May 3, 2009 (Sunday)
- Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns. (BBC)
- Ricardo Martinelli of Democratic Change is elected as President of Panama. (Reuters via The New York Times)
- An avalanche kills at least six people in the Central Eastern Alps in Austria. (Sky News)
- The French Navy frigate Nivôse captures 11 Somali pirates. (CNN)
- An Army helicopter crashes in Táchira, Venezuela, killing at least 18 people. (BBC)
- Iraq will not extend the deadline for the United States Armed Forces to withdraw from the Iraq War. (Reuters)