Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their…
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Somali pirates hijack Indonesian tugboat and Turkish container ship
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Two more vessels have been hijacked in Somalia. Pirates have captured an Indonesian tugboat with a barge that was working for French oil firm Total and a Turkish container ship. The Turkish vessel’s seizure was confirmed by a US Fifth Fleet spokesman. MV Bosphorus Prodigy is a 330 ft (100 m)…
Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to…
Roofing Installation Ask These Questions Before You Hire A Professional
Read An Opinion On: Background Checks Make sure the roofing contractors are licensed. Ask to see the roofing contractor’s license or get a copy of it before you hire him. If a roofing technician cannot produce a license, do not hire him, and don’t forget to check the expiration date on the license.Find a roofing…
President Bush delivers 2006 State of the Union Address
Wednesday, February 1, 2006 United States President George W. Bush delivered his annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=President_Bush_delivers_2006_State_of_the_Union_Address&oldid=4502598”
Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note
This is the online suicide letter authored by Andrew Stack, the man believed to be responsible for flying a light aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas. It was originally posted at Stack’s site, http://embeddedart.com/. The hosting company, T35, took the site offline per an FBI request. The note is reproduced here in its entirety….
Power Protection Bring Home The Power House
Read An Opinion On: Sydney Forklifts Sale Power Protection- Bring Home the Power House by Article Publisher Electricity has become the life line of the homes and offices around the world. We and our equipments have become so much dependent on the electricity that a nominal power failure of even for a minute can cause…
Iceland nationalises Kaupthing Bank
Thursday, October 9, 2008 Iceland’s Financial Services Authority has nationalised the Kaupthing Bank as a response to the financial crisis which may result in a total collapse of the nation’s economy. Kaupthing, together with Glitnir Bank and Landsbanki, owe a total of US$61 billion, which is twelve times the estimated size of the economy of…
Incomplete data may mislead doctors into overprescribing expensive medicines
Thursday, September 25, 2008 Medical doctors have not been getting the full picture about newly FDA-approved drugs, concludes a research team from the University of California, San Francisco. This is because not all the studies required for FDA approval get published. New drug studies that do see publication tend to be ones where the medicine…
UK house prices have fallen 10.5% this year, says Nationwide Building Society
Thursday, August 28, 2008 After dropping 1.9% in July, house prices in the United Kingdom are now falling at the fastest rate since 1990, according to Nationwide Building Society. The average price of a home has dropped by £20,000 down to £164,654, losing 10.5% of its value in 2008. Property values fell by 1.9% in…