The month May has been named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.
Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or "young people".
Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or "young people".
May 1, 2010, May Day.
May 1, 2010,
May 1, 2010,
May 1, 2010, Part of New York City's Times Square is evacuated and sealed off as a car bomb is discovered and deactivated before it could be detonated. (ABC News)
May 1, 2010, In thoroughbred racing, Super Saver, ridden by Calvin Borel, wins the 2010 Kentucky Derby. (AP)
May 1, 2010, Johnson & Johnson announces the recall of 43 over-the-counter medicines intended for infants and children, affecting the United States and nine other markets. (Washington Post)
May 1, 2010, Greek police shoot tear gas at protesters in Athens during an anti-government march. (BBC)
May 1, 2010, Bolivia nationalizes four electricity companies. (Al Jazeera)
May 1, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform Legion of Christ (LC), whose Mexican founder, Marcial Maciel, abused children before being dismissed in 2006. (BBC)
May 2, 2010, Simpson's S22 Ep20: To Surveil with Love.
The episode was written by Michael Nobori and directed by Lance Kramer and guest stars Eddie Izzard as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Nigel Bakerbutcher. The episode features references to The Karate Kid, World War II, George Orwell, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
May 2, 2010,
May 2, 2010, The European Union and the International Monetary Fund agree to a bailout package for Greece that will provide approximately €120 billion to end the sovereign debt crisis in that country. (Bloomberg)
May 1, 2010,
May 1, 2010,
May 1, 2010, Part of New York City's Times Square is evacuated and sealed off as a car bomb is discovered and deactivated before it could be detonated. (ABC News)
May 1, 2010, In thoroughbred racing, Super Saver, ridden by Calvin Borel, wins the 2010 Kentucky Derby. (AP)
May 1, 2010, Johnson & Johnson announces the recall of 43 over-the-counter medicines intended for infants and children, affecting the United States and nine other markets. (Washington Post)
May 1, 2010, Greek police shoot tear gas at protesters in Athens during an anti-government march. (BBC)
May 1, 2010, Bolivia nationalizes four electricity companies. (Al Jazeera)
May 1, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform Legion of Christ (LC), whose Mexican founder, Marcial Maciel, abused children before being dismissed in 2006. (BBC)
May 2, 2010, Simpson's S22 Ep20: To Surveil with Love.
The episode was written by Michael Nobori and directed by Lance Kramer and guest stars Eddie Izzard as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Nigel Bakerbutcher. The episode features references to The Karate Kid, World War II, George Orwell, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
May 2, 2010,
May 2, 2010, The European Union and the International Monetary Fund agree to a bailout package for Greece that will provide approximately €120 billion to end the sovereign debt crisis in that country. (Bloomberg)
May 3, 2010, Chuck S3 Ep15: Chuck Versus the Role Models
Chuck flashes on the collar on Otto's pet tiger Sasha, identifying that it contains the decryption software.
May 3, 2010, Lebron "The King" James wins 2nd straight MVP title.
May 3, 2010,
May 3, 2010, American air carriers United and Continental officially announce a merger that will create the world's largest airline. (CNN)
May 3, 2010, The death toll reaches 28 as flooding from weekend storms worsens in southern US towns and cities, including Nashville in Middle Tennessee, and parts of Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi. (USA Today)
May 4, 2010, Release of Godsmack album Oracle.
May 4, 2010, Release of Def Tones album Diamond Eyes
May 4, 2010,
May 4, 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrest Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, in connection with the attempted car bombing in Times Square as he tried to flee the country. (MSNBC)
May 4, 2010, Rising floodwaters from the Cumberland River flood the Grand Ole Opry House with several feet of water, and cause evacuations in Nashville, Tennessee. (USA Today)
May 4, 2010, The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico causes slowing shipping and increased prices for gasoline, food and other items in the United States. (CBS News)
May 4, 2010, Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for US$106 million at Christie's in New York, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction. (Reuters)
May 5, 2010,
May 5, 2010, The European Parliament calls on Canada to ensure visa-free travel for all EU citizens in a wide-ranging resolution, while expressing hope that the EU-Canada summit will speed up negotiations on a comprehensive trade agreement. (Europarl)
May 6, 2010, Community S1 Ep23: Modern Warfare.
