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Revision as of 16:10, 18 May 2009
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Current topics
- Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Tamil Tigers (flag pictured) of Sri Lanka, is reported to have been killed by the Sri Lankan Army as the government declares victory in the Civil War.
- Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected as the first female President of Lithuania.
- Women are elected to the National Assembly for the first time in Kuwait's history.
- Ruth Padel is named as the first female Oxford Professor of Poetry, after a controversial election.
- Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Fairytale" performed by Alexander Rybak, with a record–breaking 387 points.
- In India's general election, the Bharatiya Janata Party concedes defeat to the United Progressive Alliance, the ruling coalition led by the Indian National Congress.