May 1, 2014,
May 2, 2014, Release of Spiderman 2
May 2, 2014, Release of Walk of Shame
May 3, 2014, The first U.S. case of MERS is reported in Munster, Indiana, of someone who travelled to Saudi Arabia. (CNN)
May 3, 2014, In American horse racing, California Chrome ridden by Victor Espinoza wins the 2014 Kentucky Derby. (Sports Illustrated Fan Sided)
May 3, 2014,
May 3, 2014,
May 5, 2014,
May 5, 2014, Season 4 Premiere of Louie
May 5, 2014,
May 5, 2014,
May 5, 2014, 2014 Chibok kidnapping: Naomi Mutah Nyadar, the leader of the One Million Women protest in Nigeria over failure to act on the kidnapping of 203 schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram, is reportedly detained on the orders of First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan. (BBC)
May 5, 2014, The World Health Organization claims that the spread of polio is an international public health emergency. (NY Times)
May 6, 2014, Mini Series Premiere of 24: Live Another Day
May 6, 2014,
May 6, 2014,
May 6, 2014,
May 6, 2014, Eight additional Nigerian girls are abducted by suspected Boko Haram militants following the Chibok kidnappings. (CNN)
May 6, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a bill that bans profanity at arts, cultural and entertainment events in Russia(CNN)
May 7, 2014,
May 7, 2014,
May 8, 2014,
May 8, 2014,
May 9, 2014, Release of Mom's Night Out
May 9, 2014, Release of Michael Jackson album Xscape
May 9, 2014,
May 10, 2014, Release of X-Men: Days After Past
May 10, 2014, "Rise Like a Phoenix" by Austrian singer Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest. (BBC)
May 10, 2014,
May 10, 2014,
May 11, 2014, Mini Series Premiere of Rosemary's Baby
May 11, 2014, Series Premiere of Penny Dreadful
May 12, 2014, 2014 Chibok kidnapping: A new video released by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims to show 100 girls they kidnapped last month as they seek a prisoner exchange. (BBC)
May 12, 2014, A Facebook page called "My Stealthy Freedom", in which women across Iran are posting photos of themselves without the hijab, has garnered more than 130,000 likes, a week after it was created. (The Guardian)
May 12, 2014, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 hit record highs. (TIME)
May 12, 2014, The European Court of Human Rights orders Turkey to pay $124 million in compensation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which established the internationally unrecognized state of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. (Washington Post)
May 13, 2014, Soma mine disaster At least 238 miners are killed and 120 others trapped in a coal mine in the town of Soma in Turkey's Manisa Province. (BBC)
May 13, 2014, Investigators claim to have found the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, off the north coast of Haiti. (The Independent)
May 14, 2014,
May 14, 2014, Villagers in the Nigerian Kala/Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants. (BBC)
May 14, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yıldız raises the death toll from the disaster to at least 274, with 120 people still trapped in the mine and 80 miners injured, four seriously. (AP)
May 14, 2014, 2014 California wildfires: A number of wildfires destroy properties in Los Angeles and San Diego. (NBC)
May 14, 2014, A judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial orders the athlete to undertake a mental evaluation. (BBC)
May 15, 2014, Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is charged with two counts of murder in relation to a drive-by shooting in Boston's South End district in July 2012. (New York Daily News)
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Several trade unions in Turkey hold a one-day strike in response to the disaster. (BBC)
-Several demonstrations, some of them violent, take place in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Antalya and Diyarbakir in response to the disaster, with police responding to many of the protests with force. (BBC)
-The official death toll for the disaster rises to 282, with up to 150 miners still missing. (BBC)
May 15, 2014, National September 11 Memorial & Museum: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama along with former President Bill Clinton and former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visit and dedicate the memorial with the victims on Ground Zero. The museum is expected to open on May 21st. (USA Today)
May 15, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Fifteen crew members of the MV Sewol are charged over the sinking of the MV Sewol off the coast of South Korea with four people including the captain charged with homicide. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
May 16, 2014, Release of Godzilla
May 16, 2014, Release of Million Dollar Arm
May 16, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkish police crackdown on an anti-government demonstration in the town of Soma, firing tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protestors. (BBC)
May 16, 2014, San Diego County, California announces that 11 wildfires have burned more than 20,000 acres.
