Portal:Current events/2010 May 9
May 9, 2010 (Sunday)
- BP's containment chamber fails, prolonging the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (Reuters)
- The regional coalition of Christian-Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) are voted out of office in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which may lead to the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel losing its majority in the upper house. (BBC) (Financial Times) (The Guardian) (The Independent)
- Sandro Bondi, Italy's minister of culture, calls for a boycott of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival after a documentary on the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake was included in the programme. (AFP) (Reuters)
- An earthquake strikes Sumatra sparking fears of a tsunami. (BBC) (Bangkok Post)[permanent dead link] (France24) (IAfrica.com)
- A mine explosion in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast), Russia, kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for. (BBC) (TVNZ)
- U.S. missiles kill five people in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (AP)
- A Chinese man is freed from prison after 10 years after the man he had been convicted of killing is found alive. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Somali pirates seize MS Marida Marguerite, a German-owned tanker, off the coast of Somalia. (Press TV)
- Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics throws the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. (ESPN)
- The 26th annual Vancouver Sun Run happens today in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.