May 1, 2015, Welcome to Me
May 1, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: Marilyn Mosby, the State Attorney for Baltimore, Maryland, rules that the death of Freddie Gray was a homicide and six officers of the Baltimore Police Department had been negligent in his death. (New York Times)
-The six officers are taken into custody and charged with second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and misconduct. (AFP via News24)
May 1, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: Marilyn Mosby, the State Attorney for Baltimore, Maryland, rules that the death of Freddie Gray was a homicide and six officers of the Baltimore Police Department had been negligent in his death. (New York Times)
-The six officers are taken into custody and charged with second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and misconduct. (AFP via News24)
May 1, 2015, 2015 NFL draft: In American football, the 80th annual National Football League draft is held in Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Jameis Winston of Florida State University is drafted first by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers despite his problematic past. (New York Daily News)
May 1, 2015, A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurs in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province with the potential to generate a local tsunami. (AP via Daily Mail)
May 1, 2015, Fort Lee lane closure scandal: Former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official David Wildstein pleads guilty for his role in creating traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge for political retribution in 2013. (AP)
May 2, 2015, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, returns home to cheering crowds after giving birth to her and the Duke's second child, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, fourth in line to the throne behind her older brother, Prince George of Cambridge, at St Mary's Hospital, London. Many countries send congratulations. (BBC)
May 2, 2015, In horse racing, the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby occurs at the Churchill Downs racecourse in the American city of Louisville, Kentucky with American Pharoah ridden by Victor Espinoza and trained by Bob Baffert winning in front of a record crowd. (The Guardian)
May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao: In boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. of the United States defeats Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines for the united welterweight championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in the U.S. state of Nevada. Mayweather wins a unanimous points decision. (Daily Telegraph)
May 2, 2015,
May 2, 2015, In Queens Village, a part of the New York City borough of Queens, 25-year-old New York Police Department (NYPD) officer Brian Moore is shot in the head through the cheek while on patrol with his partner, Erik Jansen, who was uninjured, according to NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton. The officer was placed in an induced coma at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, but his condition eventually deteriorated, and he died on Monday, May 4, 2015, after being taken off of life support. Demetrius Blackwell, 35, is charged with first-degree murder in the case. (New York Times)
May 3, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Penny Dreadful
May 3, 2015, Curtis Culwell Center attack: Two gunmen attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in the US city of Garland, Texas, which is holding an exhibition of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. Both gunman were shot dead by police. Their car was found to contain no explosives. One security guard was hospitalized and is expected to recover. The attacks were reminiscent of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January 2015. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack. (CBS Dallas Fort Worth)
May 3, 2015, Madison, Wisconsin, becomes one of the first cities in the United States to make discrimination against atheists illegal. (AP, via MSN)
May 3, 2015, United States presidential election, 2016: Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson tells a Florida television station that he would run for the Republican Party nomination with a formal announcement to be made in the city of Detroit, Michigan, where he grew up. (USA Today)
May 4, 2015, It is announced that the daughter of the Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, named after her grandfather, grandmother, and great grandmother. (News Limited)
May 5, 2015, Curtis Culwell Center attack: ISIS claims responsibility for the attack on an exhibition of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in the American city of Garland, Texas. One of the suspects was previously interrogated and surveilled by the FBI having visited Somalia, and both suspects praised ISIS in social media. (Washington Post)
May 4, 2015,
May 4, 2015, Curtis Culwell Center attack: One of the two attackers, Elton Simpson, had linked himself to ISIL on Twitter before his attack on the exhibition of drawings of the prophet Mohammed at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. He had been a member of a since-closed Phoenix mosque; he and his partner, 34-year-old Nadir Hamid Soofi, who had gone to college in Utah, had been known to and were investigated by law enforcement, but nevertheless, officers did not know that they were planning an imminent attack of this type, and they were not thought to be an imminent threat, despite having admired the late Anwar al-Awlaki, and swearing loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, prominent figures in al-Qaeda in Iraq and in ISIL, respectively. (CNN)
May 4, 2015, An analysis of drinking water from three homes in Bradford County, Pennsylvania revealed traces of a compound commonly found in Marcellus Shale drilling fluids. The paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) addresses the potential risks to underground drinking water from the drilling technique fracking. (New York Times)
May 5, 2015, Curtis Culwell Center attack: ISIS claims responsibility for the attack on an exhibition of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in the American city of Garland, Texas. One of the suspects was previously interrogated and surveilled by the FBI having visited Somalia, and both suspects praised ISIS in social media. (Washington Post)
