Swedish Pirate Party wins a seat in the European Parliament

Big surprize in the Sweden EU election where the Pirate Party won a seat in the European Parliament. Pirate Party is a political party which requires the legalization of the file-sharing on the internet and managed to gather 7.1% of the votes thus claiming one of the Sweden 18 seats in the European parliament. The party was founded in 2006 due to fury over the controversial law that blames the file-sharing. The boom of popularity increased in April 2009 after the 4 founding members of a file-sharing site called Pirate Bay were found guilty of violating the copyright rights and convicted to jail.

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Romanian exit polls for EU elections - PSD wins the elections under 2% advantage

The romanians proved that they are very "skilled" when it comes to politics. Everything went straight and romanian voters promoted a nice trio as messengers in the European Parliament: Gigi Becali, Elena Basescu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor - a football club owner (ex-shepperd), a fotomodel (former teenager) and a fanatic nationalist (no comment). All three are funny and likable but representing a country at the EU forum is however a bit too much. God have mercy and bless Romania.
After preliminary counting of 93% of the votes, PSD seems to win insignificantly the romanian elections with just less than 1% ahead PDL. Each of the both parties gathered around 30.5%. On the third position came PNL with about 16% followed by UDMR ~9%, PRM ~7.2% and Elena Basescu 3.5% of the votes. According to these results the number of Romanian seats (mandates) in the European Parliament are distributed as follows: PSD 10 seats, PDL 10 seats, PNL 5 seats, UDMR 4 seats, PRM 2 seats and 1 for Elena Basescu.
Romania euroelections 2009/june/07 update2: Aliance PSD-PC: 31,07%, PDL: 29,71%, UDMR: 8,92%, PRM: 8,65%, Elena Basescu-candidat independent: 4,22%, PNTCD: 1,45%. Total number of voters was 5.035.297 out of 18.197.316 possible.

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Roland Garros French Open final 2009 - Federer dream come true

07 June 2009 Roger Federer has just won the final of Roland Garros grand slam after defeating the Swede Robin Soderling in three sets 6-1, 7-6, 6-4. Federer - number 2 in the world - had previously won 13 grand slams before today's success, but none of them at Roland Garros. By claiming the 14 grand slam title, Federer levels the record held by the American Pete Sampras as the most successful grand slam player in the history of men's tennis.
Roger Federer - Robin Soderling 6-1, 7-6, 6-4.
Roland Garros incident: The start of the forth game of the second set was shadowed by a funny incident when an intruder got on the pitch and tried to get to Federer but he was finally put down by the guards.
Watch video French Open final 2009 incident second set.

Video Roger Federer wins Roland Garros 2009 - Federer match point Roland Garros final.

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Bodies from missing AF447 found

06 june 2009 Two male bodies and pieces of wreckage belonging to Flight 447 were found today in the Atlantic waters - Brazilians authorities reported. One of the bodies was confirmed to have been a passenger of the Air France crashed plane. Besides the corpses, the search teams found a backpack containing a laptop, a briefcase with a plane ticket authenticated as booked with Air France and also an oxygen mask. The discovered items were spotted about 680 km north of the Fernando de Noronha islands. The site of the crash was not located yet as the oceanic stream might have drifted the debris during the 6 day search.
07 June 2009 updates: Total number of AF447 bodies raised to five. Three more bodies from the Air France crash have been recovered from Atlantic raising the toll to five. The bodies along with many other items from Flight 447 were floating in water of 6000 to 8000 meters deep. The latest 3 were probably badly damaged such that their sex was not identified yet.
08 June 2009 updates: 16 bodies recovered from Air France AF447 crashed plane. Twelve more bodies have been picked up from the crash of the Air France A330 airliner raising the toll to seventeen. Nine bodies out of 16 were discovered by the Brazilian naval and air forces and the rest of seven were traced by a French ship joining the search operation. The area of the search missions covered 200000 square km so far, an area almost as big as the east european country of Romania (237500 square km). The AF 447 crash site becomes more and more localized since the bodies were spotted just 70 km away from where the plane sent out the 24 warning messages indicating electrical disturbances and cabin pressure loss. (Air France Flight AF447 bodies search updates).

09 June 2009 updates: Total number of found bodies from last week Air France crash reached 24. Eight more bodies have been pulled out of the water today - Brazilian oficials said. a very important item - a large tail section of the Airbus A330 - has been also recovered (see upper-left picture) helping consistently the investigation and narrowing the search for the black boxes. So far, the Air France crash investigation is focussed on air speed readings.

10 June 2009 updates: 17 more corpses were taken out of the ocean bringing the overall number of recovered bodies to 41. There are 187 more to be found. First corpse and some debris were brounght to land by a helicopter of Brazialian air force and they will be sent to coastal city of Recife Wednesday for identification. With black boxes still missing the investigators are focussing on the probability that the air speed Pitot tubes provided wrong indication to the plane's computers during the storm.

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World Cup 2010 preliminaries: Iceland 1-2 Netherlands and Lithuania 0-1 Romania. 06/06/2009

05 June 2009 The Netherlands might become the first qualified team at the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa if they win tomorrow evening at Reykjavik against Iceland. The dutch had and excelent qualification campaign by winning all 5 games up to now, scoring 12 goals and conceding only one. In another match, Romania will try to save its honour in the away game against Lithuania. Romania's chances for South Africa are gone, instead the new coach Razvan Lucescu aims to prepare building a new team for European Championship in 2012. Video highlights Iceland 1-2 Nederland and Lithuania 0-1Romania.

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