Wednesday

May 20, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Chinese navy issues warnings eight times as a United States Navy surveillance plane flies over manmade islands in the South China Sea. (CNN)

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

Islamic State captures the Syrian city of Tadmur from the Syrian Army with grave concerns held about the Palmyra site. (The Hindu) (BBC)

Arts and culture

Tools found near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University are dated at 3.3 million years making them the oldest yet discovered. (AP via ABC News America)

The last edition of the Late Show with David Letterman goes to air on CBS Television in the United States. Following his retirement, David Letterman will be succeeded by Stephen Colbert on September 8, 2015. (CNN Money)