May 16, 2014, A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a communications satellite veers off its intended path and burns up in the atmosphere. (CNN)
May 16, 2014, Darden Restaurants agrees to sell Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital for US$2.1 billion. (USA Today)
May 16, 2014, American journalist Barbara Walters retires after a 52 year career. (BBC)
May 17, 2014, California Chrome wins the 2014 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, run in Baltimore. (Yahoo! Sports)
May 17, 2014, Palaeontologists report that the remains of the largest dinosaur ever discovered have been unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina. (BBC)
May 18, 2014, Release of The Rover
May 18, 2014,
May 18, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkish police arrest 18 people including mining company executives over the disaster which caused the deaths of 301 people. " (BBC)
May 18, 2014, American communications company AT&T Inc. agrees to buy pay television company DirecTV for $48.5 billion. (AP via Politico)
May 19, 2014, Release of Foxcatcher
May 19, 2014, Same-sex marriage in Oregon becomes legal as a U.S. federal district court judge rules that the state's ban on such marriages violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.(The Oregonian)
May 20, 2014, Release of video game Wolfenstein: The New Order
May 20, 2014, 2013–14 Thai political crisis: The Royal Thai Army declares martial law after six months of political unrest. (The Guardian)
May 20, 2014, Credit Suisse pleads guilty to helping American citizens evade taxes and agrees to a US$2.6 billion fine. (Washington Post)
May 20, 2014, A truck going from Florida to Maine carrying about 1.5 to 2 million bees crashes.(Bangor Daily News)
May 20, 2014, Singer-songwriter Josh Kaufman becomes the Season 6 winner on NBC's The Voice as a member of Usher's team. (USA Today)
May 20, 2014, American actor Michael Jace is arrested in relation to the shooting death of his wife in Los Angeles. (AFP via Melbourne Age)
May 20, 2014, In basketball, the NBA team known as the Charlotte Bobcats since 2004 officially changes its name to the Charlotte Hornets. The team also reclaims the history and records of the franchise now known as the New Orleans Pelicans starting with the 1988–89 season and ending with 2001–02, a period in which that franchise played as the Charlotte Hornets. (AP via ESPN)
May 21, 2014, 2014 Taipei Metro Attack: A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves at least 4 dead and 21 passengers injured. (Focus Taiwan)
May 21, 2014, Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to three years in jail for embezzlement. (BBC)
May 21, 2014, Sacramento, California, approves a new arena, worth $447 million, for the Sacramento Kings. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
May 21, 2014, Sino-Russian relations: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin sign a massive 30-year natural gas export contract worth $400 billion. (USA Today)
May 21, 2014, Marathon Oil agrees to buy Hess Corporation's retail gas stations for $2.87 billion. (AP via ABC)
May 21, 2014, Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever agrees to sell the brands Ragú and Bertolli to Japanese sauce producer Mizkan for $2.15 billion. (Bloomberg)
May 22, 2014, 2013–14 Thai political crisis: Thailand's army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha announces a coup d'état, saying the military is taking control of government. (BBC)
May 22, 2014, Series Premiere of Gang Related
May 22, 2014, A massive law enforcement operation in New York City, United States, and the surrounding areas leads to 71 arrests for child pornography offenses. (Al Jazeera)
May 22, 2014, The International Institute for Species Exploration announces the "Top 10 New Species" of 2013. (Red Orbit)
May 23, 2014, Release of Blended
May 23, 2014, Release of Angriest Man in Brooklyn
May 23, 2014, Release of Mariah Carey album Me. I AM Mariah.
