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Department of Defense denies federal funding to schools that ban military recruiting 
Iran, North Korea, USA blamed in failure of month-long Non-Proliferation Treaty conference 
NASA solar sail passes first major test 
Kofi Annan 
White House spokesman Scott McClellan 
First winter snowfall in New Zealand 
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe 
Opportunity has maneuvered out of the sand trap it was stuck in for five weeks 
Google 
Tropical Storm Arlene on June 10 at 20:15 UTC 
Rwandan Genocide skulls 
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FBI seal 
Seal of the House of Representatives 
Pink Floyd will reunite to play London's Live 8 
Olympic Boxing 
Human fetus 
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Live 8 
Cambodia 
Tobacco field UN flag 
Franklin Elementary School in Santa Ana, California 
Google's founders 
Billy Corgan 
Provinces in Canada where same-sex marriage is permitted 
No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate 
Flag of the United States 
Citizen reporters meet at OhmyNews forum in Seoul, Korea 
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe 
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Houses in New Orleans
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June 1, 2005[edit]
- Mount Diablo buckwheat rediscovered in California
- Samsung's 4 Gigabit flash memory begins mass production
- 61.6% of the Dutch people say 'no' to EU constitution
- U.S. Supreme Court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction
- $1,000 reward offered for answer from US President
- Dutch vote today on EU constitution
- Brazilian Minister of Culture says that he smoked marijuana until the age of 50
June 2, 2005[edit]
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- John Kerry criticizes news media, joins call for inquiry on Downing Street Memo
- Department of Defense denies federal funding to schools that ban military recruiting
- British Liberal Democrat Patsy Calton, 56, dies of cancer
- Greek Soccer 3rd Division, North Group, Pavlos Melas relegated
- Iran, North Korea, USA blamed in failure of month-long Non-Proliferation Treaty conference
- Six thousand gather to celebrate birthday of Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito
- Elan shares plunge as another patient dies
June 3, 2005[edit]
- Ryanair passenger numbers up 34%
- Second Darwin's sandwich shop opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- New top level domain approved
June 4, 2005[edit]
- Bush Administration changes official position on legitimacy of Koran desecration allegations
- Online poker firm set for multibillion pound flotation
- U.S. military confirms Qur'ans were kicked, stepped on and splashed with urine at Guantanamo
- First winter snowfall in New Zealand
- Continuing civil unrest in Iran fueled by election tensions, soccer victory
June 5, 2005[edit]
- US obstructs Amnesty International investigation into Guantanamo prisoner abuse
- Coldplay's new album hits stores worldwide this week
- U.S. wants to impose its "no-fly" list on most Canadian domestic flights
- The Swiss vote yes to same-sex relationships and "Schengen/Dublin"
- AP Probe suggests Bolton manipulated Iraq inspections to favor War
- Blog alliance forms over leaked Downing Street memo
- Computer Associates warns of massive botnet attack
- Switzerland is voting on same-sex partnerships and Schengen/Dublin
- Fire in Alpine road tunnel between Italy and France
- Government of Zimbabwe forces thousands out of their homes
June 6, 2005[edit]
- Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives opening keynote to WWDC 2005
- Son of Pelé arrested accused of drug traffic
- New denunciations of political corruption create severe political crisis in Brazil
- Mars rover Opportunity successfully escapes sand trap
- Two women first ever to serve on municipal council in Kuwait
- Sweden celebrates its first national day as a public holiday
- England off to electric start in Women's Euro 2005 football championship
June 7, 2005[edit]
- United Kingdom, Czech Republic suspend referendums on EU constitution
- Ireland will hold EU referendum
- Report finds over $1 trillion per year is spent on arms worldwide
- John Kerry's Military records and Yale transcript released
- Rossi won't continue with legal appeals over failed bid for Washington State Governorship
- Pittsburgh Pirates win three-game series over Baltimore Orioles
- Canadian provinces brace for more flooding
- Stowaway killed by aircraft landing gear; leg lands in homeowner's backyard
- Michael Jackson fate in hands of jurors
- Republic of Ireland beat Faroe Islands to top Group 4 for Football World Cup 2006
- California IT company to create 100 new jobs in Dublin
- 30 travelers from Rwanda die in Ugandan bus crash
- Google now worth over $80 billion
