Current events of 27 May 2009 (2009-05-27) (Wednesday) edit history watch

United States President Barack Obama nominates Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Diaz as Ambassador to the Holy See. (AP via Google News) FC Barcelona defeats Manchester United F.C. to win the 2008-09 UEFA Champions League Final. (CNN) North Korea launches its fifth missile since testing a nuclear weapon on May 25. (Sky News) Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies purchases 1.96% of the social network service Facebook. (New York Times) A suicide attack kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (CNN) (BBC) Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Reuters) A rare white tiger is euthanized after killing a zookeeper at the Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei, New Zealand. (BBC) (RTÉ) Russia will supply US$1 billion of uranium to civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. (CNN) An anti-piracy warship destroys a Yemeni fishing vessel in the Red Sea, killing at least two people. (BBC)