Paeleoclimatology Paeleoclimatology research published in "Current Biology" suggests that the greenhouse gas methane from dinosaur's flatulence may have warmed the Earth.
Syria Voters in Syria go to the polls for parliamentary elections as the death tolls from the uprising continues to increase.
Israel Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces his desire to hold the country's general election on 4 September, more than a year early.
Bahamian general election, 2012 Outgoing Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, whose Free National Movement party suffered heavy losses, concedes defeat in the election and announces his retirement from politics.
Former Prime Minister Perry Christie's Progressive Liberal Party wins in a landslide, with Christie expected to become the next Prime Minister on May 8.
CIA The CIA announces it had foiled a plot by Fahd al-Quso, a Yemeni affiliate of al-Qaida, to have a suicide bomber, using an improved version of the underwear bomb used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009, to blow up an American-bound airliner; no lives were ever at risk.
Malaysia Clerics in Malaysia issue a fatwa against Muslims participating in "unproductive demonstrations".
South Korea South Korea seizes thousands of smuggled capsules from Northeastern People's Republic of China filled with powdered human flesh.
Flash flood The death toll from flash floods on the Seti River in Nepal reaches 17 with another 47 people missing and presumed dead.
Muslim The tomb of Muslim saint Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar, part of the World Heritage Site in Timbuktu, Mali, is attacked and burned by Islamist fighters.
NATO At least 14 civilians are killed and at least 6 other civilians are wounded by a NATO air strike in Badghis Province.