June 1, 2012, Release of Snow White and the Huntsman
June 1, 2012,
June 1, 2012, The New York Times reports that U.S. President Barack Obama accelerated the pace of the American cyberwarfare campaign after the 2010 Stuxnet. (The Guardian)
June 1, 2012, Madonna kicks off the MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel. (BBC)
June 1, 2012, World stock markets hit their lowest level in 2012. (The Guardian)
June 1, 2012, The Food and Drug Administration, a U.S. government agency, goes to court to secure supplies of a drug used in lethal injections, which have dwindled since an importation ban. (BBC)
June 1, 2012, In baseball, Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals, the first in New York Mets history. (ESPN
June 2, 2012,
June 2, 2012, A court in Cairo, Egypt, finds former president Hosni Mubarak and former interior minister Habib al-Adly guilty for complicity in the killings of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution that ousted Mubarak and both are sentenced to life in prison. Mubarak and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, are all acquitted on separate corruption charges. (BBC)
June 2, 2012,
June 2, 2012, In horseracing, Camelot trained by Aidan O'Brien, wins the Epsom Derby with 2,000 Guineas Stakes classes double. Also, with his son Joseph, become the first father son to win The Derby. (BBC)
June 3, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Teen Wolf
June 3, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Teen Wolf
June 3, 2012, The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reaches its peak with a pageant on the River Thames. (BBC)
June 3, 2012,
June 3, 2012,
June 3, 2012,
June 3, 2012,
June 3, 2012,
June 3, 2012, A Dana Air flight crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria with 153 people on board. (CNN)
June 3, 2012, Police in Japan arrest Naoko Kikuchi, a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of two remaining fugitives from the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
June 4, 2012,
June 4, 2012,
June 4, 2012,
June 4, 2012,
June 4, 2012,
June 4, 2012, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II:
-Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is taken to hospital with a bladder infection. (BBC)
-The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert, a pop concert featuring artists such as Robbie Williams, Stevie Wonder and Sir Paul McCartney, takes place at Buckingham Palace. (BBC)
June 4, 2012, Luka Magnotta, a suspect in a murder case in Canada, is arrested in an Internet cafe in Berlin. (Daily Mail)
June 5, 2012, The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins at 22:09 UTC on June 5, and ends at 04:49 UTC on June 6. (BBC)
June 5, 2012, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II:
-Elizabeth II attends a lunch at Westminster Hall following the Jubilee thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral. Celebrations ends with a flypast by the Red Arrows. (BBC)
-In a special message to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, the Queen says she has been "touched deeply" by seeing so many people celebrating her Diamond Jubilee together. (BBC)
-Ministers are urged to investigate reports that unemployed people hired as unpaid stewards for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant had to spend the night sleeping rough under London Bridge. (BBC)
June 5, 2012, Voters in the U.S. state of Wisconsin go to the polls for a recall election. (AP via Google News)
June 5, 2012,
June 5, 2012,
June 5, 2012,
June 6, 2012, Season 4 Premiere of Royal Pains
June 6, 2012, Season 4 Premiere of Royal Pains
June 6, 2012,
June 6, 2012, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II:
-The Jubilee celebrations conclude with a lunch at Marlborough House on Pall Mall attended by Elizabeth II and Commonwealth leaders. (BBC)
-The BBC receives over 2,000 complaints from viewers about its Jubilee coverage. The broadcaster is also criticised by other media for its Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant coverage. (BBC)
June 6, 2012,
June 6, 2012, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II:
-The Jubilee celebrations conclude with a lunch at Marlborough House on Pall Mall attended by Elizabeth II and Commonwealth leaders. (BBC)
-The BBC receives over 2,000 complaints from viewers about its Jubilee coverage. The broadcaster is also criticised by other media for its Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant coverage. (BBC)
June 6, 2012, The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun. (Associated Press)
June 6, 2012, The United States National Reconnaissance Office donates two unlaunched space telescopes to NASA.
