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[edit] June 2

Current events of June 2, 2008 (2008-06-02) (Monday) edit history watch

A SNCF train runs into a school bus at a level crossing at Mesinges, near the town of Allinges in the mountainous Haute Savoie area of France with at least six people killed. (Reuters) Astronomers using the Mount John University Observatory discover MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b, the smallest known extrasolar planet which does not orbit a pulsar (PhysOrg.com) A suicide bomber strikes outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad with at least eight people dead. (CNN) Subprime mortgage crisis Wachovia, the fourth largest bank in the United States, fires its Chief Executive Officer, G. Kennedy Thompson, due to losses incurred in the subprime mortgage crisis. (Bloomberg) The Bank of England says that new mortgage approvals in the United Kingdom in April were at record lows. (The Guardian) Supreme Court of the United States: In United States v. Santos, by a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court takes a narrow interpretation of federal laws regarding money laundering, and uses the decision in Cuellar v. United States to unanimously overturn the money laundering conviction of Humberto Cuellar. (Fox News) The Supreme Court refuses to hear Major League Baseball Advanced Media v. C.B.C. Major League Baseball had sought to overturn a judgement against them in state court in Missouri that permitted C.B.C. to run fantasy baseball leagues using real player names without a license from MLB. (Sports Illustrated) The International Atomic Energy Agency will send an inspection team to Syria to investigate claims by the United States that it was secretly building a nuclear reactor. (Reuters) The United Nations Security Council goes on a mission to Africa with the first leg of the mission to Djibouti to discuss the Somali Civil War. (BBC News) The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates. (BBC News)

[edit] ITN Candidates

• Nom Piracy in Somalia. - BanyanTree 08:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Added after a wait for comments. I was unsure if Spencer's comment below was subtle opposition to this, but I figured I wouldn't be paranoid. - BanyanTree 01:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• There is a chance that it will not appear until tomorrows items, so I'm putting it here. In case it happens tonight: The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Five of the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals.

In the chance this happens, I think this will be a fine test to see how quick this new itn allows us to put this up. Last year it was not put up in a timely fashion, which should be avoided this time. --PlasmaTwa2 00:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Pittsburgh wins. See ya again in a few days. -CWY2190(talk • contributions) 04:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank god. --PlasmaTwa2 05:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

• I'm not too big on any of these, except the danish bombing, that is up. Spencer^T♦C 11:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

In order to encourage an atmosphere where people feel encouraged to feed items into ITN, please wait until a specific item is suggested before evaluating it for minimum ITN standards. Thanks, BanyanTree 01:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)