A LufthansaAirbus 320 nearly crashes while landing in Hamburg, Germany due to high winds. The pilot was able to stabilize the plane and successfully landed on the second try. No one was injured. (Stern)
The remains of Padre Pio, the Capuchin monk who died in 1968 after living for decades with inexplicable, bleeding wounds on his hands and feet, are exhumed. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
Peoples Republic of China's reluctance to explain the extent and purpose of its military buildup poses a risk to stability in Asia. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link
May 2008 and, at the same time, resign as leader of the DUP, a party he has led for almost 40 years. (RTÉ)
At least four people are killed and 14 injured in a suicide bombing at a naval college in the Pakistani city of Lahore. (BBC News)
Dan Fried estimates that Kosovo will need about $2 billion in foreign aid to become economically viable, and says that the United States will participate in a major donors' conference on Kosovo in June. (Reuters)
India wins
Commonwealth Bank Series in Australia. (BBC Sport)
Eight people are killed in separate attacks in central and western Kenya. (AP via USA Today)
In Germany the former Stasi informant Holm Singer won an interim injunction to prevent an exhibition from including his name and clandestine activities. (Reuters)
Barisan National secures another term in government, but suffers its worst performance since the country's independence in 1957. (AP via CNN)(Xinhua)(Gaulia.com)(CNA)
Crude oil futures contracts end trading at a new closing high of $109.92 a barrel after earlier topping $110 a barrel for the first time. (MarketWatch)
Sweden’s largest lake, the Vänern, which is also the third largest lake in Europe, will be lowered by 15 centimeters, in order to avoid flooding. (Expressen)
FAA discovers the airline failed to inspect its Boeing 737s for structural flaws during 2006 and 2007. (Reuters)
African American and legally blind person to hold this position. (Yahoo! Finance)
A gunman opens fire at a bank in McComb, Mississippi, killing two people, before forcing his wife into a car and driving away, later killing her and committing suicide. (WAPT)
A man under investigation for the sexual abuse of children at an orphanage in Sofia, Bulgaria, opens fire on teenage witnesses, killing one and wounding two others before committing suicide. (MSNBC)
yen in Asian dealings and early European action, breaks through to touch 99.75, its lowest level since November 1995. (Reuters)
Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather of record for this season as result of an Australian autumn heatwave. (The Age)
UNMIK and NATO KFOR forces clashed with Serb protesters in North Kosovo resulting in over 150 wounded after arresting Serb lawyers and court officials who had taken control of a UN court. The clashes are part of ongoing unrest following Kosovo's declaration of independence. (BBC News)
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San Francisco Bay Bridge resulting in an oil spill is charged with breaking United States pollution laws. (Reuters)
embassy in Yemen is closed after three mortar shells detonate near the embassy compound. Two people are killed in the attack. (CNN)(AFP via Google News)
Early elections are called for May 2008 in Kuwait after a crisis between the cabinet and parliament leads the emir Sabah al-Sabah to dissolve parliament. (BBC News)
events in Tibet with the declaration of independence by Kosovo, showing a growing movement of groups seeking independence. (Makfax)[permanent dead link](Ria Novosti)
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana India is constructed officially replacing Begumpet Airport which commences civil operations.
Serbia formally proposes partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines, asking the United Nations to ensure that Belgrade can control key institutions and functions in areas of the newly independent country where Serbs form a majority. (The International Herald Tribune)
Relatives of victims of the
Virginia Tech massacre report that the Government of Virginia will offer victims compensation of $100,000 to forestall law suits. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Adam AirFlight 574: A final report finds the 102 on board died when pilots preoccupied with an instrument failure did not realise the 737 was descending out of control. (Xinhua)(Wikinews)
A gunman opens fire at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia, United States, killing two people and critically wounding one other who later died of his injuries before being shot and wounded by police. (WTVM)
Dwain Chambers: BBC, Sky Sports & The Sun newspaper are all carrying reports that Chambers is to announce he is to become an English rugby league player with Castleford Tigers. Chambers was previously an athlete and American Football player. (BBC News)
WrestleMania XXIV takes place from the Citrus Bowl with an all-time attendance record for the stadium at over 70,000 people.
Aloha Airlines, a Hawaii based airline which operates inter-island and trans-Pacific flights, has suspended all passenger services effective March 31, 2008, due to bankruptcy. (Honolulu Advertiser)
The enlargement of the
borderless zone to eight Eastern European countries and Malta is completed through the lifting of air border controls between them and the 15 countries already part of the area. (European Commission)
War in Somalia (2008): Somali Islamists have seized control of a central town after clashes with government forces that left 11 people dead, residents and Islamists said. (France 24)
