June 1, 2010,
June 1, 2010, The trial of London-based multi-national oil trading firm Trafigura for illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast in 2006 begins in Amsterdam. (BBC)
June 1, 2010, 132 people are killed across Central America in the aftermath of the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. (Reuters)
June 1, 2010, Al-Qaeda's top leader in Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden's third in command, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, is reported killed. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, Another UK minister, the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, who was appointed after the resignation of fellow Liberal Democrats David Laws, is embroiled in the ongoing expenses scandal after admitting to having avoided paying capital gains tax when he sold his taxpayer-funded second home at a profit. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, America's Obama administration warns that BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could continue until August. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, The United States insists any Afghan peace deal must ensure women's rights as Afghanistan prepares to open a peace conference aimed at persuading Taliban leaders to put down their weapons. (USA Today)
June 1, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore and his wife Tipper announce their separation. (USA Today)
June 2, 2010,
June 2, 2010, Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, opens a national peace conference to discuss negotiating with the Taliban. A rocket lands near the venue of the conference in Kabul and a suicide bomber sets off explosives outside the conference. (AP via Palm Beach Post)
June 2, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns over a dispute over United States military bases. (AP via Yahoo News)
June 3, 2010, The MARS-500 project begins, with six men - three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese man - entering the sealed facility in Moscow where they will spend 18 months in isolation from the outside world. (BBC)
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June 3, 2010, Christian Wulff is nominated for President of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Bloomberg)
June 3, 2010, President of Haiti René Préval, speaking in the Dominican Republic, calls on donors to deliver on their promises to give aid at a meeting in the United States in March following the 2010 Haiti earthquake as only Brazil has delivered its entire pledge of $55 million. (Aljazeera)
June 3, 2010, Leading Congolese rights activist Floribert Chebeya is found dead in his car after having been summoned to a meeting with the police chief. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, Bishop Luigi Padovese of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia is attacked at his home in İskenderun, Hatay Province and dies later in hospital. Mr Padovese's driver is arrested. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, The earliest surviving complete census of Ireland is made available online for the first time and reveals details on the early life of James Joyce as well as other famous writers and politicians. (The Irish Times)
June 3, 2010, British Airways issues an apology for a photograph in a staff magazine which implied Osama Bin Laden had a frequent flyer boarding pass for first class. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fines JP Morgan Securities a record sum of £33.32 million ($48.2 million) for failure to protect the money of its clients. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, Release of Get Him to the Greek
June 4, 2010, Release of Ondine
June 4, 2010, Release of Killers
June 4, 2010, Release of Splice
June 4, 2010, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is successfully launched on its maiden test flight. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, NASA scientists discover that Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has the necessary atmosphere to support life. (USA Today)
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June 4, 2010, Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges in the killing of a Peruvian woman. (America Online)
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June 4, 2010, BMJ finds scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit. (Aljazeera)
June 4, 2010, An investigation by an anti-government Myanmar broadcaster finds evidence that it says shows the country's military regime has begun a programme to develop nuclear weapons. (AJE)
June 4, 2010, North Korea unveils a "super drink" to multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing which it says attracted attention from China and Germany at a trade fair in Pyongyang. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, A Joint Base Lewis-McChord United States Army soldier is charged with three counts of premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of three Afghan civilians. (KIRO TV)
June 4, 2010, Seven Italian officials are investigated for manslaughter relating to the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. (The Independent)
June 4, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI says he is "deeply saddened" by yesterday's fatal stabbing of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, Luigi Padovese, who was to meet him on the first ever visit to Cyprus by any Pope today. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, The Government of the United Kingdom releases hitherto undisclosed public spending details from the past two years. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, McDonalds recalls 12 million promotional glasses for the movie Shrek Forever After due to the presence of cadmium in the painted design. (AP via Washington Post)
June 5, 2010,
June 5, 2010, A cap is placed on the leaking pipe of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, allowing the spill to slow but not stop. (New York Times)
June 5, 2010, The 11th Panchen Lama, the 20-year-old living Buddha visited Jokhang Temple, the most renowned monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (tibet.cn)
June 5, 2010, Drosselmeyer wins the 142nd Belmont Stakes, giving trainer Bill Mott his first Triple Crown race victory. (AFP via Google News)
June 5, 2010, Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day. (UN)
June 6, 2010, 2010 MTV Movie Awards
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June 6, 2010, At least 5 people are confirmed dead as tornados and storms batter the Midwest U.S. state of Ohio. (Xinhua)
June 6, 2010, Two men bound for Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group with links to Al-Qaeda are arrested at Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States. (The New York Times)
June 6, 2010, Israel rejects United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal to create an international committee of inquiry into the raid on Gaza flotilla raid; committee members would include representatives from the United States, Turkey and Israel. (Haaretz)
June 6, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI calls for an urgent international effort to resolve tensions in the Middle East, at the end of a three-day trip to Cyprus. (BBC)
June 6, 2010, United States Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the US government's response manager to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster says that BP is making progress stopping the oil flow, but that it is too early to call the effort a success and the spill may continue for several months. (CNN)
June 6, 2010, The United Nations airlifts baby gorillas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where militias log and mine their habitat and it is feared gorillas may become extinct by the mid-2020s. (CNN)
June 7, 2010, Lie to Me S2 Ep11: Beat the Devil
Lightman investigates one of his mentor's graduate students, whom he is convinced is a psychopath and possibly a murderer, while Loker and Torres look into a UFO sighting.
June 7, 2010, Neighbors from Hell Series Premiere
The Hellmans, a family of devils, are sent by Satan to the surface of the Earth on a vital mission: Destroy a massive drill that will invade their underworld home. But first they must blend into a suburban Texas neighborhood where the neighbors give a new meaning to the term Hell.
June 7, 2010, Persons Unknown Series Premiere
A group of diverse strangers finds itself stranded in a deserted town with no idea of how they got there. Security cameras are watching their every move, defeating their attempts to escape. Faced with physical, emotional and psychological challenges, the hostages must rely on each other to survive. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter has begun to look into the disappearance of the missing people.
June 7, 2010, Series Premiere of the Good Guys
The Good Guys is an American comedy-drama series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective
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June 7, 2010, Veteran American journalist Helen Thomas announces she is retiring, after apologizing for making remarks saying Jews should leave Israel and return to Europe are widely condemned in the United States. (Ynetnews)
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June 7, 2010, Chinese stock markets closed down Monday on weaker global recovery prospects. (Sina)
June 7, 2010, The main suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez, Joran van der Sloot, confesses to her murder in Peru. (CNN)
June 7, 2010, A total of 172 people are killed in the floods caused by Tropical Storm Agatha that struck Guatemala. (Xinhua)
June 7, 2010, At least three people die and 10 go missing during an explosion in a natural gas pipeline in Cleburne, Texas. (MSNBC)
June 7, 2010, Two people die and 14 others are injured when a car ploughs into a crowd of spectators at a rally for World Environment Day in Gatsibo, Rwanda. (BBC)
June 7, 2010, 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst, SPC Bradley Manning, is named as the alleged source of the leak of the Collateral murder video, along with the Granai massacre video and other documents, said to be in the possession of Wikileaks. (Wired)
June 7, 2010, A nearly 25-year study published today in Paediatrics concludes that children raised in lesbian households are "psychologically well-adjusted" and have "fewer behavioral problems than their peers". (CNN)
June 7, 2010, Canadian poet Anne Michaels's novel Fugitive Pieces has been judged, by a panel of teenagers, the best Orange Prize for Fiction winner in its 15-year history. Fugitive Pieces won the Prize in 1997. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Release of Christina Aguilera Album Bionic
June 8, 2010, Release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker video game
June 8, 2010,
June 8, 2010, Television host Elena Skordelli goes on trial for the murder of Cypriot media mogul Andis Hadjicostis. (BBC News)
June 8, 2010, The EU proposes that Roma issues should be integrated into housing, education and culture polices at EU and national level. (europa.eu)
June 8, 2010, 21 nations, including the Presidents of Afghanistan, Russia and Syria, attending the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia summit in Istanbul condemn Israel's deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, while Israel, the 22nd participant with a lower-level diplomat, disagrees. (Aljazeera)
June 8, 2010, The trial of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges begins today in the United States. (AP via Google News)
June 8, 2010, Public sector workers in Spain hold a major strike in protest against a 5% pay cut due to come into effect this month as part of a government austerity package. (CNN)
June 8, 2010, The United States threatens Iran with its toughest nuclear sanctions yet, despite the nuclear fuel-swap arrangement Iran made with Brazil and Turkey in May. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Poland legalises chemical castration. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Kenneth O'Keefe, an Irish-American living in London who was captured and injured by Israel Defense Forces following last week's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, threatens legal action after being included on a list of alleged "active terror operatives". (The Irish Times)
June 8, 2010, The Red Crescent Society, for the first time since December 2008 and in a joint venture between Iran and Turkey, prepares to send two aid boats of donations and relief workers to Gaza. (The Times)
June 8, 2010, At least 2 tonnes of cocaine worth around US$1 billion bound for Europe is seized in The Gambia. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, American popstar Chris Brown postpones a tour of the United Kingdom after being denied a visa following his physical assault on Rihanna. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Scientists find evidence that large seas once existed on Mars. (BBC)
June 9, 2010,
June 9, 2010, The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in overtime to win the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals in six games. Blackhawks' captain Jonathan Toews is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player. (TSN)
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June 9, 2010, The United Nations Security Council imposes a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. (UN News Centre)
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June 9, 2010, The 2010 Millennium Technology Prize is awarded to Swiss solar innovator Michael Grätzel. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama meets President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States and promises Palestinians $400 million in US assistance for the West Bank and Gaza. (The Washington Post)
June 9, 2010, The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the European Union, particularly South Asia, to understand the English language. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, President Nicolas Sarkozy defends his plans to sell up to four French warships to Russia, despite concerns raised by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili during talks taking place a few days before a visit to Paris of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (EU Observer)
