May 1, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings: Boston Police state that three more individuals are implicated and arrested. (CNN)
-A report states that Dzhokhar has told detectives he was motivated by wanting to defend Islam because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (NBC)
May 1, 2013,
May 1, 2013,
May 1, 2013, A May Day protest in Seattle escalates into violence, causing injuries to eight police officers, and damage to storefront property. (Seattle Pi)
May 1, 2013, Coronation Street star William Roache, the world's longest-serving soap actor, is arrested and charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967. (TVNZ)
May 1, 2013, IBM releases A Boy and His Atom, the smallest movie ever made, which was created by manipulating individual carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope. (BBC)
May 1, 2013, A group of researchers announce the creation of a digital camera that can mimic the compound eyes of insects. (CNN)
May 1, 2013, The discovery of a tiny prehistoric bird, Eocypselus rowei, may help explain the origins of hummingbirds. (Science World Report)
May 2, 2013,
May 2, 2013, Two months after his resignation, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI returns to live in Vatican City at the Mater Ecclesiae. (BBC)
May 2, 2013, English broadcaster Stuart Hall pleads guilty to 14 charges of sexual assault. (BBC)
May 2, 2013, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York City, with Circuit Judge Jose A. Cabranes
writing for the three-judge panel, rules that five relatives of Osama
bin Laden and a construction company started by his father cannot be
held liable for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, upholding District Court Judge George Daniels' earlier ruling. It reinstated claims against 12 defendants who allegedly set up fake charities to support al Qaeda. (NBC)
May 2, 2013, North Korea jails American citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of prison labor for "hostile acts" against the regime. The United States urges the North Korean government to grant amnesty. (The Australian)
May 2, 2013, An 80-page report into sexual harassment and bullying at the BBC
finds the corporation is pervaded by a "strong undercurrent" of fear in
which staff are left terrified of bullying by "untouchable" senior
managers and stars. (Telegraph)
May 2, 2013, More than 60 miners die when a recently reopened gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur. (Reuters)
May 2, 2013, It emerges that the last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers. (Telegraph)
May 2, 2013, A man fires two shots into the ceiling of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston with a rifle before killing himself. (CNN)
May 2, 2013, The US state of Rhode Island becomes the tenth state to legalize same-sex marriage. (AP via Fox News)
May 2, 2013, Harvard scientists unveil RoboBee, a robot with the smallest ever man-made wings capable of flight. (LA Times)
May 3, 2013, Syrian civil war: Israeli warplanes bomb a Syrian weapons facility in an overnight attack. (New York Times)
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013,
May 3, 2013, Wildfires continue to spread in the U.S. state of California. (LA Times)
May 3, 2013, The world's largest rubber duck is moved to Hong Kong. (ABC)
May 3, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapseThe death toll from the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 519. (The Associated Press)
May 3, 2013, Scientists announce the discovery of a new meat-eating Theropod dinosaur, Aorun zhaoi, dating from 161 million years ago. It is the oldest Coelurosaur known to date. (Design & Trend)
May 3, 2013, Scientists announce the discovery of a new meat-eating Theropod dinosaur, Aorun zhaoi, dating from 161 million years ago. It is the oldest Coelurosaur known to date. (Design & Trend)
May 4, 2013, Syrian civil war: Israeli forces, in a second attack in as many days, bomb a weapons shipment of sophisticated missiles suspected as being transported from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. (The Washington Post)
-Activists claim that 77 people are massacred in the Syrian city of Baniyas by government forces; the government claims it was fighting against "terrorist groups." (BBC)
May 4, 2013, In horse racing, Joel Rosario rides Orb to win the Kentucky Derby. (USA Today)
May 5, 2013, Syrian civil war: Israeli aircraft hit at least six targets near Damascus, targeting Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile shipments en route to Hezbollah. (BBC)
-Syria's foreign ministry accuses Israel of helping and working with the Syrian rebels to coordinate airstrikes (Xinhua)
May 5, 2013,
May 5, 2013,
May 5, 2013, A limousine catches fire on the San Mateo Bridge in Hayward, California, United States killing five women and injuring four trapped inside. (Boston.com)
May 5, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 622. (Washington Post)
May 5, 2013, The world's first gun produced by Defense Distributed using a 3-D printer is fired successfully in Austin, Texas. (BBC)
May 6, 2013, Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the US city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man and his two brothers are taken into custody. (The Guardian)
