Portal:Current events/2009 June 2
June 2, 2009 (Tuesday)
- Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim confirms that debris discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, near Fernando de Noronha, is the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. (CNN)
- General Motors sells its Hummer brand to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company. (New York Times)
- United Kingdom Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announces her resignation. (BBC)
- The Community of the People wins Greenland's parliamentary election. (BBC)
- Dutch research verifies space headache as a real medical condition. (BBC)
- Oxfam International describes the humanitarian crisis in Somalia as "very dire". (BBC) (France 24)
- China blocks access to such websites as Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, ahead of the anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (CBC) (BBC)
- The defense in Burmese National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi's trial alleges that intruder John William Yettaw "acted alone". (Bangkok Post)
- The United Kingdom experiences its first critical case of A(H1N1) influenza. (BBC)
- Pakistan's military rescues 80 people whom the Taliban kidnapped on June 1. (Reuters)
- At least 61 people are discovered dead in a Harmony Gold mine in Free State, South Africa. (BBC)