June 9, 2010, A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, Researchers find that many species of snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.(BBC)
June 9, 2010, Michael Jackson's estate makes $1 billion since his death. (Xinhua)
June 9, 2010, The world's oldest leather shoe was found in Vayots Dzor, Armenia by a team of of international archeologists. (National Post)
June 10, 2010,
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June 10, 2010, British Prime Minister David Cameron offers to help the US deal with the oil as clean-up costs mount and BP shares slide to their lowest levels in 13 years. (Reuters)
-A new government calculation suggests that an amount of oil equivalent to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico before BP capped some of the flow on June 3, an amount that is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. (New York Times)
June 10, 2010, The first solar sail is unfurled by Japanese space organization JAXA. (inhabitat)
June 10, 2010, In the first move of a possible major realignment of U.S. college sports, the Pacific-10 Conference announces that the University of Colorado, a current member of the Big 12 Conference, has accepted the Pac-10's invitation to join that conference. (ESPN)
-Boise State University will leave the Western Athletic Conference to join the Mountain West Conference. (ESPN)
-The University of Nebraska will leave the Big 12 Conference and join the Big Ten Conference. (ESPN)
June 11, 2010, Release of the A-Team
June 11, 2010, Release of Karate Kid
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June 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI begs for forgiveness from God and those who have been abused by priests as children. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 11, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan warns that the nation's economy is on "brink of collapse" (BBC)
June 11, 2010, The first African edition of the association football tournament begins in South Africa. (Aljazeera)
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June 12, 2010, A school teacher who stabbed 16 young pupils and a teacher in a knife rampage in south China in April is sentenced to death. (Shanghai Daily)
June 12, 2010, The European Union promises €500 million towards the 2010/11 budget of Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa. (Reuters Africa)
June 12, 2010, Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists revealed what they believe to be a part of the skull of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, in east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua)
June 12, 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama discuss America's oil spill problem over a telephone call. (Aljazeera)
June 12, 2010, A French fishing boat rescues US teenage sailor Abby Sunderland in the Southern Ocean. (AAP via Yahoo News Australia)
June 12, 2010, Pilots for the American low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines go on strike. (AP via Google News)
June 13, 2010,
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June 13, 2010, Joran Van der Sloot said he'll reveal the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body to the investigators if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru. (Fox News)
June 13, 2010, An investigation by The Sunday Times alleges that Japan has bribed smaller nations in exchange for their vote to resume whaling at the International Whaling Commission. (The Sunday Times)
June 13, 2010, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled. (AFP)
June 13, 2010, A London School of Economics report finds that Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is secretly funding and training the Afghan Taliban. (BBC)
June 13, 2010, The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft returns to earth near Woomera in northwest South Australia. (ABC Australia)
June 14, 2010, Release of Chemical Brothers Album Further
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June 14, 2010, Series Pilot premiere of Rubicon
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June 14, 2010, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson receives a copy of the Saville Inquiry, the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British history, ahead of its official launch by David Cameron tomorrow. (The Irish Times)
June 14, 2010, A California judge refuses to suspend the medical licence of Conrad Murray, the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death. (AP via LA.com)
June 14, 2010, A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. (CBS News)
June 14, 2010, New files on American politician Edward Kennedy, which were previously secret, are released. (BBC)
June 14, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expresses "alarm" at events in Kyrgyzstan. (BBC)
June 14, 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. (US Department of State)
June 14, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin, seen as the key to the survival of a 10-team Big 12 Conference in the wake of the loss of Colorado to the Pacific-10 Conference and Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference, announces it will turn down an invitation from the Pac-10 and remain in the Big 12. Shortly after Texas' announcement, four other Texas and Oklahoma schools targeted by the Pac-10 pledge themselves to the Big 12. (ESPN)
June 15, 2010,
June 15, 2010, Release of Steve Miller Band Album Bingo
June 15, 2010, Release of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Album Mojo
June 15, 2010, Release of The Game Album RED
June 15, 2010, Release of Drake Album Thank me Later
June 15, 2010,
June 15, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama announces that BP will finance a $20 billion fund to compensate people whose livelihoods have been damaged by the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the company's chairman apologized for the worst spill in U.S. history. (USA Today)
June 15, 2010, A six-storey statue of Jesus Christ is struck by lightning and razed to the ground in a city in the US state of Ohio. (The Guardian)
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June 15, 2010, The Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday (1972) in Northern Ireland is published, as a result of the longest-running public inquiry in British legal history. (Sky News)
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June 15, 2010, An American claiming to be hunting Osama bin Laden is arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan.(Wall St. Journal)
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June 16, 2010, The Jamaican Government orders civilians to keep off the streets for two days in several slums in Kingston because authorities are still hunting for Christopher Coke, alleged by the United States to be a drug lord. (AP)
June 16, 2010, Iran's atomic energy chief says Iran will begin building a new nuclear reactor, and Iran will keep enriching uranium, despite UN nuclear sanctions. (CNN)
June 16, 2010, A shallow strong quake with magnitude of 7.1 jolts Papua province in easternmost Indonesia, killing 3 people and causing damage in Serui and Biak, in Yapen district. (Xinhua)
June 16, 2010, George Osborne scraps Britain's financial regulator and grants new powers to the Bank of England. (Sky News)
June 16, 2010, The annual Dragon Boat Festival starts in Lhasa. (tibet.cn)
June 16, 2010, Researchers from four Italian universities identify human remains discovered in a church in Tuscany as "almost certainly" being those of Renaissance artist Caravaggio. (BBC)
June 16, 2010, Two Dutch women appear in a South African court over an alleged "ambush marketing" stunt after more than 30 people were ejected from the Johannesburg stadium on Monday during the match between Denmark and the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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June 17, 2010, Dutch novelist Gerbrand Bakker wins the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin. (The Guardian)
June 17, 2010, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. Congress, apologizing for the spill but avoiding answering most questions and stating that he was unaware of the risks at the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in April causing the oil spill. (The Australian)
June 17, 2010, The Los Angeles Lakers win the 2010 NBA Finals defeating the Boston Celtics 83-79 in Game 7. (CBS News)
June 17, 2010, The Times Square bombing attempt suspect is indicted on 10 terrorism and weapons charges in New York City. (AP via Dayton Daily News)
June 17, 2010, 3 additional U.S. soldiers based in Washington state are facing murder charges in the deaths of 3 Afghan civilians. (CNN)
June 17, 2010, African leaders meet in Chad to discuss the Great Green Wall tree belt from Senegal to Djibouti in the battle against the Sahara. (BBC)
June 17, 2010, European Union leaders approve sanctions in Brussels, including bans on investments and oil/gas technology transfers, against Iran, harsher than recent sanctions imposed by the United Nations. Russia calls these and sanctions by the United States "unacceptable". (BBC)
June 17, 2010, Hundreds of surveillance cameras, alleged to be part of a counter-terrorism operation in highly Muslim areas, are put into temporary disuse in parts of Birmingham, England, after protest by the local population. (The Guardian)
June 17, 2010, The historical chronology of ancient Egypt is verified using radiocarbon dating. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, Release of Jonah Hex
June 18, 2010, Release of Toy Story 3
June 18, 2010, Release of Cyrus
June 18, Release of Miley Cyrus Album Cant be Tamed
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June 18, 2010, Interim Kyrgyzstan leader Roza Otunbayeva visits Osh and says the death toll from her country's worst ethnic clashes in two decades could be 2,000. (Aljazeera)
June 18, 2010, International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets with Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Madrid. (Aljazeera)
June 18, 2010, President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa responds in a speech at a commemorative military pageant to critics of the army who say human rights abuses were committed against civilians during the 2009 defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, The Polish presidential election is being held earlier, following the death of Polish President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010 near Smolensk. The two front-runners are Bronisław Komorowski from the ruling center-right Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) party and Jarosław Kaczyński from the right-wing Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) party. (Warsawvoice.pl)
June 18, 2010, Indian government ministers meet for the first time as they re-examine the 1984 Bhopal disaster. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) starts designing a newer and a more powerful nuclear research reactor than the current Tehran reactor, according to AEOI director Ali Akbar Salehi. (Tehran Times)
June 18, 2010, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" sell for $1.2 million at Sotheby's. (BBC News)
June 19, 2010, Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria marries Daniel Westling; Westling becomes Duke of Västergötland. (BusinessWeek)
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June 19, 2010, South Sudan's 7ft 7in basketball legend and humanitarian, Manute Bol, dies. (BBC)
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June 20, 2010, Archbishop of Naples Crescenzio Sepe and former Italy transport minister Pietro Lunardi face allegations of corruption over a property deal. (BBC)
June 20, 2010, Celia becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. (AP via Breitbart)
June 20, 2010, Michael Jackson's memorial plaque will be unveiled at a West End theatre in London on June 24. In mid-February Los Angeles coroners have released a report of his autopsy, which said his death was a homicide. (rian.ru)
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June 21, 2010, Major aid agencies Oxfam and Save the Children both launch $10 million (£6.7 million) appeals for Niger where drought is common at the moment and half the country has no food. (BBC)
June 21, 2010, Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, cuts 15% of Belarus' gas supplies over alleged debt, and threatens to gradually cut up to 85% of Belarus' gas supplies if the debt remains unpaid. (Aljazeera)
June 21, 2010, An American man pleads guilty to charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt. (AP via Google News)
June 21, 2010, Iran bans two International Atomic Energy Agency weapons inspectors from entering the country claiming they had leaked false information about Iran's nuclear program. (Sky News)
June 21, 2010, Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on an official trip to Canberra. The two countries sign agreements valued at over A$10 billion. (The Australian)
June 21, 2010, The Washington Post reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. (The Washington Post)
June 21, 2010, The northernmost radiation detection station of the South Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety claims to have detected an eightfold increase in the radioactive substance xenon. (AP)
June 21, 2010, The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine releases its 2010 index of so-called "failed states", ranking 177 countries by what it sees as those most at risk of failure; Foreign Policy claims state failure "is a chronic condition". (Aljazeera)
June 21, 2010, The World Health Organisation creates a data base on the use of child medicines. (AP via The Guardian)
June 21, 2010, The Communications Commission of Kenya embarks on a compulsory mobile phone registration initiative as part of the country's crime reduction policy; numbers remaining unregistered by the end of July are to be disconnected. (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
June 21, 2010, Hyksos capital Avaris is believed to have been located via radar imaging by a group of Austrian archaeologists in Tel al-Dabaa. (BBC)
June 22, 2010, Release of Downfall
Downfall Series Premiere
Chris Jericho is also the host who is accordingly a Messiah/Sun resonator.