- Danish Integration Minister's car burned
- Britain's deadly bug possibly imported from U.S. or Canada
- Pelé cries as his son admits to marijuana addiction
- President Lula opens U.N. forum to combat corruption
- First tropical storm of 2005 season forms in the Atlantic
- Canadian top court strikes down private medicare ban in Quebec
- Sources close to both sides say NHL, NHLPA agree on Salary Cap structure
- Atari Melbourne Project revealed
- International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Darfur
- Rwandan genocide investigations to be completed by end of July
- Half of Ugandan Presidential convoy blocked at Uganda-Rwanda border
- Bombs kill US Marines, civillians in Iraq
- Storing IP-addresses of Swedish copyright infringers deemed illegal
- Interpol on the hunt for 'Dr.Death'
- 600,000 new dollar millionaires created in 2004
- British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur
- U.N. condemns lack of due process in American-run Iraq prisons
- The Finnish Social Democrats elect a new leader
- Thousands of Rwandan refugees living in overcrowded Burundi transit centre
- US millitary says it killed approximately 40 'insurgents' in Iraq
- BSkyB faces challenge in securing British Premiership football rights
- Irish inflation creeps upwards to 2.4% — Original Reporting
- US teen missing in Aruba feared dead
- G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations
- Report finds FBI missed multiple chances to stop 9/11
- Firing of Michael Jackson spokeswoman disputed
- Fake Jackson suicide email hides virus
- US Congress House panel OKs big cut in public broadcasting funds
- Iraqi police discover 20 bodies
- Pink Floyd will reunite to play London's Live 8
- Fossett set to recreate first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
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- Mike Tyson set to retire after loss
- Crown Prince of Kuwait admitted to hospital
- Lula's future in the hands of Brazilian Parliament
- Bomb blasts kill several in Iran — Updated Report
- China school flood claims 91 lives
- Chechnya train derailed by blast, 12 injured
- French journalist held hostage in Iraq freed
- Twenty-five children injured in bus-truck collision in Florida
- More political, soccer-related unrest in Iran follows Bahrain victory — Original Reporting
- Michael Jackson found 'not guilty' on all counts
- Serial child imposter held by French police
- Airbus wins Qatar Airways order worth $15bn
- Wisconsin Democratic Party calls for Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, & Rumsfeld
- Bombings reported in southeastern Iran
- UN reports Rwandan refugees repatriated by force — Original Reporting
- South African president dismisses deputy on implications of corruption
- Chinese bloggers on Microsoft's MSN now face regulation of censors
- New rocky planet discovered in orbit around nearby star
- Aid group 'denied access' to Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi
- UNHCR criticises Rwanda's and Burundi's decision to re-label refugees as illegal immigrants
- House votes to limit Patriot Act
- Canadian PM survives confidence vote
- Autopsy reveals that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state
- Aid payments to be withdrawn by UK following violence in Ethiopia
- Red and processed meats linked to bowel cancer
- Bombing in Iraq kills US Marines and civilians
- President Bush says U.S. will defend Taiwan if attacked by China
- EBay UK bans sale of Live 8 tickets
- Boy dies on Space Mission ride at Disneyworld
- Earthquake hits Chile
- Tsunami bulletin issued from Pacific coast of California-Mexico border to Vancouver, Canada
- Satellite radio approved in Canada
- Brazil Political crisis: Minister Jose Dirceu leaves the government
- American "Chicken for sex" meat salesman is charged with assault
- Canadian boy killed in Cambodian seige; Police storm school
- World Bank president addresses global youth forum on genocide — Original Reporting
- Global youth conference on genocide begins in Kigali — Original Reporting
- Bomb blast in Iran injures three civilians
- Downing Street Memo forum to be held June 16th in response to petition of 500,000
- Goodyear blimp crashes in Florida
- Bush administration drastically cuts penalties sought for in tobacco trial from $130 billion to $10 billion
- Five beheaded during violent prison riot in Brazil
- British motorists showered with cash on motorway
- US trade deficit increases to record high in first quarter 2005
- Dell would be 'happy' to sell PCs running Mac OS X
- Youth forum to submit suggestions to UN — Original Reporting
- Sudanese government signs major deal with opposition group
- Six killed in Burundi church massacre
- Tyco executives found guilty
- Associated Press published today 6 new "Downing Street Memos" labeled "secret" or "confidential".