June 6, 2012, Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, dies at the age of 91 in his home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. (The New York Times)
June 6, 2012, Ireland is hit by another earthquake, this time off the coast of County Mayo. (RTE)
June 6, 2012, Hours after a bill to legalise settlement outposts is rejected, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the construction of 300 new homes at the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank. (BBC)
June 6, 2012, Kwame R. Brown, the Chair of the Council of the District of Columbia responsible for the US capital Washington D.C., resigns after being charged with bank fraud. (AP via Chicago Sun-Times)
June 7, 2012,
June 7, 2012, Archaeologists announce the discovery of the remains of the 16th-century Curtain Theatre, where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. (BBC)
June 7, 2012,
June 7, 2012, Archaeologists announce the discovery of the remains of the 16th-century Curtain Theatre, where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. (BBC)
June 7, 2012, Clarence House confirms that Prince William has qualified as an RAF search and rescue captain, and will now command search and rescue operations in Sea King helicopters. (BBC)
June 7, 2012, Credit agency Fitch slashes Spain's rating to BBB. (Al Jazeera)
June 10, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of True Blood
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012, Tokyo passes Luanda as the world's most expensive city to live in, according to new research. (BBC)
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012, The UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins in Rio de Janeiro, launching a new round of debate on the future habitability of Earth, its resources and people, 20 years after the first Earth Summit. (AFP via Google News)
June 13, 2012, Japanese stem cell scientist Dr. Shinya Yamanaka is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for discovering how to reprogram human cells to mimic embryonic stem cells, which can become any cell in the body. (BBC)
June 13, 2012, Scientists decode the bonobo genome, making it last great ape to have its DNA sequence laid bare, following the chimpanzee, orang-utan and gorilla. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Suits
June 14, 2012,
June 14, 2012,
June 14, 2012, The U.S. military expands its secret network of air bases across Africa, according to reports in the U.S. media. (Al Jazeera)
June 14, 2012, Falklands War anniversary: A ceremony is held in the Falkland Islands capital Stanley to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. (BBC)
-Addressing the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands the United Kingdom enters negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, HBO issues a public apology for any offence suffered after the use of a decapitated head in Game of Thrones; the head on a spike is said to resemble that of former U.S. president George W. Bush. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, A 10-year-old girl receives what is believed to be the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant. (HealthDay)
June 14, 2012, Australia announces plans to create the world's largest marine reserve. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is sentenced to 110 years in prison after siphoning billions from investors. (Al Jazeera)
June 15, 2012, Release of Rock of Ages
June 15, 2012, Release of That's my Boy
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Gravity Falls
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Glass House
June 15, 2012, Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is convicted of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy related to insider trading in 2011.(Wall Street Journal)
June 15, 2012, Moody's Investor Service downgrades the credit rating of five Dutch banks including ING Bank. (Reuters)
June 15, 2012, U.S. president Barack Obama announces that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants. (The New York Times)
June 16, 2012,
June 16, 2012,
June 16, 2012, China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. (BBC)
June 16, 2012, The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. (Space.com)
June 16, 2012, Daredevil Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk a tightrope above the brink of Niagara Falls between the United States and Canada. (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
June 17, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Falling Skies
June 17, 2012, Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers in March 1991 later led to riots in April 1992, is found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool in Rialto, California. (BBC)
June 17, 2012, Voters in Greece go to the polls for a second legislative election after the first election on May 6 failed to form a coalition government. (Al Jazeera)
June 17, 2012, Voters in France go to the polls for legislative election with the Socialist Party winning a majority. (AP via Idaho Press-Tribune)
June 18, 2012, A new round of talks on nuclear power between Iran and six world powers opens in Moscow. (BBC)
