## [2012-05-7](/feed/2012/05/7/index.md)

##### Paeleoclimatology
### [Paeleoclimatology research published in "Current Biology" suggests that the greenhouse gas methane from dinosaur's flatulence may have warmed the Earth. ](/feed/2012/05/7/paeleoclimatology-research-published-in-current-biology-suggests-that-the-greenhouse-gas-methane-from-dinosaur-s-flatu.md)
##### Syria
### [Voters in Syria go to the polls for parliamentary elections as the death tolls from the uprising continues to increase. ](/feed/2012/05/7/voters-in-syria-go-to-the-polls-for-parliamentary-elections-as-the-death-tolls-from-the-uprising-continues-to-increase.md)
##### Vladimir Putin
### [Vladimir Putin is sworn in for a third six-year term as President of Russia. ](/feed/2012/05/7/vladimir-putin-is-sworn-in-for-a-third-six-year-term-as-president-of-russia.md)
##### 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. ](/feed/2012/05/7/israel-s-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-announces-his-desire-to-hold-the-country-s-general-election-on-4-september-m.md)
##### Social Liberal Union
### [USL Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania. ](/feed/2012/05/7/usl-leader-victor-ponta-becomes-prime-minister-of-romania.md)
##### 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. ](/feed/2012/05/7/outgoing-prime-minister-hubert-ingraham-whose-free-national-movement-party-suffered-heavy-losses-concedes-defeat-in-th.md)
### [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. ](/feed/2012/05/7/former-prime-minister-perry-christie-s-progressive-liberal-party-wins-in-a-landslide-with-christie-expected-to-become-t.md)
##### The Bahamas
### [Voters in The Bahamas go to the polls for a general election. ](/feed/2012/05/7/voters-in-the-bahamas-go-to-the-polls-for-a-general-election.md)
##### 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. ](/feed/2012/05/7/the-cia-announces-it-had-foiled-a-plot-by-fahd-al-quso-a-yemeni-affiliate-of-al-qaida-to-have-a-suicide-bomber-using.md)
##### Malaysia
### [Clerics in Malaysia issue a fatwa against Muslims participating in "unproductive demonstrations". ](/feed/2012/05/7/clerics-in-malaysia-issue-a-fatwa-against-muslims-participating-in-unproductive-demonstrations.md)
##### South Korea
### [South Korea seizes thousands of smuggled capsules from Northeastern People's Republic of China filled with powdered human flesh. ](/feed/2012/05/7/south-korea-seizes-thousands-of-smuggled-capsules-from-northeastern-people-s-republic-of-china-filled-with-powdered-huma.md)
##### Flash flood
### [The death toll from flash floods on the Seti River in Nepal reaches 17 with another 47 people missing and presumed dead. ](/feed/2012/05/7/the-death-toll-from-flash-floods-on-the-seti-river-in-nepal-reaches-17-with-another-47-people-missing-and-presumed-dead.md)
##### 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. ](/feed/2012/05/7/the-tomb-of-muslim-saint-sidi-mahmoud-ben-amar-part-of-the-world-heritage-site-in-timbuktu-mali-is-attacked-and-burne.md)
##### NATO
### [At least 14 civilians are killed and at least 6 other civilians are wounded by a NATO air strike in Badghis Province. ](/feed/2012/05/7/at-least-14-civilians-are-killed-and-at-least-6-other-civilians-are-wounded-by-a-nato-air-strike-in-badghis-province.md)
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