Wikinews:2010/May
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- Stones thrown by protesters in Kashmir kill civilian
- Bomb blasts in Somalia kill at least 30
- Redistricting reform efforts in Illinois fail for this year
- Nine of Alfred Hitchcock's films are restored; 30 years since his death
- Bomb scare closes Times Square, New York
- Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico reported to have reached coast; offshore drilling ban announced by Obama administration
- New ash flight bans ordered in Ireland
- Wikinews interviews spokesman for Greek far-left party Xekinima
- Oil company BP to pay for Gulf of Mexico spill
- Bangladesh storms kill at least 23
- 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Pichilemu, Chile revives fears of new tragedy
- Nepal Maoists begin strike to overthrow government
- Australian rules football: Traralgon, Maffra two games clear on top of 2010 Gippsland Football League ladder
- Wikinews interviews Brittany Phelps, administrator of the United States Pirate Party
- Eurozone approves Greece bailout
- Chilean earthquakes in the O'Higgins Region: photoessay
- Protests in Greece over proposed budget cuts
- Investigation into US Airways river ditching in New York completed
- US criticizes Iran for remarks at nuclear conference
- Continental and United Airlines to merge
- Severe flooding leaves 28 dead in southern United States
- California governor Schwarzenegger vetoes smoking ban in parks
- 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Chile
- Iraq starts manual vote recount
- Heavy rains start in central and southern Chile while aftershock takes place
- Taleban launches attack on Afghan city; several dead
- BP: One oil leak in Gulf of Mexico plugged
- Tanker seized by Somali pirates; Russian warship en route
- Knife-wielding woman arrested after allegedly stabbing four at store in West Hollywood, California
- FDA report criticizes conditions in factory that produced recalled medications
- Scottish airspace to be closed over volcanic ash concerns
- Greek demonstrators protest austerity measures
- Wikinews interviews Dr. Phil Klotzbach on upcoming hurricane season
- Euro reaches one-year low against US dollar
- 2010 UK general election results
- Peruvian bolero singer Lucho Barrios dies aged 75
- Nigeria swears in new president after death of Umaru Yar'Adua
- Russian forces storm oil tanker seized by Somali pirates, crew freed
- British oil firm claims discovery off coast of Falkland Islands
- Black boxes from Air France Flight 447 localized
- NBC employee wins $266M from California lottery
- Mumbai gunman given death penalty, to be hanged
- Greek parliament passes austerity bill
- Athens bank fire kills three as Greece goes on strike
- British political candidate Nigel Farage injured in plane crash on polling day
- New York bridge shut down after suspicious truck found
- African leaders start drive to eradicate malaria
- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua reported dead
- US economy added 290,000 jobs last month, unemployment at 9.9%
- US stocks see 9% drop before making recovery
- UK elections: Hung parliament, Cameron to negotiate with Liberal Democrats
- Voters turned away from polling stations in UK general elections
- Death toll from China rainstorm reaches 65
- Nineteen Spanish airports closed due to ash
- New York's Staten Island Ferry crashes, 60 injured
- Boat in DR Congo capsizes, 80 feared dead
- Football: Falkirk relegated from Scottish Premier League
- Two Egyptian peacekeepers killed in Darfur by gunmen
- Ice Hockey: Detroit Red Wings beat San Jose Sharks 7-1 in fourth NHL quarter final match
- British National Party loses all seats in Barking & Dagenham after elections
- Football: Chelsea beat Wigan to win fourth Premier League title
- 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia
- Australian rules football: Traralgon remain only undefeated team after five rounds of 2010 Gippland Football League season
- UK elections: Gordon Brown offers resignation to secure Labour-Liberal coalition
- Baseball: Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden throws perfect game
- Landmine blast in Chattisgarh, India kills eight
- Russia celebrates Victory Day
- Multiple explosions in Russian coal mine, eleven dead
- New Albertan Lieutenant Governor takes office
- Explosives investigation at US Embassy in Chile; Pakistani man detained
- Over 100 dead in Libyan plane crash
- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledges support for Afghanistan
- At least fourteen dead in Pakistan after drone strikes
- India's Anand defends chess world championship title against Bulgarian challenger Topalov
- US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with senators on Capitol Hill
- KKE: Interview with the Greek Communist Party
- Russia agrees to construct Turkish nuclear reactor
- Five hundred Euro note withdrawn from sale in UK
- Airport named after late Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua
- Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina 'will not run in polls'
- Canadian track and field coach Charlie Francis dies at age 61
- El Salvador suspended from world football by FIFA
- Space Shuttle Atlantis launches for the final time
- Iraq electoral commission: No fraud found in vote recount
- Bomb blast at Iraqi football match kills 25, many wounded
- Interim Kyrgyz government retakes buildings after violent protests
- Officials: Plot to kill Indonesian president foiled
- At least 21 dead after coal mine explosion in Chinese mine
- Moscow Metro attack suspects killed by police
- Russian citizen jailed for sending military intelligence to US
- Eight killed in Dagestan, Russia after ambush
- Violence in Bangkok prompts closure of US embassy in Thailand
- Nigerian ex-governor James Ibori arrested in Dubai
- Russian meeting with Hamas provokes criticism from Israel
- Jessica Watson becomes youngest solo sailor to sail the world
- Colegio Preciosa Sangre, Pichilemu, amidst other Chilean schools celebrate Student's Day
- UK PM Cameron and Scottish First Minister Salmond meet in Edinburgh
- European airline Ryanair fined over ash-triggered flight cancellations
- Australian rules football: Leongatha upset Traralgon in round six of 2010 Gippsland Football League season
- Google mistakenly collects private data from Wi-Fi networks
- IMF approves US$1.13 billion loan to Pakistan
- California governor Schwarzenegger presents new budget plan
- VI Congress of Mayors and Councilors of the O'Higgins Region takes place in Pichilemu, Chile
- Spanish judge suspended over abuse of power charges
- Metal singer Ronnie James Dio dies aged 67
- Hong Kong by-elections start
- Efforts to cap Deepwater Horizon oil spill delayed again
- UK Foreign Secretary meets US Secretary of State in Washington, D.C.
