Portal:Current events/2025 May 8
May 8, 2025 (Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- Five tourists and a pilot are killed, and one other is injured, when a Bell 407 flying from Harsil to Gangotri crashes into a wooded area and falls into a deep gorge near Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India. (The Hindu) (NDTV)
Politics and elections
- 2025 papal conclave
- The fourth ballot of the papal conclave elects a new pope after the second and third ballots failed earlier in the day. (CNN)