May 22, 2009 (Friday)
- Manmohan Singh is inaugurated for his second term as Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)
- Floods kill at least 11 people in Haiti. (Press Association via Google News)
- Former Special Air Service officer John Wick is revealed as the whistleblower behind the United Kingdom Parliament's expenses controversy. (BBC) (Telegraph)
- A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico. (USGS)
- At least 36 people are killed as the Transitional Federal Government and Islamist militants battle in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
- Bingu wa Mutharika is reelected as President of Malawi. (AP via Google News)
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. (NASA)
- The United Nations requests aid for 1,500,000 people who have been displaced by war in northwest Pakistan. (Sky News)
- Spain's National Police Corps arrests 23 people for trafficking Nigerian prostitutes through voodoo. (BBC)
- Northern Ireland's first sextuplets are born in Belfast. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- The Credit CARD Act of 2009 was signed into U.S. law by the President, Barack Obama. (NBC)