June 10, 2004

June 10, 2004

• Votes are counted on Super Thursday in the UK as elections are held for the European Parliament, local council elections and for London Mayor and the London Assembly. The local council elections show major losses for the Labour Party, attributed by Labour to protest voting over the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (BBC) (Guardian) (Guardian) (Daily Telegraph) (Daily Telegraph) (results from Guardian)
• Voting begins in the four-day-long European Parliament election; the United Kingdom and the Netherlands vote today. The Dutch authorities, in breach of an EU-wide reporting embargo, release their results in the early evening. (BBC)
• Mathematics professor Louis de Branges de Bourcia claims a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, a long-standing and fundamental mathematical problem for a solution of which the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a USD $1m prize. (CNet) (Purdue University press release)
• The U.S. State Dep't. announces that its Patterns of Global Terrorism report for 2003 was incomplete and partially incorrect. Instead of a decrease in terrorist attacks and casualties since 2002, the revised version will show a "sharp increase" over the previous year. (Press briefing), (Guardian)
• A polling organization announces that there is broad support in the U.S. state of California for a November ballot measure to limit the effect of the "three strikes" sentencing law. The Field Poll shows the measure, which would impose the 25-years-to-life only if the third felony is a serious or violent crime, is supported by 76% of those asked, opposed by 14 percent. (Sacramento Bee)
• Turkey releases 4 Kurdish prisoners. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Pakistani paramilitary troops launch an offensive, hunting for foreign fighters in the tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan. (Asian times)
• The Zimbabwean cricket team is suspended from playing Test matches by the ICC till the end of 2004 due to their policy of racial bias in team selection.
• Apple Computer announces its new top-of-the-line Mac G5 will use water-cooling technology. ITworld
• Martha Stewart asks a federal judge to throw out charges of obstructing justice, claiming false evidence. (Bloomberg)

• The American pianist and soul musician Ray Charles dies of 'acute liver disease' in his home in Beverly Hills, California, United States

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