The Big Stories of May 2016

May saw the refugee crisis continue as thousands fled war torn countries along with more natural disasters striking from landslides to wild fires and earthquakes.

Headlines

Natural disasters claimed hundreds of lives around the world with landslides in Sri Lanka and wild fires in Canada and a deadly earthquake in Ecuador. Elsewhere the refugee crisis made headlines with boats capsizing during the perilous trip to Europe. Another aviation disaster struck with a plane from Egypt to Paris disappearing and parts of it's wreckage and victims found in the Mediterranean Sea.

Business

The world of business was quiet with the Panama Papers and it's consequences to the world's wealthy slowly engulfing more victims. The build up to the G7 meeting revealed priorities with countries adding to the agenda.

Sports

The sports world prepared with anticipation for the Olympics taking concerns into account over fears of the Zika virus while Brazil itself struggled with corruption charges in government before the Olympics.

Entertainment

Celebrities were kept busy with the Cannes Film Festival as they made their way on the publicity tour selling their wares in France while on the other side of the world at the Billboard Music Awards artists paid their respects with tributes to fallen artist Prince.

Technology

On the technology front we saw Google announce it's latest offerings at the I/O 2016 event which saw them playing catch up with other tech companies. In the cyber world criminals made off with millions in a massive ATM attack while the hacker responsible for hacking celebrity accounts and distributing nude photos pleaded guilty in court.

Style

The style world enjoyed themselves at the annual Met Gala in New York where celebrities were dressed in the best designer offerings for the red carpet. Later the fashionable crowd headed for the warm weather in the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival which saw the beautiful people of showbiz mingle with gorgeous models on the famous red carpet at Cannes.

Nights Out with Beauties & Beasts

This week saw a contrast between Beauties and Beasts as the sporting, celebrity and fashion world's collided at two big night's out.

The Beasts

We begin with what was touted as the fight of the century between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao but turned out to just be the match up of the century with a rather boring end to an expensive and over hyped event. But where there's hype there will be celebrities and so they descended turning the local airports into a parking lot for private jets as the rich and famous arrived to watch the fight. Bets were made with Diddy and Mark Wahlberg making an outrageous $250,000 bet before the fight. The night kicked off with Jamie Foxx performing the national anthem which was of questionable quality for a fight of equally questionable quality.

Since the fight there has been some controversy with Manny admitting to a shoulder injury and undergoing surgery this week however since admitting to the injury he has been hit with a lawsuit and could face fines from boxing organizations.

The Beauties

It wasn't all blood, sweat and tears this week with the Met Gala taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with every beautiful celebrity you can imagine clamoring for the spotlight. We begin with couples in the lime light on the red carpet as Chrissy Teigen and John Legend made their entrance followed by George and Amal Clooney close behind and newly engaged couple Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs also making an appearance.

However the night was focused on a few celebs who shone brighter with 45-year-old Jennifer Lopez gaining attention while revealing a naked hip and Jennifer Lawrence looking gorgeous in Dior along with Selena Gomez who also garnered attention in a white Vera Wang dress. However not all celebrities fared well gaining attention because of questionable choices in wardrobe with Beyoncé leaving little to the imagination with a see-through dress followed by a battle for best meme between Rihanna's dress compared to a pizza and omelets and ending with Sarah Jessica Parker and her outrageous headpiece compared to multiple cartoon characters.