May 6, 2010, The Mentalist S2 Ep21: 18 - 5 - 4
May 6, 2010, Bones S5 Ep20: Witch in the Wardrobe.
May 6, 2010,United States Baptist minister George Rekers, a campaigner who opposes homosexuality, responds to allegations of a holiday in London/Madrid with a male prostitute he met at Rentboy.com. (BBC)
May 6, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Joseph Duffy, a bishop mentioned in the reports into child sexual abuse by clergy. (RTÉ)
May 6, 2010, The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 1,000 points for a record intraday loss before recovering about 70% of its losses. (Reuters)
May 7, 2010, Release of Iron man 2.
Stark has revealed his identity as Iron Man and is resisting calls by the United States government to hand over the technology. Ivan Vanko has duplicated the technology and built weapons of his own, creating new challenges for Stark.
May 7, 2010, Release of Mother and Child.
May 7, 2010, Release of Exodus Album Exhibit B: The Human Condition
May 7, 2010,
May 8, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Walter Mixa of Augsburg, a bishop who admitted physically abusing children after initially denying accusations. (BBC)
May 9, 2010,
May 9, 2010, BP's containment chamber fails, prolonging the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Reuters)
May 9, 2010, An earthquake strikes Sumatra sparking fears of a tsunami. (BBC)
May 9, 2010, Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics throws the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. (ESPN)
May 9, 2010, The 26th annual Vancouver Sun Run happens today in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May 10, 2010,
May 10, 2010,
May 10, 2010,
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May 10, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party, and calls for a leadership election to be completed by September. (BBC)
May 10, 2010, Stock markets rise significantly and bond prices fall around the world after investors are reassured by the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s nearly $1 trillion plan to avoid a European debt crisis. (USA Today)
May 10, 2010, President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and an unprecedented third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States . (USA Today)
May 10, 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government loses its majority in the upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the Greek debt crisis. (The Australian)
May 10, 2010, BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day. (USA Today)
May 11, 2010, Release of Dead Weather album Sea of Cowards.
May 11, 2010,
May 11, 2010,
May 11, 2010, The Conservative Party's David Cameron kisses the hands of Queen Elizabeth II to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Gordon Brown resigns as Prime Minister and as Leader of the British Labour Party. (BBC)
May 11, 2010,
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May 11, 2010, The Egyptian parliament votes to extend the country's almost three decade state of emergency for a further two years, drawing criticism from foreign governments, opposition groups, dissidents and human-rights organizations concerned with the effect that extensive police powers and the suspension of constitutional rights has on human rights in Egypt.(The Jerusalem Post)
May 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI and child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church:
-Tens of thousands of people line the streets as Pope Benedict XVI begins his four-day trip to Portugal. (RTÉ)
-The Pope blames the clerical child abuse scandal on "sin within" the Church while on his trip to Portugal. (BBC)
-The Pope encounters thousands of Facebook protesters after a seven-week online campaign against his views on contraception and HIV/AIDS. (The Guardian)
-Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin speaks of "never being so disheartened and discouraged" about how the Church is handling the scandal at a conference in Dublin. (RTÉ)
May 11, 2010, Gulf of Mexico oil spill:
-United States Coast Guard commander, Admiral Thad Allen, is appointed by President Obama to lead the federal response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (USA Today)
-United States Congress begins hearings on the massive oil spill threatening sensitive marshes and marine life along the Gulf Coast as the three companies involved in the drilling activities that unleashed the environmental crisis blame each other. (Chicago Tribune)
-Louisiana state health officials close oyster harvesting areas as a precaution against contaminated products from the oil spill. (USA Today)
May 11, 2010, Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption:
-Four airports in the Canary Islands and three in southern Spain are closed, Spain's air traffic control agency Aena said. (BBC)
-Morocco closes ten airports, including Casablanca, Rabat-Sale, Tangiers, Fez, Agadir, Tan-Tan and Essaouira, for the first time. This is the first African country affected.(BBC)
