Thursday, January 19, 2006
The Delhi High Court expressed its displeasure to the civic authorities on their continued failure to resolve the problem of marauding monkeys in the court premises. The court was in session when the public interest litigation filed by a Supreme Court lawyer was brought to its attention.
The petitioner Mr.Nirmal Chopra argued the case and explained how the simians...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Yesterday, at this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), company CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone 4, along with the new iOS 4 operating system for Apple mobile devices.
The announcement was long-awaited but not a very big surprise. In April, the technology blog Gizmodo obtained a prototype of the new phone and published details of it online. While introducing...
More On This Topic: Conveyancing Gosford How would you like to see a headline like 'United States Declares War?' You could, you know, the way things are going.
It is a fact that once the United States goes to war the president is always re-elected. Heck, why bother campaigning when you can just go to war? Right?
So let's just ignore the fact, for now, that Congress is in charge of declaring war,...
Friday, April 1, 2005
, holds a majority in the new parliament, and asserts that sharia is "non-negotiable".]]
Half of those who won seats reserved for women in the new National Assembly of Iraq are members of a coalition dominated by Shi'a religious parties, and they say they want Islamic sharia-based laws with legal differences in treatment for the sexes, and which permit a certain level of...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas' 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed to answer some questions by phone March 30 about their campaigns and policies. The...
More On This Topic: Best Tattoo Sydney Best Tattoo Sydney Obsession With Beauty: Royal Beauty Tips by treevesObsession with beauty is not something new in today's world. It is as ancient as time. Human cult has been in touch with beauty enhancing body rituals since ages. From Cleopatra's beauty rituals to the ancient Roman obsession of using oyster shell powder as a skin lightener to Egyptians...
Wikinews accredited reporter Killing Vector traveled to the G-20 2009 summit protests in London with a group of protesters. This is his personal account.
Friday, April 3, 2009
London — "Protest", says Ross Saunders, "is basically theatre".
It's seven a.m. and I'm on a mini-bus heading east on the M4 motorway from Cardiff toward London. I'm riding with seventeen members of the Cardiff Socialist...
More On This Topic: Professional Painters Lake Macquarie My Home Business/Repair Article by George LazoryszakHome improvement is a great financial investment, either in the money you put into it or the money you hope to get out of it. Generally, a home improvement is the repair, maintenance, restoration, or improvement of real property. As you read this article you'll find that the subject of...
Friday, April 22, 2022
On Wednesday, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a preliminary report about the crash of China Eastern flight 5735 (MU5735), which killed 132 passengers and crew, without drawing any definitive conclusions.
The CAAC report said both of the recovered flight data recorders were significantly damaged and yielded no usable information. The recorders have...
Thursday, June 8, 2006
The price for a barrel of oil dropped after news broke that Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in a US airstrike Thursday. The death of al-Zarqawi seems to have been interpreted by the market as good news for the future supply of oil from the region.
This is against the backdrop in 2006 when the price of oil had reached a record high of $70 a...