June 18, 2012, 2012 G-20 Mexico summit: The 2012 G-20 summit opens in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with the Eurozone crisis high on the agenda. (BBC)
June 18, 2012, United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss the uprising in Syria, Iran, and trade at the summit. (CNN)
June 18, 2012, Blue Gene/Q becomes the world's fastest supercomputer. (TOP500)
June 19, 2012,
June 19, 2012, Arab Spring: Tens of thousands of people converge on Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against Egypt's military rulers, who have seized power following the ousting from power of Hosni Mubarak in last year's revolution. (Al Jazeera)
-Hosni Mubarak suffers a stroke in prison and is reportedly "clinically dead", though several Egyptian officials refute the announcement made by the state agency. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 19, 2012, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. (Al Jazeera)
June 19, 2012, 2012 G-20 Mexico summit: UK prime minister David Cameron confronts Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over a letter she sent to him regarding the Falklands Islands. (BBC)
June 19, 2012, A Saudi man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft in Najran Province of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Baby Daddy
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012,
June 7, 2012, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announces she is switching her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso. (BBC)
June 8, 2012, Release of Prometheus
June 8, 2012, Release of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
June 8, 2012,
June 8, 2012,
June 8, 2012, UEFA Euro 2012 gets underway in Poland. (BBC)
June 8, 2012, The Roundhouse in Camden, North London, vows to recognise Amy Winehouse's contribution to music by erecting a statue to her. (The Guardian)
June 8, 2012, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ends talks with Iran, with IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts claiming "There has been no progress". (Al Jazeera)
June 8, 2012, Release of Prometheus
June 8, 2012, Release of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
June 8, 2012,
June 8, 2012,
June 8, 2012, UEFA Euro 2012 gets underway in Poland. (BBC)
June 8, 2012, The Roundhouse in Camden, North London, vows to recognise Amy Winehouse's contribution to music by erecting a statue to her. (The Guardian)
June 8, 2012, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ends talks with Iran, with IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts claiming "There has been no progress". (Al Jazeera)
June 9, 2012,
June 9, 2012,
June 9, 2012, Spain's economy and finance minister Luis de Guindos confirms the receipt of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) in loans to help shore up its struggling banks, with the exact amount to be determined by the end of the month. (BBC)
June 9, 2012,
June 9, 2012, Spain's economy and finance minister Luis de Guindos confirms the receipt of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) in loans to help shore up its struggling banks, with the exact amount to be determined by the end of the month. (BBC)
June 10, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of True Blood
June 10, 2012,
June 10, 2012,
June 10, 2012,
June 11, 2012, In ice hockey, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings defeat the New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals to win Los Angeles' first Stanley Cup. Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP. (ESPN),
June 11, 2012,
June 11, 2012,
June 11, 2012, The 66th Tony Awards for American theatre are held at the Beacon Theatre in New York City with Clybourne Park winning the Tony Award for Best Play and Once winning the Tony Award for Best Musical. (New York Times)
June 11, 2012, A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near the Aegean Sea resort of Oludeniz in southern Turkey, resulting in dozens of injuries especially in the city of Fethiye. (AFP via News Limited)
June 10, 2012,
June 10, 2012,
June 11, 2012, In ice hockey, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings defeat the New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals to win Los Angeles' first Stanley Cup. Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP. (ESPN),
June 11, 2012,
June 11, 2012,
June 11, 2012, The 66th Tony Awards for American theatre are held at the Beacon Theatre in New York City with Clybourne Park winning the Tony Award for Best Play and Once winning the Tony Award for Best Musical. (New York Times)
June 11, 2012, A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near the Aegean Sea resort of Oludeniz in southern Turkey, resulting in dozens of injuries especially in the city of Fethiye. (AFP via News Limited)
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012,
June 12, 2012, Tokyo passes Luanda as the world's most expensive city to live in, according to new research. (BBC)