June 22, 2010, Release of Eminem Album Recovery
June 22, 2010, Release of Ozzy Osbourne album Scream
June 22, 2010, Release of Chamillionaire album Venom
June 22, 2010, Release of Diddy Album Last Train to Paris
June 22, 2010, Release of Danzig Album Red Dead Saboath
June 22, 2010, Release of Vinnie Paz Album Season of the Assassian
June 22, 2010, Release of Herbie Hancock Album The Imagine Project
June 22, 2010, Release of Chingy Album Success and Failure
June 22, 2010, Release of Transformers: Cybertron video game
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June 22, 2010, Environmentalists said that an oil spill near Hurghada Egypt in the Red Sea is continuing even after the government said it had been contained, leaving turtles and sea birds covered in oil. (The Associated Press)
June 22, 2010, The death toll from unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan riots reaches 251. (itar-tass)
June 22, 2010, War crimes charges are formally requested against 12 Belgian government officials and military officers in connection with the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, as historians agree on a high-level Belgian conspiracy, with Western-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko succeeding Lumumba until he was overthrown in 1997. (AP)
June 22, 2010, The United States investigates itself to see if it is accidentally financing the Taliban in Afghanistan with $4 million per week in U.S. taxpayers' money. (Aljazeera)
June 22, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, the top United States commander in Afghanistan, apologises for an article in Rolling Stone magazine in which he criticised senior members of the Obama administration. McChrystal is later summoned to Washington, D.C. for talks with Obama. (The Los Angeles Times)
June 22, 2010, Christopher Coke walks into a police station on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica and is detained, following search efforts which killed more than 70 people last month. The United States accuses him of being the Shower Posse leader, which it alleges operates an international drugs and guns network. (BBC)
June 22, 2010, An expert panel is appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Reuters)
June 22, 2010, United States federal judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman issues a preliminary injunction blocking a six month moratorium on deep water offshore drilling. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
June 22, 2010, In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne presents the coalition government's emergency budget statement to the House of Commons. (BBC)
June 23, 2010, Release of Knight and Day
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June 23, 2010, Southeast European Cooperation Process summit: 12 other European nations meeting at the summit issue a joint statement saying they "deplore the loss of life and injuries during the incident in international waters" during the Gaza flotilla raid and "call "an impartial, independent and internationally credible investigation on this matter". (Today's Zaman)
June 23, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, America's top military commander in Afghanistan, submits his resignation after being summoned home by an "angry" Barack Obama due to his expression of critical opinions about senior American politicians and diplomats in a Rolling Stone magazine profile. Afghan President Hamid Karzai supports McChrystal, while the Taliban say the incident is "another sign of the start of the political defeat" for America's Afghan policies. (BBC)
-Obama relieves McChrystal of command in Afghanistan, and names General Petraeus as his replacement. (The New York Times)
June 23, 2010, Strikes in China which began on 21st of June have shut down Toyota and Honda plants there. "The BBC's China editor Shirong Chen says the government has tolerated strikes at foreign-owned plants, which are obliged to respect workers' rights, but maintains strict control at Chinese-owned factories for fear of widespread social unrest." (BBC)
June 23, 2010, 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai, India. (India Times)
June 23, 2010, The International Whaling Commission does not reach agreement on curbing whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland in a meeting in Agadir, Morocco. (AP via San Jose Mercury News)
June 23, 2010, BP chief executive Tony Hayward hands over responsibility for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to senior executive Bob Dudley "effective immediately". (AFP via the Sydney Morning Herald)
June 23, 2010, An earthquake occurrs 56 kilometres north-northeast of Ottawa, registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Slight damage was reported near the epicenter, and the tremor was felt in Sudbury, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State. (CBC)
June 23, 2010, Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships becomes the longest match in Association of Tennis Professionals history, and is adjourned after 9 hours. (The Guardian)
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June 24, 2010, A parcel bomb delivered to the public order ministry in Athens, addressed to counter-terrorism minister Michalis Chrysohoidis, is opened by an aide, instantly killing him; Chrysohoidis is unhurt. Prime Minister George Papandreou labels it a terrorist attack. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, Belgian authorities raid their country's Catholic Church HQ during an investigation into child sexual abuse as rumors circulate about a cover-up. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, A Knesset parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, led by Yohanan Plesner, seeks to block a key vote intent on establishing an international probe into the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
June 24, 2010, Public sector workers strike in their millions across France. (The Age)
June 24, 2010, President Hu Jintao of China arrives in Ottawa on a three-day state visit to Canada. The two countries sign a tourism agreement. (Global Times)
June 24, 2010, Organizers of a fresh aid flotilla to Gaza cancel the event due to what they describe as "Israeli threats", while the United States Department of State issues a statement calling aid flotillas to Gaza "irresponsible". (Haaretz)
June 24, 2010, Russia's natural gas export monopoly Gazprom announces that it will restart gas supply to Belarus in full following payment of the debt. (Reuters)
June 24, 2010, Sri Lanka announces that a United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses will not be allowed to enter the country. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, American John Isner defeats Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 70-68, in the longest match in tennis history, finally advancing from the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles tournament. The match took over 11 hours, spanning three days. (ESPN)
June 24, 2010, Four specimens of Anogramma ascensionis, a plant native to Ascension Island and presumed extinct for 60 years, are discovered alive and well in Kew. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, Writer Neil Gaiman wins the Cilip Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book. (BBC)
June 25, 2010, Release of Grown Ups
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June 25, 2010, The 36th G8 summit opens in Huntsville, Ontario and the 4th G20 summit is held in Toronto, Canada.
