US Senate votes no to expanding detainee rights

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Detainees, or individuals in United States custody considered to be suspects connected to terrorism, will no longer be able to protest their being held in custody or their treatment while in custody, otherwise known as the “writ of Habeas Corpus,” at least not in U.S. federal courtrooms. Democrats, who sponsored the […]

Toronto Comicon celebrates characters from screen and page

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Held from March 16 to 18, Toronto Comicon 2018, in Ontario, Canada, featured dozens of retailers, a large artist’s alley, celebrity guests, cosplayers, and community groups. Wikinews was present and later spoke to some of the cosplayers. Celebrity guests included Joonas Suotamo, the new Chewbacca actor for Star Wars; Mitch Pileggi […]

Oral Roberts University attorneys seek gag order

Saturday, October 27, 2007 Attorneys for Oral Roberts University requested a gag order on court filings related to alleged illegal political and financial wrongdoing as well as wrongful firings. According to a court filing, ORU believes “their legal motion that publicity allegedly manipulated by the professors and their attorneys could lower the possibility of a […]

Popular Beaches In Bali

Read An Opinion On: Cheap Hotels Sydney Cbd Accomodation In Sydney Submitted by: Max Renouf The first picture that comes to everyone’s mind when they hear Bali is blue, tropical waters with clean beaches and why not Bali is blessed with some of the best shorelines in the world. While there are tons of places […]

Category:June 21, 2006

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Police disperse striking traders in New Delhi

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 The Delhi Police used lathi(baton)-charges to disrupt striking traders when they gathered in large numbers and attempted to block traffic on the city’s streets on Wednesday morning. The 2-day old strike, protesting a Supreme Court order to seal unauthorised commercial establishments in the city, turned to a more violent note with […]

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]

Microsoft to buy back US$40 B of its stock over 5 years

Friday, July 21, 2006 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT, HKSE:4338) has announced plans to buy back US$40 billion of its stock between now and 2011. (All further figures in this article are in U.S. Dollars.) Microsoft, the world’s largest maker of computer software, will make a tender offer to repurchase $20 billion of its own stock by […]

Bus crash in Victoria, Australia injures twenty, some critical

Thursday, July 24, 2008 A bus crash in Victoria, Australia has injured at least 20 people, two of whom are listed as critical. One victim is reported to be still trapped in the wreckage. The accident occurred between a bus and a semi-trailer on the Princes Highway in the Traralgon area around 10:50am AEST. The […]

In depth: XM and Sirius merger

Wikipedia has more about this subject: XM/Sirius merger On 19 February 2007, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio announced a move that will change the face of satellite radio in the United States and Canada: XM and Sirius will be merging, creating a single satellite radio provider. This in-depth page will track Wikinews and […]