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Hillary Clinton declares 2016 Democratic presidential bid –
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has formally entered the 2016 race for the White House in a bid to become the first woman US president.
She launched her campaign website on Sunday, telling Americans she wanted to be their “champion”. Mrs Clinton ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 but lost to Barack Obama. The overwhelming Democratic favourite, she had been expected to declare her candidacy for months. In a video on her website, Mrs Clinton declared: “I am running for president”. [BBC]
Hilary Clinton

Game Of Thrones season five leaked online –
The first four episodes of Game of Thrones season five have been leaked online a day before its official release. The copies were spotted on IPTorrents, The Pirate Bay, RARBG and KickassTorrents. The US TV network has yet to comment on the pirated episodes. [BBC]
Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones)

Masters 2015: Jordan Spieth wins first major with dominant display –
Jordan Spieth equalled the lowest winning score in Masters history to cap a record-breaking display at Augusta and win his first major. The 21-year-old American, second on his debut last year, shot a two-under 70 to triumph on 18 under. England’s Justin Rose hit 70 to finish 14 under, joint second with three-time champion Phil Mickelson (69) who ended runner-up in a major for the 10th time. World number one Rory McIlroy tied for fourth on 12 under after a 66. Spieth, the new world number two, dominated the headlines on each day, equalling Tiger Woods’s winning score of 18 under in 1997, when the former world number one won his first Green Jacket. Spieth also became the second-youngest Masters champion, winning the tournament at the age of 21 years and 259 days, 155 days older than Woods when he recorded his 1997 win. He also became the first player in 39 years to lead a Masters from start to finish, and the first to shoot 28 birdies at the tournament. [BBC]
Jordan Spieth

Bad move: Grandmaster caught cheating at chess in a lavatory –
A disgraced chess Grandmaster faces a 15-year ban from the game after being caught pretending to be desperate for the loo so he could use a mobile phone to cheat. Georgian champion Gaioz Nigalidze was expelled from the Dubai Open on Saturday after his opponent Tigran Petrosian, became suspicious about the amount of times he nipped to the lavatory. A complaint followed and Nigalidze was challenged. Tournament organisers then found Nigalidze had stored a mobile phone in a cubicle, behind the pan and covered in toilet paper. The device was found to be logged into Nigalidze’s social networking account and had one of his games being analysed by a smartphone chess app.
Gaioz Nigalidze

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
  • Islamic militants attack the South Korean embassy in Tripoli killing two guards and leaving another injured. (Yonhap)
• War in North-West Pakistan
  • U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan kill at least four suspected Taliban militants. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• One student is killed and another 100 injured in a stampede caused by an exploding generator at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. (Al-Arabiyah)

Politics and elections

• United States presidential election, 2016
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton, former United States Secretary of State, announces that she is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for President in the 2016 election. (The Guardian)
• Japanese unified local elections, 2015
  • The Liberal Democratic Party wins most of the major local and prefectural contests, including all ten governorships at stake. (Wall Street Journal)
  • The Osaka Restoration Association maintains control of the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City assemblies but fails to win a majority as the LDP makes some gains, casting doubt upon the outcome of the scheduled May 17 referendum on the Osaka Metropolis plan. (Nikkei)
• Large protests in Brazil call for the impeachment of President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff due to a scandal involving members of her Workers Partyreceiving kickbacks from the state run oil company Petrobras. (CNN)

Sports

• 2015 Masters Tournament
  • In golf, the final round of the Masters Tournament is held at the Augusta National Golf Club with American Jordan Spieth winning his first championship at the age of 21. Spieth is the second youngest player to win the Masters after Tiger Woods, he ties Woods’s record for the lowest winning total, and becomes the fifth man to lead from start to finish. (Sydney Morning Herald), (CNN)

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