May 2010

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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2010.

Daily events

Saturday May 1st 2010

Locked Times Square

Mogadishu / Somalia : At least 30 people are killed in a bomb attack.
New York / United States : An attack planned by the Taliban in Times Square fails.

Sunday May 2, 2010

Nashville / United States : At least 29 people are killed in the south of the country as a result of heavy rain.

Monday May 3, 2010

Chicago / United States : United Airlines takes over competitor Continental Airlines for a purchase price of 3.2 billion US dollars in shares , making it the world's largest airline .

Machi Khel / Pakistan : Between four and eight people are killed in a rocket attack by units of the United States Armed Forces in North Waziristan . The target of the attack was u. a. the German Islamist Eric Breininger , a former member of the so-called " Sauerland Group ".

Tuesday May 4, 2010

Claudio Scajola

Buenos Aires / Argentina : The Union of South American Nations appoints the former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner as its first General Secretary .
Beijing / China : With the opening of a tourist office in the Republic of China (Taiwan) , semi-official representatives from both countries have exchanged views for the first time since 1949 .
Rome / Italy : Industry Minister Claudio Scajola announces his resignation after a corruption scandal.

Wednesday May 5, 2010

Athens / Greece : In the course of a 24-hour general strike against the austerity measures due to the Greek financial crisis , demonstrations lead to massive riots. Three people trapped in a bank are killed after rioters throw Molotov cocktails on the building. Clashes between demonstrators and the police also occur in other cities in the country.

Augsburg / Germany : The regional court sentenced the arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber to eight years in prison for tax evasion .

Bangkok / Thailand : The opposition movement has announced that it will end its two-month protests and agree to a five-point plan by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for reconciliation.

Munich / Germany : The Austrian conductor and composer Michael Gielen , long-time director of the Frankfurt Opera , is awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize worth 200,000 euros .

Port Louis / Mauritius : Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam's Alliance Sociale party won 41 out of 62 seats in the parliamentary elections.

Thursday May 6, 2010

Goodluck Jonathan

David Cameron

Abuja / Nigeria : After the death of the incumbent Umaru Yar'Adua , his deputy Goodluck Jonathan is sworn in as the new president .
Berlin / Germany : Federal President Horst Köhler opens the documentation center of the Topography of Terror Foundation .
Chongqing / China : At least 38 people are killed in severe storms and more than 200 others are injured.
London / United Kingdom : After 13 years of government for the Labor Party , the Conservative Party emerged from the general election with opposition leader David Cameron as the strongest political force . However, it misses an absolute majority of the seats in the lower house .

Mumbai / India : One and a half years after the attacks in the city , the only surviving assassin, Ajmal Kasab, is sentenced to death for "murder and warfare" .

New York / United States : There is a flash crash on the stock exchange in the afternoon .

Washington, DC / United States : In the journal Science , researchers working with Richard Green and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig report on the acquisition of one to four percent of human DNA through mixing with Neanderthals .

Friday May 7, 2010

OECD countries

Paris / France : Chile becomes the second Latin American country after Mexico and the first South American country to become a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , which now has 31 member states.

Saturday May 8, 2010

Greece is threatened with a recession

Laura Chinchilla

Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government of the European Union agree with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package to prevent national bankruptcies in the euro zone amounting to 750 billion euros . So that z. B. Greece servicing its loans abroad, because otherwise it would have to declare national bankruptcy as protection from its creditors. The money from the rescue package ends up in Greece first and the state then transfers it to its creditors.

Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Last game day of the Bundesliga season 2009/10 . The champions are Bayern Munich ahead of Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen . Hertha BSC and VfL Bochum are relegated directly to the 2. Bundesliga , 1. FC Nürnberg has to go into relegation .

London / United Kingdom : The Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed sells the Harrods department store to the investment company Qatar Holding from Qatar . According to unconfirmed media reports, the sales price is 1.5 billion pounds (1.7 billion euros).

Mezhduretschensk / Russia : At least 43 people are killed and 47 others are still missing in a mine accident in a coal mine in western Siberia .

San José / Costa Rica : Laura Chinchilla will be the first President sworn in the country.

Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. Formally accepts the resignation of Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa .

Sunday May 9, 2010

Basel / Switzerland : FC Basel wins the final of the Swiss Football Cup 2009/10 against FC Lausanne-Sport 6-0 and is the tenth time in the club's history as the Swiss Cup winner .
Düsseldorf / Germany : In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , the CDU with 34.6% of the vote is just ahead of the SPD with 34.5%. The Greens achieve their all-time best result in the country with 12.1%; the FDP with 6.7% and Die Linke with 5.6% are also represented in the future state parliament.
Montevideo / Uruguay : In the local elections , the left-wing alliance Frente Amplio wins a majority of the votes in the cities, while the National Party wins a majority in the countryside .
Moscow / Russia : In the 65th Victory Parade at the end of the Second World War , soldiers from the Allies France , Poland , the United Kingdom and the United States march for the first time .

