Portal:Current events/2006 May 28

Current events of May 28, 2006 (2006-05-28) (Sunday)

The body of Canadian diplomat Lewis Brooke Miskell is found in Naples, Italy, three months after his disappearance. (Globe and Mail) The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film by British director Ken Loach, is awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Comoros volcano Mount Karthala erupts. (Washington Post) Barry Bonds hits his 715th home run against the Colorado Rockies, passing Babe Ruth to move into second place on the list of all-time home run hitters. (ABC News) Sam Hornish, Jr. wins the 90th Indianapolis 500 in the second-closest finish in race history. President Alvaro Uribe gets reelected in a landslide in the Colombian presidential election, 2006, winning 62.2% of the votes in a landslide. This is the first time a Colombian President gets reelected in more than a century. He will serve another 4-year term.