June 12, 2012, Israeli lawmakers dedicate a session of parliament to possible commemorations of the Armenian genocide, now that relations with Turkey have deteriorated since Israel killed nine Turks in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea in 2010. (Los Angeles Times)
June 12, 2012, A coroner in Australia's Northern Territory rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in August 1980. (AAP via SBS)
June 12, 2012, The Falkland Islands government announces that it will hold a referendum on the islands' sovereignty next year. (BBC)
June 12, 2012, Voters in the 8th congressional district in the US state of Arizona go to the polls for a special election caused by the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords due to health reasons with Democrat Ron Barber duly elected. (The Hill)
June 13, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of The Secret Life of An American Teenager
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012,
June 12, 2012, A coroner in Australia's Northern Territory rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in August 1980. (AAP via SBS)
June 12, 2012, The Falkland Islands government announces that it will hold a referendum on the islands' sovereignty next year. (BBC)
June 12, 2012, Voters in the 8th congressional district in the US state of Arizona go to the polls for a special election caused by the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords due to health reasons with Democrat Ron Barber duly elected. (The Hill)
June 13, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of The Secret Life of An American Teenager
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012,
June 13, 2012, The UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins in Rio de Janeiro, launching a new round of debate on the future habitability of Earth, its resources and people, 20 years after the first Earth Summit. (AFP via Google News)
June 13, 2012, Japanese stem cell scientist Dr. Shinya Yamanaka is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for discovering how to reprogram human cells to mimic embryonic stem cells, which can become any cell in the body. (BBC)
June 13, 2012, Scientists decode the bonobo genome, making it last great ape to have its DNA sequence laid bare, following the chimpanzee, orang-utan and gorilla. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Suits
June 14, 2012,
June 14, 2012,
June 14, 2012, The U.S. military expands its secret network of air bases across Africa, according to reports in the U.S. media. (Al Jazeera)
June 14, 2012, Falklands War anniversary: A ceremony is held in the Falkland Islands capital Stanley to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. (BBC)
-Addressing the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands the United Kingdom enters negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, HBO issues a public apology for any offence suffered after the use of a decapitated head in Game of Thrones; the head on a spike is said to resemble that of former U.S. president George W. Bush. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, A 10-year-old girl receives what is believed to be the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant. (HealthDay)
June 14, 2012, Australia announces plans to create the world's largest marine reserve. (BBC)
June 14, 2012, Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is sentenced to 110 years in prison after siphoning billions from investors. (Al Jazeera)
June 15, 2012, Release of Rock of Ages
June 15, 2012, Release of That's my Boy
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Gravity Falls
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Glass House
June 15, 2012, Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is convicted of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy related to insider trading in 2011.(Wall Street Journal)
June 15, 2012, Moody's Investor Service downgrades the credit rating of five Dutch banks including ING Bank. (Reuters)
June 15, 2012, U.S. president Barack Obama announces that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants. (The New York Times)
June 16, 2012,
June 16, 2012,
June 16, 2012, China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. (BBC)
June 16, 2012, The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. (Space.com)
June 16, 2012, Daredevil Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk a tightrope above the brink of Niagara Falls between the United States and Canada. (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
June 17, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Falling Skies
June 17, 2012, Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers in March 1991 later led to riots in April 1992, is found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool in Rialto, California. (BBC)
June 17, 2012, Voters in Greece go to the polls for a second legislative election after the first election on May 6 failed to form a coalition government. (Al Jazeera)
June 17, 2012, Voters in France go to the polls for legislative election with the Socialist Party winning a majority. (AP via Idaho Press-Tribune)
June 18, 2012, A new round of talks on nuclear power between Iran and six world powers opens in Moscow. (BBC)
