Portal:Current events/2009 May 16
May 16, 2009 (Saturday)
- 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)