May 5, 2015, In basketball, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is named as Most Valuable Player of the North American National Basketball Association for the 2014–15 NBA season. (AP via Yahoo! News)
May 5, 2015, John Kerry becomes the first United States Secretary of State to visit Somalia after making an unannounced visit. (NBC News)
May 5, 2015, John Kerry becomes the first United States Secretary of State to visit Somalia after making an unannounced visit. (NBC News)
May 5, 2015, The President of the United States Barack Obama nominates Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP)
May 5, 2015, 2016 United States presidential election: Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee announces that he is seeking the Republican Party nomination. (New York Times)
May 5, 2015, Scientists announce the discovery of EGS-zs8-1, the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed. (NY Times)
May 5, 2015, Archaeornithura meemannae, a new species of prehistoric bird that represents the oldest known member of the modern bird lineage, is discovered. (Science)
May 6, 2015, Deflategate: In American football, the National Football League finds that two New England Patriots employees intentionally deflated footballs used in the American Football Conference game against the Indianapolis Colts and that quarterback Tom Brady was generally aware of the deflation. (NBC News)
May 6, 2015,
May 6, 2015,
May 6, 2015, 2015 Baltimore riots: The Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, rescinds a state of emergency imposed following the riots prompted by the death of Freddie Gray. (Baltimore Sun)
May 6, 2015, A French investigation finds that Andreas Lubitz, perpetrator copilot of the murder-suicide disaster of Germanwings Flight 9525 had practised rapid descent on a previous flight. (BBC)
May 6, 2015, Alexion Pharmaceuticals agrees to purchase Synageva BioPharma, a maker of rare disease treatments, for US$8.6 billion. (New York Times)
May 6, 2015, Chicago City Council announces "reparations" to victims of the Chicago police torture squad under Jon Burge in the 1970's to 1990's. (Philly.com)
May 6, 2015, Deflategate: In American football, the National Football League finds that two New England Patriots employees intentionally deflated footballs used in the American Football Conference game against the Indianapolis Colts and that quarterback Tom Brady was generally aware of the deflation. (NBC News)
May 6, 2015,
May 6, 2015,
May 6, 2015, 2015 Baltimore riots: The Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, rescinds a state of emergency imposed following the riots prompted by the death of Freddie Gray. (Baltimore Sun)
May 6, 2015, A French investigation finds that Andreas Lubitz, perpetrator copilot of the murder-suicide disaster of Germanwings Flight 9525 had practised rapid descent on a previous flight. (BBC)
May 6, 2015, Alexion Pharmaceuticals agrees to purchase Synageva BioPharma, a maker of rare disease treatments, for US$8.6 billion. (New York Times)
May 6, 2015, Chicago City Council announces "reparations" to victims of the Chicago police torture squad under Jon Burge in the 1970's to 1990's. (Philly.com)
May 7, 2015, A three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephones metadata is illegal under the Patriot Act. (The Guardian)
May 7, 2015, Archaeologists in Madagascar announce the partial discovery of Captain Kidd's treasure. A silver ingot was found in a wreck off the coast of Île Sainte-Marie. (BBC)
May 7, 2015, The United States Senate passes a bill giving the Congress a voice in any nuclear deal negotiated between Iran and world powers. (New York Times)
May 8, 2015, Release of Hot Pursuit
May 8, 2015, Release of Maggie
May 7, 2015, Archaeologists in Madagascar announce the partial discovery of Captain Kidd's treasure. A silver ingot was found in a wreck off the coast of Île Sainte-Marie. (BBC)
May 7, 2015, The United States Senate passes a bill giving the Congress a voice in any nuclear deal negotiated between Iran and world powers. (New York Times)
May 8, 2015, Release of Hot Pursuit
May 8, 2015, Release of Maggie
May 8, 2015,
May 8, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The United States Department of Justice announces an inquiry into the Baltimore Police Department following the death of Freddie Gray. (BBC)
-The officers accused in the case file a motion for Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney for the city of Baltimore, to recuse herself from the case. (WBAL)
May 8, 2015, Bill Simmons will leave American broadcaster ESPN in fall 2015 when his contract expires. (The New York Times)
May 8, 2015, The economy of the United States adds 223,000 jobs in April with unemployment falling to 5.4%. (New York Times)
May 8, 2015, A Piper PA-32 plane crashes onto the motorway near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta, Georgia killing all four passengers. Interstate 285 is closed in both directions. (BBC)
May 8, 2015, Russia and China agree to a US$2 billion fund for agricultural investments in both countries. (CNBC)
May 8, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: The United States Department of Justice announces an inquiry into the Baltimore Police Department following the death of Freddie Gray. (BBC)
-The officers accused in the case file a motion for Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney for the city of Baltimore, to recuse herself from the case. (WBAL)
May 8, 2015, Bill Simmons will leave American broadcaster ESPN in fall 2015 when his contract expires. (The New York Times)
May 8, 2015, The economy of the United States adds 223,000 jobs in April with unemployment falling to 5.4%. (New York Times)
May 8, 2015, A Piper PA-32 plane crashes onto the motorway near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta, Georgia killing all four passengers. Interstate 285 is closed in both directions. (BBC)
May 8, 2015, Russia and China agree to a US$2 billion fund for agricultural investments in both countries. (CNBC)
May 9, 2015, Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day despite a boycott by many world leaders due to Russian involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. (BBC)
May 9, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Thousands of people are evacuated from the Philippines island of Luzon ahead of Typhoon Noul (Dodong). (Reuters via Daily Mail)