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013, According to the FBI, a terror attack is disrupted when US authorities raid a mobile home in Montevideo, Minnesota, United States. (AP via News24)
May 6, 2013,Wal-Mart passes ExxonMobil as the largest company by revenue on the annual Fortune 500 list. (Economic Times)
May 6, 2013, Germany arrests a 93 year old alleged former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, on charges of murder. (AFP via Google News)
May 6, 2013, A U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office is arrested on charges of sexual assault. (ABC News)
May 6, 2013,Singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion. (Huffington Post)
May 6, 2013, The US Senate passes a bill allowing states to tax internet sales. (Nordonia Hills News-Leader)
May 7, 2013, Paperwork filled on behalf of Aurora shooting suspect James E. Holmes states that he plans to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. (New York Times)
May 7, 2013,The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II announces she will miss a Commonwealth meeting for the first time in 40 years. (Los Angeles Times)
May 7, 2013,
May 7, 2013,
May 7, 2013,The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 15,000 mark for the first time, setting a record. The S&P 500, up 0.5%, sets a record high as well. (USA Today)
May 7, 2013, American special effects innovator Ray Harryhausen dies at age 92. (Chicago Sun-Times)
May 7, 2013, Delaware becomes the 11th state in the United States to legalise same-sex marriage. (New York Times)
May 8, 2013, Jodi Arias is convicted of the first-degree murder of her boyfriend by a court in Arizona. (BBC)
May 8, 2013,
May 8, 2013, Ariel Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape relating to the 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio. (Reuters)
May 8, 2013, Following consultations with fellow academics, Stephen Hawking boycotts the Israeli Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow 2013 in Jerusalem. (BBC)
May 8, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 823. (CNN)
May 8, 2013,The World Trade Organization advised that Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil will be the next Director-General effective September 1, 2013. The formal announcement will be made following a special meeting of the General Council on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (The Guardian)
May 8, 2013, Police in France, Belgium and Switzerland arrest more than two dozen people in connection with the Brussels Airport diamond heist. (Wall Street Journal)
May 8, 2013, An Italian appeals court upholds the conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on tax fraud and sentences him to four years in prison. (Macleans Canada)
May 8, 2013, In football, Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as the Manager of Manchester United at the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season after 26 years in charge having won 38 trophies. (BBC)
May 9, 2013,
May 9, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse, Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest such incident in modern human history, rises to 1,006. (Channel News Asia)
May 9, 2013, It is revealed today that in February hackers stole $45 million from worldwide bank ATM's with large numbers of criminals using fradulent debt cards. (AP via FOX News)
May 9, 2013, In sailing training for the America's Cup, British, two-time Olympic medallist Andrew Simpson dies in San Francisco Bay as part of the Swedish team, Artemis Racing. (San Francisco Chronicle)
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings: Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in the al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell, Virginia. (Reuters via News24)
-Evidence mounts that the brothers may be involved in an unsolved triple murder in Massachusetts from September 11, 2011 - one of the victims, Brendan Mess, was once a roommate of Tamerlan. (ABC News)
May 10, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll reaches 1,042 with many people still missing. (BD Today)
-A survivor, Reshma Begum, is found alive 17 days after the collapse. (AP via Miami Herald)
May 10, 2013, A paramedic in West, Texas, is arrested for possession of an explosive device, but authorities do not elaborate as to whether there is a connection to the deadly explosion last month at the town's fertilizer plant. (Reuters via News24)
May 10, 2013, ISS crew members prepare for a spacewalk to stop an ammonia coolant leak. (NASA)
May 11, 2013,
May 11, 2013, A retrial of former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak begins in Cairo for his alleged complicity in the deaths of protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
May 11, 2013, A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in southern Iran with reports of injuries and property damage. (AFP via AsiaOne)
May 12, 2013, Nineteen people are injured during a shooting at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. (NOLA.com)
May 12, 2013, Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking 800+ new Catholic Church saints - Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI had submitted the 813 "Martyrs of Otranto" who had been beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam. (Atlantic Wire)
May 12, 2013,
May 12, 2013,