-Turkey imposes a four-hour flight ban over the country's north-west from 1200 GMT, but the main Istanbul international airport remains open. (BBC)
May 11, 2010, Swedish artist Lars Vilks is headbutted and has his glasses broken by a man sitting in the front row while delivering a lecture about the limits of artistic freedom at Uppsala University, with police using pepper spray and batons on the crowd. (BBC)
May 11, 2010, A nearly $1 trillion rescue package to prevent the Greek sovereign debt crisis spreading in Europe will impact various facets of the Chinese economy. (Sina)
May 12, 2010,
May 12, 2010,
May 12, 2010,
May 12, 2010, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 arriving from South Africa en route to London crashes at Tripoli airport, Libya, killing 104 people; a 10-year-old child is the sole survivor. (BBC)
May 12, 2010, The International Committee of the Red Cross confirms reports of a second, secret US prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan after new allegations of torture. (BBC)
May 12, 2010, Russia and Turkey sign a $20 billion deal permitting Moscow to build and own a controlling stake in Ankara's first nuclear power plant. (Al Jazeera)
May 12, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI, accompanied by tens of thousands of pilgrims, visits the famous Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary in Fatima, as part of his four-day visit to Portugal, and recalls the assassination attempt on his predecessor there. (BBC)
May 12, 2010, North Korea says it has undertaken nuclear fusion, a claim disputed by international scientists. (BBC)
May 12, 2010, A possible supermassive black hole is witnessed being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed. (BBC)
May 13, 2010, Frine S2 Ep22: The Otherside Pt.1
Walter and Olivia discover that Peter has agreed to go back with his real father, the Walternate, back to his own dimension. An Observer leaves them a paper indicating Peter to be the major subject of a prophecy, which foretell him being the one responsible for the end of the world. In order to warn Peter of his impending role, the Fringe Division work with Massive Dynamic to come up with a way to cross over. The team comprising of Walter, Olivia, Nick, Sally and Heath successfully head over the Other Side.
It is revealed that Walternate is the Secretary for the Department of Defense on the Other Side. While Walter's team head to meet William Bell at Central Park, Peter reunites with his real mother. Walter's team is split up when they believe that Bell has betrayed their location and the alternate Fringe Division attacks them. Nick and Sally are killed, but not before seriously burning the Fringe principal investigator, Lincoln Lee. Walter is shot and ends up in hospital. Olivia follows her alternate counterpart and encounters Bell, who insists he never betrayed them, and tells her that Walter is in trouble. Walternate is seen leaving with the final component of the device Peter will be a part of.
May 13, 2010, Community S1 Ep24: "English as a Second Language"
May 13, 2010, Parks and Recreation S1 Ep23: "The Master Plan"
May 13, 2010,
May 13, 2010,
May 13, 2010,
May 13, 2010, A general associated with the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, Khattiya Sawasdipol, is seriously injured after being shot in the head while giving an interview. (Reuters)
May 13, 2010, Seven countries who have faced accusations of human rights violations win three-year seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council in an uncontested election. (AP)
May 13, 2010, A report from Human Rights Watch claims that the Israeli army unlawfully destroyed civilian property in the Gaza War of 2008 and 2009, while the Israeli army asserts they only targeted property used for combat or terrorist activities. (BBC)
May 13, 2010, The Aban Pearl, a natural gas platform, sinks off the coast of Venezuela, with all 95 workers evacuated safely. (CBC)
May 13, 2010, As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including India, China and Vietnam, attend open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope criticises abortion and same-sex marriage in a speech. (BBC)
May 13, 2010, The ".рф" (".rf" - Russian Federation) Cyrillic country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is officially launched, the fourth internationalized country code. The first two web sites available on “.рф” are президент.рф
May 13, 2010, Five people are arrested, two in Massachusetts, and three in New York by the FBI in connection with the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt. (NECN)
May 13, 2010, The U.S. state of Hawaii enacts a law permitting officials to ignore multiple attempts by the same person to view the birth certificate of President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC)
May 14, 2010, Release of Robin Hood.
