Tagagamit : Bluemask/In the news/2008-05
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May 31: Space Shuttle mission STS-124 launches, carrying the Japanese laboratory Kibō 's main module for the International Space Station .
May 30: Grupo TACA Flight 390 , an Airbus A320 flying from San Salvador , El Salvador , crashes in Tegucigalpa , Honduras .
100x100px|Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka
May 30: Former Croatian Army general Mirko Norac is sentenced by a Croatian court to seven years in prison for his role in the 1993 Operation Medak Pocket .
May 29: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake , searching for clues about why they crumbled.
100x100px|Model of Materpiscis on display at Museum Victoria, Australia
100x100px|ISS Kibo module
May 29: Snowstorms in eastern Mongolia kill 26 people; 51 people remain missing.
May 28: In Dublin , over 100 countries adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning cluster bombs .
100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
May 28: Paleontologists discover Materpiscis (model pictured) , a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish which is the earliest known animal to bear live young .
May 28: Nepal is declared a republic by its newly elected government , and King Gyanendra ends his reign as the last of a 240-year-old monarchy .
May 27: In the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake , the People's Republic of China evacuates 100,000 people from Mianyang as engineers prepare to drain the landslide dam -created Tangjiashan Lake .
100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
May 27: The State Peace and Development Council of Burma extends opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi 's house arrest by one year.
May 26: An earthquake in Colombia kills 11 and seriously injures 54.
May 26: The BJP will lead the government by itself after elections in the Indian state of Karnataka , a first in South Indian political history.
May 26: Ethiopia 's Supreme Court upholds former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam 's conviction and sentences him to death in absentia for his role in the Red Terror .
May 26: NASA 's Phoenix lands on Mars , the first successful powered descent on the planet in over 30 years.
100x100px|An American B-1B Lancer drops cluster munitions
May 25: In auto racing , Scott Dixon wins the Indianapolis 500 and Lewis Hamilton wins the Monaco Grand Prix .
May 25: The Lebanese Parliament elects General Michel Sleiman , commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces , to the six-month-vacant post of president .
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