May 1, 2009 (2009-05-01) (Friday)
May 2, 2009 (2009-05-02) (Saturday)
May 3, 2009 (2009-05-03) (Sunday)
May 4, 2009 (2009-05-04) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
May 5, 2009 (2009-05-05) (Tuesday)
May 6, 2009 (2009-05-06) (Wednesday)
May 7, 2009 (2009-05-07) (Thursday)
- The
private military company
Xe (formerly
Blackwater Worldwide) ends its
operations in
Baghdad,
Iraq.
(AP via Google News)
- The
Eastern Partnership conducts its inaugural meeting in
Prague,
Czech Republic.
-
General Motors reports a
US$6 billion loss for the
first fiscal quarter of 2009.
(AP via the Wall Street Journal)
- One
police officer is
killed and two more are injured in
Napier,
New Zealand.
(TVNZ.co.nz)
-
Canada
experiences its first
swine influenza-related death.
(CP24 via Canadian Press)
-
Wildfires near
Santa Barbara,
California,
United States, burn 3,000 acres (12 km2) of land and force 15,000 people to
evacuate.
(BBC)
- The
Armed Forces and the
Union of Forces for Democracy and Development
battle near
Goz Beïda,
Ouaddaï Region,
Chad.
(BBC)
-
China announces that 5,335 schoolchildren died during an
earthquake in
Sichuan on May 12, 2008.
(The Guardian)
- An
American man is arrested in
Burma for
trespassing on
National League for Democracy
General Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi's
property.
(BBC)
- The
Central Bank reduces the
Eurozone's
interest rate to 1% and implements
€60 billion of
quantitative easing.
(BBC)
- A fire at a
casino kills ten people and injures ten others in
Dnipropetrovsk,
Ukraine.
(BBC)
- The fourth phase of
India's
general election concludes.
(Hindustan Times)
- The
Bank of England freezes
interest rates at 0.5% and will implement
£50 billion of
quantitative easing.
(BBC)
- Ten
Army
soldiers are killed and 22 others injured during
combat with the
Taliban in
Swat,
Pakistan.
(BBC)
-
Somali
pirates
hijack the
Netherlands'
MV Marathon and attack the
U.S.
Navy
cargo ship
Lewis and Clark.
(Reuters)
May 8, 2009 (2009-05-08) (Friday)
-
Thunderstorms throughout the
Midwestern
United States kill five people.
(New York Times)
-
Afghan
President
Hamid Karzai demands that the
United States halt
airstrikes in the
war against the
Taliban.
(Reuters)
-
Louis Caldera
resigns as
Director of the
White House Military Office.
(New York Times)
-
Wildfires cause at least 30,000 people to
evacuate
Santa Barbara,
California,
United States.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
-
Islamic
terrorist and
Singaporean
fugitive
Mas Selamat bin Kastari is arrested in
Malaysia.
(AP via Google News)
- At least 45,000 people
evacuate as
war between the
government and the
Taliban continues in
Swat,
Pakistan.
(Sky News)
- A
cave-in at a
gold mine in
Siguiri,
Guinea,
kills 20 people, injures five more, and renders ten others
missing.
(BBC)
-
Pope
Benedict XVI begins his
tour of
Jordan,
Israel, and the
Palestinian territories.
(BBC)
May 9, 2009 (2009-05-09) (Saturday)
May 10, 2009 (2009-05-10) (Sunday)
May 11, 2009 (2009-05-11) (Monday)
May 12, 2009 (2009-05-12) (Tuesday)
May 13, 2009 (2009-05-13) (Wednesday)
May 14, 2009 (2009-05-14) (Thursday)
May 15, 2009 (2009-05-15) (Friday)
May 16, 2009 (2009-05-16) (Saturday)
May 17, 2009 (2009-05-17) (Sunday)
May 18, 2009 (2009-05-18) (Monday)
May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19) (Tuesday)
May 20, 2009 (2009-05-20) (Wednesday)
- The
United Kingdom's
House of Lords
suspends
Thomas Taylor and
Peter Truscott until November for
misconduct.
(BBC)
-
South East Queensland,
Australia, is declared a
natural disaster zone, following
flooding.
(ABC News Australia)
-
Iran
launches a
Sajjil-2
medium-range
surface-to-surface missile.
(BBC)
- An
Air Force
C-130 Hercules
aircraft
crashes in
Java,
Indonesia, killing at least 98 people.
(Reuters)
-
The Globe and Mail refutes portions of former
Canadian
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney's testimony about his
relationship with
German
arms dealer
Karlheinz Schreiber.
