Portal:Current events/2010 May 4

Current events of May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04) (Tuesday)

• Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and anti-government "Red Shit" protesters reach a qualified agreement to hold general elections in November, but questions over the dissolution of parliament prevent an end to the two-month standoff in central Bangkok. (ABC News) (AP)
• Former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner is unanimously elected the first Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) at a heads of state summit held in Campana, Argentina. Télam (Argentina), Washington Post,ABC (Spain),Semana (Colombia)
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrest Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, in connection with the attempted car bombing in Times Square as he tried to flee the country. (MSNBC) (CNN) (USA Today)
• Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption:
  • Flights in and out of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are grounded for several hours. (BBC News)
  • The Civil Aviation Authority announces that airspace over Scotland and Northern Ireland will be closed from 0700 BST on Wednesday. (BBC News)
• Rising floodwaters from the Cumberland River flood the Grand Ole Opry House with several feet of water, and cause evacuations in Nashville, Tennessee. (USA Today) (The New York Times) (The Washington Post)
• The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico causes slowing shipping and increased prices for gasoline, food and other items in the United States. (CBS News) (MSNBC)
• Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for US$106 million at Christie's in New York, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction. (Reuters)
• A new European Jewish group, JCall, supported by thousands of European Jews is founded to lobby for a resolution to the Middle East conflict.(Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
• At least 10 people die and 14 are injured in a fire at a dormitory for railway workers in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Dozens of people are injured when panic breaks out at the Remembrance of the Dead in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (NOS)
• Experts announce a rescue plan intended to preserve the existence of the endangered snubfin dolphin, the only dolphin unique to Australia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)