May 9, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical storm Ana forms near the states of North and South Carolina weeks before the official start of the hurricane season. (Accuweather)
May 9, 2015, Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine for corruption. (AP via Washington Post)
May 9, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season: Thousands of people are evacuated from the Philippines island of Luzon ahead of Typhoon Noul (Dodong). (Reuters via Daily Mail)
May 9, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical storm Ana forms near the states of North and South Carolina weeks before the official start of the hurricane season. (Accuweather)
May 9, 2015, Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine for corruption. (AP via Washington Post)
May 10, 2015, Police in the Mississippian city of Hattiesburg arrest three people on suspicion of murdering two policemen. (AP)
May 10, 2015, The President of Cuba, Raul Castro, is received in an official private audience with Pope Francis, who will become the third Pope to visit the still officially Communist island before visiting the U.S. this October. Some restrictions on exercise of religion, and a few restrictions on other rights, have been lifted or relaxed, especially after Saint Pope John Paul II's historic 1998 meeting with Fidel Castro, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's trip during his reign, and especially in 2014 and earlier this year, after Raul and Francis and U.S. President Barack Obama's diplomatic team dramatically improved U.S.-Cuba relations. President Castro went there to thank Francis, whom he publicly has stated his admiration for, for his efforts, and spoke of the possibility of converting and of officially restoring the Church. (Holy See Press Office)
May 10, 2015, 2015 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Ana makes landfall near the city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, today. (CNN)
May 10, 2015, 2015 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Noul (Dodong) makes landfall in the northern Philippines as a Category 5 typhoon with thousands of passengers stranded and warnings of landslides. (Al-Jazeera)
May 10, 2015, 2015 Nepal earthquake: The death toll from earthquake reaches 8000 as three earth tremors hit Nepal. Avalanches disrupt rescue efforts higher in the mountains. (Times of India)
May 11, 2015, In American football, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is suspended without pay for four games. The team is also fined $1 million dollars (USD) and forced to forfeit their first-round pick in the 2016 NFL draft and their fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft for their role in Deflategate.(NBC)
May 11, 2015, George Zimmerman is involved in a shooting incident in Lake Mary, Florida, and suffers a minor gunshot wound. (WESH)
May 11, 2015, Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) becomes the most expensive artwork ever to sell at an auction at Christie's auction house selling for US$179,365,000. (AP via Business Insider)
May 11, 2015,
May 11, 2015, The Swedish Supreme Court rejects a bid from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to revoke the warrant for his detention in 2010. (Deutsche Welle)
May 11, 2015, Typhoon Noul (2015): Two people are dead after Typhoon Noul hits the Philippines. The storm is now headed for Japan. (USA Today)
May 11, 2015, The Obama administration gives provisional approval for Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean during the summer. (New York Times)
May 11, 2015, Alberto Giacometti's lifesized statue Pointing Man sells for a record US$141.3 million making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. (Yahoo! News)
May 11, 2015, In American football, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is suspended without pay for four games. The team is also fined $1 million dollars (USD) and forced to forfeit their first-round pick in the 2016 NFL draft and their fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft for their role in Deflategate.(NBC)
May 11, 2015, George Zimmerman is involved in a shooting incident in Lake Mary, Florida, and suffers a minor gunshot wound. (WESH)
May 11, 2015, Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) becomes the most expensive artwork ever to sell at an auction at Christie's auction house selling for US$179,365,000. (AP via Business Insider)
May 11, 2015,
May 11, 2015, The Swedish Supreme Court rejects a bid from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to revoke the warrant for his detention in 2010. (Deutsche Welle)
May 11, 2015, Typhoon Noul (2015): Two people are dead after Typhoon Noul hits the Philippines. The storm is now headed for Japan. (USA Today)
May 11, 2015, The Obama administration gives provisional approval for Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean during the summer. (New York Times)
May 11, 2015, Alberto Giacometti's lifesized statue Pointing Man sells for a record US$141.3 million making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. (Yahoo! News)
May 12, 2015, May
2015 Nepal earthquake A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the town of
Namche Bazaar, Nepal, near the Tibetan border and the base camp for
Mount Everest. (MSN)
May 12, 2015,
May 12, 2015, Shooting of Tony Robinson: Officer Matt Kenny of the Madison Police Department will not face charges in relation to the shooting of Tony Robinson in March 2015 in the American city of Madison, Wisconsin. (CNN)
May 12, 2015, Typhoon Noul arrives at the southern Japanese islands at Amami Oshima before moving through Kyushu and then Honshu. (AP)
May 12, 2015, Verizon Communications Inc. announces that it will buy AOL Inc. for US$4.4 billion. (Fox Business)
May 12, 2015,
May 12, 2015, Shooting of Tony Robinson: Officer Matt Kenny of the Madison Police Department will not face charges in relation to the shooting of Tony Robinson in March 2015 in the American city of Madison, Wisconsin. (CNN)
May 12, 2015, Typhoon Noul arrives at the southern Japanese islands at Amami Oshima before moving through Kyushu and then Honshu. (AP)
May 12, 2015, Verizon Communications Inc. announces that it will buy AOL Inc. for US$4.4 billion. (Fox Business)
May 13, 2015, 2015 Philadelphia train derailment: The death toll from the derailment rises to seven with over 200 people injured. (US News and World Report)
-Search teams recover the black box. (AFP via News24)
-Reports indicate that train is believed to have been traveling in excess of 100 mph (161 km/h), about twice the speed limit for the curve.(CNN)
