Ongoing events
Business
Culture
Disasters
- Australian bushfire season
- Cape Town water crisis
- Oklahoma earthquake swarms
- Pacific typhoon season
- European windstorm season
- 2018 East Africa floods
- 2018 lower Puna eruption
Politics
- Brexit negotiations
- Cyprus gas dispute
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Nicaraguan protests
- North Korean crisis
- Philippine protests (timeline)
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Spanish constitutional crisis
- Turkish purges
- U.S. political sex scandals
- U.S. Special Counsel investigation (timeline)
Sports
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
- May
- 17: Burundi, Referendum
- 20: Venezuela, President
- 24: Barbados, House of Assembly
- 25: Ireland, Referendum
- 27: Colombia, President (1st round)
Upcoming
- June
- 3: Slovenia, National Assembly
- 10: Romania, Referendum
- 10: Switzerland, Referendum
Trials
Recently concluded
- Australia: Philip Wilson
- Denmark: Peter Madsen
- Germany: Hussein Khavari
- Indonesia: Setya Novanto
- Philippines: Maria Lourdes Sereno
- South Korea: Park Geun-hye
- Spain: La Manada
- United Kingdom: Paul Golding, Jayda Fransen, Ahmed Hassan
- United States: Ed Pawlowski, Bill Cosby, Sheldon Silver
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha, Mu Sochua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Malaysia: Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thị Hương
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- Spain: Bárcenas affair, Gürtel case
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal
- International
Upcoming
- Australia: George Pell
- Canada: Alek Minassian
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
- Guatemala: Alvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Iran: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Jovito Palparan
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Jordi Pujol
- Ukraine: Roman Nasirov
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal
- United States: Patrick Ho, Paul Manafort, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sayfullo Saipov, Turpin case
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
Sport
- Association football
- Women's association football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
Recent deaths
May 2018
- 31: Michael D. Ford
- 29: Muktha Srinivasan
- 28: Neale Cooper
- 28: Serge Dassault
- 28: Cornelia Frances
- 27: Gardner Dozois
- 27: Donald H. Peterson
- 26: Ted Dabney
- 26: Alan Bean
- 25: Bill Mallory
- 24: Angelo Falcón
- 24: TotalBiscuit
- 23: Luis Posada Carriles
- 23: Richard Peck
- 23: László Tábori
- 22: Dave Garcia
- 22: Philip Roth
- 21: Allyn Ann McLerie
- 21: Dovey Johnson Roundtree
- 21: Clint Walker
- 21: Faith Whittlesey
- 20: Bill Gold
- 20: Richard N. Goodwin
- 20: Patricia Morison
- 19: Robert Indiana
- 19: Bernard Lewis
- 19: Reggie Lucas
- 18: John Carrick
- 17: Richard Pipes
Ongoing conflicts
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