June 25, 2010, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron meet and agree to work to renew ties stained by the refusal of both men to hand over men the other man wants. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 25, 2010, Millions of protesters take to the streets in Rome, Naples, Milan and other Italian cities to protest their government's austerity measures which cut funds and affects public sector salaries and to test Silvio Berlusconi. (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, The Constitutional Court of Romania rules that government budget plans are "unconstitutional"; this decision cannot be appealed. Dozens of people trying to request an audience with President Traian Băsescu at his palace are beaten back by riot police. (France24)
June 25, 2010, Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica". (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, The Vatican expresses its "astonishment" and "indignation" at the "violation of the graves of the Cardinals Jozef-Ernest Van Roey and Leon-Joseph Suenens" by Belgian police making holes in the crypt at Mechelen Cathedral during a child sex abuse search. (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, A statue of Joseph Stalin is discreetly removed overnight from the central square of his hometown of Gori in Georgia. (Xinhua)
June 25, 2010, Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images. (BBC)
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June 26, 2010, 2010 G-20 Toronto summit
-The leaders of the world's twenty largest economies meet in Canada at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit. (BBC)
-Over one hundred people are arrested for planning to "commit mischief". (CBC)
-Mostly peaceful protesters march through Toronto while a small amount of radicals smash shopfronts and burn police cars. (Reuters via ABC Australia)
-President of China Hu Jintao accepts an invitation for a state visit from President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC)
-France is announced as the host of the G8 in 2011. (Xinhua)
June 26, 2010, President of Zambia Rupiah Banda says his country did not ask for health and road aid which has now been frozen by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the European Union before an upcoming election and says "We must not allow donors to feel they can interfere in the internal affairs of this country because it is a sovereign and independent state". (Reuters Africa)
June 26, 2010, The Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone criticizes Belgian police participating in raids against child sex abuse. (BBC)
June 26, 2010, Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Taiwan against a trade agreement with China to be signed on Tuesday. (BBC)
June 26, 2010, Several thousand Egyptians, joined by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protest systematic use of torture by authorities in the largest demonstration yet resulting from the alleged fatal beating to death of Khaled Said by police. (Arab News)
June 26, 2010, Thousands of Iranians in Paris ask the UN to tighten its sanctions on Iran. (YnetNews)
June 26, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, is hospitalized. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 26, 2010, Fedor Emelianenko records only the second loss of his career as he is tapped out by Fabricio Werdum at the Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum mixed martial arts match in San Jose, California, US. (Sherdog)
June 26, 2010, The Death toll in unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan rises to 275. (Central Asian News)
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June 27, 2010, A constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan is criticized for fears the country would destabilize. (Aljazeera)
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June 28, 2010, World leaders at the G20 summit agree to cut their budget deficits in half by 2013, while US President Obama urges continued spending to support economic growth. (Voice of America)
June 28, 2010, The European Union and United States sign a five-year agreement on sharing financial data in anti-terrorist investigations for accounts suspected of being used for terrorist financing, after agreeing on limits to protect customer privacy. (NPR)
June 28, 2010, Tropical Storm Alex is expected to become a hurricane, with heavy winds, rain and rough seas in the Gulf of Mexico, driving the oil deeper inland and bringing much of the cleanup to a standstill. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
-The state of Louisiana reports 162 cases of oil-spill related illnesses to date, 128 of those among workers in the Gulf of Mexico, as concern over petroleum-related air pollution also grows. (Los Angeles Times)
June 28, 2010, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, a leading candidate in a Mexican, state election is assassinated near Ciudad Victoria. (Times Live South Africa)
June 28, 2010, Democratic Robert Byrd of West Virginia, President pro tempore of the United States Senate and the longest serving member its history, dies at age 92 in Washington, D.C. (CNN)
June 28, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad postpones nuclear talks so as to “punish the West” for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 aimed at curbing the alleged development of Iranian nuclear weapons. (Aljazeera)
June 28, 2010, Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and other prominent Sri Lankans protest international calls and the appointment of a United Nations' panel to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the the country's civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists. (AFP)
June 28, 2010, Kyrgyzstan approves a new constitution with 90.6 percent of voters backing a constitution that would pave the way for a parliamentary election in October, following the violence of the recent uprising and riots. (The New York Times)
June 28, 2010, Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat on European affairs warns Turkey that it must demonstrate its commitment to NATO, Europe and the United States after its opposition to sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program and rhetoric against Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
June 28, 2010, The military government in Fiji issues new media restrictions targeting foreign ownership of media organizations in the country. (Hindustan Times)
June 28, 2010, The Red Crescent delays an aid shipment bound for Gaza after being told that Egypt would prevent it from using the internationally neutral Suez Canal. (BBC)
June 28, 2010, A second statue of Josef Stalin is removed by authorities in Georgia. (Straits Times)
June 28, 2010, The United States Department of Justice announces that ten people have been arrested for allegedly spying for Russia. (BBC)
June 28, 2010, In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that Chicago's handgun ban is unconstitutional. (BBC News)
June 28, 2010, America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) remains unaware of Australia's new prime minister. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 28, 2010, Le Monde is sold to Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre Bergé. (The Guardian)
June 29, 2010, Release of The Dream Album Love King
June 29, 2010, Release of Self entitled Album Emarosa
June 29, 2010, Release of Ninety Nine Nights II videogame
June 29, 2010, Release of APB: All Points Bulletin video game
June 29, 2010, Release of Naughty Bear
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June 29, 2010, The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Nigerian families can sue drug company Pfizer for using a deadly antibiotic on their children. (BBC)
June 29, 2010, Same-sex marriage is legalized in Iceland making it the 9th country to do so.
June 29, 2010, Extreme Australian weather:
-Sydney experiences its coldest June day in 27 years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
-Ballarat experiences its coldest day of the decade. (Ballarat Courier)
-Melbourne experiences its coldest day in 2 years. (The Age)
June 29, 2010, Hurricane Alex becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season with warnings posted from Baffin Bay, Texas south to Mexico. (Canadian Press via Amherst Daily News)
June 29, 2010, Officails in Ghana's Central Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead. (My Joy Online)
June 29, 2010, A report by Human Rights Watch calls on Britain, France and Germany to stop using intelligence obtained through illegal torture in third-party countries, saying that it contradicts the European Union's anti-torture guidelines and is self-defeating in the "fight against terrorism". (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Thousands of workers take part in a 24 hour strike in Greece in protest against government austerity measures (Al Jazeera)
June 29, 2010, An international youth charity finds that children in the West Bank live in significantly worse conditions than children in Gaza. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, Richard A. Falk, issues a statement calling Israel's plan to demolish 20 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem illegal and states the forceful transfer of four Palestinians in another incident could be a "war crime". (Reuters)
June 29, 2010, King Abdullah and Barack Obama meet in the United States to discuss Palestine, U.S. objections to Iran's nuclear program and the U.S. war on Afghanistan. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Indonesian publisher and blogger, the "Prince of Jihad", is imprisoned for five years after being convicted of concealing information about suicide attacks on two hotels in Jakarta. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman promises no Palestinian state before 2012 after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (Reuters)
June 29, 2010, Google ends a redirect to its Hong Kong site in China and provides a new method of reaching unfiltered results after the Chinese government threatened to end its Internet Content Provider license. (BBC)
June 29, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, who led the United States in its war on Afghanistan until last week, announces his retirement. (CNN)
June 30, 2010, Release of Twilight Saga: Eclipse
June 30, 2010, Release of Love Ranch
June 30, 2010, The United States government is sued by 10 plaintiffs, including an American citizen, challenging the country's no-fly list. (ABC News)
June 30, 2010, Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanhá takes a "sovereign decision" to inaugurate mutineering General Antonio Indjai as army chief, causing upset to the United States which decides not to support this. (news24.com)
June 30, 2010, Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri says he has escaped from United States agents who were holding him illegally and calls for help from the Iranian government and human rights agencies. (France24)
June 30, 2010, Ireland officially exits recession. (The Wall Street Journal)
June 30, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signs into law a bill that bans commercial activities and advertisements of international companies with branches in Israel or companies headed by Jews, obligates several government ministries to set a committee to identify and locate products from "Zionist companies" and to find the names of leading figures in the companies so that they can be boycotted, and instructs the Foreign Ministry to present annual reports on the progress made in the boycott. Among the companies targeted are Nestlè, Coca Cola, Intel, and IBM. (Ynetnews)
June 30, 2010, Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious medal and $100,000 from the United States, presented by Bill Clinton, for his "steadfast" efforts in "the resolution of conflicts rooted in religion around the world". (BBC)
June 30, 2010, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, sitting in The Hague, rules that model Naomi Campbell can be called to testify against former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in relation to her blood diamond. (BBC)
June 30, 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard confirms she does not support the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia, and that she does not believe in God. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 30, 2010, The Italian government appeals to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn a ban on classroom crucifixes. (BBC)
June 30, 2010, Roger Federer is defeated by Tomáš Berdych of the Czech Republic at Wimbledon, so Federer will not contest the final for the first time since 2002, also his second Wimbledon loss during that time. (Daily Mail)
June 30, 2010, The Obama administration allows General Stanley A. McChrystal, until recently commander of the United States in its war in Afghanistan, to retire at a four star rank. Army rules state that he would have to serve for several more years to earn its additional retirement benefits, but the administration used its right to exempt him from these rules. (The New Zealand Herald)
June 30, 2010, An unfinished secret tomb is found in Egypt. (The Straits Times)
June 30, 2010, Researchers discover a fossilized Leviathan and write about it in Nature. (BBC)
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June 1, 2010, The trial of London-based multi-national oil trading firm Trafigura for illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast in 2006 begins in Amsterdam. (BBC)
June 1, 2010, 132 people are killed across Central America in the aftermath of the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. (Reuters)
June 1, 2010, Al-Qaeda's top leader in Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden's third in command, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, is reported killed. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, Another UK minister, the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, who was appointed after the resignation of fellow Liberal Democrats David Laws, is embroiled in the ongoing expenses scandal after admitting to having avoided paying capital gains tax when he sold his taxpayer-funded second home at a profit. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, America's Obama administration warns that BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could continue until August. (The Australian)
June 1, 2010, The United States insists any Afghan peace deal must ensure women's rights as Afghanistan prepares to open a peace conference aimed at persuading Taliban leaders to put down their weapons. (USA Today)
June 1, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore and his wife Tipper announce their separation. (USA Today)
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June 2, 2010, Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, opens a national peace conference to discuss negotiating with the Taliban. A rocket lands near the venue of the conference in Kabul and a suicide bomber sets off explosives outside the conference. (AP via Palm Beach Post)
June 2, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns over a dispute over United States military bases. (AP via Yahoo News)
June 3, 2010, The MARS-500 project begins, with six men - three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese man - entering the sealed facility in Moscow where they will spend 18 months in isolation from the outside world. (BBC)
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June 3, 2010, Christian Wulff is nominated for President of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Bloomberg)
June 3, 2010, President of Haiti René Préval, speaking in the Dominican Republic, calls on donors to deliver on their promises to give aid at a meeting in the United States in March following the 2010 Haiti earthquake as only Brazil has delivered its entire pledge of $55 million. (Aljazeera)
June 3, 2010, Leading Congolese rights activist Floribert Chebeya is found dead in his car after having been summoned to a meeting with the police chief. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, Bishop Luigi Padovese of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia is attacked at his home in İskenderun, Hatay Province and dies later in hospital. Mr Padovese's driver is arrested. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, The earliest surviving complete census of Ireland is made available online for the first time and reveals details on the early life of James Joyce as well as other famous writers and politicians. (The Irish Times)
June 3, 2010, British Airways issues an apology for a photograph in a staff magazine which implied Osama Bin Laden had a frequent flyer boarding pass for first class. (BBC)
June 3, 2010, The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fines JP Morgan Securities a record sum of £33.32 million ($48.2 million) for failure to protect the money of its clients. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, Release of Get Him to the Greek
June 4, 2010, Release of Ondine
June 4, 2010, Release of Killers
June 4, 2010, Release of Splice
Superstar genetic engineers Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals, to create incredible new hybrid animals. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But when the pharmaceutical company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly conduct their own experiments in the pursuit of even greater scientific discovery. They secretly blend human DNA with their creations, ignoring their society's ethical and legal boundaries.