May 23, 2014, 2014 Isla Vista shootings. Seven people have been killed and seven injured in a series of drive-by shootings in a student enclave next to the University of California campus in the American city of Santa Barbara, California. (AP via Yahoo News)
May 23, 2014, Research shows that the Chelyabinsk meteor was the remnants of an asteroid that collided with another asteroid 290 million years before entering the Earth's atmosphere over Russia in February of last year. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
May 23, 2014, Barack Obama nominates Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, to become the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (AP via Fox News)
May 23, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: Royal Thai Army chief and coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha detains former Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra after summoning her for talks a day after the coup. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
May 23, 2014, A Hubei court finds Chinese tycoon Liu Han, the former head of the conglomerate Hanlong Group, guilty of "organising and leading mafia-style crime and murder" and "obtain[ing] financial gains via illegal activities", sentencing him to death. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, Pope Francis arrives in Amman, Jordan, for the first day of a three day trip to the Middle East. (AP)
May 24, 2014, 2014 Isla Vista shootings: The suspected gunman in the May 23 drive-by shootings in Santa Barbara, California, is named as Elliot Rodger. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, A magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey with reports of serious damage on the Turkish island of Gökçeada and the cities of Edirne and Çanakkale. (World Bulletin)
May 24, 2014, Turkish film Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. (France 24)
May 24, 2014, Mahafarid Amir Khosravi is executed for masterminding the largest fraud case in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. (AP via USA Today)
May 24, 2014, At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: The military leaders announce the dissolution of the Thai Senate. (Al Jazeera)
-The Thai military arrests 35 more individuals, including prominent academics. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, North America experiences a meteor shower. (WRIC-TV)
May 24, 2014, In mixed martial arts, T.J. Dillashaw defeats Renan Barão to become the Bantamweight champion. (ESPN)
May 24, 2014, Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: Boko Haram militants rampage through three villages in northern Nigeria killing 28 people. (Reuters)
May 25, 2014, Pope Francis invites the President of Israel Shimon Peres and the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him at the Vatican for peace and the invitations are accepted. (AP via Washington Post)
May 25, 2014, In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett pitches the first no-hitter of the 2014 Major League Baseball season against the Philadelphia Phillies. (USA Today)
May 25, 2014, Landon Donovan of the Los Angeles Galaxy breaks the career goal scoring record in US Major League Soccer. (USA Today)
May 26, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: Coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha claims to have the confidence of King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej. (AP via Yahoo!)
May 27, 2014, Series Premiere of Night Shift
May 27, 2014, Release of videogame Watch Dogs
May 7, 2014,
May 8, 2014,
May 8, 2014,
May 9, 2014, Release of Mom's Night Out
May 9, 2014, Release of Michael Jackson album Xscape
May 9, 2014,
May 10, 2014, Release of X-Men: Days After Past
May 10, 2014, "Rise Like a Phoenix" by Austrian singer Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest. (BBC)
May 10, 2014,
May 10, 2014,
May 11, 2014, Mini Series Premiere of Rosemary's Baby
May 11, 2014, Series Premiere of Penny Dreadful
May 12, 2014, 2014 Chibok kidnapping: A new video released by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims to show 100 girls they kidnapped last month as they seek a prisoner exchange. (BBC)
May 12, 2014, A Facebook page called "My Stealthy Freedom", in which women across Iran are posting photos of themselves without the hijab, has garnered more than 130,000 likes, a week after it was created. (The Guardian)
May 12, 2014, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 hit record highs. (TIME)
May 12, 2014, The European Court of Human Rights orders Turkey to pay $124 million in compensation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which established the internationally unrecognized state of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. (Washington Post)
May 13, 2014, Soma mine disaster At least 238 miners are killed and 120 others trapped in a coal mine in the town of Soma in Turkey's Manisa Province. (BBC)
May 13, 2014, Investigators claim to have found the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, off the north coast of Haiti. (The Independent)
May 14, 2014,
May 14, 2014, Villagers in the Nigerian Kala/Balge district of Borno State form a vigilante group and successfully repel an attack from the terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, seizing three cars and a military vehicle and killing around 200 of the militants. (BBC)
May 14, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yıldız raises the death toll from the disaster to at least 274, with 120 people still trapped in the mine and 80 miners injured, four seriously. (AP)
May 14, 2014, 2014 California wildfires: A number of wildfires destroy properties in Los Angeles and San Diego. (NBC)
May 14, 2014, A judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial orders the athlete to undertake a mental evaluation. (BBC)
May 15, 2014, Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is charged with two counts of murder in relation to a drive-by shooting in Boston's South End district in July 2012. (New York Daily News)
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014,
May 15, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Several trade unions in Turkey hold a one-day strike in response to the disaster. (BBC)
-Several demonstrations, some of them violent, take place in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Antalya and Diyarbakir in response to the disaster, with police responding to many of the protests with force. (BBC)
-The official death toll for the disaster rises to 282, with up to 150 miners still missing. (BBC)
May 15, 2014, National September 11 Memorial & Museum: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama along with former President Bill Clinton and former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visit and dedicate the memorial with the victims on Ground Zero. The museum is expected to open on May 21st. (USA Today)
May 15, 2014, Sinking of the MV Sewol: Fifteen crew members of the MV Sewol are charged over the sinking of the MV Sewol off the coast of South Korea with four people including the captain charged with homicide. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
May 16, 2014, Release of Godzilla
May 16, 2014, Release of Million Dollar Arm
May 16, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkish police crackdown on an anti-government demonstration in the town of Soma, firing tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protestors. (BBC)
May 16, 2014, San Diego County, California announces that 11 wildfires have burned more than 20,000 acres.