June 18, 2012, 2012 G-20 Mexico summit: The 2012 G-20 summit opens in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with the Eurozone crisis high on the agenda. (BBC)
June 18, 2012, United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss the uprising in Syria, Iran, and trade at the summit. (CNN)
June 18, 2012, Blue Gene/Q becomes the world's fastest supercomputer. (TOP500)
June 19, 2012,
June 19, 2012, Arab Spring: Tens of thousands of people converge on Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against Egypt's military rulers, who have seized power following the ousting from power of Hosni Mubarak in last year's revolution. (Al Jazeera)
-Hosni Mubarak suffers a stroke in prison and is reportedly "clinically dead", though several Egyptian officials refute the announcement made by the state agency. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 19, 2012, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. (Al Jazeera)
June 19, 2012, 2012 G-20 Mexico summit: UK prime minister David Cameron confronts Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over a letter she sent to him regarding the Falklands Islands. (BBC)
June 19, 2012, A Saudi man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft in Najran Province of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
June 15, 2012, Series Premiere of Baby Daddy
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012, In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to in a coma and has been taken off life support. (BBC)
June 20, 2012, Operation Fast and Furious:
-The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform cites the Attorney-General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with an investigation into Operation "Fast and Furious". (The Washington Post)
-President Barack Obama invokes executive privilege on documents associated with Fast and Furious following a request by the House Oversight Committee. (The Washington Post)
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012, In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to be "clinging to life" as his deterioration adds further to Egyptian uncertainty. (The Independent)
June 21, 2012, U.S. artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the world's most commercially successful contemporary artists and an official painter of five Olympiads famed for his instant renditions of sporting action, dies in New York. (BBC)
June 21, 2012, A boat carrying up to 200 asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island, between Indonesia and Australia. (BBC)
June 21, 2012, President of Ecuador Rafael Correa decides on the issue of granting asylum to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as Assange remains in the Ecuadorian embassy of London, risking arrest by the British authorities. (Al Jazeera)
June 21, 2012, Oakland-based group Courage to Resist asks participants in the 42nd annual Pride parade this Sunday to march in celebration of the imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, locked up in solitary confinement by the U.S. government for alleged leaking of information on war crimes into the public domain. (San Francisco Examiner)
June 22, 2012, Release of Brave
June 22, 2012, Release of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
June 22, 2012, Release of Seeking a Friend for the End of The World
June 22, 2012,
June 22, 2012, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange gives an interview on Australian radio as his attempt to gain political asylum in Ecuador continues. (The Guardian)
June 22, 2012, Jerry Sandusky, former American football coach at Pennsylvania State University, is convicted on 45 charges of child sex abuse. He is on suicide watch. (AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
June 22, 2012, UEFA Euro 2012: Germany defeat Greece 4–2 in their quarter-final meeting, sending the Greeks to a Euro exit at the PGE Arena in Gdańsk. (TSN)
June 22, 2012, Software developer Tim Bray proposes a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451, the 1953 dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2012, 100,000 people attend the first day of a two-day music concert at Hackney Marshes in London, which forms part of the build-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2012, Greece's new coalition seeks to slow down austerity by proposing a two-year extension to the period allocated to it to meet bailout targets, without further cuts to salaries and pensions. (BBC)
June 23, 2012, 2012 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Debby forms in the Gulf of Mexico with a warning issued for the US state of Louisiana. This is the first time since 1851 that four storms have formed before July. (MSNBC)
June 23, 2012, Results in Egypt's election are now expected tomorrow as Hosni Mubarak languishes between life and death. (Associated Press via CBC)
June 24, 2012, Series Premiere of Newsroom
June 24, 2012, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election run-off. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Tropical Storm Debby continues to organize off the coast of Florida, lashing the state with high winds and heavy rains. The outer bands of the storm spawn two tornadoes, killing one person near Sarasota. (CNN)
