- A.B.Vajpayee not interested for presidential post and backs Bhairo Singh Sekhawat as NDA's candidate.
- Vijay Mallya's UB group has acquired Scottish distiller Whyte and Mackay for an enterprise value of 595 million pounds.
- Nicolas Sarkozy took over as president from Jacques Chirac in France.
- Britain has now decided that the Prince Harry will not be sent to the frontline.
- Europe's biggest film festival, the Cannes film festival opens on May 16, 2007.
