June 18, 2012 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Arab Spring:
- 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution: Yemeni Army commander General Salem Ali Qatan is killed in a suicide attack in the port city of Aden by a man wearing an explosives belt. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Political uncertainty continues in Egypt. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- At least two people are killed in an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt. (Reuters via MSNBC) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- A suicide attack kills at least fifteen people and wounds forty people at a Shia funeral in Baquba, north of Baghdad.(BBC)
- A bomb explodes near a university bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta killing at least two students and injuring more than 35 others. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
- Three men in Afghan police uniform kill a NATO soldier in eastern Afghanistan.(BBC)
Arts and culture
- It is disclosed that Jack Osbourne has the incurable neurological condition multiple sclerosis (MS). (BBC)
- The music world expresses shock at the news of Scott Johnson's death ahead of a Radiohead concert in Canada. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Australian newspaper publisher Fairfax Media announces restructuring plans which will lead to a cut of 1900 jobs. (The Australian)
- The largest stockholder of the London-based telecommunications firm Vodafone, institutional investor Orbis, ends its opposition to a planned acquisition by Vodafone of Cable & Wireless Worldwide; the deal now seems certain to go through. (Reuters)
International relations
- A new round of talks on nuclear power between Iran and six world powers opens in Moscow. (BBC)
- Aung San Suu Kyi is due in Ireland. (RTE)
- 2012 G-20 Mexico summit:
- The 2012 G-20 summit opens in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with the Eurozone crisis high on the agenda. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss the uprising in Syria, Iran, and trade at the summit. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Rwanda's "gacaca courts", set up to try those responsible for playing a role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, finish their work. (UPI)
- Former American Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens is acquitted on all charges in a perjury trial. (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz is nominated as heir apparent of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
Science
- Blue Gene/Q becomes the world's fastest supercomputer. (TOP500)
Sport
- UEFA Euro 2012:
- Italy trash ten-man Ireland to go through to the quarter-finals, with Ireland on their worst run for more than 40 years. (BBC) (RTE)
- UEFA fines and bans Nicklas Bendtner of Denmark for one game after showing boxer shorts with a brand name on it against Portugal. Bendtner says: "I didn't know I was breaking any rules". (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Next season's soccer fixtures:
- Premier League fixtures are announced, with champions Manchester City kicking off at home against newly promoted Southampton. (BBC)
- Rangers, set to be liquidated, do not appear on the Scottish Premier League fixture list and are instead replaced by a mysterious entity known as "Club 12". (BBC)
- British police investigate tennis player David Nalbandian after yesterday's disqualification from the final of the 2012 AEGON Championships over kicking an advertising board into the left shin of a line judge, seriously injuring him; his opponent, Marin Čilić, who was trailing Nalbandian at the time, was awarded the title and Nalbandian lost the prize money he would have received for finishing as runner-up. (BBC)