May 16, 2014, A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a communications satellite veers off its intended path and burns up in the atmosphere. (CNN)
May 16, 2014, Darden Restaurants agrees to sell Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital for US$2.1 billion. (USA Today)
May 16, 2014, American journalist Barbara Walters retires after a 52 year career. (BBC)
May 17, 2014, California Chrome wins the 2014 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, run in Baltimore. (Yahoo! Sports)
May 17, 2014, Palaeontologists report that the remains of the largest dinosaur ever discovered have been unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina. (BBC)
May 18, 2014, Release of The Rover
May 18, 2014,
May 18, 2014, Soma mine disaster: Turkish police arrest 18 people including mining company executives over the disaster which caused the deaths of 301 people. " (BBC)
May 18, 2014, American communications company AT&T Inc. agrees to buy pay television company DirecTV for $48.5 billion. (AP via Politico)
May 19, 2014, Release of Foxcatcher
May 19, 2014, Same-sex marriage in Oregon becomes legal as a U.S. federal district court judge rules that the state's ban on such marriages violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.(The Oregonian)
May 20, 2014, Release of video game Wolfenstein: The New Order
May 20, 2014, 2013–14 Thai political crisis: The Royal Thai Army declares martial law after six months of political unrest. (The Guardian)
May 20, 2014, Credit Suisse pleads guilty to helping American citizens evade taxes and agrees to a US$2.6 billion fine. (Washington Post)
May 20, 2014, A truck going from Florida to Maine carrying about 1.5 to 2 million bees crashes.(Bangor Daily News)
May 20, 2014, Singer-songwriter Josh Kaufman becomes the Season 6 winner on NBC's The Voice as a member of Usher's team. (USA Today)
May 20, 2014, American actor Michael Jace is arrested in relation to the shooting death of his wife in Los Angeles. (AFP via Melbourne Age)
May 20, 2014, In basketball, the NBA team known as the Charlotte Bobcats since 2004 officially changes its name to the Charlotte Hornets. The team also reclaims the history and records of the franchise now known as the New Orleans Pelicans starting with the 1988–89 season and ending with 2001–02, a period in which that franchise played as the Charlotte Hornets. (AP via ESPN)
May 21, 2014, 2014 Taipei Metro Attack: A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves at least 4 dead and 21 passengers injured. (Focus Taiwan)
May 21, 2014, Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to three years in jail for embezzlement. (BBC)
May 21, 2014, Sacramento, California, approves a new arena, worth $447 million, for the Sacramento Kings. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
May 21, 2014, Sino-Russian relations: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin sign a massive 30-year natural gas export contract worth $400 billion. (USA Today)
May 21, 2014, Marathon Oil agrees to buy Hess Corporation's retail gas stations for $2.87 billion. (AP via ABC)
May 21, 2014, Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever agrees to sell the brands Ragú and Bertolli to Japanese sauce producer Mizkan for $2.15 billion. (Bloomberg)
May 22, 2014, 2013–14 Thai political crisis: Thailand's army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha announces a coup d'état, saying the military is taking control of government. (BBC)
May 22, 2014, Series Premiere of Gang Related
May 22, 2014, A massive law enforcement operation in New York City, United States, and the surrounding areas leads to 71 arrests for child pornography offenses. (Al Jazeera)
May 22, 2014, The International Institute for Species Exploration announces the "Top 10 New Species" of 2013. (Red Orbit)
May 23, 2014, Release of Blended
May 23, 2014, Release of Angriest Man in Brooklyn
May 23, 2014, Release of Mariah Carey album Me. I AM Mariah.
