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- A U.S. federal appeals court rules that Congressman Jim McDermott must pay damages for leaking a copy of a tape of an illegally intercepted telephone call. (New York Times)
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- Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corporation, announces a $5 billion offer to take over Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. (International Herald Tribune)
- Turkish presidential election, 2007: The Constitutional Court of Turkey annuls last Friday's presidential vote in the Grand National Assembly after a challenge by opposition parties. (BBC)
- At least three people die after an explosion in an apartment building in Palencia, Spain. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Police arrest 30 alleged animal rights extremists in raids in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. (BBC)
- Deutsche Börse AG, operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, agrees to buy International Securities Exchange the second biggest United States options market for $2.8 billion creating the largest transatlantic derivatives market. (Bloomberg via the Boston Globe)
- Nigerian opposition and civil society groups join trade unions in May Day rallies against the recent presidential election which saw Umaru Yar'Adua elected as the President of Nigeria. (BBC)
- Eitan Cabel, a member of the Israeli Cabinet resigns in protest of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of the 2006 Lebanon War. (FOX)
- Two men are charged in Melbourne, Victoria with being members of the Tamil Tigers and providing funding to the organisation. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Thousands of Macau residents demonstrate against the government's labour policy and corruption on May Day, resulting in a clash with police. One bystander was injured. (AP via International Herald Tribute) (BBC)
- Digg users participate in the "Digg Revolt" of posting the pirated HD-DVD/AACS hex code, considered by sources to be a pivotal moment in internet free-speech. [1]
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- Gunmen in Afghanistan kill Abdul Sabur Farid, a member of the House of Elders and former Prime Minister. (BBC)
- Voters in The Bahamas go to the polls in elections for the House of Assembly (AP via CNN), ousting the governing Progressive Liberal Party in favour of the opposition Free National Movement. (BBC)
- Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Los Angeles, California, orders an inquiry into a clash that occurred at a May Day Rally between the Los Angeles Police Department and pro-immigration demonstrators. (Reuters via CNN)
- The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Sudanese humanitarian affairs minister Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb on charges of war crimes committed during the Darfur conflict. (BBC)
- Iraq War: U.S. President George W. Bush meets with Democratic Party officials in Congress to try find ways to fund the Iraq War. (BBC)
- French presidential election, 2007: Candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal participate in a televised debate. (CNN) (BBC) (Reuters via CNN)
- All six members of the Bali Nine on death row have the appeal against their sentence heard in Bali and Jakarta. (ABC News Australia)
- Avigdor Yitzhaki, the chairman and co-founder of Ehud Olmert's Kadima party, calls on Olmert to resign as the Prime Minister of Israel over his handling of the 2006 Lebanon War. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni later joined calls for Olmert's resignation. (BBC) (AustBC)
- Four people are killed in a helicopter crash in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
- A train carrying solid-fuel booster segments for the space shuttle programme is involved in a bridge collapse in Alabama, injuring six people, two seriously. (Spaceflight Now)
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- Major world and Middle East powers discuss the future of Iraq on the second day of an International Compact for Iraq conference in Egypt. (BBC)
- A boat carrying nearly 150 Haitian migrants capsizes in the Atlantic Ocean 1 km off the coast of one of the Turks and Caicos Islands, killing at least twenty, requiring the rescue of at least seventy-three and leaving at least fifty-eight unaccounted for. (CBS)
- Two Cuban military deserters hijack a bus and reroute it to Havana Airport, before attempting to steal an empty passenger jet with the occupants of the bus as hostages. The plan is ultimately foiled but one hostage is killed before the men are captured. [2]
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- Legislative and local elections are being held currently in the Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Jorge Daniel Castro, the head of the Colombian National Police force and Guillermo Chavez, the intelligence chief, resign over an illegal wiretapping scandal. (BBC)
- A death threat was mailed by PKK to CHP, MHP, DYP and AKP to withdraw their Van and Hakkari candidates to the 2007 general election in Turkey. (Hürriyet)
- United States Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty will resign, two Justice Department officials tell The Associated Press. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Top Palestinian Security Official, Hani Kawasmeh, quits in protest on Monday as Sunday's ceasefire is broken, with fighting across Gaza between Hamas and Fatah killing 8 and wounding 40. Fighting began as both sides set up security checkpoints and kidnapped rivals as bargaining chips. (Washington Post)
- President George W. Bush orders United States government agencies to take regulatory steps to reduce automobile emissions. (Bloomberg)
- The U.S. military is to block troops from using YouTube and MySpace and 11 other popular websites for sharing photos, video clips and messages. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistan unrest: A strike in Pakistan closes shops and clears transport from the roads after two days of violence in Karachi left 41 people dead. (BBC)
- The House of Councillors passes rules for revising the pacifist Constitution of Japan, a central goal of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Bloomberg)
- Ten people die in an explosion and fire in a cafe in Orsk, Russia. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- The President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian names Chang Chun-hsiung of the Democratic Progressive Party as the new Premier of the Republic of China. (BBC)
- Nominations open for the leadership of the United Kingdom Labour Party with Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown as the favourite. (BBC)