May 13, 2015, Shooting of Tony Robinson: Demonstrators peacefully protest a Wisconsin prosecutor's decision, announced yesterday, not to pursue charges against the officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old. (Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)
May 13, 2015, The Vatican concludes a treaty to recognize the Palestinian state. (New York Times)
May 13, 2015, The United States Department of Agriculture reports that more than 40% of honey bee colonies died in the preceding year. Farmers rely on honey bees to pollinate over half the country's food supply annually. (Wall Street Journal)
May 14, 2015, Series Premiere of Wayward Pines
-Search teams recover the black box. (AFP via News24)
-Reports indicate that train is believed to have been traveling in excess of 100 mph (161 km/h), about twice the speed limit for the curve.(CNN)
May 13, 2015, Shooting of Tony Robinson: Demonstrators peacefully protest a Wisconsin prosecutor's decision, announced yesterday, not to pursue charges against the officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old. (Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)
May 13, 2015, The Vatican concludes a treaty to recognize the Palestinian state. (New York Times)
May 13, 2015, The United States Department of Agriculture reports that more than 40% of honey bee colonies died in the preceding year. Farmers rely on honey bees to pollinate over half the country's food supply annually. (Wall Street Journal)
May 14, 2015, Series Premiere of Wayward Pines
May 14, 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with the Gulf Cooperation Council at the White House with a proposed nuclear deal with Iran top of the agenda.(CNN)
May 14, 2015, 2015 Philadelphia train derailment: The death toll from the derailment rises to eight, with 43 of the more than 200 injured remaining hospitalised. (The Guardian)
May 15, 2015, Release of Mad Max: Fury Road
May 15, 2015, Release of Pitch Perfect 2
May 15, 2015, Release of Where Hope Grows
May 14, 2015, 2015 Philadelphia train derailment: The death toll from the derailment rises to eight, with 43 of the more than 200 injured remaining hospitalised. (The Guardian)
May 15, 2015, Release of Mad Max: Fury Road
May 15, 2015, Release of Pitch Perfect 2
May 15, 2015, Release of Where Hope Grows
May 15, 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is sentenced to death for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings. (New York Times)
May 15, 2015, Blues legend B.B. King dies at the age of 89. (BBC)
May 15, 2015,
May 15, 2015, April 2015 Nepal earthquake: Wreckage from the American helicopter missing since Tuesday has been located, with bodies of some of the occupants. (CNN)
May 16, 2015, Mini-Series Premiere of Bessie
May 15, 2015, Blues legend B.B. King dies at the age of 89. (BBC)
May 15, 2015,
May 15, 2015, April 2015 Nepal earthquake: Wreckage from the American helicopter missing since Tuesday has been located, with bodies of some of the occupants. (CNN)
May 16, 2015, Mini-Series Premiere of Bessie
May 16, 2015, The United States claims that senior ISIL commander Abu Sayyaf is killed in a United States special operations forces raid within what is officially Syrian territory. (CNN)
May 16, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death for his part in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. (CNN)
May 16, 2015, American Pharoah wins the 2015 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and, in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in that city, is described as a sporting event that "...could help start the healing process."(ESPN)
May 16, 2015, An Egyptian court sentences deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death for his part in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. (CNN)
May 16, 2015, American Pharoah wins the 2015 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and, in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in that city, is described as a sporting event that "...could help start the healing process."(ESPN)
May 17, 2015, 2015 Waco shootout:
At least 9 people are killed and 18 injured, some by law enforcement and others in gunfire exchanges, in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas, at the Twin Peaks Restaurant. (KWTX)
May 17, 2015, The Islamic State reportedly seizes control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi after the retreat of government forces. (BBC News)
May 17, 2015, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church canonises two saints from Palestine, Sister Mariam Baouardy and Sister Marie Alphonsine Ghattas. (AP via Ten Play)
May 17, 2015, 2015 Billboard Music Awards: American pop music star Taylor Swift wins 8 awards at the Billboard Music Awards, including top artist. (The Independent)
May 17, 2015, In ice hockey, Canada wins gold over Russia at the 2015 IIHF World Championship, while the United States wins bronze over the Czech Republic. Canada's Sidney Crosby becomes the newest member of the Triple Gold Club, the group of players and coaches who have won gold medals at both the World Championship and Olympics, plus the Stanley Cup. (Sportsnet)
May 18, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama bans the provision of some military-type equipment to local police departments and restricts access to other types of equipment following recent tensions between police and minority communities. (AP via Yahoo! News)
May 18, 2015, Amtrak resumes train services between New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following a fatal train derailment on May 12. (AP via Huffington Post)
May 18, 2015, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 end at record levels. (CNBC)
May 18, 2015, Amtrak resumes train services between New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following a fatal train derailment on May 12. (AP via Huffington Post)
May 18, 2015, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 end at record levels. (CNBC)
May 19, 2015, The Los Angeles City Council votes to increase the minimum wage in the American city of Los Angeles, California, to $15 an hour by 2020. (New York Times)
May 19, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525: French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the Germanwings flight that crashed in southern France have all been identified, and their bodies can be returned home to their families. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
