May 28, 2009 (Thursday)
- General Motors asks Germany to indebt its subsidiary automakers Opel and Vauxhall Motors. (Times Online)
- Sixteen people are killed and more than 20 injured when a bus crashes near Yambol, Bulgaria. (BBC)
- Raymond Hewlett, a person of interest in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, gives the West Yorkshire Police a DNA sample for testing. (Sky News)
- Former Chilean Army conscript José Adolfo Paredes Márquez is charged with murdering activist/singer Víctor Jara during General Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973. (Guardian)
- United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirms President Barack Obama's demand that Israel halt settlement in the West Bank. (BBC)
- A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Honduras. (BBC)
- Two bombs kill eight people and injure 74 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (CNN)
- The United States and South Korea increase their alert states after North Korea renounces the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953. (BBC)
- Scientists claim the long-tailed dinosaur had the capacity to hold its cranium at a height in a giraffe-like manner. (New Zealand Harold)
- The Circle MRT line began operations, with all 5 stations along the Stage 3 of the MRT line from Bartley to Marymount being opened at the same time operated by SMRT Trains Ltd using Alstom Metropolis C830s.