Portal:Current events/2007 May 7
May 7, 2007 (Monday)
- Discovery is announced of the Kerguelen Plateau, an Antarctic sunken large island formerly joined to India, from the icebreaker Polarstern at its homeport of Bremerhaven, Germany, after a 19-month research voyage to Antarctica. (Times of India)
- Kenya Airways Flight 507:
- Search officials confirm that there were no survivors. (AP via CNN)
- The flight data recorder is retrieved from a mangrove swamp where the plane crashed. (BBC)
- NASA announces that the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes have discovered a massive supernova designated SN 2006gy, the largest ever recorded, and possibly a new type that has been predicted but never observed. (BBC) (Space.com)
- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel survives three motions of no confidence in Knesset, in the latest backlash over his handling of the 2006 Lebanon war. (BBC)
- A senior officer of the Los Angeles Police Department is demoted and 61 other officers reassigned after an inquiry into the handling of a May Day protest. (BBC)
- At least 21 people die in a bus crash in northwest Pakistan. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- More than 18,000 Mexicans pose naked for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick at the Zócalo Plaza in Mexico City. (AP via CNN)