The scientists name their creature Dren (nerd spelled backward), and Dren exceeds their wildest dreams, she begins to grow and learn at an accelerated rate. As their lab becomes exceedingly crowded, and the risk of Dren being discovered increases, they move Dren to Elsa's dead mother's farm. There Clive discovers that Elsa used her own DNA to create the creature, which by now has become amphibious, winged and omnivorous with a toxic sting. The two must come to terms with their decision as their creature quickly develops into a deadly, winged humanoid monster.
June 4, 2010, Release of Marmaduke
June 4, 2010, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is successfully launched on its maiden test flight. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, NASA scientists discover that Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has the necessary atmosphere to support life. (USA Today)
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June 4, 2010, Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges in the killing of a Peruvian woman. (America Online)
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June 4, 2010, BMJ finds scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit. (Aljazeera)
June 4, 2010, An investigation by an anti-government Myanmar broadcaster finds evidence that it says shows the country's military regime has begun a programme to develop nuclear weapons. (AJE)
June 4, 2010, North Korea unveils a "super drink" to multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing which it says attracted attention from China and Germany at a trade fair in Pyongyang. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, A Joint Base Lewis-McChord United States Army soldier is charged with three counts of premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of three Afghan civilians. (KIRO TV)
June 4, 2010, Seven Italian officials are investigated for manslaughter relating to the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. (The Independent)
June 4, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI says he is "deeply saddened" by yesterday's fatal stabbing of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, Luigi Padovese, who was to meet him on the first ever visit to Cyprus by any Pope today. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, The Government of the United Kingdom releases hitherto undisclosed public spending details from the past two years. (BBC)
June 4, 2010, McDonalds recalls 12 million promotional glasses for the movie Shrek Forever After due to the presence of cadmium in the painted design. (AP via Washington Post)
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June 5, 2010, A cap is placed on the leaking pipe of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, allowing the spill to slow but not stop. (New York Times)
June 5, 2010, The 11th Panchen Lama, the 20-year-old living Buddha visited Jokhang Temple, the most renowned monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (tibet.cn)
June 5, 2010, Drosselmeyer wins the 142nd Belmont Stakes, giving trainer Bill Mott his first Triple Crown race victory. (AFP via Google News)
June 5, 2010, Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day. (UN)
June 6, 2010, 2010 MTV Movie Awards
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June 6, 2010, At least 5 people are confirmed dead as tornados and storms batter the Midwest U.S. state of Ohio. (Xinhua)
June 6, 2010, Two men bound for Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group with links to Al-Qaeda are arrested at Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States. (The New York Times)
June 6, 2010, Israel rejects United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal to create an international committee of inquiry into the raid on Gaza flotilla raid; committee members would include representatives from the United States, Turkey and Israel. (Haaretz)
June 6, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI calls for an urgent international effort to resolve tensions in the Middle East, at the end of a three-day trip to Cyprus. (BBC)
June 6, 2010, United States Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the US government's response manager to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster says that BP is making progress stopping the oil flow, but that it is too early to call the effort a success and the spill may continue for several months. (CNN)
June 6, 2010, The United Nations airlifts baby gorillas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where militias log and mine their habitat and it is feared gorillas may become extinct by the mid-2020s. (CNN)
June 7, 2010, Lie to Me S2 Ep11: Beat the Devil
Lightman investigates one of his mentor's graduate students, whom he is convinced is a psychopath and possibly a murderer, while Loker and Torres look into a UFO sighting.
June 7, 2010, Neighbors from Hell Series Premiere
The Hellmans, a family of devils, are sent by Satan to the surface of the Earth on a vital mission: Destroy a massive drill that will invade their underworld home. But first they must blend into a suburban Texas neighborhood where the neighbors give a new meaning to the term Hell.
June 7, 2010, Persons Unknown Series Premiere
A group of diverse strangers finds itself stranded in a deserted town with no idea of how they got there. Security cameras are watching their every move, defeating their attempts to escape. Faced with physical, emotional and psychological challenges, the hostages must rely on each other to survive. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter has begun to look into the disappearance of the missing people.
June 7, 2010, Series Premiere of the Good Guys
The Good Guys is an American comedy-drama series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective
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June 7, 2010, Veteran American journalist Helen Thomas announces she is retiring, after apologizing for making remarks saying Jews should leave Israel and return to Europe are widely condemned in the United States. (Ynetnews)
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June 7, 2010, Chinese stock markets closed down Monday on weaker global recovery prospects. (Sina)
June 7, 2010, The main suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez, Joran van der Sloot, confesses to her murder in Peru. (CNN)
June 7, 2010, A total of 172 people are killed in the floods caused by Tropical Storm Agatha that struck Guatemala. (Xinhua)
June 7, 2010, At least three people die and 10 go missing during an explosion in a natural gas pipeline in Cleburne, Texas. (MSNBC)
June 7, 2010, Two people die and 14 others are injured when a car ploughs into a crowd of spectators at a rally for World Environment Day in Gatsibo, Rwanda. (BBC)
June 7, 2010, 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst, SPC Bradley Manning, is named as the alleged source of the leak of the Collateral murder video, along with the Granai massacre video and other documents, said to be in the possession of Wikileaks. (Wired)
June 7, 2010, A nearly 25-year study published today in Paediatrics concludes that children raised in lesbian households are "psychologically well-adjusted" and have "fewer behavioral problems than their peers". (CNN)
June 7, 2010, Canadian poet Anne Michaels's novel Fugitive Pieces has been judged, by a panel of teenagers, the best Orange Prize for Fiction winner in its 15-year history. Fugitive Pieces won the Prize in 1997. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Release of Christina Aguilera Album Bionic
June 8, 2010, Release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker video game
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June 8, 2010, Television host Elena Skordelli goes on trial for the murder of Cypriot media mogul Andis Hadjicostis. (BBC News)
June 8, 2010, The EU proposes that Roma issues should be integrated into housing, education and culture polices at EU and national level. (europa.eu)
June 8, 2010, 21 nations, including the Presidents of Afghanistan, Russia and Syria, attending the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia summit in Istanbul condemn Israel's deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, while Israel, the 22nd participant with a lower-level diplomat, disagrees. (Aljazeera)
June 8, 2010, The trial of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges begins today in the United States. (AP via Google News)
June 8, 2010, Public sector workers in Spain hold a major strike in protest against a 5% pay cut due to come into effect this month as part of a government austerity package. (CNN)
June 8, 2010, The United States threatens Iran with its toughest nuclear sanctions yet, despite the nuclear fuel-swap arrangement Iran made with Brazil and Turkey in May. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Poland legalises chemical castration. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Kenneth O'Keefe, an Irish-American living in London who was captured and injured by Israel Defense Forces following last week's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, threatens legal action after being included on a list of alleged "active terror operatives". (The Irish Times)
June 8, 2010, The Red Crescent Society, for the first time since December 2008 and in a joint venture between Iran and Turkey, prepares to send two aid boats of donations and relief workers to Gaza. (The Times)
June 8, 2010, At least 2 tonnes of cocaine worth around US$1 billion bound for Europe is seized in The Gambia. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, American popstar Chris Brown postpones a tour of the United Kingdom after being denied a visa following his physical assault on Rihanna. (BBC)
June 8, 2010, Scientists find evidence that large seas once existed on Mars. (BBC)
June 9, 2010,
June 9, 2010, The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in overtime to win the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals in six games. Blackhawks' captain Jonathan Toews is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player. (TSN)
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June 9, 2010, The United Nations Security Council imposes a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. (UN News Centre)
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June 9, 2010, The 2010 Millennium Technology Prize is awarded to Swiss solar innovator Michael Grätzel. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama meets President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States and promises Palestinians $400 million in US assistance for the West Bank and Gaza. (The Washington Post)
June 9, 2010, The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the European Union, particularly South Asia, to understand the English language. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, President Nicolas Sarkozy defends his plans to sell up to four French warships to Russia, despite concerns raised by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili during talks taking place a few days before a visit to Paris of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (EU Observer)
