May 1, 2013, Series Premiere of Family Tools
May 1, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings: Boston Police state that three more individuals are implicated and arrested. (CNN)
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, Release of The Iceman
May 3, 2013, Release of What Maise Knew
May 3, 2013, Release of The Iceman
May 3, 2013, Release of What Maise Knew
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 31, 2013, Release of The East
May 31, 2013, Release of The Kings of Summer
May 31, 2013, Near-earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon pass within 3.6 million miles (5.8 mil km) of the Earth. (BBC)
May 31, 2013,
May 31, 2013, Four firemen are killed and five others injured fighting a fire in Houston, Texas, U.S. (USA Today)
May 31, 2013, Four people are killed when two small planes collide near Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. (USA Today)
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, Release of Lady Antebellum album Golden
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, Release of Talib Kweli album Prisoner of Conscious
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, Release of Star Trek: Into Darkness
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, Release of The Great Gatsby
May 10, 2013, Release of Tyler Perry Presents Peeples
May 10, 2013, Release of Aftershock
May 10, 2013, Release of He's Way More Famous Than You
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, Series Premiere of Family Tree
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, Release of videogame Metro: Last Light
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, Release of Fast and Furious 6
May 17, 2013, Release of The English Teacher
May 17, 2013, Release of Black Rock
May 17, 2013, Release of Daft Punk album Random Access Memories
May 17, 2013, Release of 30 Seconds to Mars album Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams
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, Series Premiere of The Goodwin Games
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, 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, Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' agent confirms that he will not take part in any sports this year as he awaits his trial for murder. (BBC Sports)
May 21, 2013, Release of videogame Resident Evil: Revelations
May 21, 2013,
May 21, 2013,
May 21, 2013, Microsoft announces their eighth generation console, the Xbox One. (IGN)
May 21, 2013, The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary approves immigration reform legislation that would give citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. (AP via Washington Post)
May 21, 2013, The death toll from the 2013 Moore tornado in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is revised sharply downward to 24, with over one hundred people injured and many missing. (Reuters)
May 21, 2013, Criminal investigation of Saab Automobile: Three former top executives of Swedish car manufacturer Saab Automobile, Jan-Åke Jonsson (President and CEO), Kristina Geers (Chief Counsel), and Karl Lindström (CFO), are arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and tax evasion during the bankruptcy procedure of the company. (Göteborgs-Tidningen)
May 21, 2013, Carl Pistorius, the brother of Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, is acquitted of culpable homicide over the death of a motorcyclist in South Africa. (BBC)
May 21, 2013, U.S. Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, is suspended from his duties because of an investigation into alleged adultery (which is treated as a criminal violation, not just a civil matter, in the U.S. military), and for allegedly being in a physical altercation. (NBC)
May 21, 2013, MPs in the House of Commons vote 366-161 in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill taking an important step towards allowing gay marriage in England and Wales. (BBC)
May 22, 2013, In Orlando, Florida, Ibragim Todashev, a suspect under FBI questioning with ties to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings suspects, after initially being cooperative, goes on to attack an agent (in the course of the questioning) and is shot dead as a result. (NBC)
May 22, 2013, In London, a uniformed soldier is murdered in the street. Two men carrying knives and a meat cleaver are subsequently shot and apprehended by police. The UK government is treating it as a terrorist incident. (Metro)
May 22, 2013, Eric Holder, the Attorney-General of the United States, confirms that four US citizens have been killed in drone aircraft attacks since 2011 including radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed in 2011. (CBS News)
May 22, 2013, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un dispatches a special envoy to the People's Republic of China amid signs of strained relations. (New York Times)
May 22, 2013, A decorated combat veteran of the Iraq War and United States Military Academy (West Point) U.S. Army staff member, Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, is relieved of his duties for allegedly planting cameras to spy on female cadets. (NBC)
May 23, 2013, Release of The Hangover III
May 23, 2013,Series Premiere of Save Me
May 23, 2013, The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in the US town of Mount Vernon, Washington, dumping vehicles in the river but with no fatalities. (KOMO News)
May 23, 2013, The Boy Scouts of America vote to allow openly gay youth to join. (Time)
May 23, 2013,