Monday May 10, 2010

Baghdad / Iraq : Several attacks kill at least 114 people and injure several hundred more.

Manila / Philippines : election of several offices; the presidential election wins Benigno Aquino III. At least ten people are killed in shootings between police officers and security forces.

Washington, DC / United States : Elena Kagan is nominated as a Supreme Court Justice by US President Barack Obama .

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Viswanathan Anand

London / United Kingdom : Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigns; the chairman of the Conservative Party , David Cameron is, by Queen Elizabeth II. appointed his successor.

Sofia / Bulgaria : Viswanathan Anand defends his title against Wesselin Topalow with 6.5 to 5.5 games by winning the twelfth game of the 2010 World Chess Championship .

Wednesday May 12, 2010

Bern / Switzerland : The Swiss Federal Railways commission the Canadian vehicle manufacturer Bombardier with the production and delivery of 59 double-decker trains ; the order volume of 1.9 billion francs is the largest in the history of the railway company.
Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission gives the "green light" for Estonia to join the euro zone . On January 1, 2011, Estonia became the 17th EU country to adopt the European common currency.
Cannes / France : Opening of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival .
Hamburg / Germany : In the final of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League defeated Atletico Madrid to Fulham with 2: 1 after extra time and wins by the 1961-62 European Cup Winners' Cup a European Cup for the second time in their history.
Munich / Germany : The 2nd Ecumenical Church Congress under the motto “So that you have hope” begins.
Tripoli / Libya : 104 people are killed in a plane crash of an Afriqiyah Airways plane .

Thursday May 13, 2010

Donald Tusk

Aachen / Germany : The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize. a. in recognition of his commitment to good relations between Poland and its neighboring countries.
Vienna / Austria : Last game day of the tipp3 Bundesliga 2009/10 . Master is Red Bull Salzburg against Austria Vienna and Rapid Vienna ; Austria Kärnten is relegated to the first division .

Saturday 15th May 2010

Violence escalates in downtown Bangkok

Jessica Watson

Bangkok / Thailand : Dozens of people are killed and 300 others are injured in fighting between soldiers and demonstrators .
Berlin / Germany : In the final of the men's DFB Cup 2009/10 , FC Bayern Munich defeated Werder Bremen 4-0 and thus achieved the double of championship and cup win for the eighth time in the club's history .
Cologne / Germany : Before the European record crowd for a national women's club game of 26,282 spectators defeated the FCR 2001 Duisburg in the final of the German Cup 2009/10 women to FF USV Jena 1: 0th
Sydney / Australia : 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson ends her circumnavigation .

Sunday May 16, 2010

Khartoum / Sudan : After criticism of the first general election in 24 years, opposition leader Hasan at-Turabi is arrested.
Klagenfurt / Austria : In the final of the Austrian Football Cup 2009/10 , SK Sturm Graz defeated SC Magna Wiener Neustadt 1-0 and won the ÖFB Cup for the fourth time in the club's history .
Munich / Germany : The second Ecumenical Church Congress comes to an end.
Muri / Switzerland : Last matchday of the Axpo Super League 2009/10 . Master is the FC Basel against the Young Boys Bern and Grasshoppers Zurich ; of FC Aarau descends directly, the AC Bellinzona has the Barrage .
Santo Domingo / Dominican Republic : In the parliamentary elections, the ruling party Partido de la Liberación Dominicana of President Leonel Fernández obtained a majority of the votes.

Monday 17th May 2010

Chiapa de Corzo / Mexico : Archaeologists discover a 2,700-year-old burial chamber in a pyramid in which three people were buried. The find is considered the oldest evidence of burials in pyramids in the region.
Kabul / Afghanistan : At Hindu Kush is falling passenger plane of Pamir Airways with 44 people on board.
Lisbon / Portugal : President Aníbal Cavaco Silva signs the law passed by the Portuguese parliament introducing same-sex marriage .
New Delhi / India : At least 35 people die in an attack by Maoist rebels on a bus.

Tuesday May 18, 2010

BaFin logo

Bonn , Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) prohibits certain short sales and uncovered credit default insurance on bonds from countries in the euro zone . These bans apply from May 19, 2010 to March 31, 2011 and are constantly checked according to the Federal Agency.
Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 18 people are killed and more than 47 others are injured in an attack.
Zurich / Switzerland : Roger de Weck is elected to succeed Armin Walpen as Director General of SRG SSR .

Wednesday May 19, 2010

Street scene in Bangkok

Bangkok / Thailand : The military violently dissolves the week-long blockade of the business district .

Thursday May 20, 2010

The Cheonan before the end

Craig Venter

Getafe / Spain : 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam wins the 2009/10 UEFA Women's Champions League final against Olympique Lyon 7-6 on penalties and becomes the first UEFA Women's Champions League champions .

