Thursday, June 15, 2006 One hundred and twenty detainees at an immigration removal centre in Oxford, UK, are on hunger strike. The protest started when some detainees refused breakfast on Wednesday 14th June 2006. A letter from the hunger strikers explaining why they are seeking to draw attention to their…
Eight Medical Inventions Set To Change The Future Of Healthcare}
Submitted by: Sameer Ahmed The more tech-savvy among us often like to keep abreast of those new technological advances which will improve our leisure time, and change the way we entertain ourselves. But exciting innovations are being made in the world of healthcare too. Inventors are constantly looking for new…
Gunman killed outside Colorado governor’s office
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 A man identified as Aaron Richard Snyder showed up on Monday around 2:25 p.m. outside the Colorado Capitol offices of Governor Bill Ritter. He was carrying a 357-caliber 7 shot Smith and Wesson revolver with 20 extra rounds of ammunition and started screaming “I am the…
Wikipedia, Reddit in ‘blackout’ against SOPA, PROTECT IP laws
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will go offline for 24 hours in protest against American anti-piracy laws, the Stop Online…
Bomb-like device attached to Florida bank teller amid robbery
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Police in Hollywood, Florida, United States are investigating a strange bank robbery involving a bomb-like device being attached to a bank teller. Law enforcement sources said the bomb-like device was comprised of cylinders taped together with wires. The bank teller said that yesterday three armed men…
Category:Art
This is the category for art. Avoid placing articles in this category. They should be either in a subcategory or in Category:Culture and entertainment. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 5 June 2017: Conductor Jeffrey Tate dies aged 74 3 April 2017: Pop-artist James Rosenquist dies aged 83…
Hundreds of victims still unidentified three months after Typhoon Frank
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Typhoon Frank stormed across the Philippine Sea June 21, 2008 capsizing numerous boats, killing hundreds and leaving an estimated 1,330 missing in total including 820 passengers and crew from the MV Princess of the Stars ferry. Since then Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams in Cebu City,…
U.S. Congress confirms electoral college vote for Trump presidency
Monday, January 9, 2017 On Friday, the U.S. Congress completed the official counting of the electoral college votes, confirming Donald Trump’s pending U.S. presidency under their own authority. In most years, this is a formality, but amid concerns about Trump’s losing the popular vote by a considerable margin, Russian interference…
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…
Iraqi insurgency continues unabated, new hopes for a cabinet
Monday, April 25, 2005 Two car-rigged explosions in Baghdad killed 15 and injured nearly 40 people beside a Shiite Ahl al-Bait mosque Sunday. In Tikrit, 140km northeast of Baghdad, 6 were killed and nearly 26 injured in two suicide bombings. A car bomber drove into police assembled in an academy…