June 24, 2012, Manitou Springs in the U.S. state of Colorado is evacuated due to a raging wildfire just three miles from the popular vacation town. (ABC)
June 24, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI chooses Fox News reporter and Opus Dei member Greg Burke to take a strategic communication role in the Vatican's most important government department, the secretariat of state. (The Guardian)
June 24, 2012, The United States admits that it infected Iranian computers with Spyware. (Washington Post)
June 24, 2012, Imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning's civilian lawyer argues the U.S. government is deliberately attempting to prevent his client from receiving a fair trial. (The Guardian)
June 24, 2012, China successfully carries out its first manual docking of a spacecraft between the Shenzhou 9 capsule and Tiangong-1 station. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Saudi Arabia allows its women athletes to compete in the Olympics for the first time. (BBC)
June 25, 2012, The United States Supreme Court says that Arizona's immigration law is mostly unconstitutional. (CNN)
June 25, 2012,
June 25, 2012,
June 25, 2012, The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony. (AP)
June 26, 2012,
June 26, 2012,
June 26, 2012, The five members of the Spice Girls reunite to launch Viva Forever!, a new West End musical based on their hit songs. (BBC)
June 26, 2012, The city of Stockton, California's mediation with creditors fails, forcing the city to declare bankruptcy, making it the largest in the U.S. to do so. (Fox News)
June 26, 2012, A boat carrying around 150 people capsizes 107 nautical miles north of Australia's Christmas Island. (Reuters)
June 26, 2012, Australian lawmakers unanimously back a motion supporting a moment of silence at the London Olympics in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago. (JTA)
June 27, 2012, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former IRA commander and Sinn Féin deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness shake hands at a historic meeting in Belfast. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, Thirty-two thousand people in the US city of Colorado Springs flee from Waldo Canyon Fire that has destroyed dozens of homes. (AFP via The Age)
June 27, 2012, Syrian uprising: President Bashar al-Assad declares that a state of war exists in Syria as fighting spills into Damascus. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
-In the past seven days, 916 Syrians have been killed, making it the deadliest week since the uprising began, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (AFP)
June 27, 2012, Barclays Bank plc is fined £290m after trying to manipulate the interbank interest rate. Chief Executive Bob Diamond also forgoes his bonus. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, The Glastonbury Festival and promoters Festival Republic "go their separate ways" after working together since 2001. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, The Somali president urges everyone to donate funds to Somalia to help combat pirates. (Reuters)
June 27, 2012, Former Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen Stetler is convicted of all six counts in his corruption case. (NBC)
June 28, 2012, Series Premiere of Anger Management
June 28, 2012, Series Premiere of X Branded with Russel Brand
June 28, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Wilfred
June 28, 2012, Season 3 Premiere of Louie
June 28, 2012, The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the requirement for citizens to acquire health care by 2014. (Reuters)
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012, The Wall Street Journal reports that the board of News Corporation has agreed to split the company into two businesses for publishing and entertainment. (The Wall Street Journal via the Australian)
June 28, 2012, A New Zealand court rules that search warrants used to raid the home of Kim Dotcom, founder of MegaUpload, in connection to alleged copyright infringement were invalid. (Reuters)
June 29, 2012, Release of Ted
June 29, 2012, Release of Magic Mike
June 29, 2012, Release of Madea's Witness Protection
June 29, 2012, Release of People Like Us
June 29, 2012, The Chinese Shenzhou 9 space capsule lands safely with all three astronauts aboard. (AP via Washington Post)
June 29, 2012,
June 20, 2012,
June 20, 2012, In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to in a coma and has been taken off life support. (BBC)
June 20, 2012, Operation Fast and Furious:
-The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform cites the Attorney-General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with an investigation into Operation "Fast and Furious". (The Washington Post)
-President Barack Obama invokes executive privilege on documents associated with Fast and Furious following a request by the House Oversight Committee. (The Washington Post)
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012,
