Portal:Current events/2007 May 7

Current events of May 7, 2007 (2007-05-07) (Monday)

Discovery is announced of the Kerguelen Plateau, an Antarctic sunken large island formerly joined to India, from the icebreaker Polarstern at its homeport of Bremerhaven, Germany, after a 19-month research voyage to Antarctica. (Times of India) Kenya Airways Flight 507: Search officials confirm that there were no survivors. (AP via CNN) The flight data recorder is retrieved from a mangrove swamp where the plane crashed. (BBC) NASA announces that the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes have discovered a massive supernova designated SN 2006gy, the largest ever recorded, and possibly a new type that has been predicted but never observed. (BBC) (Space.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel survives three motions of no confidence in Knesset, in the latest backlash over his handling of the 2006 Lebanon war. (BBC) A senior officer of the Los Angeles Police Department is demoted and 61 other officers reassigned after an inquiry into the handling of a May Day protest. (BBC) At least 21 people die in a bus crash in northwest Pakistan. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer) More than 18,000 Mexicans pose naked for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick at the Zócalo Plaza in Mexico City. (AP via CNN)