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Encyclopedia > As of May 2007

May 2007 is the fifth month of that year It began on a Tuesday and will end after 31 days on a Thursday. May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ...


International holidays

May 1 Many European stock exchanges will be closed in observance of May Day. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... May Day is May 1, and refers to any of several holidays celebrated on this day. ...


Portal:Current events

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  • The world's biggest airline takeover of Qantas Airways by Airline Partners Australia Limited has failed after investors rejected it. (Reuters) (The Age) (Bloomberg.com: Asia) (Sydney Morning Herald) (CNN)
  • Mali's opposition, The Front for Democracy and the Republic calls on the Constitutional Court to annul last Sunday's election. (BBC)
  • Convicted terrorist Carlos the Jackal will face charges in France relating to alleged involvement in deadly bombings in 1982 and 1983. (AP via IHT)
  • International delegates reach agreement at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the summary report on mitigating climate change despite some concerns raised by China. (AP via CNN)
  • Major world and Middle East powers discuss the future of Iraq on the second day of an International Compact for Iraq conference in Egypt. (BBC)
  • A boat capsizes in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of the Bahamas, killing at least twenty, requiring the rescue of at least seventy-three and leaving at least fifty-eight unnacounted for. (CBS)
  • Two Cuban millitary 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 ultimatly foiled but one hostage is killed before the men were captured. (SMH)
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