May 12, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll reaches 1,126 with many people still missing; the accident is now the third worst industrial disaster in history. (Xinhua)
May 12, 2013, The first group of what is an expected to be more than a trillion 17-year cicadas to emerge in the eastern United States is spotted in North Carolina. (Design & Trend)
May 12, 2013, In a study by SUNY Buffalo, it is discovered that Utricularia gibba, a carnivorous bladderwort plant, has the shortest known DNA sequence of any multicellular plant and that it lacks "junk DNA", sequences of code that do not encode proteins. (Design & Trend)
May 13, 2013, The news agency Associated Press announces that the U.S. Justice Department secretly seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters. (Reuters Canada)
May 13, 2013, Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges. (The Washington Post)
May 13, 2013, The Senate in the U.S. state of Minnesota passes a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. Governor Mark Dayton says he intends to sign it into law. (ABC News)
May 13, 2013,
May 13, 2013,
May 13, 2013,The search of the wreckage of the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh ends with 1,127 people found dead. (CTV News)
May 13, 2013, A 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid at Nohmul in Belize is destroyed by a construction company seeking road fill gravel. (Fox News)
May 13, 2013, Kevyn Orr, a state-appointed emergency manager of the finances of the city of Detroit, Michigan, issues a report describing the city as "clearly insolvent on a cash flow basis." (BBC)
May 13, 2013, In Mexico City, Mexico, two men are arrested in connection with the May 9 murder of 28-year-old American Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X. (NPR)
May 14, 2013, A Soyuz capsule carrying astronauts Chris Hadfield of Canada, Thomas Marshburn of the United States and Roman Romanenko of Russia of Expedition 35 back from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Herald-Sun)
May 14, 2013, An alleged CIA agent is arrested in Moscow for trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer. (BBC)
May 14, 2013,
May 14, 2013, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service admits that it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny. (FOX News)
May 14, 2013, American actress Angelina Jolie announces that she underwent an elective double mastectomy due to her family history of breast cancer. (USA Today)
May 14, 2013, Brazil becomes the fifteenth country to legalise same-sex marriage. (Huffington Post)
May 15, 2013, NASA's Kepler telescope suffers a critical hardware failure, possibly putting an end to its planet hunting mission. (Discovery News)
May 15, 2013, Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, resigns amidst pressure from the fallout surrounding the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups. (Los Angeles Times)
May 15, 2013, According to the U.S. ATF, no evidence has yet been found that a bomb blast was responsible for the April West Fertilizer Company explosion that killed fifteen people in West, Texas. (NBC)
May 15, 2013, A man who found what he believes to be the secret recipe for Coca-Cola at an estate sale sells the instructions on eBay for $15 million. (Time)
May 15, 2013, In a study published in Nature, University of Oregon researchers describe the first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning. (Nature)
May 15, 2013, New fossils provide evidence on the evolutionary split between apes and monkeys. (Design & Trend)
May 15, 2013, Scientists release pictures of what they believe the lost city of la Ciudad Blanca in La Mosquitia, Honduras.(NBC News)
May 16, 2013, Two brothers are arrested in connection with the Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 20 in New Orleans. (The Washington Post)
May 16, 2013,
May 16, 2013, A study suggests that marijuana may improve blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance. (Healthline)
May 16, 2013, Water dating back 2.6 billion years, by far the oldest ever found, is discovered in a Canadian mine. (Fox News)
May 16, 2013, Pope Francis calls for worldwide "financial reform along ethical lines" to fight the "tyranny [of] financial speculation". (Irish Times)
May 16, 2013, Bill Gates becomes the world's richest person for the first time since 2007 with a fortune of approximately $72.7 billion. (abcnews)
May 16, 2013, The American adaptation of the television series The Office airs its last episode on the National Broadcasting Company after nine seasons. (Reuters)
May 17, 2013, Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people and resulting in the cancellation of Amtrak services between New York City and Boston. (USA Today)
May 17, 2013, A million dollars worth of jewelry meant for use by celebrities at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival is stolen from a Novotel hotel room in Cannes. (BBC)
May 17, 2013, NASA records the brightest lunar meteor impact yet observed. (National Geographic)
May 17, 2013, Ottawa experiences a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. (CTV)
May 17, 2013, Mild electric shock is shown to provide lasting improvement to mathematical ability. (Nature)
