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1. ViswanathanAnand won the World Chess Championship ViswanathanAnand won the World Chess Championship: ViswanathanAnand retained the FIDE World Chess Championship, defeating Bulgarian VeselinTopalov with black pieces in the final classic game of the series in Sofia.

2. Miracle boy A frame grab shows a Dutch boy, the lone survivor of the Afriqiyah airline Flight 8U771 crash at Tripoli airport, being treated at a hospital in Tripoli on Wednesday. The Libyan Airbus A330-200 plane crashed early on Wednesday killing 103 people on board, most of them Dutch

3. David Cameron Britain's new PM David Cameron at 43 he is the youngestBritish Prime Minister in 200 years

4. Justice Kapadia Justice Kapadia sworn in as Chief Justice of India

5. AishwaryaRai AishwaryaRai at Cannes 2010

6. ShekharKapur Director and jury member ShekharKapur during the press conference of the Jury, at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France

7. PrahladJani An undated photograph of PrahladJani, provided by Sterling Hospitals on April 26. The 83-year-old Indian holy man, who says he has spent seven decades without food or water, has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.

8. JairamRamesh Environment minister JairamRamesh has come under fire for speaking out against the policy of the Union home ministry on an official trip to Beijing. Ramesh termed the home ministry “overly defensive and alarmist” in its approach to Chinese investment into India and said India was “imagining demons where there are none.”

9. urbanization INDIA’S URBAN POPULATION ESTIMATED TO GROW TO 41% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION BY 2030

10. Khusboo Khushboo, had appealed to the court to quash more than 20 cases filed against her in 2005 after she made allegedly immoral comments in magazine interviews. She told one publication that “no educated man would expect his [bride] to be a virgin”. The comments led to outrage in parts of southern India, where she is a star of Tamil-language movies.