The story of an archer in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion who fights against the Norman invaders and becomes the legendary hero known as Robin Hood.
May 14, 2010, Release of Letters to Juliet.
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
May 14, 2010, Release of Just Wright.
The story of a physical therapist who falls in love with a pro basketball player.
May 14, 2010, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for its final planned flight in the space shuttle program after a quarter century of service. (The New York Times)
May 14, 2010,
May 14, 2010, Google admits it has been mistakenly collecting information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks for the past three years and grounds its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information. (BBC)
May 14, 2010,
May 14, 2010, Iran announces that it hanged 5 prisoners convicted of the so-called crime of "enmity against God", at least 4 of whom were members of Iran's Kurdish minority. (VOA)
May 14, 2010, Pakistan arrests a suspect with connections to a Pakistani group who said he acted as an accomplice to the man accused of trying to bomb Times Square in New York. (The Washington Post)
May 14, 2010, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda sign an agreement to seek more water from the Nile, a move opposed by Egypt and Sudan. Kenya issues a support statement. (BBC)
May 15, 2010,
May 15, 2010,
May 15, 2010,
May 15, 2010, Government troops in Thailand continue operations to end anti-government protests by red shirt protestors in the capital Bangkok. (BBC)
May 15, 2010, At least two people are killed and 43 injured after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern Algeria. (Alertnet)
May 15, 2010, A fire at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, destroys its entire collection of preserved snakes—the world's largest—and nearly half a million arachnid specimens, including many novel and yet-unclassified species. (The Guardian)
May 16, 2010, Key hole crop circle pops up in Yarnbury Castle, near Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire.
May 16, 2010, United States President Barack Obama is to ask the US Congress for an extra $200m in military aid to help Israel get a short-range rocket defence system called Iron Dome in place against mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza or Southern Lebanon. (BBC)
May 16, 2010, Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots as fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the United States government and BP have given. (USA Today)
May 16, 2010, An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude is felt on Puerto Rico. (Reuters)
May 16, 2010, Airspace in Ireland is closed down again due to the Icelandic volcanic eruptions. (BBC)
May 17, 2010,
May 17, 2010,
May 17, 2010,
May 17, 2010, The design for the New Bus for London is revealed. (BBC)
May 17, 2010, The refusal of Israel to permit entry of internationally renowned American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky to the West Bank on May 16, sparks intense debate in the country. (New York Times)
May 17, 2010, Six people are attacked with a meat cleaver before the assailant commits suicide at a market in Foshan, China. (AP)
May 17, 2010, Hospital officials confirm the death of Thai general, Khattiya Sawasdipol, after he was shot on Thursday as he backed protesters in Bangkok. (BBC)
May 17, 2010, Dublin Airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Britain's two busiest airports all close due to the latest round of Icelandic volcanic disruption. (Al Jazeera)
May 18, 2010, Release of Band of Horses album Infinite Arms
May 18, 2010,
May 18, 2010,
May 18, 2010, A new study has found that the gap in wealth between white and black Americans increased by more than four times between 1984 and 2007. (BBC)
May 18, 2010, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica to lead United Nations efforts to combat climate change and global Warming. (UN)
May 19, 2010,
May 19, 2010, Battle of Bangkok:
-Red shirt protesters surrender in Bangkok, Thailand. (BBC)
-Buildings across Bangkok have been set ablaze by anti-government protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the centre of the city. (Al Jazeera)
May 19, 2010, At least 40,000 Romanians rally in Bucharest to protest planned wage cuts the government says are needed to shore up the ailing economy. (BBC)
May 20, 2010, Fringe Season Finale "The Otherside
" Pt.2
Walternate lies to Peter about the machine's real purpose, claiming that it can help heal the other world. Walter and Bell go to Harvard to collect equipment needed to return home and Walter reveals his intense dislike for him, considering him a selfish war profiteer while he was locked away for 17 years and is still broken inside. Bell reveals the alternate universe equivalent of himself died in a car accident as a young man. Olivia confronts Alter-Olivia who recognizes that Olivia has feelings for Peter.