June 21, 2012, In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to be "clinging to life" as his deterioration adds further to Egyptian uncertainty. (The Independent)
June 21, 2012, U.S. artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the world's most commercially successful contemporary artists and an official painter of five Olympiads famed for his instant renditions of sporting action, dies in New York. (BBC)
June 21, 2012, A boat carrying up to 200 asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island, between Indonesia and Australia. (BBC)
June 21, 2012, President of Ecuador Rafael Correa decides on the issue of granting asylum to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as Assange remains in the Ecuadorian embassy of London, risking arrest by the British authorities. (Al Jazeera)
June 21, 2012, Oakland-based group Courage to Resist asks participants in the 42nd annual Pride parade this Sunday to march in celebration of the imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, locked up in solitary confinement by the U.S. government for alleged leaking of information on war crimes into the public domain. (San Francisco Examiner)
June 22, 2012, Release of Brave
June 22, 2012, Release of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
June 22, 2012, Release of Seeking a Friend for the End of The World
June 22, 2012,
June 22, 2012, Jerry Sandusky, former American football coach at Pennsylvania State University, is convicted on 45 charges of child sex abuse. He is on suicide watch. (AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
June 22, 2012, UEFA Euro 2012: Germany defeat Greece 4–2 in their quarter-final meeting, sending the Greeks to a Euro exit at the PGE Arena in Gdańsk. (TSN)
June 22, 2012, Software developer Tim Bray proposes a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451, the 1953 dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2012, 100,000 people attend the first day of a two-day music concert at Hackney Marshes in London, which forms part of the build-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics. (The Guardian)
June 23, 2012, Greece's new coalition seeks to slow down austerity by proposing a two-year extension to the period allocated to it to meet bailout targets, without further cuts to salaries and pensions. (BBC)
June 23, 2012, 2012 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Debby forms in the Gulf of Mexico with a warning issued for the US state of Louisiana. This is the first time since 1851 that four storms have formed before July. (MSNBC)
June 23, 2012, Results in Egypt's election are now expected tomorrow as Hosni Mubarak languishes between life and death. (Associated Press via CBC)
June 24, 2012, Series Premiere of Newsroom
June 24, 2012, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election run-off. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Tropical Storm Debby continues to organize off the coast of Florida, lashing the state with high winds and heavy rains. The outer bands of the storm spawn two tornadoes, killing one person near Sarasota. (CNN)
June 24, 2012, Manitou Springs in the U.S. state of Colorado is evacuated due to a raging wildfire just three miles from the popular vacation town. (ABC)
June 24, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI chooses Fox News reporter and Opus Dei member Greg Burke to take a strategic communication role in the Vatican's most important government department, the secretariat of state. (The Guardian)
June 24, 2012, The United States admits that it infected Iranian computers with Spyware. (Washington Post)
June 24, 2012, Imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning's civilian lawyer argues the U.S. government is deliberately attempting to prevent his client from receiving a fair trial. (The Guardian)
June 24, 2012, China successfully carries out its first manual docking of a spacecraft between the Shenzhou 9 capsule and Tiangong-1 station. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands. (BBC)
June 24, 2012, Saudi Arabia allows its women athletes to compete in the Olympics for the first time. (BBC)
June 25, 2012, The United States Supreme Court says that Arizona's immigration law is mostly unconstitutional. (CNN)
June 25, 2012,
June 25, 2012,
June 25, 2012, The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony. (AP)
June 26, 2012,
June 26, 2012,
June 26, 2012, The five members of the Spice Girls reunite to launch Viva Forever!, a new West End musical based on their hit songs. (BBC)
June 26, 2012, The city of Stockton, California's mediation with creditors fails, forcing the city to declare bankruptcy, making it the largest in the U.S. to do so. (Fox News)
June 26, 2012, A boat carrying around 150 people capsizes 107 nautical miles north of Australia's Christmas Island. (Reuters)
June 26, 2012, Australian lawmakers unanimously back a motion supporting a moment of silence at the London Olympics in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics 40 years ago. (JTA)