May 18, 2013, 2013 Korean crisis: North Korea launches three short-range missiles off its east coast and into the Sea of Japan - two in the morning and one in the afternoon. (NBC)
May 18, 2013, A car drives into a crowd at a parade in Damascus, Virginia, injuring at least 50 people. (CNN)
May 18, 2013, One hundred thousand people march in Rome, the capital of Italy, to protest the austerity measures of the new government, demanding a new policy focus on the creation of jobs. (BBC)
May 18, 2013, US Airways Express Flight 4560, with 34 people aboard is forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries are reported (AP via News24)
May 18, 2013, A winner is found for a record $590 million Powerball jackpot with the winning ticket sold at an agent in Zephyrhills, Florida. (NBC News)
May 19, 2013, At least one person is killed and a dozen injured after a series of tornadoes hits the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois. (BBC)
May 19, 2013, .Star Trek Into Darkness earns an estimated US$70.6 million during its opening weekend in the US and Canada. (Bloomberg)
May 19, 2013, Taylor Swift wins eight awards, including top album and top artist, at the Billboard Music Awards. (The Guardian)
May 20, 2013, A massive two mile wide tornado strikes the US city of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma causing widespread damage and causing the National Weather Service to issue a rare tornado emergency. (NPR)
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013, North Korea launches short-ranged projectiles off its coast for the third day in a row. (The New York Times)
May 20, 2013, The President of Myanmar Thein Sein visits the White House as part of his visit to the United States, the first by a Burmese head of state in 47 years. (Reuters)
May 20, 2013, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Republic of Chile. (Christian Science Monitor)
May 20, 2013, The Church of Scotland's General Assembly votes to allow openly gay men and women to become ministers. (BBC)
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
-Activists claim that 77 people are massacred in the Syrian city of Baniyas by government forces; the government claims it was fighting against "terrorist groups." (BBC)
May 4, 2013, In horse racing, Joel Rosario rides Orb to win the Kentucky Derby. (USA Today)
May 5, 2013, Syrian civil war: Israeli aircraft hit at least six targets near Damascus, targeting Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile shipments en route to Hezbollah. (BBC)
-Syria's foreign ministry accuses Israel of helping and working with the Syrian rebels to coordinate airstrikes (Xinhua)
May 5, 2013,
May 5, 2013,
May 5, 2013, A limousine catches fire on the San Mateo Bridge in Hayward, California, United States killing five women and injuring four trapped inside. (Boston.com)
May 5, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 622. (Washington Post)
May 5, 2013, The world's first gun produced by Defense Distributed using a 3-D printer is fired successfully in Austin, Texas. (BBC)
May 6, 2013, Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the US city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man and his two brothers are taken into custody. (The Guardian)
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013,
May 6, 2013, According to the FBI, a terror attack is disrupted when US authorities raid a mobile home in Montevideo, Minnesota, United States. (AP via News24)
May 6, 2013,Wal-Mart passes ExxonMobil as the largest company by revenue on the annual Fortune 500 list. (Economic Times)
May 6, 2013, Germany arrests a 93 year old alleged former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, on charges of murder. (AFP via Google News)
May 6, 2013, A U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office is arrested on charges of sexual assault. (ABC News)
May 6, 2013,Singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion. (Huffington Post)
May 6, 2013, The US Senate passes a bill allowing states to tax internet sales. (Nordonia Hills News-Leader)
May 7, 2013, Paperwork filled on behalf of Aurora shooting suspect James E. Holmes states that he plans to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. (New York Times)
May 7, 2013,The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II announces she will miss a Commonwealth meeting for the first time in 40 years. (Los Angeles Times)
May 7, 2013,
May 7, 2013,
May 7, 2013,The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 15,000 mark for the first time, setting a record. The S&P 500, up 0.5%, sets a record high as well. (USA Today)
May 7, 2013, American special effects innovator Ray Harryhausen dies at age 92. (Chicago Sun-Times)
May 7, 2013, Delaware becomes the 11th state in the United States to legalise same-sex marriage. (New York Times)
May 8, 2013, Jodi Arias is convicted of the first-degree murder of her boyfriend by a court in Arizona. (BBC)
May 8, 2013,
May 8, 2013, Ariel Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape relating to the 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio. (Reuters)
May 8, 2013, Following consultations with fellow academics, Stephen Hawking boycotts the Israeli Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow 2013 in Jerusalem. (BBC)
May 8, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 823. (CNN)
