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- A U.S. federal appeals court rules that Congressman Jim McDermott must pay damages for leaking a copy of a tape of an illegally intercepted telephone call. (New York Times)
- Iraq War:
- Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corporation, announces a $5 billion offer to take over Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. (International Herald Tribune)
- Turkish presidential election, 2007: The Constitutional Court of Turkey annuls last Friday's presidential vote in the Grand National Assembly after a challenge by opposition parties. (BBC)
- At least three people die after an explosion in an apartment building in Palencia, Spain. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Police arrest 30 alleged animal rights extremists in raids in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. (BBC)
- Deutsche Börse AG, operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, agrees to buy International Securities Exchange the second biggest United States options market for $2.8 billion creating the largest transatlantic derivatives market. (Bloomberg via the Boston Globe)
- Nigerian opposition and civil society groups join trade unions in May Day rallies against the recent presidential election which saw Umaru Yar'Adua elected as the President of Nigeria. (BBC)
- Eitan Cabel, a member of the Israeli Cabinet resigns in protest of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of the 2006 Lebanon War. (FOX)
- Two men are charged in Melbourne, Victoria with being members of the Tamil Tigers and providing funding to the organisation. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Thousands of Macau residents demonstrate against the government's labour policy and corruption on May Day, resulting in a clash with police. One bystander was injured. (AP via International Herald Tribute) (BBC)
- 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]
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- Gunmen in Afghanistan kill Abdul Sabur Farid, a member of the House of Elders and former Prime Minister. (BBC)
- Voters in The Bahamas go to the polls in elections for the House of Assembly (AP via CNN), ousting the governing Progressive Liberal Party in favour of the opposition Free National Movement. (BBC)
- Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Los Angeles, California, orders an inquiry into a clash that occurred at a May Day Rally between the Los Angeles Police Department and pro-immigration demonstrators. (Reuters via CNN)
- The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Sudanese humanitarian affairs minister Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb on charges of war crimes committed during the Darfur conflict. (BBC)
- Iraq War: U.S. President George W. Bush meets with Democratic Party officials in Congress to try find ways to fund the Iraq War. (BBC)
- French presidential election, 2007: Candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal participate in a televised debate. (CNN) (BBC) (Reuters via CNN)
- All six members of the Bali Nine on death row have the appeal against their sentence heard in Bali and Jakarta. (ABC News Australia)
- Avigdor Yitzhaki, the chairman and co-founder of Ehud Olmert's Kadima party, calls on Olmert to resign as the Prime Minister of Israel over his handling of the 2006 Lebanon War. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni later joined calls for Olmert's resignation. (BBC) (AustBC)
- Four people are killed in a helicopter crash in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
- 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)
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