May 27, 2009 (Wednesday)
- United States President Barack Obama nominates Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Díaz as Ambassador to the Holy See. (AP via Google News)
- FC Barcelona defeats Manchester United F.C. to win the 2008-09 UEFA Champions League Final. (CNN)
- North Korea launches its fifth missile since testing a nuclear weapon on May 25. (Sky News)
- Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies purchases 1.96% of the social network service Facebook. (New York Times)
- A suicide attack kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (CNN) (BBC)
- Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Reuters)
- A rare white tiger is euthanized after killing a zookeeper at the Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei, New Zealand. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Russia will supply US$1 billion of uranium to civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. (CNN)[permanent dead link]
- An anti-piracy warship destroys a Yemeni fishing vessel in the Red Sea, killing at least two people.
- The planets Jupiter and Neptune experience a triple conjunction as seen from Earth.(BBC)