After a fight Olivia knocks Alter-Olivia unconscious and poses as her. Peter discovers the machine is symbiotic and needs a particular human to control it: him. Olivia and an oblivious Alter-Charlie go to collect Peter to move him for his own safety. Olivia knocks out Charlie and reveals herself to Peter, as well as filling him in on the machine's real purpose and Walternate's intentions. Peter states he doesn't belong in the other world or Olivia's world. Olivia reveals her feelings for Peter, making him decide to leave together. They race to meet up with Walter and Bell at the Opera House, but Alter-Olivia and a team of Fringe Commandos catch up with them there. Bell and Olivia hold off the assault while Peter and Walter set up the dimensional device to return home. Without a fuel source to power the device, Bell sacrifices himself to create a nuclear reaction using his body's unstable molecular state. Before dying he reveals that he took Walter's memories away at his own request, referring to what Walter was becoming. Walter tells Bell that he was wrong about him and forgives him.
Olivia, Walter, and Peter return home successfully. Peter tells Walter he'll never understand him, but Walter traveled into another universe twice to save him, which counts for something, so Peter forgives him. Olivia goes to the typewriter communication station to await orders and is revealed to be Alter-Olivia infiltrating our side. The Olivia from our world is seen in a military detention center on the other side. Walternate visits her, cruelly stares at her without speaking then leaves her in the dark isolation of solitary confinement.
May 20, 2010, V Season Finale "Red Sky"
Val, whose water has just broken, is captured by Anna's soldier and taken to the mothership, where she serves as bait to draw Ryan to Anna. Erica seizes an invitation to dinner with Anna and Lisa as an opportunity to destroy Anna's soldier eggs. Chad begins to catch on to how he is being used. Marcus tries to sway Kyle to work for the Visitors by revealing a shocking truth about Kyle's past exploits. Anna gives Valerie a lethal injection after her baby is delivered. The Fifth Column gains a new ally. Anna's warrior eggs are frozen by a blue energy grenade, killing all but 12. Anna is horrified upon being overcome by human emotion. An enraged Anna removes the cloaking on a massive fleet of Visitor ships waiting in space. Earth's skies turn blood red, signaling the beginning of a yet to be seen event.
May 20, 2010, The Mentalist Season Finale "Red Sky in the Morning".
A murder by a Red John copycat puts Patrick Jane's psychic friend Kristina Frye in grave danger when Frye reaches out to the real Red John, with dire consequences for both her and Jane; at which, Red John possibly kidnaps Frye. For the first time, Patrick Jane and Red John finally meet, although Red John does not harm Jane.
May 20, 2010, 30 Rock Season Finale "I Do I Do"
May 20, 2010, JAXA successfully launched venus probe and IKAROS, the first interplanetary spacecraft with a solar-sail.(BBC)
May 20, 2010,
May 20, 2010, Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute announce the successful transplant of a synthesized genome into an existing cell, creating the world's first artificial lifeform.
May 20, 2010, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority acting on orders from Lahore High court blocks access to Facebook in the country until May 31 due to a Facebook group encouraging drawings of the Prophet Mohammed on May 20, labeled as Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. (Geo TV)
May 21, 2010, Release of Shrek: Final chapter.
Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme.
May 21, 2010, Release of MacGruber.
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.
May 21, 2010,
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May 21, 2010,
May 21, 2010, Popular musician Bono undergoes emergency spinal surgery in Munich, causing the cancellation of a leg of U2's current world tour. (The Irish Times)
May 22, 2010,
May 22, 2010,
May 22, 2010, Air India Express Flight 812, with 166 people on board, crashes near Mangalore International Airport. (Aviation Safety Network)
May 22, 2010,
May 22, 2010,
-Apa, a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber who already held the world record for summiting Mount Everest more than any other person, reaches the summit for the 20th time. (Xinhua)
May 22, 2010, Nicolaus Copernicus is disinterred from an unmarked grave and reburied by Poland. (AP)
May 22, 2010,
May 22, 2010, The Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson and suggesting United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" is not implemented. (BBC)
May 22, 2010, Abbott Laboratories buys a Piramal Healthcare unit in India to become the country's largest drug-maker. (The Irish Times)
May 22, 2010, Ariane 5 launch vehicle carries out its 50th mission, putting two large telecommunications satellites in orbit. (BBC)
May 23, 2010, Lost Series Finale "The End"
May 23, 2010, The world's most expensive postage stamp, a one-of-its-kind issue printed in Sweden in 1857, was sold at auction in Geneva to an international consortium, auctioneers said.
One of the rarest known stamps, the "Treskilling Yellow" - or three-shilling stamp - was issued by mistake during a print run of eight-skilling stamps, which are yellow. The three-skilling was normally green.
May 23, 2010,
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May 23, 2010, Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (pictured) wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the BBC. (BBC)
May 23, 2010,
May 23, 2010, A state of emergency is declared in the Jamaican capital Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of a drug lord. (Jamaica Observer)
May 23, 2010, A five-day strike at British Airways is announced to begin tomorrow following a breakdown in talks which were invaded by protesters yesterday. (Al Jazeera)
May 23, 2010, Dozens of masked gunmen from an Islamist group break into a United Nations-run Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents. (The Jerusalem Post)
May 23, 2010, South Korea announces it will take the case of the sinking of the Cheonan to the United Nations Security Council. (CBC)
May 23, 2010, Maria Vittoria Longhitano, Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained. (BBC)
May 23, 2010, The Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the money is paid for by the British government. (BBC)
May 23, 2010, Nine ships under the banner Freedom Flotilla, from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and comprised of 800 people from 50 nationalities, begin a trip to Gaza, the biggest attempt by international aid groups to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel informs them they will be stopped for "breaching Israeli law". (Al Jazeera)
May 23, 2010, Sarah, Duchess of York's involvement in a "cash for royal access" scandal is filmed by undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood; she asked for a $40,000 (£27,650) golden handshake in cash and for £500,000 to be sent to her bank in return for access to Prince Andrew. (The Times)
May 23, 2010, Sweden's "Treskilling Yellow", the most expensive postage stamp in the world, retains its title at a private auction. (AP)
May 23, 2010, The Rolling Stones achieve their first UK number one album for 16 years with a re-release of Exile on Main St.. (BBC)
May 24, 2010, Chuck Season Finale Chuck vs Subway/Ring.
Team Bartowski escapes execution by Shaw, thanks to Morgan and Devon. Learning from an imprisoned General Beckman that the Five Ring Elders are going to be at a spy convention to take over the CIA and NSA, Team Bartowski prepares to capture the Elders and expose Shaw.