June 27, 2012, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former IRA commander and Sinn Féin deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness shake hands at a historic meeting in Belfast. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, Thirty-two thousand people in the US city of Colorado Springs flee from Waldo Canyon Fire that has destroyed dozens of homes. (AFP via The Age)
June 27, 2012, Syrian uprising: President Bashar al-Assad declares that a state of war exists in Syria as fighting spills into Damascus. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
-In the past seven days, 916 Syrians have been killed, making it the deadliest week since the uprising began, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (AFP)
June 27, 2012, Barclays Bank plc is fined £290m after trying to manipulate the interbank interest rate. Chief Executive Bob Diamond also forgoes his bonus. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, The Glastonbury Festival and promoters Festival Republic "go their separate ways" after working together since 2001. (BBC)
June 27, 2012, The Somali president urges everyone to donate funds to Somalia to help combat pirates. (Reuters)
June 27, 2012, Former Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen Stetler is convicted of all six counts in his corruption case. (NBC)
June 28, 2012, Series Premiere of Anger Management
June 28, 2012, Series Premiere of X Branded with Russel Brand
June 28, 2012, Season 2 Premiere of Wilfred
June 28, 2012, Season 3 Premiere of Louie
June 28, 2012, The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the requirement for citizens to acquire health care by 2014. (Reuters)
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012,
June 28, 2012, The Wall Street Journal reports that the board of News Corporation has agreed to split the company into two businesses for publishing and entertainment. (The Wall Street Journal via the Australian)
June 28, 2012, A New Zealand court rules that search warrants used to raid the home of Kim Dotcom, founder of MegaUpload, in connection to alleged copyright infringement were invalid. (Reuters)
June 29, 2012, Release of Ted
June 29, 2012, Release of Magic Mike
June 29, 2012, Release of Madea's Witness Protection
June 29, 2012, Release of People Like Us
June 29, 2012, The Chinese Shenzhou 9 space capsule lands safely with all three astronauts aboard. (AP via Washington Post)
June 29, 2012,
June 29, 2012, The sunken Italian World War II flagship Roma is discovered off the coast of Sardinia. (Die Zeit)
June 29, 2012, Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours. (BBC)
June 29, 2012, People magazine reports that American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have announced they will be getting a divorce after five years of marriage. (Fox News)
June 29, 2012, Crisis in the European Union: European Union leaders agree to use a bailout fund to recapitalise struggling banks and to work on a plan for tighter budgetary and political union. (AP via USA Today)
-World stock markets soar over news of European Union members agreeing on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members. (CNN)
June 29, 2012, Mohammed Morsi, the president-elect of Egypt, vows to free Omar Abdel-Rahman who was jailed for plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in the United States. (AP via CBS News)
June 30, 2012, Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt, the first president elected since Hosni Mubarak was ousted in last year's revolution. (Los Angeles Times)
June 30, 2012, June 2012 North American derecho: The death toll from storms in the Mid-Atlantic states of the United States reaches 13, with millions out of power and states of emergencies declared in the states of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland as well as the District of Columbia. (AP via Boston Globe)
June 29, 2012, Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours. (BBC)
June 29, 2012, People magazine reports that American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have announced they will be getting a divorce after five years of marriage. (Fox News)
June 29, 2012, Crisis in the European Union: European Union leaders agree to use a bailout fund to recapitalise struggling banks and to work on a plan for tighter budgetary and political union. (AP via USA Today)
-World stock markets soar over news of European Union members agreeing on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members. (CNN)
June 29, 2012, Mohammed Morsi, the president-elect of Egypt, vows to free Omar Abdel-Rahman who was jailed for plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in the United States. (AP via CBS News)
June 30, 2012, Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt, the first president elected since Hosni Mubarak was ousted in last year's revolution. (Los Angeles Times)
June 30, 2012, June 2012 North American derecho: The death toll from storms in the Mid-Atlantic states of the United States reaches 13, with millions out of power and states of emergencies declared in the states of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland as well as the District of Columbia. (AP via Boston Globe)
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