Portal:Current events/2015 May 11

• Han Min-goo, the South Korean Minister for National Defense states that South Korea will "mercilessly counterattack" any North Korean "provocations" following the North's successful trial of a ballistic missile system. (Yonhap)
• Second Libyan Civil War
  • A Turkish-owned ship is attacked with tank fire off the coast of Tobruk in Libya, resulting in the loss of a crew member and several others being injured. (Reuters via ABC Online)

• Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) becomes the most expensive artwork ever to sell at an auction at Christie's auction house selling for US$179,365,000. (AP via Business Insider) (BBC)
• Alberto Giacometti's lifesized statue Pointing Man sells for a record US$141.3 million making it the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. (Yahoo! News)

• The Obama administration gives provisional approval for Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic Ocean during the summer. (New York Times)

• At least 15 people are dead and 20 others injured after a bus falls into a gorge in the Udhampur district in India's Jammu and Kashmir state. (Times of India)
• Typhoon Noul (2015)
  • Two people are dead after Typhoon Noul hits the Philippines. The storm is now headed for Japan. (USA Today) (Time)
• May 5–10, 2015 tornado outbreak sequence
  • The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the United States rises to five with dozens injured and eight people missing. (CNN)

• A new strain of bird flu caused by the H5N8 virus is identified in a backyard poultry flock in Whitley County, Indiana, in the United States. (AP via Journal Gazette)

• Malaysia detains over a thousand Bangladeshi and Rohingya people asylum seekers who arrived by boat on Monday. The Indonesian Navy confirms that it had turned the boats away. (Reuters) (AP via Washington Post)

• The Swedish Supreme Court rejects a bid from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to revoke the warrant for his detention in 2010. (Deutsche Welle)
• George Zimmerman is involved in a shooting incident in Lake Mary, Florida, and suffers a minor gunshot wound. (WESH)
• Investigators find the remains of at least seven people buried beneath a shopping centre in New Britain, Connecticut, with the suspected killer serving time for unrelated charges. (NBC Connecticut)

• Guyanese general election
  • Voters in Guyana go to the polls for a general election. (Telesurtv)
• The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet approves a new cabinet following a fall in popularity caused by a corruption scandal. (BBC)
• The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron announces a new Cabinet consisting of members of the Conservative Party. (BBC)

• In American football, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is suspended without pay for four games. The team is also fined $1 million dollars (USD) and forced to forfeit their first-round pick in the 2016 NFL draft and their fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft for their role in Deflategate. (NBC) (CNBC)