Portal:Current events/2007 May 7

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• 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. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2009270.cms (Times of India)]
• Kenya Airways Flight 507:
• Search officials confirm that there were no survivors. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/07/kenya.plane.ap/index.html (AP via CNN)]
• The flight data recorder is retrieved from a mangrove swamp where the plane crashed. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6633529.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6633609.stm (BBC)] [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070507_brighest_sn.html (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6633515.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6633745.stm (BBC)]
• At least 21 people die in a bus crash in northwest Pakistan. [http://seattlepi.com/national/1104AP_Pakistan_Bus_Crash.html (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. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/06/mexico.nude.ap/ (AP via CNN)]

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