May 19, 2015, Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn ran aground three miles off Bermuda when departing for a return trip to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. (Boston Herald)
May 19, 2015, Prince Charles of Wales becomes the first member of the British Royal Family to meet with Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn Féin, during a two-day visit to Ireland. (AFP via ABC News)
May 19, 2015, Former nurse Victorino Chua has been found guilty of murder and poisoning patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, U.K., and sentenced to 35 years in jail. (BBC)
May 19, 2015, Mohawk Industries and five other companies agree to pay $275.5 million to settle lawsuits related to alleged price fixing of polyurethane foam. (Reuters)
May 19, 2015, Deflategate: In American football, Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, says that team will not appeal the National Football League ruling. (ESPN)
May 19, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525: French prosecutors say the passengers onboard the Germanwings flight that crashed in southern France have all been identified, and their bodies can be returned home to their families. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
May 19, 2015, Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn ran aground three miles off Bermuda when departing for a return trip to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. (Boston Herald)
May 19, 2015, Prince Charles of Wales becomes the first member of the British Royal Family to meet with Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn Féin, during a two-day visit to Ireland. (AFP via ABC News)
May 19, 2015, Former nurse Victorino Chua has been found guilty of murder and poisoning patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, U.K., and sentenced to 35 years in jail. (BBC)
May 19, 2015, Mohawk Industries and five other companies agree to pay $275.5 million to settle lawsuits related to alleged price fixing of polyurethane foam. (Reuters)
May 19, 2015, Deflategate: In American football, Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, says that team will not appeal the National Football League ruling. (ESPN)
May 20, 2015,
May 20, 2015, Five big banks Barclays, RBS, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS are fined $5.7 billion after a United States Department of Justice investigation into collusion by forex traders in several countries. (The Guardian)
May 20, 2015,
May 20, 2015,
May 20, 2015, The last edition of the Late Show with David Letterman goes to air on CBS Television in the United States. Following his retirement, David Letterman will be succeeded by Stephen Colbert on September 8, 2015. (CNN Money)
May 20, 2015,
May 20, 2015, Tools found near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University are dated at 3.3 million years making them the oldest yet discovered. (AP via ABC News America)
May 20, 2015, A rupture of an underground oil pipeline in California's Santa Barbara County near Refugio State Beach may have released 105,000 gallons of crude oil with tens of thousands gallons released into the Pacific Ocean. Jerry Brown, the Governor of California later declares a state of emergency. (Los Angeles Times)
May 20, 2015, Julio Suárez, the head of the Guatemalan Central Bank, is arrested together with the head of the Social Security Administration on corruption charges. (AFP via France24)
May 21, 2015, Cleanup continues after the Refugio Oil Spill at Refugio State Beach along the coast of Santa Barbara County, California.(ABC7.com)
May 21, 2015,
May 21, 2015, Robert Gates, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, calls on the movement to end the ban on gay adult leaders and says the movement will no longer revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay male leaders. (Yahoo News)
May 21, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: A grand jury in the American city of Baltimore indicts six police officers relating to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. All six officers will face charges of reckless endangerment. (AP via ABC News America), (ABC2)
May 21, 2015, Amnesty International accuses Qatar of failing to meet commitments on labor market reforms for migrant workers to be introduced before the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Among other charges, Qatar uses North Korean labourers who are not paid personally but instead the money goes to their government. (AFP via Google News)
May 22, 2015, Release of Poltergiest
May 22, 2015, Release of Tomorrowland
May 22, 2015, Release of The Human Centipede 3
May 22, 2015,
May 22, 2015,
May 22, 2015, Li Hejun, formerly China's richest man, loses an estimated US$14 billion when his energy shares plunge nearly 50%. (Forbes)
May 22, 2015, Surrounding areas of Wembley Stadium, London, UK have been evacuated following the discovery by construction crews of a still-live World War II-era 50-kg (110-llb) conventional-explosive bomb, a remnant of the Blitz. (MSN)
May 22, 2015, The United States Senate passes legislation to allow President Barack Obama to fast track trade negotiations with other countries. (AP via ABC News America)
May 22, 2015, Science publishes a series of papers on biodiversity in the deep sea, including tens of thousands of single-celled organisms most of which had not been previously identified. (BBC)
May 23, 2015, Cleveland Police Department officer Michael Brelo is acquitted of manslaughter in relation to the 2012 deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams following a a police chase. There are multiple arrests in protests afterwards (Los Angeles Times via WA Today)
May 23, 2015, Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 The counting of votes for yesterday's referendum occurs with the Republic of Ireland becoming the first country to adopt same sex marriage by referendum. (AP)
May 23, 2015, The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria with Måns Zelmerlöw of Sweden winning for the song Heroes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
May 23, 2015, An Indian heat wave claims over 200 lives with the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana worst affected. (The Hindu)
May 23, 2015, Record breaking rain causes flooding in the American states of Oklahoma and Texas with Oklahoma City recording record rainfall levels for the month of May. (CNN)