June 9, 2010, A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities. (BBC)
June 9, 2010, Researchers find that many species of snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.(BBC)
June 9, 2010, Michael Jackson's estate makes $1 billion since his death. (Xinhua)
June 9, 2010, The world's oldest leather shoe was found in Vayots Dzor, Armenia by a team of of international archeologists. (National Post)
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June 10, 2010, British Prime Minister David Cameron offers to help the US deal with the oil as clean-up costs mount and BP shares slide to their lowest levels in 13 years. (Reuters)
-A new government calculation suggests that an amount of oil equivalent to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico before BP capped some of the flow on June 3, an amount that is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. (New York Times)
June 10, 2010, The first solar sail is unfurled by Japanese space organization JAXA. (inhabitat)
June 10, 2010, In the first move of a possible major realignment of U.S. college sports, the Pacific-10 Conference announces that the University of Colorado, a current member of the Big 12 Conference, has accepted the Pac-10's invitation to join that conference. (ESPN)
-Boise State University will leave the Western Athletic Conference to join the Mountain West Conference. (ESPN)
-The University of Nebraska will leave the Big 12 Conference and join the Big Ten Conference. (ESPN)
June 11, 2010, Release of the A-Team
June 11, 2010, Release of Karate Kid
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June 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI begs for forgiveness from God and those who have been abused by priests as children. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 11, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan warns that the nation's economy is on "brink of collapse" (BBC)
June 11, 2010, The first African edition of the association football tournament begins in South Africa. (Aljazeera)
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June 12, 2010, A school teacher who stabbed 16 young pupils and a teacher in a knife rampage in south China in April is sentenced to death. (Shanghai Daily)
June 12, 2010, The European Union promises €500 million towards the 2010/11 budget of Kenya, the largest economy in East Africa. (Reuters Africa)
June 12, 2010, Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists revealed what they believe to be a part of the skull of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, in east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua)
June 12, 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama discuss America's oil spill problem over a telephone call. (Aljazeera)
June 12, 2010, A French fishing boat rescues US teenage sailor Abby Sunderland in the Southern Ocean. (AAP via Yahoo News Australia)
June 12, 2010, Pilots for the American low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines go on strike. (AP via Google News)
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June 13, 2010, Joran Van der Sloot said he'll reveal the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body to the investigators if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru. (Fox News)
June 13, 2010, An investigation by The Sunday Times alleges that Japan has bribed smaller nations in exchange for their vote to resume whaling at the International Whaling Commission. (The Sunday Times)
June 13, 2010, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled. (AFP)
June 13, 2010, A London School of Economics report finds that Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is secretly funding and training the Afghan Taliban. (BBC)
June 13, 2010, The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft returns to earth near Woomera in northwest South Australia. (ABC Australia)
June 14, 2010, Release of Chemical Brothers Album Further
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June 14, 2010, Series Pilot premiere of Rubicon
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June 14, 2010, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson receives a copy of the Saville Inquiry, the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British history, ahead of its official launch by David Cameron tomorrow. (The Irish Times)
June 14, 2010, A California judge refuses to suspend the medical licence of Conrad Murray, the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death. (AP via LA.com)
June 14, 2010, A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. (CBS News)
June 14, 2010, New files on American politician Edward Kennedy, which were previously secret, are released. (BBC)
June 14, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expresses "alarm" at events in Kyrgyzstan. (BBC)
June 14, 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. (US Department of State)
June 14, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin, seen as the key to the survival of a 10-team Big 12 Conference in the wake of the loss of Colorado to the Pacific-10 Conference and Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference, announces it will turn down an invitation from the Pac-10 and remain in the Big 12. Shortly after Texas' announcement, four other Texas and Oklahoma schools targeted by the Pac-10 pledge themselves to the Big 12. (ESPN)
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June 15, 2010, Release of Steve Miller Band Album Bingo
June 15, 2010, Release of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Album Mojo
June 15, 2010, Release of The Game Album RED
June 15, 2010, Release of Drake Album Thank me Later
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June 15, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama announces that BP will finance a $20 billion fund to compensate people whose livelihoods have been damaged by the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the company's chairman apologized for the worst spill in U.S. history. (USA Today)
June 15, 2010, A six-storey statue of Jesus Christ is struck by lightning and razed to the ground in a city in the US state of Ohio. (The Guardian)
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June 15, 2010, The Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday (1972) in Northern Ireland is published, as a result of the longest-running public inquiry in British legal history. (Sky News)
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June 15, 2010, An American claiming to be hunting Osama bin Laden is arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan.(Wall St. Journal)
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June 16, 2010, The Jamaican Government orders civilians to keep off the streets for two days in several slums in Kingston because authorities are still hunting for Christopher Coke, alleged by the United States to be a drug lord. (AP)
June 16, 2010, Iran's atomic energy chief says Iran will begin building a new nuclear reactor, and Iran will keep enriching uranium, despite UN nuclear sanctions. (CNN)
June 16, 2010, A shallow strong quake with magnitude of 7.1 jolts Papua province in easternmost Indonesia, killing 3 people and causing damage in Serui and Biak, in Yapen district. (Xinhua)
June 16, 2010, George Osborne scraps Britain's financial regulator and grants new powers to the Bank of England. (Sky News)
June 16, 2010, The annual Dragon Boat Festival starts in Lhasa. (tibet.cn)
June 16, 2010, Researchers from four Italian universities identify human remains discovered in a church in Tuscany as "almost certainly" being those of Renaissance artist Caravaggio. (BBC)
June 16, 2010, Two Dutch women appear in a South African court over an alleged "ambush marketing" stunt after more than 30 people were ejected from the Johannesburg stadium on Monday during the match between Denmark and the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
(BBC)
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June 17, 2010, Dutch novelist Gerbrand Bakker wins the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin. (The Guardian)
June 17, 2010, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. Congress, apologizing for the spill but avoiding answering most questions and stating that he was unaware of the risks at the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in April causing the oil spill. (The Australian)
June 17, 2010, The Los Angeles Lakers win the 2010 NBA Finals defeating the Boston Celtics 83-79 in Game 7. (CBS News)
June 17, 2010, The Times Square bombing attempt suspect is indicted on 10 terrorism and weapons charges in New York City. (AP via Dayton Daily News)
June 17, 2010, 3 additional U.S. soldiers based in Washington state are facing murder charges in the deaths of 3 Afghan civilians. (CNN)
June 17, 2010, African leaders meet in Chad to discuss the Great Green Wall tree belt from Senegal to Djibouti in the battle against the Sahara. (BBC)
June 17, 2010, European Union leaders approve sanctions in Brussels, including bans on investments and oil/gas technology transfers, against Iran, harsher than recent sanctions imposed by the United Nations. Russia calls these and sanctions by the United States "unacceptable". (BBC)
June 17, 2010, Hundreds of surveillance cameras, alleged to be part of a counter-terrorism operation in highly Muslim areas, are put into temporary disuse in parts of Birmingham, England, after protest by the local population. (The Guardian)
June 17, 2010, The historical chronology of ancient Egypt is verified using radiocarbon dating. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, Release of Jonah Hex
June 18, 2010, Release of Toy Story 3
June 18, 2010, Release of Cyrus
June 18, Release of Miley Cyrus Album Cant be Tamed
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June 18, 2010, Interim Kyrgyzstan leader Roza Otunbayeva visits Osh and says the death toll from her country's worst ethnic clashes in two decades could be 2,000. (Aljazeera)
June 18, 2010, International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets with Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Madrid. (Aljazeera)
June 18, 2010, President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa responds in a speech at a commemorative military pageant to critics of the army who say human rights abuses were committed against civilians during the 2009 defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, The Polish presidential election is being held earlier, following the death of Polish President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash on 10 April 2010 near Smolensk. The two front-runners are Bronisław Komorowski from the ruling center-right Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) party and Jarosław Kaczyński from the right-wing Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) party. (Warsawvoice.pl)
