming party to receive the flotilla of ships demonstrating against
Israel 's naval blockade, while the ships are delayed near
Cyprus due to unsuccessful attempts to collect dozens of high-profile supporters from the island.
(The Australian )
(The Age )
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
Six people are killed and twelve others are injured after a gas canister blasts in an underground tunnel in
Rafah .
(Xinhua)
(AFP)
Thousands of people flee the
Pacaya volcano in
Guatemala and the
Tungurahua volcano in
Ecuador following eruptions.
(BBC)
(CBC)
Two
gay pride demonstrations are held in
Moscow despite an official ban. It is the first time the event was not broken up by police since the initial attempt in 2006.
(AP)
(Russia Today)
(Reuters)
President of
Malawi
Bingu wa Mutharika
pardons a
gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison for "gross indecency and unnatural acts".
(BBC)
(CNN)
(Hindustan Times )
(Xinhua)
More than 50,000
Greeks with
diabetes are left with
insulin after
Novo Nordisk , the world's leading supplier of the drug, withdraws from
Greece in a "brutal capitalist blackmail" after being asked to reduce the cost of its medicine by the Greek government.
(BBC)
(euronews)
At least 14 people are wounded after dozens of
handball fans belonging to rival teams
PAOK Thessaloniki and
AEK Athens attack each other with petrol bombs, knives, bricks and furniture, leading to a street battle in
Lamia . Police deploy tear gas to bring the city under their control.
(BBC)
Another riot occurs in
Austria as the
Serbia national football team meet the
New Zealand national football team ahead of the
2010 FIFA World Cup .
(The Times )
(RTÉ)
The leaders of
Pakistan 's
Ahmadiyya religious minority ask the government to provide better protection for the group, as they bury those killed in
yesterday's double mosque attack in
Lahore .
(Al Jazeera)
Nepal 's political leaders agree to extend the parliamentary term for another year following talks to avert a political crisis.
(Al Jazeera)
(The Rising Nepal )
Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán , winner of the
2010 parliamentary elections in
Hungary , assumes office.
(Reuters)
Thai Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva lifts a
curfew in the capital
Bangkok and 23 provinces in the aftermath of
protests but a
state of emergency would remain.
(Bernama)
(AP)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
As part of the ongoing
United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal ,
Liberal Democrat
MP
David Laws resigns from his position as
Chief Secretary to the Treasury after it is revealed he used expenses to cover rent for a non-marital partner, a practice banned in 2006.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(Al Jazeera)
May 30, 2010 (2010-05-30 ) (Sunday)
Flight recorders from
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 , which crashed in
Libya on 12 May killing 103 people, suggest there was no technical failure.
(BBC)
(IOL)
(Reuters)
The death toll in yesterday's bus crash in
Cameroon is said to have risen to at least 30 people and is expected to rise again. The bus broke into two pieces after rolling down a hill several times.
(Al Jazeera)
(news.com.au)
(AFP)
Prime Minister of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bypasses
Argentina on his
South American tour, opting to travel straight to
Chile after
Buenos Aires officials call off an event honouring
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk due to what Turkey considers "hostile" interference from
Armenian pressure groups.
(BBC)
A second
Danish pharmaceutical company, Leo Pharma, suspends sales of medical products in
Greece over the government's decision to reduce the cost of medicine there. The government condemns these acts as "unfair".
(BBC)
It is discovered that a British businessman was among the 93 people killed in
the twin mosque attack in
Pakistan on Friday.
(BBC)
A roadside bomb kills seven police officers and injures one other in the
Darayim District ,
Badakhshan .
(Al Jazeera)
Thailand 's Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva lifts a curfew imposed in the wake of deadly anti-government protests but keeps emergency rule after
two months of rallies by
"Red Shirt" demonstrators paralyzed
Bangkok and left almost 90 people dead.
(The Australian )
(CNN)
China encourages
North Korea and
South Korea to avoid violent clashes in the aftermath of the sinking of a
South Korean warship .
(CNN)
(China Daily )
BP turns to a new strategy to stop the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill , but it will take at least four to seven days before the containment device that could capture the leaking oil can be put into place.