May 23, 2015, Nigerian drug agents arrest senator-elect Buruji Kashamu for extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in a drug deal 20 years ago that is claimed to be the basis for the television show Orange is the New Black. (AP)
May 23, 2015, The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, signs the Population Control Health Care Bill requiring some parents to space each child three years apart. (AP via Daily Mail)
May 24, 2015, 2015 Indianapolis 500: 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya holds off teammate Will Power by 0.105 seconds to win the 2015 Indianapolis 500. 2008 winner Scott Dixon started on the pole position and finished fourth. Concerns about safety had been raised after several practice crashes before the race, including one that hospitalized James Hinchcliffe. (ESPN)
May 24, 2015, Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident. (The New York Times)
May 24, 2015, Flash floods and heavy storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma claim at least two lives with at least eight people missing and hundreds of homes destroyed. (KXAN)
May 24, 2015, Dheepan, a French film directed by Jacques Audiard, wins the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)
May 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Texas Rising
May 25, 2015,
May 25, 2015, Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert is sentenced to eight months in jail following a conviction on corruption charges for unlawfully accepting multiple envelopes with cash from an American supporter. There are 3 more criminals prosecutions against him. (BBC)
May 26, 2015, Charter Communications announces plans to merge with Time Warner Cable in a $55.1 billion deal. (Market Watch)
May 26, 2015, 2015 India heat wave: The death toll from the heat wave passes 1100 as the roads in the capital New Delhi are melting in the heat. (AFP via AsiaOne)
May 26, 2015, Texas–Oklahoma floods: Flash flood warnings are now in place in eight states with flood waters causing closures of roads, rail services and buses in Houston. (NBC News)
-Thirty people are reported missing in the Houston area as the flood water levels continue to rise as the death toll in Texas rises to 13. (AP via News24), (AP)
May 26, 2015, A man dies of the rare Lassa fever in the American state of New Jersey after returning from West Africa. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 26, 2015, Thieves use an online tax service provided by the American Internal Revenue Service to steal information from more than 100,000 taxpayers. (AP)
May 26, 2015, A lone gunman enters a Walmart store in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, and opens fire, killing one employee before turning the gun on himself. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
May 26, 2015, The Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that poachers have killed half of Mozambique's elephants in the past five years. (AFP via CapitalFM)
May 26, 2015, In basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James win the Eastern Conference and will play in the 2015 NBA finals. (Cleveland.com)
May 27, 2015, FIFA corruption scandal: Six FIFA officials are detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States in relation to allegations of corruption between the 1990s and now. Those arrested include Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and José Maria Marin. (AP)
-Swiss federal prosecutors open criminal procedures in relation to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. (AP)
-FIFA suspends eleven people from involvement in football over the scandal. (AP)
May 27, 2015,
May 27, 2015,
May 27, 2015, The Legislature of the US state of Nebraska votes to outlaw the death penalty, overriding a veto by Governor Pete Ricketts. (Lincoln Journal Star)
May 27, 2015, The parliament of Greenland unanimously votes to legalize same-sex marriage by 1 October, 2015. (The Local)
May 27, 2015, Rick Santorum announces he will be seeking the nomination of the Republican Party in the United States presidential election, 2016. (Washington Post)
May 27, 2015, Elon Musk's SpaceX wins U.S. Air Force approval to launch military satellites. (AFP via News24)
May 28, 2015, Series Premiere of Aquarius
May 28, 2015, Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is indicted for allegedly trying to evade banking reporting requirements and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. (CNBC)
May 28, 2015, The United States Air Force says that as many as 22 people have been inadvertently exposed to anthrax during a laboratory training exercise at Osan Air Base in South Korea. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 28, 2015, 2015 NBA Finals: In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Houston Rockets 104-90 to win the Western Conference 4-1 and go to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1975. (Bleacher Report)
May 28, 2015,
May 28, 2015, NASA awards Boeing a commercial contract to build and fly the next passenger spacecraft, the CST-100. (Fin24)
May 29, 2015, Release of San Andreas
May 29, 2015, Release of Aloha
May 29, 2015, Sepp Blatter is elected to a fifth term as president of FIFA after Prince Ali bin Hussein withdraws his candidacy before a second round of voting could take place. The first round of voting had ended with Blatter falling seven votes short of the 2/3 majority needed to win. (ESPN)
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015, A volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu-jima prompting the evacuation of all residents and the diversion of all flights. (Kyodo via Japan Times)
May 29, 2015, 2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood and tornado outbreak: Dozens of people are rescued in the US state of Texas. The death toll from floods in Texas and Oklahoma has reached 24 dead with 13 missing with another 15 people dead from tornadoes in northern Mexico and Texas. (NBC News)
May 29, 2015, 2015 Indian heat wave:The official death toll from the Indian heat wave passes 1,800 making it the deadliest heatwave in more than two decades. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 29, 2015, The United States officially removes Cuba from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. (NBC News)
May 29, 2015, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is given a life sentence after being convicted for narcotics trafficking. (The Verge)