May 24, 2010, Release of Stone Temple Pilots Self Entitled Album
The album cover incorporates the artwork Peace Fingers Red, designed by Shepard Fairey. According to Kretz, "It was just something to kind of symbolize more of our attitude right now.... We definitely are in a really good place right now as a band and really want to spread some peace and love across the world as much we can. We're going to do it through music and the celebration of rock and roll." The artwork on the deluxe edition uses gold foil on the patterns,
May 24, 2010,
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May 24, 2010, The first China-Europe High-Level Political Party Forum convenes in Beijing. (Global Times)
-The second round of the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue begins in Beijing, China. (CNN)
May 24, 2010,The International Monetary Fund says "far-reaching" reforms are vital for Spain's economy. (BBC)
May 24, 2010, Sarah, Duchess of York receives support from businessman Simon Cowell and an award for her work with the disadvantaged children of the U.S. city of Los Angeles despite being caught in a newspaper sting in Britain. (Sky News)
May 24, 2010, Paul Gray, bassist and founding member of heavy metal group Slipknot, is found dead at the age of 38 by a hotel employee in his room in Iowa, United States. (The Guardian)
May 25, 2010,
May 25, 2010,
May 25, 2010, The death toll from the fighting in Kingston, Jamaica's capital, jumps to 27. (BBC)
May 25, 2010, The Guardian obtains access to classified documents which reveal Israel's Shimon Peres offered to sell nuclear warheads to apartheid-era South Africa's Pieter Willem Botha in 1975, evidence that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. (Al Jazeera)
May 25, 2010, An international operation against a major drug trafficking gang deals "a major blow" as 26 people are arrested in Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom, including a capo di tutti capi. (RTÉ)
May 25, 2010,Increased tensions over the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan: South Korea begins broadcasting propaganda over its border with North Korea. North Korea severs all ties and communications with the South and expels Southern workers from a jointly-run factory above the border. (Yonhap)
May 25, 2010, Sicilians react with outrage to an advert for a clothing shop in Palermo featuring Adolf Hitler dressed in pink and a heart instead of a swastika. (BBC)
May 25, 2010, South African opera star Siphiwo Ntshebe, chosen by Nelson Mandela to sing "Hope" at the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month, dies suddenly aged 34 after contracting meningitis. (IOL)
May 26, 2010,
May 26, 2010, Jamaican police arrest more than 500 people after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin in Kingston, the capital, results in violence that leaves at least 44 people dead. (CNN)
May 26, 2010, Charles Djou is sworn into the United States House of Representatives, representing Hawaii's 1st congressional district. (Fox News)
May 26, 2010, Space Shuttle Atlantis completes its final scheduled mission after landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
May 27, 2010, Release of Sex in the City 2.
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May 27, 2010, The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now the worst oil spill in U.S. history, surpassing the worst previous spill, the Exxon Valdez wreck on the Alaska coast in 1989, according to scientists' latest estimates. (Chicago Tribune)
May 27, 2010,
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May 27, 2010, Spain's parliament approves by one vote a €15 billion austerity package to rein in the country's budget deficit. (BBC)
May 27, 2010, The first launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is delayed to no earlier than June 2, 2010, due to delays in a Delta IV GPS satellite launch. (Space.com News)
May 27, 2010, Child actor Gary Coleman is hospitalised in a critical condition in the United States. (CNN)
May 28, 2010, Release of Prince of Persia.
The plot follows Dastan , a street urchin in the Persian Empire in the sixth century. After showing courage in the market place, he is adopted by the king. He grows up as part of the royal family with "no royal blood and no eye for the throne." Dastan leads a attack to a city ruled by a princess who is said to be a jewel. He manages to open the main gate and prevents further casualties from both sides. Later on, he teams up with Princess Tamina to stop a common enemy - the villainous nobleman Nizam - and to take from him an ancient dagger known as "The Dagger of Time" (a valuable dagger which gives to its owner the ability to go back in time for short periods and change the past) and keep him from generating a sandstorm which could destroy the world.
