Portal:Current events/2013 May 3

Current events of May 3, 2013 (2013-05-03) (Friday)

Arts and culture

• The world's largest rubber duck is moved to Hong Kong. (ABC)

Disasters

• 2013 Savar building collapse
  • The death toll from the 2013 Savar building collapse in Bangladesh rises to 501. (AP Via ABC News America), (Metro News)
  • Bangladesh's finance minister downplays the impact of last week's factory-building collapse on his country's garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious", hours after the 500th body was pulled from the debris. (AP via News24)
  • A top investigator probing the Bangladesh garment factory disaster says that the vibration from four huge generators placed on the roof of the building had caused it to collapse. (AFP via News24), (BBC)
• A U.S. military plane on it's way to Afghanistan crashes in northern Kyrgyzstan when its fuel ignited (The Globe and Mail), (BBC)

Law and crime

• The Stockholm School of Economics, one of Sweden's most prestigious universities, is hit by scandal amidst revelation that Justin Jenk, one of its top officials, had forged CMC documents about his conviction of insider trading in Greece. (Dagens Industri) (Swedish)
• Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, a prosecutor with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency leading the prosecution of former President Pervez Musharraf over alleged involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is shot dead on the way to court in Islamabad. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck retains the South Shields Parliamentary seat for the party following Thursday's by-election, but with a reduced majority after the UK Independence Party secures almost a quarter of the votes cast. (BBC)

Science and technology

• Google Maps now recognizes Palestine as a country, instead of redirecting to the Palestinian territories. (FOX)