Unix Timestamp: 1213142400
Wednesday, June 11. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Japan's House of Councillors passes a censure motion against the Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda, the first such motion to be passed since World War II. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7447698.stm (BBC News)

Reports claim that at least 10 Pakistan Army soldiers have died in an apparent United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan with eight Taliban militants also killed. Pakistan condemns the airstrike as unprovoked and cowardly. The U.S. has released video of the strike showing the militants fighting in order to justify the attacks. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7447608.stm (BBC News) //www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL17728520080611 (Reuters)

NASA launches the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. //ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1fGVi2KRAvVuIJmoyEjteRbYO0gD91814282 (AP via Google News)

The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper apologises to tens of thousands of the aboriginal peoples of Canada for more than a century of abuses of First Nations, Inuit and Métis at residential schools set up to assimilate them into Canadian society. //news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/canada_says_39sorry39_for_indigenous_abuse_549081 (SBS) //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology (AP via Yahoo! News)

June 2008 tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa kills four Boy Scouts and injures several others. //www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080611/NEWS/80611078/0/politics ("Des Moines Register") //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/severe_weather (AP via Yahoo! News) //www.ajc.com/travel/content/news/stories/2008/06/11/boy_scouts_tornado.html ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution") //www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91415289 ("National Public Radio")