May 23, 2013, The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. (BBC)
May 24, 2013, Release of Epic
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May 24, 2013, Release of Before Midnight
May 24, 2013,
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May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013, An 8.3 magnitude earthquake in East Russia leads to widespread evacuations, but no casualties. (New York Times)
May 24, 2013, As part of "a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community" London's Metropolitan police seize belongings including sleeping bags from homeless people. (The Guardian)
May 24, 2013, A necklace worth €1.9 million is stolen during the Cannes film festival. (BBC)
May 25, 2013, Two freight trains collide in southeast Missouri, United States, causing a highway overpass to collapse. (CNN)
May 25, 2013,
May 25, 2013, A French anti-terror soldier is stabbed in the neck in a suspected copycat of the 2013 Woolwich attack. (Sky News)
May 25, 2013, At least thousands of people across 36 countries rally in protest of genetically modified seed producer Monsanto. (The Guardian)
May 25, 2013, The African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary. (News 24)
May 25, 2013, British counter-terrorism police arrest a man who was a childhood friend of the terrorist Michael Adebolajo after he gives an interview to the BBC in which he claims that the MI5 had contacted him in the past. (CNN)
May 25, 2013, Thousands of people attend the beatification of Pino Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia for speaking out against crime. (BBC),
May 25, 2013, An Apple I computer sells for US$617,000 at auction. (PC Magazine)
May 26, 2013,
May 26, 2013, The French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour wins the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. (BBC)
May 26, 2013, British counter-terrorism officers arrest another man in connection with the 2013 Woolwich attack. (SAPA via News24)
May 27, 2013,
May 27, 2013, Romania unfurls the world's largest flag ever made, according to Guinness World Records. (Herald Sun)
May 27, 2013, Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals announces it will purchase Bausch & Lomb for US$8.7 billion. (Washington Post)
May 27, 2013, 400-year-old bryophyte specimens left behind by retreating glaciers in Canada are brought back to life in the laboratory. (BBC)
May 27, 2013, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings near Burgos, Tamaulipas. (io9)
May 28, 2013, Release of Alice in Chains album The Devil Put The Dinosaurs Here
May 28, 2013, Release of videogame Fuse
May 28, 2013, Release of videogame Grid 2
May 28, 2013,
May 28, 2013,
May 28, 2013, Syrian civil war: United States Senator John McCain travels to Syria to meet with rebel fighters and discuss with them America's possible involvement in the nation's civil war.(Reuters)
May 29, 2013, Michael Adebowale is charged with the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby in the 2013 Woolwich attack. (CBS News)
May 29, 2013, The New York Police Department (NYPD) states that preliminary tests indicate ricin was present in letters that were sent to the office of New York City Mayor and media mogul Michael Bloomberg, and to the office of the Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. (CNN)
May 29, 2013, French police arrest a man, said to be a radical Islamist, for allegedly stabbing Cédric Cordier, a soldier in the La Défense business district near Paris. (The Times)
May 29, 2013, Chinese meat processing company Shuanghui buys the world's largest meat processing company Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. (AP via USA Today)
May 29, 2013, Aurornis xui is described as the most basal species of Avialae, potentially unseating Archaeopteryx as the oldest known bird. (BBC)
May 30, 2013, Syrian civil war: An Israeli official says the Israeli government is looking into reports that Syria received a shipment of S-300 missiles. (The Jerusalem Post)
May 30, 2013, Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. (AP via News12)
May 30, 2013, Abdul-Baki Todashev, father of Ibragim Todashev who was killed by the FBI last week, describes U.S. agents as "bandits" who killed his son "execution-style". (The Guardian)
May 30, 2013, It is announced that Internet sensation Grumpy Cat will star in a feature-length movie. (Reuters)
May 30, 2013, Following the controversial discovery of genetically modified wheat on a U.S. farm on May 29, Japan suspends imports of wheat from the U.S. (Associated Press via The Washington Post)
May 30, 2013, Parents in Polk County in the U.S. state of Florida protest against their children having their irises scanned by authorities without permission by schools. The EyeSwipe-Nano program is temporarily suspended. (RT)
May 30, 2013, U.S. president Barack Obama appoints James Comey, a former member of the Bush administration, as the new director of the FBI. (The Guardian)
May 30, 2013, Russian scientists discover a "perfectly preserved" woolly mammoth carcass containing liquid blood. (Newsday)
May 30, 2013, New analysis suggests that turtles evolved a shell 40 million year earlier than previously thought. (Nature World News)
May 30, 2013, Stanford University researchers unveil a zinc–air battery that is more energy-dense and cheaper than lithium-ion counterparts. (GlobalPost)
May 30, 2013, The asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2, expected to approach within 3.6 million miles of Earth on May 31, is discovered to have its own moon.(Los Angeles Times)