May 8, 2013,The World Trade Organization advised that Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil will be the next Director-General effective September 1, 2013. The formal announcement will be made following a special meeting of the General Council on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (The Guardian)
May 8, 2013, Police in France, Belgium and Switzerland arrest more than two dozen people in connection with the Brussels Airport diamond heist. (Wall Street Journal)
May 8, 2013, An Italian appeals court upholds the conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on tax fraud and sentences him to four years in prison. (Macleans Canada)
May 8, 2013, In football, Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as the Manager of Manchester United at the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season after 26 years in charge having won 38 trophies. (BBC)
May 9, 2013,
May 9, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll from the Savar building collapse, Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest such incident in modern human history, rises to 1,006. (Channel News Asia)
May 9, 2013, It is revealed today that in February hackers stole $45 million from worldwide bank ATM's with large numbers of criminals using fradulent debt cards. (AP via FOX News)
May 9, 2013, In sailing training for the America's Cup, British, two-time Olympic medallist Andrew Simpson dies in San Francisco Bay as part of the Swedish team, Artemis Racing. (San Francisco Chronicle)
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013,
May 10, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings: Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in the al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell, Virginia. (Reuters via News24)
-Evidence mounts that the brothers may be involved in an unsolved triple murder in Massachusetts from September 11, 2011 - one of the victims, Brendan Mess, was once a roommate of Tamerlan. (ABC News)
May 10, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll reaches 1,042 with many people still missing. (BD Today)
-A survivor, Reshma Begum, is found alive 17 days after the collapse. (AP via Miami Herald)
May 10, 2013, A paramedic in West, Texas, is arrested for possession of an explosive device, but authorities do not elaborate as to whether there is a connection to the deadly explosion last month at the town's fertilizer plant. (Reuters via News24)
May 10, 2013, ISS crew members prepare for a spacewalk to stop an ammonia coolant leak. (NASA)
May 11, 2013,
May 11, 2013, A retrial of former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak begins in Cairo for his alleged complicity in the deaths of protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
May 11, 2013, A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in southern Iran with reports of injuries and property damage. (AFP via AsiaOne)
May 12, 2013, Nineteen people are injured during a shooting at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. (NOLA.com)
May 12, 2013, Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking 800+ new Catholic Church saints - Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI had submitted the 813 "Martyrs of Otranto" who had been beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam. (Atlantic Wire)
May 12, 2013,
May 12, 2013,
May 12, 2013, 2013 Savar building collapse: The death toll reaches 1,126 with many people still missing; the accident is now the third worst industrial disaster in history. (Xinhua)
May 12, 2013, The first group of what is an expected to be more than a trillion 17-year cicadas to emerge in the eastern United States is spotted in North Carolina. (Design & Trend)
May 12, 2013, In a study by SUNY Buffalo, it is discovered that Utricularia gibba, a carnivorous bladderwort plant, has the shortest known DNA sequence of any multicellular plant and that it lacks "junk DNA", sequences of code that do not encode proteins. (Design & Trend)
May 13, 2013, The news agency Associated Press announces that the U.S. Justice Department secretly seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters. (Reuters Canada)
May 13, 2013, Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges. (The Washington Post)
May 13, 2013, The Senate in the U.S. state of Minnesota passes a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. Governor Mark Dayton says he intends to sign it into law. (ABC News)
May 13, 2013,
May 13, 2013,
May 13, 2013,The search of the wreckage of the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh ends with 1,127 people found dead. (CTV News)
May 13, 2013, A 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid at Nohmul in Belize is destroyed by a construction company seeking road fill gravel. (Fox News)
May 13, 2013, Kevyn Orr, a state-appointed emergency manager of the finances of the city of Detroit, Michigan, issues a report describing the city as "clearly insolvent on a cash flow basis." (BBC)
May 13, 2013, In Mexico City, Mexico, two men are arrested in connection with the May 9 murder of 28-year-old American Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X. (NPR)
May 14, 2013, A Soyuz capsule carrying astronauts Chris Hadfield of Canada, Thomas Marshburn of the United States and Roman Romanenko of Russia of Expedition 35 back from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Herald-Sun)
