Portal:Current events/2009 May 27

• United States President Barack Obama nominates Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Diaz as Ambassador to the Holy See. (AP via Google News)
• FC Barcelona defeats Manchester United F.C. to win the 2008-09 UEFA Champions League Final. (CNN)
• North Korea launches its fifth missile since testing a nuclear weapon on May 25. (Sky News)
• Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies purchases 1.96% of the social network service Facebook. (New York Times)
• A suicide attack kills at least 24 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (CNN) (BBC)
• Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Reuters)
• A rare white tiger is euthanized after killing a zookeeper at the Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei, New Zealand. (BBC) (RTÉ)
• Russia will supply US$1 billion of uranium to civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. (CNN)
• An anti-piracy warship destroys a Yemeni fishing vessel in the Red Sea, killing at least two people. (BBC)

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