May 30, 2013, Arvind Mahankali wins the 86th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. (USA TODAY)
May 31, 2013, Release of After Earth
May 31, 2013, Release of Now You See Me
May 31, 2013, Release of The Purge
-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, Release of Lady Antebellum album Golden
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, Release of Talib Kweli album Prisoner of Conscious
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, Release of Star Trek: Into Darkness
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, Release of The Great Gatsby
May 10, 2013, Release of Tyler Perry Presents Peeples
May 10, 2013, Release of Aftershock
May 10, 2013, Release of He's Way More Famous Than You
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, Series Premiere of Family Tree
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, Release of videogame Metro: Last Light
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, Release of Fast and Furious 6
May 17, 2013, Release of The English Teacher
May 17, 2013, Release of Black Rock
May 17, 2013, Release of Daft Punk album Random Access Memories
May 17, 2013, Release of 30 Seconds to Mars album Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams
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, Series Premiere of The Goodwin Games
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, 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, Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' agent confirms that he will not take part in any sports this year as he awaits his trial for murder. (BBC Sports)
May 21, 2013, Release of videogame Resident Evil: Revelations
May 21, 2013,
May 21, 2013, Microsoft announces their eighth generation console, the Xbox One. (IGN)
May 21, 2013, The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary approves immigration reform legislation that would give citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. (AP via Washington Post)
May 21, 2013, The death toll from the 2013 Moore tornado in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is revised sharply downward to 24, with over one hundred people injured and many missing. (Reuters)
May 21, 2013, Criminal investigation of Saab Automobile: Three former top executives of Swedish car manufacturer Saab Automobile, Jan-Åke Jonsson (President and CEO), Kristina Geers (Chief Counsel), and Karl Lindström (CFO), are arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and tax evasion during the bankruptcy procedure of the company. (Göteborgs-Tidningen)
May 21, 2013, Carl Pistorius, the brother of Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, is acquitted of culpable homicide over the death of a motorcyclist in South Africa. (BBC)
May 21, 2013, U.S. Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, is suspended from his duties because of an investigation into alleged adultery (which is treated as a criminal violation, not just a civil matter, in the U.S. military), and for allegedly being in a physical altercation. (NBC)
May 21, 2013, MPs in the House of Commons vote 366-161 in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill taking an important step towards allowing gay marriage in England and Wales. (BBC)
May 22, 2013, In Orlando, Florida, Ibragim Todashev, a suspect under FBI questioning with ties to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings suspects, after initially being cooperative, goes on to attack an agent (in the course of the questioning) and is shot dead as a result. (NBC)
May 22, 2013, In London, a uniformed soldier is murdered in the street. Two men carrying knives and a meat cleaver are subsequently shot and apprehended by police. The UK government is treating it as a terrorist incident. (Metro)
May 22, 2013, Eric Holder, the Attorney-General of the United States, confirms that four US citizens have been killed in drone aircraft attacks since 2011 including radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed in 2011. (CBS News)
May 22, 2013, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un dispatches a special envoy to the People's Republic of China amid signs of strained relations. (New York Times)
May 22, 2013, A decorated combat veteran of the Iraq War and United States Military Academy (West Point) U.S. Army staff member, Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, is relieved of his duties for allegedly planting cameras to spy on female cadets. (NBC)
May 23, 2013, Release of The Hangover III
May 23, 2013,Series Premiere of Save Me
May 23, 2013, The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in the US town of Mount Vernon, Washington, dumping vehicles in the river but with no fatalities. (KOMO News)
May 23, 2013, The Boy Scouts of America vote to allow openly gay youth to join. (Time)
May 23, 2013,
May 23, 2013, The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. (BBC)
May 24, 2013, Release of Epic
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May 24, 2013, Release of Before Midnight
May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013,
May 24, 2013, An 8.3 magnitude earthquake in East Russia leads to widespread evacuations, but no casualties. (New York Times)
May 24, 2013, As part of "a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community" London's Metropolitan police seize belongings including sleeping bags from homeless people. (The Guardian)
May 24, 2013, A necklace worth €1.9 million is stolen during the Cannes film festival. (BBC)