(The Australian )
(VOA)
(CNN)
Two potential
pirate attacks in the
Gulf of Aden off the coast of
Somalia are disrupted by the
Seychelles Coast Guard and the
Australian navy .
(CNN)
Bangladesh blocks access to
Facebook after satirical images of the
Islamic prophet
Muhammad and the country's leaders were uploaded.
(BBC)
(AFP)
(Al Jazeera)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict :
Colombian presidential election :
Jón Gnarr 's Best Party (
Besti flokkurinn )
wins the elections in
Reykjavík .
(BBC)
Legislative elections in the Czech Republic :
The
Social Democrats gain the most votes, but 10 percentage points less than 2006, losing 18 seats.
(CNN)
(AP)
Centre-right parties win 118 seats, with two of them—
TOP 09 and
Public Affairs —standing in the election for the first time. A centre-right coalition, with
Petr Nečas as new Prime Minister, is believed to be "almost certain".
(BusinessWeek)
Social Democrats leader
Jiří Paroubek resigns as party leader following the result.
(Reuters)
The
Communist Party , which was polling higher than 2006 before the election, fail to make any gains, remaining at 26 seats.
In
rugby sevens ,
Samoa wins the Cup final of the
2010
Edinburgh Sevens , defeating
Australia 41–14. The result also gives Samoa Sevens overall victory in the
2009–10
IRB Sevens World Series .
(International Rugby Board)
(Samoa Observer )
May 31, 2010 (2010-05-31 ) (Monday)
6 died, 7 ill after eating poisonous plants in northwest China's
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region .
(China Daily)
Shanghai Expo receives over 8 million visitors in first month.
(Xinhuanet)
A
mass grave containing between 20 and 25 bodies is found in an abandoned mine near
Taxco ,
Guerrero , in
Mexico .
(BBC)
German President
Horst Köhler resigns after being criticized for some remarks about
German military deployments. Pundits and opposition politicians call it an "overreaction" on his part.
(BBC)
(Der Spiegel )
Colombia 's former
Minister of National Defence ,
Juan Manuel Santos , wins the first round of
the country's presidential election , but without the majority needed to avoid a June run-off with rival
Antanas Mockus
(Aljazeera)
An
undersea volcano erupts near
Sarigan ,
Northern Mariana Islands , sending an
eruption cloud 40,000 feet into the
atmosphere , prompting Governor
Benigno Fitial to declare a
state of emergency .
(Saipan Tribune )
(The Wall Street Journal )
French President
Nicolas Sarkozy , speaking at the launch of the 25th
Africa-France summit in
Nice , calls for
Africa to be represented on the
United Nations Security Council , and promises to back changes when France chairs the
G8 and
G-20 major economies groups in 2011.
(Aljazeera)
(BBC)
The
Sudanese army
clashes with rebel groups , among them the
Justice and Equality Movement , in the
Um Sauna area in western Darfur.
(Businessweek)
In the
International Atomic Energy Agency 's report before the
United Nations Security Council votes on sanctions against
Iran , international nuclear inspectors state that Iran has now produced a stockpile of
nuclear fuel that would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two
nuclear weapons , and it appears to bolster the
Obama administration ’s case for a fourth round of
economic sanctions against Iran .
(The New York Times )
(Washington Times )
Wildfires burn across Quebec, sending smoke as far away as
Ottawa and
Cape Cod .
(Boston Herald)
(CBC News)
Afghan authorities suspend two
Christian foreign aid groups,
Church World Service and
Norwegian Church Aid , on suspicion of
proselytizing in the strictly
Islamic republic and said a follow-up investigation would include whether other groups were trying to convert Muslims.
(USA Today )
Gaza flotilla clash :
Pope Benedict XVI and child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church:
The 25th
EU -
Russia summit begins in
Rostov-on-Don with talks on industrial and trade links, human rights and a visa-free regime.
(EU Observer )
(Voice of Russia)
(The Hürriyet ) [
permanent dead link ]
Six
Turkish soldiers are killed in a rocket attack on a navy base by suspected
Kurdish rebels in the south of the country.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
A court in
Pakistan lifts a ban on
Facebook imposed two weeks ago after an "
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day " group appeared on the site.
(Press Trust of India)
(AP)
(RTT News)