(Globe and Mail)
- The
International Security Assistance Force reports that the
Taliban are using
white phosphorus in the
Afghanistan
War.
(CNN)
-
Scottish
First Minister
Alex Salmond activates
Whitelee Wind Farm,
Europe's largest onshore
wind farm.
(BBC)
(NCE)
- Three
civilians die during
combat between
Islamist
insurgents and the
African Union
Mission in
Mogadishu,
Somalia.
(BBC)
-
Japan's
economy
contracted by 4% during the
first fiscal quarter of 2009.
(BBC)
-
Ireland's
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
concludes that the
Roman Catholic Church and the
Department of Education knew
sexual abuse was "
endemic" in
boys’ institutions.
(RTÉ)
- A
car bomb kills at least 34 people and injures 72 others in
Baghdad,
Iraq.
(BBC)
- The
Provincial Police of
Woodstock,
Ontario,
Canada, charge two people with
abducting and
murdering
Victoria Stafford.
(CTV)
-
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
defeat
SV Werder Bremen to win the
final
UEFA Cup.
(BBC)
(UEFA)
-
Kris Allen is crowned the new
American Idol.
May 21, 2009 (2009-05-21) (Thursday)
May 22, 2009 (2009-05-22) (Friday)
May 23, 2009 (2009-05-23) (Saturday)
-
Madhav Kumar Nepal of the
Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) is elected as
Prime Minister of
Nepal.
(CNN)
- Fourteen people are killed as a
King Air 350 crashes near
philippines,
Bahia,
Brazil.
(AFP via ABC News)
-
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon demands better
humanitarian aid for 250,000
war
refugees in
Sri Lanka.
(CNN)
- The
Army and the
Taliban
battle in
Mingora,
Swat,
Pakistan.
(Al Jazeera)
- Former
South Korean
President
Roh Moo-hyun commits
suicide.
(AP via USA Today)
-
Floods force the
evacuations of
Kempsey and
Grafton,
New South Wales,
Australia.
(ABC News)
-
Madagascar's
political parties
agree to establish a
provisional government and a
truth/reconciliation commission.
(BBC)
- A
car bomb
kills at least six people and injures 70 others in
Peshawar,
Pakistan.
(BBC)
-
Germany's
Federal Assembly
re-elects
Horst Köhler as
President.
(Deutsche Welle)
-
United States
President
Barack Obama nominates former
astronaut
Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as
Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(Los Angeles Times)
- A
bomb kills two people and injures 12 others in
Kathmandu,
Nepal.
(CNN)
May 24, 2009 (2009-05-24) (Sunday)
May 25, 2009 (2009-05-25) (Monday)
May 26, 2009 (2009-05-26) (Tuesday)
May 27, 2009 (2009-05-27) (Wednesday)
May 28, 2009 (2009-05-28) (Thursday)
May 29, 2009 (2009-05-29) (Friday)
May 30, 2009 (2009-05-30) (Saturday)
May 31, 2009 (2009-05-31) (Sunday)
- The
People's Justice Party wins the
by-election in
Penanti,
Penang,
Malaysia.
(Bernama)
-
Russian
cyclist
Denis Menchov wins the
2009
Giro d'Italia in
Rome,
Italy.
(New York Times)
-
Late-term abortion provider
George Tiller is shot and killed in
Wichita,
Kansas,
United States.
(The Wichita Eagle)
-
South Ossetia holds its
parliamentary election.
(Al Jazeera)
- Six people are killed during
battle between
Hamas
militants and the
Palestinian National Authority's
Preventive Security Service in the
West Bank.
(BBC)
- Two men are charged with plotting to
assassinate former
Hong Kong
Democratic Party
Chairman
Martin Lee.
(AFP via News Limited)
- At least 44 inmates
escape from a
prison in
Bagua Grande,
Peru.
(BBC)
- A man steals
€6 million in
jewellery from
Chopard in
Paris,
France.
(BBC)
- Thousands of
demonstrators gather in
Hong Kong to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square
massacre of June 4, 1989.
(Straits Times)
(BBC)
- At least 72
protesters are arrested after battling with the
National Police Agency in
Seoul,
South Korea.
(The Korea Times)
-
Robin Söderling of
Sweden
defeats
world-number-one, four-time French Open and defending champion
Rafael Nadal of
Spain in
tennis's
2009
French Open.
(Sky News) On the same day, women's defending champion
Ana Ivanovic also bows out, losing to
Victoria Azarenka.
(The Telegraph)
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