- An ethics panel of the World Bank Group finds that its President Paul Wolfowitz was guilty of violating his contract when arranging a compensation package for Shaha Ali Riza with whom he had a relationship. (CNN) (Bloomberg)
- A new species of hummingbird is discovered in Colombia. (ABC News)
- DaimlerChrysler announces it has sold 80.1% of its stake in the Chrysler Group to Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm for $7.4 Billion. It is announced that the corporate names are to be changed to Daimler AG and Chrysler Holding LLC. (WDIV-TV)
- The Alaskan cruise ship Empress of the North strikes an underwater rock on day two of a seven-day tour, and evacuates all 281 passengers on board. (CTV News)
- Twenty four members of a marriage party killed and 30 more injured when their van collides with a truck in the district of Adilabad, in Andhra Pradesh, India. (Saisat)
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- Alltel, a mobile phone provider in the United States, is acquired by TPG Capital, L.P. and Goldman Sachs leveraged-buyout unit. (Bloomberg)
- A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people and injures 32 people in Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan's Paktia Province. (New York Times)
- 2007 Israel-Gaza conflict: An IAF plane fires a missile at house of Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Haya, killing eight people and wounding many others; Al-Haya was not at his house at the time of the strike. (Ynet) (Reuters)
- The main landing gear of an Air Canada Jazz plane flight # AC8911 collapsed while on a runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada with 37 passengers and 3 crew members who were not injured. (CTV Toronto)
- Bulgaria elects Members of the European Parliament for the first time, the three top parties each possibly receiving five deputies. The narrow winner of the elections is the opposition Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria.(Reuters)
- Tens of thousands of Venezuelans march in protest in support of Radio Caracas Televisión and in opposition to President Hugo Chávez, who has vowed not to renew its licence. (AP via Guardian)
- Thousands gather in Samsun, Turkey to protest against the government. (CNN)
- Battle of Nahr al-Bared: Fighting breaks out between Fatah al-Islam militants and Lebanese soldiers at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (BBC)
- David Hicks returns from Guantánamo Bay to his home state of South Australia. He will serve the remaining seven months of his sentence for providing material support for terrorism at Yatala Labour Prison. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Romário scores his 1000th goal for Vasco da Gama by penalty kick against Sport Recife. He is only the second player in the history of professional soccer to achieve this, the first being Pelé in 1969. (Uol)
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- Premier Gary Doer of the Canadian province of Manitoba secures a third straight NDP majority government in the general election. (CTV)
- Silas Rondeau, the Energy Minister of Brazil, resigns over allegations of corruption in a public works project. (BBC)
- 2007 Israel-Gaza conflict: A total of seven rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip and landed in western Negev. Another rocket landed in Sderot and killed an Israeli woman. In response, the IAF also fired missiles in an air strike at a munitions base, and secondary explosions were reported after the strike. The air strike wounded seven people in the attack on Jabaliya, Gaza City, according to local residents and hospital officials.(Reuters) (Ynet)
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican community, declines to invite gay Bishop of New Hampshire Gene Robinson and unrecognized conservative Bishop Martyn Minns of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America to the 2008 Lambeth Conference. (Reuters)
- Skybus Airlines, a new U.S.-based ultra-low-cost carrier airline, launches inaugural flights to and from Columbus, Ohio, with $10 tickets enabled by on-plane advertising and charging people for baggage, pillows, boarding priority, and refreshments. (bizjournal via MSN Money) (AP via Signonsandiego.com)
- A suicide attack occurs at a shopping centre in the Ulus district of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Authorities say there were six fatalities, and 79 injuries. (Reuters) (Hürriyet)
- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issues its forecast for an above-normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season with 13 to 17 named storms, 7 to 10 hurricanes and 3 to 5 major hurricanes. (NOAA)
- The UK Crown Prosecution Service announces that Andrei Lugovoi, an ex-KGB agent, will be charged in connection with the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, also a former KGB agent. (Press Association via the Guardian)
- Iraq War: A car bomb kills 25 people and injures at least 60 in a commercial area in southwestern Baghdad. (Reuters Alertnet)
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- AC Milan defeats Liverpool F.C. 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League final. (Bloomberg)
- One of three captured US soldiers in Iraq is found dead, during an extensive manhunt which occupied nearly 3% of US troops. (BBC)
- Venezuela's Supreme Court rules that Radio Caracas Televisión must close on Monday, May 28, after the station's appeal against a decision by the Venezuelan Government failed. (CNN)
- Lebanon's Defence Minister Elias Murr issues an ultimatum to Fatah al-Islam militants in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (AP via CNN)
- At least 27 people die as a wall collapses in a bar in Tirupur in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. (BBC)
- 2007 Israel-Gaza conflict: Militants in the Gaza Strip fire eight rockets at the southern Israeli cities of Sderot and Kibbutz Nir Am. The IAF makes an air strike on the Gaza Strip, in which they destroy two buildings. (Ynet) (Reuters)
- The British Government announce a carbon emissions trading scheme, the Carbon Reduction Commitment, that will apply to hotel chains, supermarkets, banks, and other large organisations. (DEFRA)
- A Serbian court finds 12 men, including Milorad Ulemek, guilty of the 2003 assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. (BBC) (Sky) (Reuters AlertNet) (Radio Televizija Vojvodine)
- A Thai gunman opens fire with an AK-47 in a market in Pathum Thani Province, north of Bangkok, killing a villager, a security guard and a police officer and critically injuring another six before he was shot dead by the police. (AFP via Channelnewsasia.com)
- Gwen Stefani performs in front of a record-breaking crowd at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA.
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