May 23, 2014, 2014 Isla Vista shootings. Seven people have been killed and seven injured in a series of drive-by shootings in a student enclave next to the University of California campus in the American city of Santa Barbara, California. (AP via Yahoo News)
May 23, 2014, Research shows that the Chelyabinsk meteor was the remnants of an asteroid that collided with another asteroid 290 million years before entering the Earth's atmosphere over Russia in February of last year. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
May 23, 2014, Barack Obama nominates Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, to become the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (AP via Fox News)
May 23, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: Royal Thai Army chief and coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha detains former Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra after summoning her for talks a day after the coup. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
May 23, 2014, A Hubei court finds Chinese tycoon Liu Han, the former head of the conglomerate Hanlong Group, guilty of "organising and leading mafia-style crime and murder" and "obtain[ing] financial gains via illegal activities", sentencing him to death. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, Pope Francis arrives in Amman, Jordan, for the first day of a three day trip to the Middle East. (AP)
May 24, 2014, 2014 Isla Vista shootings: The suspected gunman in the May 23 drive-by shootings in Santa Barbara, California, is named as Elliot Rodger. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, A magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey with reports of serious damage on the Turkish island of Gökçeada and the cities of Edirne and Çanakkale. (World Bulletin)
May 24, 2014, Turkish film Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. (France 24)
May 24, 2014, Mahafarid Amir Khosravi is executed for masterminding the largest fraud case in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. (AP via USA Today)
May 24, 2014, At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: The military leaders announce the dissolution of the Thai Senate. (Al Jazeera)
-The Thai military arrests 35 more individuals, including prominent academics. (BBC)
May 24, 2014, North America experiences a meteor shower. (WRIC-TV)
May 24, 2014, In mixed martial arts, T.J. Dillashaw defeats Renan Barão to become the Bantamweight champion. (ESPN)
May 24, 2014, Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: Boko Haram militants rampage through three villages in northern Nigeria killing 28 people. (Reuters)
May 25, 2014, Pope Francis invites the President of Israel Shimon Peres and the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him at the Vatican for peace and the invitations are accepted. (AP via Washington Post)
May 25, 2014, In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett pitches the first no-hitter of the 2014 Major League Baseball season against the Philadelphia Phillies. (USA Today)
May 25, 2014, Landon Donovan of the Los Angeles Galaxy breaks the career goal scoring record in US Major League Soccer. (USA Today)
May 26, 2014, 2014 Thai coup d'état: Coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha claims to have the confidence of King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej. (AP via Yahoo!)
May 27, 2014, Series Premiere of Night Shift
May 27, 2014, Release of videogame Watch Dogs
May 27, 2014, War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Barack Obama, the President of the United States, announces that 9,800 U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan for a year after the withdrawal of combat troops in December. (Washington Post)
May 27, 2014, The White House accidentally reveals the name of the CIA's top intelligence official in Afghanistan to approximately 6,000 journalists during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Bagram Airfield. (CNN)
May 27, 2014, A Pakistani woman is stoned to death with bricks outside a courthouse by family members including her father, two brothers, and ex-fiancé for marrying a man she loved against the family's wishes. (JPost via Reuters)
May 27, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation and British satellite firm Inmarsat release the raw data used to determine the estimated path of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. (The Star Malaysia)
May 28, 2014,
May 28, 2014, US President Barack Obama announces a $5 billion "terrorism partnership fund" to help other countries tackle extremists. (BBC)
May 29, 2014, Series Premiere of Undateable
May 29, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau reports that they have finished searching an area where pings were heard in April and have discounted it as the final resting place for the plane. (Reuters)
May 29, 2014,
May 29, 2014,
May 29, 2014, 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee: Two Indian-American teenagers Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post, New York, and Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas, share the title after tying in the final round. (AP)
May 29, 2014, A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published online by the Lancet finds that 30% of the world's population is overweight or obese. (AP via Times of India)
May 30, 2014, Release of Malficent
May 30, 2014, Release of Edge of Tomorrow
May 30, 2014, Release of A Million Ways to Die in the West
May 30, 2014, Series Premiere of Crossbones
May 30, 2014, United States State Department makes its first confirmation that a U.S. citizen has been "involved" in a suicide bombing as part of Syria's ongoing civil war. (ABC News)
May 30, 2014, Presidency of Barack Obama: Eric Shinseki resigns as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs due to a scandal over the Veterans Health Administration. (AFP via Y!7 News)
May 30, 2014, In basketball, the NBA announces that it has approved the US$2 billion bid of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the Los Angeles Clippers. The sale must still be approved by the league's owners, and banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the NBA. The sale price far exceeds the previous NBA record of $550 million paid for the Milwaukee Bucks earlier this year. (ESPN)
May 30, 2014, The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI and SEC have launched an insider trading investigation involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn, Las Vegas gambler and investor Billy Walters, and golf superstar Phil Mickelson. No wrongdoing has yet been alleged. (ESPN)
May 31, 2014,
May 31, 2014, Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube. (TIME)
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