International Current Affairs-May,2010

• Wayne Rooney player won the Football Writers Association Footballer of the Year 2010 award.
• Karnataka food and civil supplies minister Haratal Halappa resigned from the cabinet on 02-05-10, charged with raping his friend’s wife five months ago in Shimoga
• Euro-region ministers recently agreed to a 110 billion-Euro ($146 billion) rescue package for Greece country to prevent a default and stop the worst crisis in the currency’s 11-year history.
• Cuba developing country offers the best conditions for maternity in the world, according to a report entitled “The State of the World Mothers 2010,” released by the Save the Children NGO.
• Bob Houghton resigned as India’s chief football coach following his differences with All India Football Federation (AIFF) secretary general Alberto Colaco.
• Dempo Sports Club team clinched the I-League title for the fourth time after beating Lajong FC 1-0, with one round of the country’s premier football league still to go.
• Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) is the Deputy Prime Minister of Britain.
• A ban on Togo African country competing at the next two African Nations Cup finals was formally lifted by the Confederation of African Football recently, ratifying an agreement brokered by FIFA in Zurich.
• Laura Chinchilla she has become the third female president in Central America.
• Sevilla club won their fifth Spanish King’s Cup title by beating Atletico Madrid 2-0 in the final.
• Kamla Persad Bissessar has been elected the first woman prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago after her five-party coalition swept to victory in snap elections in the former British colony.
• Shahid Afridi has been named Pakistan’s Test and ODI cricket captain ahead of a busy summer which takes in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka and then six Tests, five ODIs, as well as four T20Is, in England against Australia and the hosts.
• Pakistan country has recently banned Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube.
• Inter Milan club beat Siena 1-0 to seal its fifth consecutive “Serie A title”.
• Vakili Rad that Iranian murderer.
• Inter Milan club won the Coppa Italia (Italian FA Cup beating Roma in the final (1-0)
• Rima Fakih First Arab-American to Claim Miss USA Title.
• N a brazen attack, Maoists on 17th May, 2010, blew up a bus killing at least 50 people, including 20 Special Police Officers. The attack took place in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
• The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2016, will be held in France.
• Shibu Soren resigned as Jharkhand chief minister after failing to get the support of Congress and its ally JVM (P) ahead of trust vote in the assembly.
• Facebook of the social networking site which is temporarily blocked by Bangladesh on 29-05-2010 after a man was arrested for uploading content onto it deemed offensive.
• U.S.A. from India has been ranked second in the list while China has successfully pulled itself out of the list.
• Rafael Nadal has won the Rome Masters Tennis title for the fourth time