Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and six others are injured when a Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter crashes into the Maduru Oya river in Sri Lanka. (CNA)

Science and technology

• Kosmos-482
  • Kosmos-482, a Soviet era space craft that was supposed to be sent to Venus will enter the Earth's atmosphere, possibly coming back in one piece. <ref>{{cite web |last1=Chow |first1=Denise |title=A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panic |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/half-ton-soviet-spacecraft-crash-earth-dont-panic-rcna205595 |website=nbcnews,com |publisher=NBC |access-date=9 May 2025}}</ref>

International relations

• Hungary–Ukraine relations
  • The Security Service of Ukraine arrests two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary in Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to an ethnic minority of over 150,000 Hungarians. The Hungarian foreign ministry expels two Ukrainian diplomats in response to the allegations, characterizing them as anti-Hungarian. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are reportedly killed when a Piper PA-31T Cheyenne air ambulance crashes between Tiltil and Curacaví in Chile. (El Morrocotudo)
• Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other person is injured, when a Bell 407 helicopter crashes and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (The Hindu) (NDTV)
• 123 vultures are killed, more than 80 others are rescued, and an elephant is also poisoned in a mass poisoning at Kruger National Park in South Africa. South African National Parks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust says it was one of the largest vulture poisoning events in the country. (CTV News)

Law and crime

• Abundant Life Christian School shooting
  • The father of Natalie Rupnow, the perpetrator of the shooting that killed three people, including herself, and injured six others at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, in December 2024, is charged with felonies in connection with the shooting. (CTV News)
• Murder of Cassius Turvey
  • Jack Steven James Brearley, and Brodie Lee Palmer are found guilty for the murder of Aboriginal Australian schoolboy Cassius Turvey in Middle Swan, Western Australia, in 2022. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 papal conclave
  • Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States is elected to the papacy on the fourth ballot and takes the name Leo XIV. He is the first pope from North America and the second from the Americas, after Pope Francis. A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, he also becomes the second South American pope. (CNN) (The Guardian)