Portal:Current events/2012 June 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

Arts and culture
  • U.S. artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the world's most commercially successful contemporary artists and an official painter of five Olympiads famed for his instant renditions of sporting action, dies in New York. (BBC)
  • A Lucian Freud self-portrait painted on an egg shell is sold at auction to a private collector for £27,000. (BBC)

Business and economics

Disasters

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Sport