Digg users participate in the "Digg Revolt" of posting the pirated HD-DVD/AACS hex code, considered by sources to be a pivotal moment in internet free-speech. [1]
A train carrying solid-fuel booster segments for the space shuttle programme is involved in a bridge collapse in Alabama, injuring six people, two seriously. (Spaceflight Now)
A boat carrying nearly 150 Haitian migrants capsizes in the Atlantic Ocean 1 km off the coast of one of the Turks and Caicos Islands, killing at least twenty, requiring the rescue of at least seventy-three and leaving at least fifty-eight unaccounted for. (CBS)
Two Cuban military deserters hijack a bus and reroute it to Havana Airport, before attempting to steal an empty passenger jet with the occupants of the bus as hostages. The plan is ultimately foiled but one hostage is killed before the men are captured. [2]
HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual and B'Tselem, Israelihuman rights organizations, accuse the Israeli Defense Ministry of abusing Palestinian detainees in 73 cases. The Justice Ministry said the report was "fraught with mistakes, groundless claims and inaccuracies." (BBC)
Voters in France go to the polls for the second round of the French presidential election with socialist Ségolène Royal and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy as the two contenders. Exit polls indicate that Nicolas Sarkozy has won the runoff poll in the election with 53% of the vote, beating Ségolène Royal who has 47% of the vote. She later concedes defeat. (BBC)(BBC)
Pope Benedict XVI urges tens of thousands of young Brazilian Catholics packing the Pacaembu stadium in São Paulo to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and tells them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end." (CNN)
The Singapore Grand Prix has been confirmed for the Formula One2008 season, with a planned 4.8km (3.0 miles) long street circuit around the downtown area. It is planned to be the event's first night race when safety and logistical concerns are addressed. (CNA)
A bomb placed on a bicycle was detonated in a bazaar in İzmir, Turkey wounding fifteen people just a day before the scheduled "republic protest" in the city. One of the wounded was in a critical condition and later died in the hospital while most of the others were lightly wounded and were released from the hospital the same day. (Hürriyet)
Top Palestinian Security Official, Hani Kawasmeh, quits in protest on Monday as Sunday's ceasefire is broken, with fighting across Gaza between Hamas and Fatah killing 8 and wounding 40. Fighting began as both sides set up security checkpoints and kidnapped rivals as bargaining chips. (Washington Post)
Twenty four members of a marriage party killed and 30 more injured when their van collides with a truck in the district of Adilabad, in Andhra Pradesh, India. (Saisat)
Palestinian factional violence claims 8 more lives as violence erupts on the Israeli border with Fatah and Hamas fighting for dominance at the Karni cargo crossing in Gaza, ending Monday night's ceasefire agreement. (USA Today)
Fifteen people die in fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces on the Gaza Strip with Hamas killing five people at the house of a Fatah security chief Rashid Abu Shbak in Gaza City. (AP via CNN)
Over 18 people have been wounded by approximately thirty Qassam rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Hamas has claimed responsibility and sources believe the rocket attacks are an attempt to lure Israel into the ongoing internal conflict between Hamas and Fatah. (JPost)
Hong Kong media regulator receives more than a thousand complaints about the bible being too sexual, in what seems to be a response to a recent ruling condemning a sex survey in a student newspaper. (Daily Mail)
2007 Israel-Gaza conflict: A total of seven rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip and landed in western Negev. Another rocket landed in Sderot and killed an Israeli woman. In response, the IAF also fired missiles in an air strike at a munitions base, and secondary explosions were reported after the strike. The air strike wounded seven people in the attack on Jabaliya, Gaza City, according to local residents and hospital officials.(Reuters)(Ynet)
The IAF carried out an air strike near the residence of PalestinianPrime MinisterIsmail Haniyeh. The IDF said that the air strike was not targeting the Prime Minister, and was on a structure used by Hamas, located in the Shati refugee camp. Local residents said that an IAF missile hit a vehicle patrolling Haniyeh's home in Gaza, and that the attack wounded one person. (Reuters)
The Ostankino Tower has once again caught fire. The BBC reports that the fire is believed to be not as serious as that in 2000 and was isolated to a platform on the outside of the tower. The fire was successfully extinguished, with no casualties. (BBC)
Hamas militants are considering lighter ceasefire terms offered by Fatah, specifically PalestinianPresidentMahmoud Abbas. They are giving Israel until May 27 to respond to this agreement, that would only end Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has said, however, that they are not completely committed to their offer.
The army is deployed in the Indianstate of Rajasthan after 14 people are killed in violent clashes over the government's affirmative action plans. (BBC)