June 18, 2010, Indian government ministers meet for the first time as they re-examine the 1984 Bhopal disaster. (BBC)
June 18, 2010, The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) starts designing a newer and a more powerful nuclear research reactor than the current Tehran reactor, according to AEOI director Ali Akbar Salehi. (Tehran Times)
June 18, 2010, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" sell for $1.2 million at Sotheby's. (BBC News)
June 19, 2010, Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria marries Daniel Westling; Westling becomes Duke of Västergötland. (BusinessWeek)
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June 19, 2010, South Sudan's 7ft 7in basketball legend and humanitarian, Manute Bol, dies. (BBC)
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June 20, 2010, Archbishop of Naples Crescenzio Sepe and former Italy transport minister Pietro Lunardi face allegations of corruption over a property deal. (BBC)
June 20, 2010, Celia becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. (AP via Breitbart)
June 20, 2010, Michael Jackson's memorial plaque will be unveiled at a West End theatre in London on June 24. In mid-February Los Angeles coroners have released a report of his autopsy, which said his death was a homicide. (rian.ru)
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June 21, 2010, Major aid agencies Oxfam and Save the Children both launch $10 million (£6.7 million) appeals for Niger where drought is common at the moment and half the country has no food. (BBC)
June 21, 2010, Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, cuts 15% of Belarus' gas supplies over alleged debt, and threatens to gradually cut up to 85% of Belarus' gas supplies if the debt remains unpaid. (Aljazeera)
June 21, 2010, An American man pleads guilty to charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt. (AP via Google News)
June 21, 2010, Iran bans two International Atomic Energy Agency weapons inspectors from entering the country claiming they had leaked false information about Iran's nuclear program. (Sky News)
June 21, 2010, Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on an official trip to Canberra. The two countries sign agreements valued at over A$10 billion. (The Australian)
June 21, 2010, The Washington Post reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. (The Washington Post)
June 21, 2010, The northernmost radiation detection station of the South Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety claims to have detected an eightfold increase in the radioactive substance xenon. (AP)
June 21, 2010, The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine releases its 2010 index of so-called "failed states", ranking 177 countries by what it sees as those most at risk of failure; Foreign Policy claims state failure "is a chronic condition". (Aljazeera)
June 21, 2010, The World Health Organisation creates a data base on the use of child medicines. (AP via The Guardian)
June 21, 2010, The Communications Commission of Kenya embarks on a compulsory mobile phone registration initiative as part of the country's crime reduction policy; numbers remaining unregistered by the end of July are to be disconnected. (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
June 21, 2010, Hyksos capital Avaris is believed to have been located via radar imaging by a group of Austrian archaeologists in Tel al-Dabaa. (BBC)
June 22, 2010, Release of Downfall
Downfall Series Premiere
Chris Jericho is also the host who is accordingly a Messiah/Sun resonator.
June 22, 2010, Release of Eminem Album Recovery
June 22, 2010, Release of Ozzy Osbourne album Scream
June 22, 2010, Release of Chamillionaire album Venom
June 22, 2010, Release of Diddy Album Last Train to Paris
June 22, 2010, Release of Danzig Album Red Dead Saboath
June 22, 2010, Release of Vinnie Paz Album Season of the Assassian
June 22, 2010, Release of Herbie Hancock Album The Imagine Project
June 22, 2010, Release of Chingy Album Success and Failure
June 22, 2010, Release of Transformers: Cybertron video game
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June 22, 2010, Environmentalists said that an oil spill near Hurghada Egypt in the Red Sea is continuing even after the government said it had been contained, leaving turtles and sea birds covered in oil. (The Associated Press)
June 22, 2010, The death toll from unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan riots reaches 251. (itar-tass)
June 22, 2010, War crimes charges are formally requested against 12 Belgian government officials and military officers in connection with the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, as historians agree on a high-level Belgian conspiracy, with Western-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko succeeding Lumumba until he was overthrown in 1997. (AP)
June 22, 2010, The United States investigates itself to see if it is accidentally financing the Taliban in Afghanistan with $4 million per week in U.S. taxpayers' money. (Aljazeera)
June 22, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, the top United States commander in Afghanistan, apologises for an article in Rolling Stone magazine in which he criticised senior members of the Obama administration. McChrystal is later summoned to Washington, D.C. for talks with Obama. (The Los Angeles Times)
June 22, 2010, Christopher Coke walks into a police station on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica and is detained, following search efforts which killed more than 70 people last month. The United States accuses him of being the Shower Posse leader, which it alleges operates an international drugs and guns network. (BBC)
June 22, 2010, An expert panel is appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Reuters)
June 22, 2010, United States federal judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman issues a preliminary injunction blocking a six month moratorium on deep water offshore drilling. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
June 22, 2010, In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne presents the coalition government's emergency budget statement to the House of Commons. (BBC)
June 23, 2010, Release of Knight and Day
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June 23, 2010, Southeast European Cooperation Process summit: 12 other European nations meeting at the summit issue a joint statement saying they "deplore the loss of life and injuries during the incident in international waters" during the Gaza flotilla raid and "call "an impartial, independent and internationally credible investigation on this matter". (Today's Zaman)
June 23, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, America's top military commander in Afghanistan, submits his resignation after being summoned home by an "angry" Barack Obama due to his expression of critical opinions about senior American politicians and diplomats in a Rolling Stone magazine profile. Afghan President Hamid Karzai supports McChrystal, while the Taliban say the incident is "another sign of the start of the political defeat" for America's Afghan policies. (BBC)
-Obama relieves McChrystal of command in Afghanistan, and names General Petraeus as his replacement. (The New York Times)
June 23, 2010, Strikes in China which began on 21st of June have shut down Toyota and Honda plants there. "The BBC's China editor Shirong Chen says the government has tolerated strikes at foreign-owned plants, which are obliged to respect workers' rights, but maintains strict control at Chinese-owned factories for fear of widespread social unrest." (BBC)
June 23, 2010, 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai, India. (India Times)
June 23, 2010, The International Whaling Commission does not reach agreement on curbing whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland in a meeting in Agadir, Morocco. (AP via San Jose Mercury News)
June 23, 2010, BP chief executive Tony Hayward hands over responsibility for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to senior executive Bob Dudley "effective immediately". (AFP via the Sydney Morning Herald)
June 23, 2010, An earthquake occurrs 56 kilometres north-northeast of Ottawa, registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Slight damage was reported near the epicenter, and the tremor was felt in Sudbury, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State. (CBC)
June 23, 2010, Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships becomes the longest match in Association of Tennis Professionals history, and is adjourned after 9 hours. (The Guardian)
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June 24, 2010, A parcel bomb delivered to the public order ministry in Athens, addressed to counter-terrorism minister Michalis Chrysohoidis, is opened by an aide, instantly killing him; Chrysohoidis is unhurt. Prime Minister George Papandreou labels it a terrorist attack. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, Belgian authorities raid their country's Catholic Church HQ during an investigation into child sexual abuse as rumors circulate about a cover-up. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, A Knesset parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, led by Yohanan Plesner, seeks to block a key vote intent on establishing an international probe into the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
June 24, 2010, Public sector workers strike in their millions across France. (The Age)
June 24, 2010, President Hu Jintao of China arrives in Ottawa on a three-day state visit to Canada. The two countries sign a tourism agreement. (Global Times)
June 24, 2010, Organizers of a fresh aid flotilla to Gaza cancel the event due to what they describe as "Israeli threats", while the United States Department of State issues a statement calling aid flotillas to Gaza "irresponsible". (Haaretz)
June 24, 2010, Russia's natural gas export monopoly Gazprom announces that it will restart gas supply to Belarus in full following payment of the debt. (Reuters)
June 24, 2010, Sri Lanka announces that a United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses will not be allowed to enter the country. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, American John Isner defeats Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 70-68, in the longest match in tennis history, finally advancing from the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles tournament. The match took over 11 hours, spanning three days. (ESPN)
June 24, 2010, Four specimens of Anogramma ascensionis, a plant native to Ascension Island and presumed extinct for 60 years, are discovered alive and well in Kew. (BBC)
June 24, 2010, Writer Neil Gaiman wins the Cilip Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book. (BBC)
June 25, 2010, Release of Grown Ups
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June 25, 2010, The 36th G8 summit opens in Huntsville, Ontario and the 4th G20 summit is held in Toronto, Canada.
