| | - The private military company Xe (formerly Blackwater Worldwide) ends its operations in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP via Google News)
- The Eastern Partnership conducts its inaugural meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP via Examiner.com)
- General Motors reports a US$6 billion loss for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via the Wall Street Journal)
- One police officer is killed and two more are injured in Napier, New Zealand. (TVNZ.co.nz)
- Canada experiences its first swine influenza-related death. (CP24 via Canadian Press)
- Wildfires near Santa Barbara, California, United States, burn 3,000 acres of land and force 15,000 people to evacuate. (BBC)
- The Armed Forces and the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development battle near Goz Beïda, Ouaddaï Region, Chad. (BBC)
- China announces that 5,335 schoolchildren died during an earthquake in Sichuan on May 12, 2008. (The Guardian)
- An American man is arrested in Burma for trespassing on National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's property. (BBC)
- The Central Bank reduces the Eurozone's interest rate to 1% and implements €60 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
- A fire at a casino kills ten people and injures ten others in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (BBC)
- The fourth phase of India's general election concludes. (Hindustan Times)
- The Bank of England freezes interest rates at 0.5% and will implement £50 billion of quantitative easing. (BBC)
- Ten Army soldiers are killed and 22 others injured during combat with the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan. (BBC)
- Somali pirates hijack the Netherlands' MV Marathon and attack the U.S. Navy cargo ship Lewis and Clark. (Reuters)
| | | - Thunderstorms throughout the Midwestern United States kill five people. (New York Times)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai demands that the United States halt airstrikes in the war against the Taliban. (Reuters)
- Louis Caldera resigns as Director of the White House Military Office. (New York Times)
- Wildfires cause at least 30,000 people to evacuate Santa Barbara, California, United States. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Islamic terrorist and Singaporean fugitive Mas Selamat bin Kastari is arrested in Malaysia. (AP via Google News)
- At least 45,000 people evacuate as war between the government and the Taliban continues in Swat, Pakistan. (Sky News)
- A cave-in at a gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, kills 20 people, injures five more, and renders ten others missing. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI begins his tour of Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. (BBC)
| | | - The United Kingdom's House of Lords suspends Thomas Taylor and Peter Truscott until November for misconduct. (BBC)
- South East Queensland, Australia, is declared a natural disaster zone, following flooding. (ABC News Australia)
- Iran launches a Sajjil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile. (BBC)
- An Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft crashes in Java, Indonesia, killing at least 98 people. (Reuters)
- The Globe and Mail refutes portions of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's testimony about his relationship with German arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber. (Globe and Mail)
- The International Security Assistance Force reports that the Taliban are using white phosphorus in the Afghanistan War. (CNN)
- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond activates Whitelee Wind Farm, Europe's largest onshore wind farm. (BBC) (NCE)
- Three civilians die during combat between Islamist insurgents and the African Union Mission in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
- Japan's economy contracted by 4% during the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (BBC)
- Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concludes that the Roman Catholic Church and the Department of Education and Science knew sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys’ institutions. (RTÉ)
- A car bomb kills at least 34 people and injures 72 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- The Provincial Police of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, charge two people with abducting and murdering Victoria Stafford. (CTV)
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk defeat SV Werder Bremen to win the final UEFA Cup. (BBC) (UEFA)
- Kris Allen is crowned the new American Idol.
| | | - Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) is elected as Prime Minister of Nepal. (CNN)
- Fourteen people are killed as a King Air 350 crashes near Trancoso, Bahia, Brazil. (AFP via ABC News)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands better humanitarian aid for 250,000 war refugees in Sri Lanka. (CNN)
- The Army and the Taliban battle in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide. (AP via USA Today)
- Floods force the evacuations of Kempsey and Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. (ABC News)
- Madagascar's political parties agree to establish a provisional government and a truth/reconciliation commission. (BBC)
- A car bomb kills at least six people and injures 70 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
- Germany's Federal Assembly re-elects Horst Köhler as President. (Deutsche Welle)
- United States President Barack Obama nominates former astronaut Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Los Angeles Times)
- A bomb kills two people and injures 12 others in Kathmandu, Nepal. (CNN)
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