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May 4-10, 2025
  • Robert Francis Prevost is elected as Pope Leo XIV , becoming the first Catholic pope born in the United States.
    • Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost; September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 conclave on May 8, 2025, following the death of Pope Francis. (more)
  • Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany and sworn in alongside his coalition government.
    • Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz (; German: [joˈaxɪm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmɛɐts]; born 11 November 1955) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2025. He has also served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since January 2022, leading the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group as Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag from February 2022 to May 2025. (more)
  • Zhao Xintong defeats Mark Williams to win the World Snooker Championship.
    • The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 19 April to 5 May 2025 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 49th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was staged at the venue. Organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored for the first time by technology company Halo Service Solutions, the tournament was the 18th and final ranking event of the 2024‍–‍25 season. It was broadcast domestically by BBC Sport, in Europe by Eurosport, and elsewhere in the world by WST Play and other broadcasters. The winner received £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. (more)
  • In the Singaporean general election, the People's Action Party retains a supermajority of seats.
    • The 2025 Singaporean general election was held on Saturday, 3 May 2025, to elect all 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 33 constituencies. The election was the 19th in Singapore since the first general election in 1948 and the 14th since its independence in 1965. For the first time since the 2001 general election, Lee Hsien Loong did not lead the governing People's Action Party (PAP), as Lawrence Wong succeeded him as prime minister on 15 May 2024 and as secretary-general of the PAP on 4 December later that year. The PAP has won a supermajority of seats in every election since independence. (more)
  • In horse racing, Sovereignty, ridden by Junior Alvarado, wins the Kentucky Derby.
    • The 2025 Kentucky Derby (branded as the 151st Running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve for sponsorship reasons) was the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby. It took place on May 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (more)
  • India conducts missile strikes on Pakistani targets, and Pakistan retaliates.
    • The 2025 India–Pakistan conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between India and Pakistan that began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, codenamed Operation Sindoor. India stated that the operation was a response to the Pahalgam attack on 22 April by militants in the Indian administered Kashmir killing 26 civilians, mostly tourists. The attack intensified tensions between India and Pakistan as India accused Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism, which Pakistan denied. These events led to the 2025 India–Pakistan standoff, part of the broader Kashmir conflict. (more)
  • Indian missile strikes lead to Pakistani retaliation.
    • The 2025 India–Pakistan conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between India and Pakistan that began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, codenamed Operation Sindoor. India stated that the operation was a response to the Pahalgam attack on 22 April by militants in the Indian administered Kashmir killing 26 civilians, mostly tourists. The attack intensified tensions between India and Pakistan as India accused Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism, which Pakistan denied. These events led to the 2025 India–Pakistan standoff, part of the broader Kashmir conflict. (more)
  • Gaza war (ongoing)
    • The Gaza war has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the 15th war of the Gaza–Israel conflict, and it continues the Middle Eastern crisis. The first day was the deadliest in Israel's history, and the war is the deadliest for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. (more)
  • M23 campaign (ongoing)
    • The M23 campaign is an ongoing series of military offensives launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Rwandan-backed rebel paramilitary group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since March 2022. In November 2021, M23 first launched attacks against the Congolese military (FARDC) and MONUSCO, seizing military positions in Ndiza, Cyanzu, and Runyoni in North Kivu Province. This coincided with the deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) to the region to combat the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group operating in the Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces. (more)
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
    • On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. (more)
  • Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
    • A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. The two opponent factions consist of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti. Minor factions have also participated in the fighting, allying with either major combatant or remaining opposed to both; these include the Darfur Joint Protection Force; the SLM (al-Nur) under Abdul Wahid al-Nur; and the SPLM-N under Abdelaziz al-Hilu. Fighting has been concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum (the largest and initial battle of the war) and the Darfur region. (more)
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