Portal talk:Current events/2008 June 2

June 2

June 2, 2008 (2008-06-02) (Monday)

• Discoveries of exoplanets
  • 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)
• 2008 Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad
  • 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)
• 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. (France 24)

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)