Mainz / Germany : The Federal Network Agency ends the auction of UMTS licenses in Germany after almost six weeks and 224 rounds . The companies T-Mobile , Vodafone D2 , E-Plus and Telefónica Germany (O ₂ ) are offering a total of 4.38 billion euros for frequency packages of 360 megahertz; E-Plus does not receive any frequency blocks in the coveted “ digital dividend ”.

Paris / France : Thieves steal the five paintings “Woman with a Fan” ( Amedeo Modigliani , 1919), “ Dove with Green Peas ” ( Pablo Picasso , 1912), “The Olive Tree at L. In the Musée d'art modern de la Ville de Paris ” 'Estaques ”( Georges Braque , 1907),“ Pastoral ”( Henri Matisse , 1905) and“ Still life with a candle ”( Fernand Léger ) with an estimated value of up to 100 million euros.

Seoul / South Korea : An international commission of inquiry blames North Korea for the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan on March 26 , in which 46 soldiers were killed.

Washington, DC / United States : In the journal Science , researchers led by Craig Venter report on the production of bacterial cells , the entire genetic material of which they synthesized for the first time in the laboratory .

Zonguldak / Turkey : At least 28 people are killed in a mine accident in the north of the country.

Friday May 21, 2010

Baghdad / Iraq : A bomb attack in the north of the country kills at least 27 people and injures more than 71 others.

Saturday May 22, 2010

Inter fans at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Madrid / Spain : Inter Milan wins the final of the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League against FC Bayern Munich 2-0 and is the third time in the club's history that they have won the Champions League and the European Cup.

Mangalore / India : 158 people are killed and eight others are injured in an Air India Express plane crash .

Sunday May 23, 2010

Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : The party alliance Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples , headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, wins the majority of votes in the parliamentary elections .

Cannes / France : The feature film Lung Boonmee raluek chat by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is awarded the Golden Palm at the 63rd Film Festival.

Cologne / Germany : In the final of the ice hockey world championship , the Czech Republic defeated Russia 2-1, making it world champions for the twelfth time .

Monday May 24, 2010

Brandenburg , Saxony / Germany : The city of Großenhain is hardest hit by the tornado on Whit Monday .

Beijing / China : In several traffic accidents in the past few days, at least 70 people have died and more than 100 others are injured.

Port of Spain / Trinidad and Tobago : Kamla Persad-Bissessar wins the parliamentary elections .

Tuesday May 25, 2010

Roland Koch

Antalya / Turkey : At least 16 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a bus accident.
Kingston / Jamaica : At least 31 people are killed in violent clashes.
Poland : At least 15 people are killed in floods on the Oder and Vistula rivers .
Wiesbaden / Germany : The Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch ( CDU ) announced at a press conference that he would give up his political office in the following months.

Wednesday May 26, 2010

Paramaribo / Suriname : The National Democratic Party of the former dictator Dési Bouterse wins the majority in the parliamentary elections .

Thursday May 27, 2010

London / United Kingdom : In its latest annual report, the human rights organization Amnesty International complains about torture and ill-treatment in at least 111 countries around the world.

Friday May 28, 2010

Geneva / Switzerland : UEFA is awarding the 2016 European Football Championship to France .
Calcutta / India : At least 108 people are killed and more than 200 others are injured in an attack by Maoist rebels on a train.
Lahore / Pakistan : At least 80 people are killed and more than 78 others are injured in attacks on mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya community.

Saturday May 29, 2010

Lena Meyer-Landrut

Budapest / Hungary : Viktor Orbán is the Parliament for Prime Minister elected.
Oslo / Norway : The German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut wins the 55th Eurovision Song Contest .
Prague / Czech Republic : In the parliamentary elections , the ČSSD becomes the strongest force with 22.09% of the vote, ahead of the ODS with 20.22%. Furthermore, TOP 09 , the KSČM and Věci veřejné will be represented in the future parliament .

Sunday May 30, 2010

Bogotá / Colombia : In the presidential elections , Juan Manuel Santos won 46.56 percent of the vote and Antanas Mockus got 21.49 percent of the vote. Since both candidates missed an absolute majority, they will run for a runoff on June 20 .
Eisenstadt / Austria : In the state elections in Burgenland , the SPÖ with 48.26% of the votes, as has been the case for decades, is the strongest force ahead of the ÖVP with 34.62%. The FPÖ , the Greens and the LBL are also represented in the future state parliament.
Guatemala : The tropical storm "Agatha" kills at least twelve people.
Cologne / Germany : The THW Kiel defeated in the final of the 2009/10 EHF Champions League to FC Barcelona with 36:34, making it the second time after 2007 Champions League winners .
Moscow / Russia : In the finals of the team table tennis world championship , the People's Republic of China defeated Germany 3-1 for the men and was defeated by Singapore with the same result for the women .
Verona / Italy : The overall winner of the 93rd edition of the wheel - stage race Giro d'Italia goes to Ivan Basso . It is his second overall victory on this tour and the 66th for an Italian.