Current events of 16 May 2009 (2009-05-16) (Saturday) edit history watch

Alexander Rybak of Norway wins the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. (Reuters) Ruth Padel becomes the University of Oxford's first female Professor of Poetry. (The Irish Times) Manchester United Football Club win the 2008-09 season of the Premier League. (AFP via The Australian) The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico. (Reuters via Yahoo! Xtra) Representative Yukio Hatoyama becomes the President of Japan's Democratic Party. (BBC) The People's Party concedes to the United Progressive Alliance in India's general election. (AFP/BBC via ABC Australia) The Niger Delta Emancipation Movement claims that Nigeria's military killed one of its hostages during an operation. (BBC) A car bomb kills at least 11 people and injures 25 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC) President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that Sri Lanka has "militarily defeated the Tamil Tigers". (MSNBC) The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force ends its involvement in Iraq. (BBC) An acid attack injures 30 people in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. (BBC) Thousands of demonstrators protest unemployment in Berlin, Germany. (The Irish Times) India and Turkey confirm their first cases of (A)H1N1 influenza. (BBC)