May 25, 2013, Two freight trains collide in southeast Missouri, United States, causing a highway overpass to collapse. (CNN)
May 25, 2013,
May 25, 2013, A French anti-terror soldier is stabbed in the neck in a suspected copycat of the 2013 Woolwich attack. (Sky News)
May 25, 2013, At least thousands of people across 36 countries rally in protest of genetically modified seed producer Monsanto. (The Guardian)
May 25, 2013, The African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary. (News 24)
May 25, 2013, British counter-terrorism police arrest a man who was a childhood friend of the terrorist Michael Adebolajo after he gives an interview to the BBC in which he claims that the MI5 had contacted him in the past. (CNN)
May 25, 2013, Thousands of people attend the beatification of Pino Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia for speaking out against crime. (BBC),
May 25, 2013, An Apple I computer sells for US$617,000 at auction. (PC Magazine)
May 26, 2013,
May 26, 2013, The French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour wins the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. (BBC)
May 26, 2013, British counter-terrorism officers arrest another man in connection with the 2013 Woolwich attack. (SAPA via News24)
May 27, 2013,
May 27, 2013, Romania unfurls the world's largest flag ever made, according to Guinness World Records. (Herald Sun)
May 27, 2013, Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals announces it will purchase Bausch & Lomb for US$8.7 billion. (Washington Post)
May 27, 2013, 400-year-old bryophyte specimens left behind by retreating glaciers in Canada are brought back to life in the laboratory. (BBC)
May 27, 2013, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings near Burgos, Tamaulipas. (io9)
May 28, 2013, Release of Alice in Chains album The Devil Put The Dinosaurs Here
May 28, 2013, Release of videogame Fuse
May 28, 2013, Release of videogame Grid 2
May 28, 2013,
May 28, 2013,
May 28, 2013, Syrian civil war: United States Senator John McCain travels to Syria to meet with rebel fighters and discuss with them America's possible involvement in the nation's civil war.(Reuters)
May 29, 2013, Michael Adebowale is charged with the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby in the 2013 Woolwich attack. (CBS News)
May 29, 2013, The New York Police Department (NYPD) states that preliminary tests indicate ricin was present in letters that were sent to the office of New York City Mayor and media mogul Michael Bloomberg, and to the office of the Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. (CNN)
May 29, 2013, French police arrest a man, said to be a radical Islamist, for allegedly stabbing Cédric Cordier, a soldier in the La Défense business district near Paris. (The Times)
May 29, 2013, Chinese meat processing company Shuanghui buys the world's largest meat processing company Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. (AP via USA Today)
May 29, 2013, Aurornis xui is described as the most basal species of Avialae, potentially unseating Archaeopteryx as the oldest known bird. (BBC)
May 30, 2013, Syrian civil war: An Israeli official says the Israeli government is looking into reports that Syria received a shipment of S-300 missiles. (The Jerusalem Post)
May 30, 2013, Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. (AP via News12)
May 30, 2013, Abdul-Baki Todashev, father of Ibragim Todashev who was killed by the FBI last week, describes U.S. agents as "bandits" who killed his son "execution-style". (The Guardian)
May 30, 2013, It is announced that Internet sensation Grumpy Cat will star in a feature-length movie. (Reuters)
May 30, 2013, Following the controversial discovery of genetically modified wheat on a U.S. farm on May 29, Japan suspends imports of wheat from the U.S. (Associated Press via The Washington Post)
May 30, 2013, Parents in Polk County in the U.S. state of Florida protest against their children having their irises scanned by authorities without permission by schools. The EyeSwipe-Nano program is temporarily suspended. (RT)
May 30, 2013, U.S. president Barack Obama appoints James Comey, a former member of the Bush administration, as the new director of the FBI. (The Guardian)
May 30, 2013, Russian scientists discover a "perfectly preserved" woolly mammoth carcass containing liquid blood. (Newsday)
May 30, 2013, New analysis suggests that turtles evolved a shell 40 million year earlier than previously thought. (Nature World News)
May 30, 2013, Stanford University researchers unveil a zinc–air battery that is more energy-dense and cheaper than lithium-ion counterparts. (GlobalPost)
May 30, 2013, The asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2, expected to approach within 3.6 million miles of Earth on May 31, is discovered to have its own moon.(Los Angeles Times)
May 30, 2013, Arvind Mahankali wins the 86th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. (USA TODAY)
May 31, 2013, Release of After Earth
May 31, 2013, Release of Now You See Me
May 31, 2013, Release of The Purge
May 31, 2013, Release of The East
May 31, 2013, Release of The Kings of Summer
May 31, 2013, Near-earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon pass within 3.6 million miles (5.8 mil km) of the Earth. (BBC)
May 31, 2013,
May 31, 2013, Four firemen are killed and five others injured fighting a fire in Houston, Texas, U.S. (USA Today)
May 31, 2013, Four people are killed when two small planes collide near Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. (USA Today)
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