Dallas Braden Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics throws the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Somali pirates Somali pirates seize MS "Marida Marguerite", a German-owned tanker, off the coast of Somalia.
A Chinese man is freed from prison after 10 years after the man he had been convicted of killing is found alive.
Mezhdurechensk A mine explosion in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast), Russia, kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for.
Sandro Bondi Sandro Bondi, Italy's minister of culture, calls for a boycott of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival after a documentary on the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake was included in the programme.
Voted out of office The regional coalition of Christian-Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) are voted out of office in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which may lead to the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel losing its majority in the upper house.