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May 28, 2010, Contributions from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland allow the World Bank to cancel $36 million in Haiti's remaining debt following January's devastating earthquake. (Al Jazeera)
May 28, 2010, At least three people die, at least four others are missing, a 15-day state of calamity is declared and the international airport is shut down due to the eruption of the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala. (CNN)
May 28, 2010, Foxconn increases the wages of the workers in its Shenzhen factory, where several employees have committed suicide, increases wages, by 20 per cent in an effort to boost morale. (BBC)
May 28, 2010, Gulf of Mexico oil spill:
-BP and other agencies report progress in halting the flow of oil using a "top kill" operation. (Los Angeles Times)
-U.S. President Barack Obama fends off criticism that he has been too slow to respond. (Al Jazeera)
May 28, 2010, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Spielberg help unveil the rebuilt outdoor sets with imitation New York streets of Universal Studios in Los Angeles, United States. The sets were destroyed in a 2008 fire. (BBC)
May 28, 2010, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama give the United States men's national soccer team a presidential send-off to South Africa from the White House ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (China Daily)
May 29, 2010, BP's effort fails to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst in U.S. history, that is fouling marshland and beaches, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire. (AP)
May 29, 2010, Roy Halladay pitches the 20th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in the Philadelphia Phillies' 1–0 win over the Florida Marlins. (AP at Yahoo!)
May 29, 2010, Thousands of people flee the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala and the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador following eruptions. (BBC)
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May 29, 2010, Tens of thousands of Portuguese rally in central Lisbon against the government's austerity measures in one of the biggest protests in recent years. (Al Jazeera)
May 29, 2010, More than 50,000 Greeks with diabetes are left without insulin after Novo Nordisk, the world's leading supplier of the drug, withdraws from Greece in a "brutal capitalist blackmail" after being asked to reduce the cost of its medicine by the Greek government. (BBC)
May 29, 2010, As part of the ongoing United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, Liberal Democrat MP David Laws resigns from his position as Chief Secretary to the Treasury after it is revealed he used expenses to cover rent for a non-marital partner, a practice banned in 2006. (BBC)
May 30, 2010, Series Premiere of Finding Bigfoot
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May 30, 2010, A second Danish pharmaceutical company, Leo Pharma, suspends sales of medical products in Greece over the government's decision to reduce the cost of medicine there. The government condemns these acts as "unfair". (BBC)
May 30, 2010, Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva lifts a curfew imposed in the wake of deadly anti-government protests but keeps emergency rule after two months of rallies by "Red Shirt" demonstrators paralyzed Bangkok and left almost 90 people dead. (The Australian)
May 30, 2010, BP turns to a new strategy to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but it will take at least four to seven days before the containment device that could capture the leaking oil can be put into place. (The Australian)
May 30, 2010, Bangladesh blocks access to Facebook after satirical images of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the country's leaders were uploaded. (BBC)
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May 31, 2010, An undersea volcano erupts near Sarigan, Northern Mariana Islands, sending an eruption cloud 40,000 feet into the atmosphere, prompting Governor Benigno Fitial to declare a state of emergency. (Saipan Tribune)
May 31, 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking at the launch of the 25th Africa-France summit in Nice, calls for Africa to be represented on the United Nations Security Council, and promises to back changes when France chairs the G8 and G-20 major economies groups in 2011. (Aljazeera)
May 31, 2010, In the International Atomic Energy Agency's report before the United Nations Security Council votes on sanctions against Iran, international nuclear inspectors state that Iran has now produced a stockpile of nuclear fuel that would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons, and it appears to bolster the Obama administration’s case for a fourth round of economic sanctions against Iran. (The New York Times)
May 31, 2010, Wildfires burn across Quebec, sending smoke as far away as Ottawa and Cape Cod. (Boston Herald)
May 31, 2010, The Vatican announces details of the Apostolic Visitation, a special inquiry into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland. (RTÉ)
May 31, 2010, The 25th EU-Russia summit begins in Rostov-on-Don with talks on industrial and trade links, human rights and a visa-free regime. (EU Observer)
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