May 14, 2013, An alleged CIA agent is arrested in Moscow for trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer. (BBC)
May 14, 2013,
May 14, 2013, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service admits that it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny. (FOX News)
May 14, 2013, American actress Angelina Jolie announces that she underwent an elective double mastectomy due to her family history of breast cancer. (USA Today)
May 14, 2013, Brazil becomes the fifteenth country to legalise same-sex marriage. (Huffington Post)
May 15, 2013, NASA's Kepler telescope suffers a critical hardware failure, possibly putting an end to its planet hunting mission. (Discovery News)
May 15, 2013, Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, resigns amidst pressure from the fallout surrounding the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups. (Los Angeles Times)
May 15, 2013, According to the U.S. ATF, no evidence has yet been found that a bomb blast was responsible for the April West Fertilizer Company explosion that killed fifteen people in West, Texas. (NBC)
May 15, 2013, A man who found what he believes to be the secret recipe for Coca-Cola at an estate sale sells the instructions on eBay for $15 million. (Time)
May 15, 2013, In a study published in Nature, University of Oregon researchers describe the first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning. (Nature)
May 15, 2013, New fossils provide evidence on the evolutionary split between apes and monkeys. (Design & Trend)
May 15, 2013, Scientists release pictures of what they believe the lost city of la Ciudad Blanca in La Mosquitia, Honduras.(NBC News)
May 16, 2013, Two brothers are arrested in connection with the Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 20 in New Orleans. (The Washington Post)
May 16, 2013,
May 16, 2013, A study suggests that marijuana may improve blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance. (Healthline)
May 16, 2013, Water dating back 2.6 billion years, by far the oldest ever found, is discovered in a Canadian mine. (Fox News)
May 16, 2013, Pope Francis calls for worldwide "financial reform along ethical lines" to fight the "tyranny [of] financial speculation". (Irish Times)
May 16, 2013, Bill Gates becomes the world's richest person for the first time since 2007 with a fortune of approximately $72.7 billion. (abcnews)
May 16, 2013, The American adaptation of the television series The Office airs its last episode on the National Broadcasting Company after nine seasons. (Reuters)
May 17, 2013, Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people and resulting in the cancellation of Amtrak services between New York City and Boston. (USA Today)
May 17, 2013, A million dollars worth of jewelry meant for use by celebrities at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival is stolen from a Novotel hotel room in Cannes. (BBC)
May 17, 2013, NASA records the brightest lunar meteor impact yet observed. (National Geographic)
May 17, 2013, Ottawa experiences a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. (CTV)
May 17, 2013, Mild electric shock is shown to provide lasting improvement to mathematical ability. (Nature)
May 18, 2013, 2013 Korean crisis: North Korea launches three short-range missiles off its east coast and into the Sea of Japan - two in the morning and one in the afternoon. (NBC)
May 18, 2013, A car drives into a crowd at a parade in Damascus, Virginia, injuring at least 50 people. (CNN)
May 18, 2013, One hundred thousand people march in Rome, the capital of Italy, to protest the austerity measures of the new government, demanding a new policy focus on the creation of jobs. (BBC)
May 18, 2013, US Airways Express Flight 4560, with 34 people aboard is forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries are reported (AP via News24)
May 18, 2013, A winner is found for a record $590 million Powerball jackpot with the winning ticket sold at an agent in Zephyrhills, Florida. (NBC News)
May 19, 2013, At least one person is killed and a dozen injured after a series of tornadoes hits the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois. (BBC)
May 19, 2013, .Star Trek Into Darkness earns an estimated US$70.6 million during its opening weekend in the US and Canada. (Bloomberg)
May 19, 2013, Taylor Swift wins eight awards, including top album and top artist, at the Billboard Music Awards. (The Guardian)
May 20, 2013, A massive two mile wide tornado strikes the US city of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma causing widespread damage and causing the National Weather Service to issue a rare tornado emergency. (NPR)
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013, North Korea launches short-ranged projectiles off its coast for the third day in a row. (The New York Times)
May 20, 2013, The President of Myanmar Thein Sein visits the White House as part of his visit to the United States, the first by a Burmese head of state in 47 years. (Reuters)
May 20, 2013, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Republic of Chile. (Christian Science Monitor)
May 20, 2013, The Church of Scotland's General Assembly votes to allow openly gay men and women to become ministers. (BBC)
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
May 20, 2013,