June 25, 2010, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron meet and agree to work to renew ties stained by the refusal of both men to hand over men the other man wants. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 25, 2010, Millions of protesters take to the streets in Rome, Naples, Milan and other Italian cities to protest their government's austerity measures which cut funds and affects public sector salaries and to test Silvio Berlusconi. (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, The Constitutional Court of Romania rules that government budget plans are "unconstitutional"; this decision cannot be appealed. Dozens of people trying to request an audience with President Traian Băsescu at his palace are beaten back by riot police. (France24)
June 25, 2010, Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica". (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, The Vatican expresses its "astonishment" and "indignation" at the "violation of the graves of the Cardinals Jozef-Ernest Van Roey and Leon-Joseph Suenens" by Belgian police making holes in the crypt at Mechelen Cathedral during a child sex abuse search. (Aljazeera)
June 25, 2010, A statue of Joseph Stalin is discreetly removed overnight from the central square of his hometown of Gori in Georgia. (Xinhua)
June 25, 2010, Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images. (BBC)
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June 26, 2010, 2010 G-20 Toronto summit
-The leaders of the world's twenty largest economies meet in Canada at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit. (BBC)
-Over one hundred people are arrested for planning to "commit mischief". (CBC)
-Mostly peaceful protesters march through Toronto while a small amount of radicals smash shopfronts and burn police cars. (Reuters via ABC Australia)
-President of China Hu Jintao accepts an invitation for a state visit from President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC)
-France is announced as the host of the G8 in 2011. (Xinhua)
June 26, 2010, President of Zambia Rupiah Banda says his country did not ask for health and road aid which has now been frozen by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the European Union before an upcoming election and says "We must not allow donors to feel they can interfere in the internal affairs of this country because it is a sovereign and independent state". (Reuters Africa)
June 26, 2010, The Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone criticizes Belgian police participating in raids against child sex abuse. (BBC)
June 26, 2010, Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Taiwan against a trade agreement with China to be signed on Tuesday. (BBC)
June 26, 2010, Several thousand Egyptians, joined by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protest systematic use of torture by authorities in the largest demonstration yet resulting from the alleged fatal beating to death of Khaled Said by police. (Arab News)
June 26, 2010, Thousands of Iranians in Paris ask the UN to tighten its sanctions on Iran. (YnetNews)
June 26, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, is hospitalized. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 26, 2010, Fedor Emelianenko records only the second loss of his career as he is tapped out by Fabricio Werdum at the Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum mixed martial arts match in San Jose, California, US. (Sherdog)
June 26, 2010, The Death toll in unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan rises to 275. (Central Asian News)
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June 27, 2010, A constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan is criticized for fears the country would destabilize. (Aljazeera)
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June 28, 2010, World leaders at the G20 summit agree to cut their budget deficits in half by 2013, while US President Obama urges continued spending to support economic growth. (Voice of America)
June 28, 2010, The European Union and United States sign a five-year agreement on sharing financial data in anti-terrorist investigations for accounts suspected of being used for terrorist financing, after agreeing on limits to protect customer privacy. (NPR)
June 28, 2010, Tropical Storm Alex is expected to become a hurricane, with heavy winds, rain and rough seas in the Gulf of Mexico, driving the oil deeper inland and bringing much of the cleanup to a standstill. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
-The state of Louisiana reports 162 cases of oil-spill related illnesses to date, 128 of those among workers in the Gulf of Mexico, as concern over petroleum-related air pollution also grows. (Los Angeles Times)
June 28, 2010, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, a leading candidate in a Mexican, state election is assassinated near Ciudad Victoria. (Times Live South Africa)
June 28, 2010, Democratic Robert Byrd of West Virginia, President pro tempore of the United States Senate and the longest serving member its history, dies at age 92 in Washington, D.C. (CNN)
June 28, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad postpones nuclear talks so as to “punish the West” for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 aimed at curbing the alleged development of Iranian nuclear weapons. (Aljazeera)
June 28, 2010, Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and other prominent Sri Lankans protest international calls and the appointment of a United Nations' panel to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the the country's civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists. (AFP)
June 28, 2010, Kyrgyzstan approves a new constitution with 90.6 percent of voters backing a constitution that would pave the way for a parliamentary election in October, following the violence of the recent uprising and riots. (The New York Times)
June 28, 2010, Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat on European affairs warns Turkey that it must demonstrate its commitment to NATO, Europe and the United States after its opposition to sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program and rhetoric against Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
June 28, 2010, The military government in Fiji issues new media restrictions targeting foreign ownership of media organizations in the country. (Hindustan Times)
June 28, 2010, The Red Crescent delays an aid shipment bound for Gaza after being told that Egypt would prevent it from using the internationally neutral Suez Canal. (BBC)
June 28, 2010, A second statue of Josef Stalin is removed by authorities in Georgia. (Straits Times)
June 28, 2010, The United States Department of Justice announces that ten people have been arrested for allegedly spying for Russia. (BBC)
June 28, 2010, In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that Chicago's handgun ban is unconstitutional. (BBC News)
June 28, 2010, America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) remains unaware of Australia's new prime minister. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 28, 2010, Le Monde is sold to Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre Bergé. (The Guardian)
June 29, 2010, Release of The Dream Album Love King
June 29, 2010, Release of Self entitled Album Emarosa
June 29, 2010, Release of Ninety Nine Nights II videogame
June 29, 2010, Release of APB: All Points Bulletin video game
June 29, 2010, Release of Naughty Bear
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June 29, 2010, The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Nigerian families can sue drug company Pfizer for using a deadly antibiotic on their children. (BBC)
June 29, 2010, Same-sex marriage is legalized in Iceland making it the 9th country to do so.
June 29, 2010, Extreme Australian weather:
-Sydney experiences its coldest June day in 27 years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
-Ballarat experiences its coldest day of the decade. (Ballarat Courier)
-Melbourne experiences its coldest day in 2 years. (The Age)
June 29, 2010, Hurricane Alex becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season with warnings posted from Baffin Bay, Texas south to Mexico. (Canadian Press via Amherst Daily News)
June 29, 2010, Officails in Ghana's Central Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead. (My Joy Online)
June 29, 2010, A report by Human Rights Watch calls on Britain, France and Germany to stop using intelligence obtained through illegal torture in third-party countries, saying that it contradicts the European Union's anti-torture guidelines and is self-defeating in the "fight against terrorism". (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Thousands of workers take part in a 24 hour strike in Greece in protest against government austerity measures (Al Jazeera)
June 29, 2010, An international youth charity finds that children in the West Bank live in significantly worse conditions than children in Gaza. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, Richard A. Falk, issues a statement calling Israel's plan to demolish 20 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem illegal and states the forceful transfer of four Palestinians in another incident could be a "war crime". (Reuters)
June 29, 2010, King Abdullah and Barack Obama meet in the United States to discuss Palestine, U.S. objections to Iran's nuclear program and the U.S. war on Afghanistan. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Indonesian publisher and blogger, the "Prince of Jihad", is imprisoned for five years after being convicted of concealing information about suicide attacks on two hotels in Jakarta. (Aljazeera)
June 29, 2010, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman promises no Palestinian state before 2012 after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (Reuters)
June 29, 2010, Google ends a redirect to its Hong Kong site in China and provides a new method of reaching unfiltered results after the Chinese government threatened to end its Internet Content Provider license. (BBC)
June 29, 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal, who led the United States in its war on Afghanistan until last week, announces his retirement. (CNN)
June 30, 2010, Release of Twilight Saga: Eclipse
June 30, 2010, Release of Love Ranch
June 30, 2010, The United States government is sued by 10 plaintiffs, including an American citizen, challenging the country's no-fly list. (ABC News)
June 30, 2010, Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanhá takes a "sovereign decision" to inaugurate mutineering General Antonio Indjai as army chief, causing upset to the United States which decides not to support this. (news24.com)
June 30, 2010, Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri says he has escaped from United States agents who were holding him illegally and calls for help from the Iranian government and human rights agencies. (France24)
June 30, 2010, Ireland officially exits recession. (The Wall Street Journal)
June 30, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signs into law a bill that bans commercial activities and advertisements of international companies with branches in Israel or companies headed by Jews, obligates several government ministries to set a committee to identify and locate products from "Zionist companies" and to find the names of leading figures in the companies so that they can be boycotted, and instructs the Foreign Ministry to present annual reports on the progress made in the boycott. Among the companies targeted are Nestlè, Coca Cola, Intel, and IBM. (Ynetnews)
June 30, 2010, Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious medal and $100,000 from the United States, presented by Bill Clinton, for his "steadfast" efforts in "the resolution of conflicts rooted in religion around the world". (BBC)
June 30, 2010, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, sitting in The Hague, rules that model Naomi Campbell can be called to testify against former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in relation to her blood diamond. (BBC)
June 30, 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard confirms she does not support the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia, and that she does not believe in God. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 30, 2010, The Italian government appeals to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn a ban on classroom crucifixes. (BBC)
June 30, 2010, Roger Federer is defeated by Tomáš Berdych of the Czech Republic at Wimbledon, so Federer will not contest the final for the first time since 2002, also his second Wimbledon loss during that time. (Daily Mail)
June 30, 2010, The Obama administration allows General Stanley A. McChrystal, until recently commander of the United States in its war in Afghanistan, to retire at a four star rank. Army rules state that he would have to serve for several more years to earn its additional retirement benefits, but the administration used its right to exempt him from these rules. (The New Zealand Herald)
June 30, 2010, An unfinished secret tomb is found in Egypt. (The Straits Times)
June 30, 2010, Researchers discover a fossilized Leviathan and write about it in Nature. (BBC)
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