Wikinews:2009/May
- Chrysler files for bankruptcy, Fiat Group SpA to run company
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter to retire
- Runaway EMU train collides with freight train in India
- Increased turnout, reports of violence at worldwide May Day demonstrations
- Obama's 100-day speech warns of U.S.'s problems
- 1,100 evacuated due to massive Halifax brush fire
- Tropical storm hits Philippines, 45,000 people displaced
- Iran executes woman despite stay of execution
- Swine flu worldwide: update
- As many as 100 civilians die in Afghan raid
- American comedic actor Dom DeLuise dies at age 75
- UK Home Secretary announces ID card pilot launch
- Congressional computers continue to be used to vandalize Wikipedia
- Porsche and Volkswagen automakers agree to merger
- Five arrested in Canada after C$2 million armoured car robbery
- Several groups seek to purchase Saturn auto brand
- Major League baseball player Manny Ramirez receives 50-game ban
- US automaker GM reports losses of $6 billion
- Over 13,500 evacuated after wildfire in California
- Parents prosecuted after homeopathic treatment leads to daughter's death
- Televangelist Pat Robertson compares same-sex marriage to child molestation, pedophilia
- Recession hits Australian asbestos victims fund
- 2,000 face redundancy at English steelworks
- Wildfire in California displaces 30,000
- Five biggest US banks told to raise $74.6 billion; fail "stress tests"
- Mothers around the world on Mother's Day
- Past Eurovision contestants give advice to this year's performers, speculate on who will win
- Moscow gas pipeline catches fire
- Guatemalan government may suspend liberties under state of emergency
- Moscow celebrates Victory Day with military parade
- Wikinews Shorts: May 11, 2009
- Rights group in Afghanistan investigating claim of US use of phosphorus bombs
- High school orders shot glasses as prom favors
- Former U.S. soldier convicted of raping Iraq teen, four murders
- 44 dead and over 300,000 homeless after flooding in Brazil
- NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis
- American journalist in Iran freed from prison
- Jenson Button wins 2009 Spanish Grand Prix
- Man in UK convicted for having obese dog
- Assassinated lawyer accuses Guatemalan president from beyond grave
- Violence in Somalia displaces over 27,000
- Egyptian archaeologists announce discovery of marble statue and 132 new sites
- Spain in danger of Eurovision disqualification after scheduling snafu at RTVE
- U.S. automaker Chrysler wants to eliminate 789 dealerships
- Flight simulation site Avsim 'destroyed' by hackers
- Guatemala arrests Twitter user for inciting financial panic
- Wikinews Shorts: May 14, 2009
- Sri Lankan president promises to end war in 48 hours
- U.S. automaker GM plans to close 1,100 dealerships
- After uncertain day of Eurovision rehearsals, EBU will place sanctions on Spain and RTVE
- Mexico presents first population-wide genome map for a Latin country
- Wikinews Shorts: May 15, 2009
- ESA launches Herschel Space Observatory and Planck Satellite
- Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
- Nearly three million contraband cigarettes seized by Canadian and U.S. authorities
- Japan's opposition chooses new leader
- Car bomb kills 11 in Pakistan
- France pledges twelve million Euro in aid to Pakistan
- German GDP drops by 3.8%, largest decline in 40 years
- English Football: Manchester United clinch Premier League title
- Sudan accuses Chad of air strikes
- After Eurovision win, Norwegians show their patriotism on Constitution Day
- Sri Lankan president declares victory over rebels
- India's Congress party wins elections
- British House of Commons' Speaker addresses Parliament ahead of vote of no confidence
- Key town captured by Islamist Somali militants
- Taiwanese hold rally against government
- As the Eurovision entrants return home, the home crowds weigh in
- Court rules teen must take chemotherapy
- EU budget chief claims win in Lithuanian presidential elections
- WHO director: Pandemic alert level will not be raised
- Malawi holds presidential and parliamentary elections
- Spanish general, two other officials jailed for false IDs after air disaster
- UK House of Commons' Speaker resigns
- Canadian nuclear reactor shutdown causes worldwide medical isotope shortage
- Airplane crash in Indonesia kills 100
- Oleg Yankovsky, prominent Russian actor, dies at age 65
- Canadian still faces public beheading in Saudi Arabia
- Daniel Carasso, name-giver and leader of Danone, dies at 103
- Egyptian billionaire MP, former policeman to hang for Lebanese pop star's murder
- FBI arrests four in alleged plot to bomb Bronx synagogues, shoot down plane
- Suicidal man pushed off Chinese bridge
- Malawian president inaugurated after reelection
- Bomb explosion kills two in Nepal church
- Pakistan's military claims capture of Taliban stronghold
- Former South Korean President dead after apparent suicide
- British Airways announces record losses
- Fußball-Bundesliga 2008–09: Wolfsburg win first season title
- Jenson Button wins 2009 Monaco Grand Prix
- Space Shuttle Atlantis lands safely at Edwards Air Force Base
- Ten-year-old computer glitch prevents delivery of 1,380 Canadian health results
- Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills at least 17
- Trial against Church of Scientology begins in France
- North Korea conducts test of nuclear weapon
- Minnesota boy with cancer and mother return to abide by court rulings
- Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court
- Workers at Swansea auto parts plant vote to strike
- Fanime convention winds down in San Jose, California
- Left-wing EU parliament candidates debate in Cardiff
- Australia names squad for remaining 2010 football World Cup qualifiers
- Bankruptcy for U.S. automaker GM becomes almost certain after bondholder offers fail
- Over a dozen killed in suicide bombing in Iran
- Israel's Knesset considers 'loyalty' law
- Soyuz TMA-15 launches crew to International Space Station
- Ontario investigators search for the body of Victoria Stafford
- Ohio man arrested for cutting grass in public park
- Barcelona defeat Manchester United in 2009 Champions League Final
- Interview with Anna Mikkola, Finnish Left Alliance candidate for European Parliament
- Church of Scientology indefinitely banned from editing Wikipedia
- American console sales continue to decline throughout April
- Major 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Honduras
- Oil prices reach six-month high
- Explosion in Chinese mine kills 25
- Nineteen-year sentence for murder handed down to music producer Phil Spector
- British MP condemns deportation of man to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Protesters against police violence surround London's Scotland Yard
- UN hides facts about war in Sri Lanka, says French Le Monde
- Gun attack at Iranian election office injures three
- Football: Werder Bremen win DFB-Pokal
- Controversial U.S. abortion doctor shot dead in Kansas church
- South Ossetia holds parliamentary elections
- Norwegian government considers prosecuting Scientology
- Bomb discovered in toilet on Iranian plane; defused safely
- Iran hangs three suspects for mosque bombing, blames U.S. and Israel
- Thief steals over €6 million worth of jewels from Paris store