- Canadian military aircraft escort airliner after bomb threat
- England defeats Australia and wins 2010 Twenty20 Cricket World Cup
- Plane crash in northern Afghanistan kills at least 43
- Bus attack in India kills many
- Seven-year-old girl killed in Detroit, Michigan police raid
- Iran, Turkey, Brazil reach nuclear agreement
- Twelve people dead after blast in north-west Pakistan
- Australian rules football: Interview with Andy Thissling, statistician for the Traralgon Football Club senior side
- Afghanistan: Suicide attackers kill several people in Kabul
- French teacher returns home after being held in Iran for ten months
- Oil from Gulf spill reaches major current
- Curfew imposed in parts of Thailand
- Investigation into Polish air crash reveals passengers in cockpit
- Afghan Taleban attacks NATO base; several dead
- Karzai visits UK for talks with new PM
- Same-sex marriage allowed in Portugal
- Wikinews investigates: Advertisements disguised as news articles trick unknowing users out of money, credit card information
- Works valued at €100 million stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- YouTube, Facebook blocked in Pakistan
- Surf's up in Chile; championship competition in Pichilemu
- New earthquake hits Chile
- Cyclone Laila lashes across India's Eastern coastline
- US scientist creates 'artificial life'
- English footballer Beckham visits British troops in Afghanistan
- Former Illinois governor Blagojevich asks US Supreme Court to delay corruption trial, prosecutors to respond by Friday
- Car bomb in Iraq leaves at least 30 dead
- Indian airliner crashes; nearly 160 presumed dead
- Hong Kong chief executive invites opponent to television debate
- Times Square bomb suspects arrested in Pakistan
- Clinton warns North Korea of "provocative behavior"
- Volunteers collaborate in reconstruction of Lolol, Chile
- Baseball: Former Houston Astros pitcher José Lima dies suddenly at 37
- Derailment in China; at least nineteen dead
- US and South Korea to conduct naval exercises in response to warship sinking
- British ventriloquist Ray Alan dies at age 79
- State of emergency declared in Kingston, Jamaica
- Australian rules football: 2010 VCFL Country Championship - Bendigo vs. Gippsland
- 'Black boxes' pulled from Air India plane wreckage
- Body cemented in barrel found in Toronto harbour
- Nicolaus Copernicus buried again
- California teen becomes youngest to conquer Everest
- Oil spilled after ships collide in Singapore
- Ukrainian basketball player Alexander Belostenny dies at age 51
- Musician David Byrne sues Florida governor over campaign song
- Washington politician Dino Rossi to announce US Senate bid
- Slipknot bassist Paul Gray found dead in hotel room at age 38
- New BP oil spill plan
- 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Acre, Brazil
- Turkish shopkeeper saves falling toddler
- Oil spill in Alaska closes 800 miles of pipeline
- Attack occurs in Stavropol, Russia; at least six dead
- UK police announce arrest of suspected serial killer
- Irish Senator Kieran Phelan dies at age 60
- Iraqi Airways drops flights to United Kingdom and Sweden
- Plane crashes into Toronto office building
- Mexican cartoonist Gabriel Vargas dies at 95
- Jamaica: Violence kills at least 30
- Rollover on Illinois Route 59 in Naperville injures one
- Blagojevich defense team wants to restart jury selection in Illinois corruption trial
- Sudanese president sworn in to another term
- BP says Gulf oil spill slowed as estimates of oil spilled increase
- Art Linkletter, creator of "Kids Say the Darndest Things", dies peacefully at 97
- Head of US Minerals Management Service resigns following BP oil spill response
- Vanuatu hit by 7.2 magnitude earthquake
- Obama to suspend Arctic oil drilling
- Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center
- Bottled water concerns health experts
- NCAA Basketball: University of Connecticut cited for eight major rules violations
- US actor Gary Coleman dies aged 42
- US Representative Joe Sestak allegedly offered job by Obama to stay out of Senate election
- Suspected serial killer appears in British court
- At least 65 dead after train derailment in West Bengal, India
- UK Conservative party wins last seat in 2010 general election
- Foxconn under pressure after tenth employee suicide this year
- California Senate prohibits sports drinks in public schools
- Experimental aircraft breaks record for hypersonic flight
- Guatemalan news reporter killed by Pacaya volcano
- US actor Dennis Hopper dies at age 74
- Malawi President pardons jailed gay couple
- US Supreme Court rejects Blagojevich motion to delay Illinois corruption trial
- Pacaya volcano erupts; "state of public calamity" declared
- BP: Plug for underwater oil leak in Gulf of Mexico fails
- At least thirty dead after bus accident in India
- Facebook blocked in Bangladesh
- Ice Hockey: Blackhawks take first 2010 Stanley Cup Finals game in 11-goal thriller
- Israel declines appeals to sign Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Canada keeping eye on Deepwater Horizon spill
- 'Statues of Democracy' removed in Hong Kong
- Australian rules football: Maffra go a game clear ahead of Traralgon clash
- 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocks Andaman Islands
- Nineteen activists killed by Israeli commandos aboard aid convoy bound for Gaza
- Seven policemen killed in Afghanistan after bomb explosion
- Dozens dead after bus accident in Cameroon
- Scotland's Dario Franchitti wins Indianapolis 500