- Mothers, teachers air more concerns about leukemia cases at California elementary school — Original Reporting
- Third major earthquake rocks California — Original Reporting
- 40 million credit cards compromised
- Wiltshire constabulary issues European arrest warrant for Hayley Richards murder
- Michelin's tyre mistake sends US Formula One Grand Prix into farce — Original Reporting
- Google planning PayPal rival
- Iran election going to run-off, challenger alleges fraud
- Filmcrew working for Channel 4 arrested for soaking Tom Cruise in London
- Scores killed and wounded in Iraq as violence escalates
- Killen convicted of manslaughter for 1964 civil rights workers murders
- Lebanese politician George Hawi assassinated as historic elections end
- Priest charged in exorcism death
- Iraq's Justice Minister accuses U.S. of having "lots of secrets they want to hide"
- International Whaling Commission adjourns for private talks
- Myron Cope, Pittsburgh Steelers color commentator, retires after a 35 year career
- Tennessee Governor signs budget bill
- Court legalizes same-sex marriage in New Brunswick
- Killen gets 60 years for civil rights killings
- Canadian military accused of Agent Orange cover up
- Canadian PM vows to push ahead with same-sex marriage bill
- Zimbabwe bans crop growing in urban areas
- No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate
- Australian Deputy Prime Minister resigns
- Solar sail craft may have made orbit
- US flag burning amendment approved by House
- Citizen reporters meet at OhmyNews forum in Seoul, Korea
- Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms over sexual conduct
- Most of Greek workforce participating in a general strike, say unions
- Seventy arrested after fight in Moscow
- Iranians vote in runoff election
- US city police officer disciplined for drawing gun -- Original Reporting
- African Union rejects calls for action on Zimbabwe
- President Mugabe bulldozes homes of 200,000 across Zimbabwe
- England and Wales see 60% increase in public injured by police vehicles
- Dublin gets ready to be rocked once again by U2
- Senator Biden intends to run for United States Presidency
- Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as South African deputy president
- Basketball: Djordjevic's farewell game to be played July 3
- Guidant announces more defibrillator problems
- Tom Cruise debates psychiatry on NBC's Today show
- Elections held in Bulgaria
- Nigeria's past rulers stole $400 billion in public money
- Second case of BSE confirmed in U.S.
- Arrest warrants issued in Italy for 13 alleged CIA people on kidnapping charges
- Dresdener Elbe Valley becomes UNESCO World Heritage site
- Hardliner wins Iran presidential runoff
- Serbian Parliament members accuse NGOs of anti-Serbian campaign
- Three New Jersey boys found dead
- British television presenter Richard Whiteley dies
- San Francisco mother of 12-year-old boy who was mauled to death charged with child endangerment
- MTV and VH1 to broadcast Live 8
- Actor John Fiedler, voice of Piglet and "Bob Newhart" regular, dead at 80
- Russia voids border treaty with Estonia
- Lula tries to save the government with alliance with opposition party
- Russia probing Jewish law as "incitement"
- Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court rules against file swapping companies
- Israeli soldier convicted of killing British activist in Gaza Strip
- U.S. Supreme Court rules on government display of Ten Commandments
- U.S. Marines accused of assaulting Australian freed by U.S. military court
- Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, Gargamel, dead at 82
- Canadian House of Commons approves same-sex marriage
- Civilians testify to Halliburton fraud, coercion
- France secures site for 10 billion euro nuclear fusion research project
- Lukashenko accuses foreign donators of ideological expansion
- Norway and Denmark conducting observation flights over Belarus and Russia
- Scenario for impeachment of Lula raised in Brazil
- Wal-Mart heir John Walton killed in plane crash
- Workers' Movement and other social movements support Lula, Senators warn of 'Chavenization'
- Fathers mourn slain children in Arizona
- US helicopter with 17 on board believed to have been shot down in Afghanistan
- Fiji girls missing; feared dead
- Maciej Zurawski accepts Celtic's offer
- Shelby Foote, 88, noted historian and author, dies
- United States President George W. Bush makes speech to rally support for war in Iraq
- AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel in US federal district court
- Many still believe myths associated with cancer, reports American Cancer Society study
- Witnesses expose big corruption scheme of the Brazilian ruling party
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- Undercover investigation into protests planned for July's G8 summit
- Football: Kežman goes to Madrid
- Ferry crashes into smaller boats in West Vancouver after losing power
- Fiji's War of the Ribbons
- Sharapova knocked out of Wimbledon 2005 in semi-final
- OhmyNews forum discusses experiences in citizen journalism
- Bodies found at crash site of US helicopter in Afghanistan
- Brazil wins Confederations Cup
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announces cooperation between KDE Group and Wikimedia
- Rwandan businessmen sentenced for War Crimes
- Flash floods hit Australia's eastern coast