May 29, 2015, American television actor Dustin Diamond is convicted of two misdemeanor charges stemming from a stabbing at a Wisconsin bar last year but acquitted on felony charges. (AP)
May 30, 2015, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan. No tsunami warning is issued. (BBC)
May 30, 2015, Beau Biden, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's son, who had served in the Iraq War and for multiple terms as the Attorney General of Delaware, dies at Walter Reed Medical Center after a battle with malignant brain cancer. (MSN)
May 30, 2015, A mystery disease has killed over 120,000 saiga antelopes – more than a third of the world's total population – in Kazakhstan in recent weeks. (AFP via ABC Online)
May 31, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Halt and Catch Fire
May 31, 2015, John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, is taken to hospital in Switzerland with a broken leg following a cycling accident in the nearby French town of Scionzier. Kerry had been in Geneva negotiating with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (BBC)
May 31, 2015, Key sections of the Patriot Act expire at midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) due to failure of the United States Senate to agree to an extension. It is highly likely that USA Freedom Act will be passed soon, but the bulk collection of domestic telephone data by the National Security Agency is expected to end. (Time)
May 20, 2015,
May 20, 2015, Tools found near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University are dated at 3.3 million years making them the oldest yet discovered. (AP via ABC News America)
May 20, 2015, A rupture of an underground oil pipeline in California's Santa Barbara County near Refugio State Beach may have released 105,000 gallons of crude oil with tens of thousands gallons released into the Pacific Ocean. Jerry Brown, the Governor of California later declares a state of emergency. (Los Angeles Times)
May 20, 2015, Julio Suárez, the head of the Guatemalan Central Bank, is arrested together with the head of the Social Security Administration on corruption charges. (AFP via France24)
May 21, 2015, Cleanup continues after the Refugio Oil Spill at Refugio State Beach along the coast of Santa Barbara County, California.(ABC7.com)
May 21, 2015,
May 21, 2015, Robert Gates, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, calls on the movement to end the ban on gay adult leaders and says the movement will no longer revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay male leaders. (Yahoo News)
May 21, 2015, Death of Freddie Gray: A grand jury in the American city of Baltimore indicts six police officers relating to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. All six officers will face charges of reckless endangerment. (AP via ABC News America), (ABC2)
May 21, 2015, Amnesty International accuses Qatar of failing to meet commitments on labor market reforms for migrant workers to be introduced before the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Among other charges, Qatar uses North Korean labourers who are not paid personally but instead the money goes to their government. (AFP via Google News)
May 22, 2015, Release of Poltergiest
May 22, 2015, Release of Tomorrowland
May 22, 2015, Release of The Human Centipede 3
May 22, 2015,
May 22, 2015,
May 22, 2015, Li Hejun, formerly China's richest man, loses an estimated US$14 billion when his energy shares plunge nearly 50%. (Forbes)
May 22, 2015, Surrounding areas of Wembley Stadium, London, UK have been evacuated following the discovery by construction crews of a still-live World War II-era 50-kg (110-llb) conventional-explosive bomb, a remnant of the Blitz. (MSN)
May 22, 2015, The United States Senate passes legislation to allow President Barack Obama to fast track trade negotiations with other countries. (AP via ABC News America)
May 22, 2015, Science publishes a series of papers on biodiversity in the deep sea, including tens of thousands of single-celled organisms most of which had not been previously identified. (BBC)
May 23, 2015, Cleveland Police Department officer Michael Brelo is acquitted of manslaughter in relation to the 2012 deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams following a a police chase. There are multiple arrests in protests afterwards (Los Angeles Times via WA Today)
May 23, 2015, Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 The counting of votes for yesterday's referendum occurs with the Republic of Ireland becoming the first country to adopt same sex marriage by referendum. (AP)
May 23, 2015, The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria with Måns Zelmerlöw of Sweden winning for the song Heroes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
May 23, 2015, An Indian heat wave claims over 200 lives with the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana worst affected. (The Hindu)
May 23, 2015, Record breaking rain causes flooding in the American states of Oklahoma and Texas with Oklahoma City recording record rainfall levels for the month of May. (CNN)
May 23, 2015, Nigerian drug agents arrest senator-elect Buruji Kashamu for extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in a drug deal 20 years ago that is claimed to be the basis for the television show Orange is the New Black. (AP)
May 23, 2015, The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, signs the Population Control Health Care Bill requiring some parents to space each child three years apart. (AP via Daily Mail)
May 24, 2015, 2015 Indianapolis 500: 2000 winner Juan Pablo Montoya holds off teammate Will Power by 0.105 seconds to win the 2015 Indianapolis 500. 2008 winner Scott Dixon started on the pole position and finished fourth. Concerns about safety had been raised after several practice crashes before the race, including one that hospitalized James Hinchcliffe. (ESPN)
May 24, 2015, Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident. (The New York Times)
May 24, 2015, Flash floods and heavy storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma claim at least two lives with at least eight people missing and hundreds of homes destroyed. (KXAN)
May 24, 2015, Dheepan, a French film directed by Jacques Audiard, wins the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)
May 25, 2015, Series Premiere of Texas Rising
May 25, 2015,
