Portal:Current events/2007 May 9

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Current events of May 9, 2007 (2007-05-09) (Wednesday) edit history watch

The Times and Phoenix TV reports that Huang Ju, Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China and a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, has died in Beijing. However, the State Council of the People's Republic of China denies these reports.(Stratfor) (IOL) At least nine Colombian policeman are killed and six others injured from a bomb planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Santander Department. (BBC) The Shanghai Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange reaches a record high 4,000 points. (New York Times) Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf is re-elected as the Mayor of Tehran, Iran. (BBC) Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Brazil on his first visit to Latin America to reaffirm Catholicism in the region. (Reuters via ABC News Australia) The first named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Andrea, forms off the southeastern United States. (CNN) Four people in the United Kingdom are arrested in connection with the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (BBC) Iraq War: Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, travels to Baghdad to encourage reconciliation amongst factions. (AP via Houston Chronicle) At least 12 people die as a truck bomb explodes in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald) People in East Timor finish voting in the second round of the country's first presidential election since it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002. (BBC) The United Kingdom Home Office is restructured with a new Ministry of Justice being formed to handle prisons, probation and the sentencing of offenders. (UK Home Office) (BBC) An international genetic research program identifies a group of genes which may cause bipolar disorder. (Daily Telegraph)