Current Events - May 1, 2015

An earthquake (measuring 7.8) shook Nepal near its capital ... killing more than 4,000 people.

Chinese officials have vowed to put an end to the practice of hiring strippers at what events?

A company in * claims to be the worlds fastest builder - erecting a 57 story builing in 19 days

Riots raged in Maryland after *, a black man whose spine was severed in police custody, died

A school in France sent a teen home because she wore this * considered an offensive display

Which former PM met with Vladmir Putin this week, angering the Harper government?

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed Sunday he believes in the existence of what?

200 girls and 93 women were rescued from where?

22 hours after an earthquaked rocked *, a 4 month old was rescued from under the rubble

In a speech, Pope Francis drew attention to what issue, calling it a "pure scandal"?

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft ended its 4-year tour by crash-landing on this planet

An 11 year boy was detained by security for * at Calgary’s Lego store.

A Calgary family’s home is in ruins after it was rented out through this online rental company

A $100 hotdog & cockroach pizza will be served at this year's *, "The Greatest Show on Earth"

Which of these dolls did Mattel it would be discontinuing

Which Iranian leader criticized rich kids after a deadly Porche crash killed 2 in Tehran

A UBC study found that, after having this medical treatment, patients are unable to concentrate

Bruce Jenner, the * and Kardashian patriarch, announced his transition from male to female.

* marked the 100th anniversary of the genocide, in which 1.5m were killed by the Ottoman Empire

This week, a video of a fox making a sandwich inside this Nuclear Exclusion Zone went viral.

Apple says * may interfere with some of the functions on the Apple Watch 

Police have one man in custody following the murders of 2 homeless men in this Canadian City

Schools in Separatist Ukraine now teach the 1930s genocide, caused by Russia's *, did not occur

Ecologists say, without action on climate change, 1 in * species are at risk for extinction

Despite worldwide protests, 8 prisoners convicted of drug offenses in * were executed this week