May 25, 2015, Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert is sentenced to eight months in jail following a conviction on corruption charges for unlawfully accepting multiple envelopes with cash from an American supporter. There are 3 more criminals prosecutions against him. (BBC)
May 26, 2015, Charter Communications announces plans to merge with Time Warner Cable in a $55.1 billion deal. (Market Watch)
May 26, 2015, 2015 India heat wave: The death toll from the heat wave passes 1100 as the roads in the capital New Delhi are melting in the heat. (AFP via AsiaOne)
May 26, 2015, Texas–Oklahoma floods: Flash flood warnings are now in place in eight states with flood waters causing closures of roads, rail services and buses in Houston. (NBC News)
-Thirty people are reported missing in the Houston area as the flood water levels continue to rise as the death toll in Texas rises to 13. (AP via News24), (AP)
May 26, 2015, A man dies of the rare Lassa fever in the American state of New Jersey after returning from West Africa. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 26, 2015, Thieves use an online tax service provided by the American Internal Revenue Service to steal information from more than 100,000 taxpayers. (AP)
May 26, 2015, A lone gunman enters a Walmart store in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, and opens fire, killing one employee before turning the gun on himself. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
May 26, 2015, The Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that poachers have killed half of Mozambique's elephants in the past five years. (AFP via CapitalFM)
May 26, 2015, In basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James win the Eastern Conference and will play in the 2015 NBA finals. (Cleveland.com)
May 27, 2015, FIFA corruption scandal: Six FIFA officials are detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States in relation to allegations of corruption between the 1990s and now. Those arrested include Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and José Maria Marin. (AP)
-Swiss federal prosecutors open criminal procedures in relation to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. (AP)
-FIFA suspends eleven people from involvement in football over the scandal. (AP)
May 27, 2015,
May 27, 2015,
May 27, 2015, The Legislature of the US state of Nebraska votes to outlaw the death penalty, overriding a veto by Governor Pete Ricketts. (Lincoln Journal Star)
May 27, 2015, The parliament of Greenland unanimously votes to legalize same-sex marriage by 1 October, 2015. (The Local)
May 27, 2015, Rick Santorum announces he will be seeking the nomination of the Republican Party in the United States presidential election, 2016. (Washington Post)
May 27, 2015, Elon Musk's SpaceX wins U.S. Air Force approval to launch military satellites. (AFP via News24)
May 28, 2015, Series Premiere of Aquarius
May 28, 2015, Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is indicted for allegedly trying to evade banking reporting requirements and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. (CNBC)
May 28, 2015, The United States Air Force says that as many as 22 people have been inadvertently exposed to anthrax during a laboratory training exercise at Osan Air Base in South Korea. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 28, 2015, 2015 NBA Finals: In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Houston Rockets 104-90 to win the Western Conference 4-1 and go to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1975. (Bleacher Report)
May 28, 2015,
May 28, 2015, NASA awards Boeing a commercial contract to build and fly the next passenger spacecraft, the CST-100. (Fin24)
May 29, 2015, Release of San Andreas
May 29, 2015, Release of Aloha
May 29, 2015, Sepp Blatter is elected to a fifth term as president of FIFA after Prince Ali bin Hussein withdraws his candidacy before a second round of voting could take place. The first round of voting had ended with Blatter falling seven votes short of the 2/3 majority needed to win. (ESPN)
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015,
May 29, 2015, A volcano erupts on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu-jima prompting the evacuation of all residents and the diversion of all flights. (Kyodo via Japan Times)
May 29, 2015, 2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood and tornado outbreak: Dozens of people are rescued in the US state of Texas. The death toll from floods in Texas and Oklahoma has reached 24 dead with 13 missing with another 15 people dead from tornadoes in northern Mexico and Texas. (NBC News)
May 29, 2015, 2015 Indian heat wave:The official death toll from the Indian heat wave passes 1,800 making it the deadliest heatwave in more than two decades. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
May 29, 2015, The United States officially removes Cuba from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. (NBC News)
May 29, 2015, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is given a life sentence after being convicted for narcotics trafficking. (The Verge)
May 29, 2015, American television actor Dustin Diamond is convicted of two misdemeanor charges stemming from a stabbing at a Wisconsin bar last year but acquitted on felony charges. (AP)
May 30, 2015, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan. No tsunami warning is issued. (BBC)
May 30, 2015, Beau Biden, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's son, who had served in the Iraq War and for multiple terms as the Attorney General of Delaware, dies at Walter Reed Medical Center after a battle with malignant brain cancer. (MSN)
May 30, 2015, A mystery disease has killed over 120,000 saiga antelopes – more than a third of the world's total population – in Kazakhstan in recent weeks. (AFP via ABC Online)
May 31, 2015, Season 2 Premiere of Halt and Catch Fire
May 31, 2015, John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, is taken to hospital in Switzerland with a broken leg following a cycling accident in the nearby French town of Scionzier. Kerry had been in Geneva negotiating with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (BBC)
May 31, 2015, Key sections of the Patriot Act expire at midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) due to failure of the United States Senate to agree to an extension. It is highly likely that USA Freedom Act will be passed soon, but the bulk collection of domestic telephone data by the National Security Agency is expected to end. (Time)
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