The rulingCambodian People's Party declares a landslide victory in communal elections, saying it had won majorities in 1,592 of 1,621 local commune councils.(AFP)
TheGreekcruise shipM/SSea Diamond, with 1,153 passengers and 390 crew, runs aground offSantorini and sinks on the following day. No serious injuries are reported, butFrenchman Jean-Christophe Allain, 45, and his daughter Maud, 16, are reportedly missing.(Reuters)(BBC)
Voters go to the polls inJapan for local elections including 13 gubernatorial elections and 4 mayoral races with the most closely watched race being for theGovernor ofTokyo.(BBC)
Tens of thousands of demonstrators inBuenos Aires and other cities inArgentina protest against the death ofCarlos Fuentealba, a school teacher having been severely injured by atear gas canister fired by police during a protest the previous week over pay and working conditions.(BBC)
Sudan claims that an attack fromChad on its territory led to the loss of 17 Sudanesesoldiers. Chad denies the allegations but claims that it repulsed an attack from Sudan.(Reuters Alertnet)
Macau's Monetary Authority says that holders of theNorth Korean accounts frozen at a bank by theUnited States can now withdraw or transfer their money.(CNN)
American novelistKurt Vonnegut dies on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan after a fall at his Manhattan home several weeks prior results in irreversible brain injuries
Football: The semi-finals ofCopa del Rey begin inNou Camp. ArgentinianLionel Messi scored a spectacular goal againstGetafe CF. That goal is very similar to aDiego Maradona's goal againstEngland in Mexico World Cup 1986. Both of them passed six defenders including goalkeeper and scored.
TheSingaporePolice Coast Guard suffers its first fatality in decades when two police officers and an illegal migrant are killed after their Interceptor Craft collides with a speedboat ferrying six illegal immigrants during a high-speed pursuit.(CNA)(SPF)
ShiiteclericMoqtada al-Sadr announces plans that his political movement intends to quit theIraqi government in an attempt to press its demand for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.(Reuters)
Authorities announce thatSeung-Hui Cho, the gunman who killed more than 30 people on Monday atVirginia Tech, has sent a package that contained disturbing images and video toNBC during the two-hour period between the shootings at the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory and the shootings at Norris Hall. The new evidence is sent to theFBI for more analysis.(CNN)
Liviu Librescu, the JewishRomanian engineering professor who was shot five times while holding off the gunman at his classroom entrance so his students could escape, is posthumously awarded theStar of Romania by the Romanian government.(Romanian press release)
Thirty-two steel workers are killed and two more injured inChina after aladle full of liquid steel failed, engulfing an adjacent room full of workers.(News.com.au)
University officials confirm that the students killed during the massacre will all beposthumously awarded their degrees during commencement ceremonies.(Charleston Daily Mail)
A U.N. investigation finds thatRomanian police officers killed two Kosovars as they demonstratedagainst theAhtisaari Plan inPristina, capital of Kosovo, in February 2007. The Romanian force has since leftKosovo.(RFE/RL)
Turkey Christians tortured and murdered and Turkey's government, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former Islamist, has expresses concern over the spread of Christian activity in Turkey, VOA reported[1].
AnArgentine federal court overturns the pardons issued to GeneralJorge Videla and former AdmiralEmilio Massera following convictions received for their activities during the "Dirty War" of the1970s. The repeal of the pardons is largely symbolic, since the two are already underhouse arrest and serving lengthy sentences for other crimes.(Retuers via Yahoo! News)
A man is killed and about 40 people are hurt during a night of unrest inTallinn,Estonia. Demonstrators protesting against the removal of theBronze Soldier statue clash with the police. Russia's authorities threaten to break off diplomatic relations with theirBaltic neighbour.(BBC)
At least 22 people, mostly insurgents, die and dozens more are wounded in several hours ofheavy clashes which rage in theSomali capitalMogadishu.(Somalinet)
Saudi Arabia arrests 172 terrorist suspects in a series of raids after uncovering a plot to carry outsuicide air attacks on oil and military installations.$32.4m in cash was also uncovered, as were manyweapons.(BBC)
TheUnited States Supreme Court decides the case ofScott v. Harris, holding that a "police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders does not violate theFourth Amendment, even when it places the fleeing motorist at risk of serious injury or death."(CNN)
