May 3, 2005 (Tuesday)
- Two United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet jets collide over Iraq while flying a mission in Iraq. The body of one of the pilots is later recovered and an ejected seat was found, but the second one is still missing. (BBC) (Washington Post)
- India bans Monsanto Company genetically modified cotton seeds. (Al-Jazeera)
- In Nepal, thousands of journalists march in protest to restore press freedoms on World Press Freedom Day. (Guardian) (BBC)
- United Nations chief prosecutor of Sierra Leone's war crimes court David Crane claims that Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, is still plotting to kill Guinean leader Lansana Conté. Conté has been in a hospital since he survived an assassination attempt in January.(UN Regional Information) (World Peace Herald) (BBC)
- A Togolese constitutional court announces Faure Gnassingbé as a winner of presidential election. Refugees continue to flee to neighboring countries. (News24)
- Indonesian authorities confirm second case of polio. (Jakarta Post) (BBC) (Reuters AlertNet) Archived 2005-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- In Peru, four members of a government health team are found with their throats slit.
- An explosion in a football stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia kills 15 people when new prime minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi begins his speech. Authorities later state that a security guard accidentally set off a grenade. (IOL) (IHT)
- Eight people are arrested in Senegal for an advance fee fraud e-mail scam that had fooled at least one American and one Norwegian victim. (BBC)
- Airwork Flight 23 breaks up and crashes in-fight over New Zealand. (The New Zealand Herald)