Friday, January 3, 2014 Preston, Victoria, Australia —On Saturday, Wikinews interviewed Tina McKenzie, a former member of the Australia women’s national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. McKenzie, a silver and bronze Paralympic medalist in wheelchair basketball, retired from the game after the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Wikinews caught up with her in…
Top 3 Benefits Of Cosmetic Dentistry
Read More About: Trompe L Oeil Artwrx byAlma Abell In the past, if you were unhappy with your smile, there wasn’t a whole lot that you could do about it. That, however, was before the modern age of cosmetic dentistry in Chicago. Today, if you are unhappy with the smile you have, you can easily…
ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 There are few organizations in the United States that elicit a stronger emotional response than the American Civil Liberties Union, whose stated goal is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States”. Those people…
Ole Miss player arrested; charged with selling steroids
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Jared Foster, a transfer quarterback with the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Rebels football team, was arrested yesterday in Oxford, Mississippi and charged with selling steroids. Rebels head coach Houston Nutt said that Foster will not be allowed to remain with the team. Foster was arrested for alcohol possession by a…
Zeus botnet trojan horse is back
Saturday, April 24, 2010 Trusteer, a web security company, reports that a trojan horse virus called Zeus can steal online banking details from infected computers. The virus has infected one out of every 3,000 computers of the 5,500,000 million which the company monitors in the United States and the United Kingdom. The trojan can infect…
Everybody Wants A Great Smile!
Read More About: Plastic Bags Australia Best Plastic Bags Australia byphineasgray One of the most important things in life is having confidence in our teeth and our smile. Decades ago, there was only a single way to straighten crooked teeth and that was those metal braces that were dreaded by so many. They are still…
Mugabe says he’s open to talks with Zimbabwe opposition
Thursday, June 26, 2008 The day before Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff is to be held, President Robert Mugabe says he is open to discussion with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the opposition party that has decided to boycott what they and other African leaders have called a “sham election”. On Wednesday, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai…
Water level rising in Chinese rivers, further flooding expected
Thursday, June 19, 2008 Further rain has continued to fall across southern China after the country was devastated by floods earlier this week. 176 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the flooding, and around 50 more are officially missing. Xinhua, the state news agency in China, has reported that the…
G7 announce debt relief plan
Saturday, February 5, 2005 London, UK –The quarterly G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meeting at Lancaster House concluded on February 5, 2005, with the G7 failing to agree on a plan to reduce debt in developing countries. According to the Los Angeles Times, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that he…
Ford announces deep production cuts in response to growing losses
Saturday, August 19, 2006 Ford has announced sweeping cuts of 21% (168,000 units) in its US and Canadian production, resulting in the partial closure of ten of its plants during the fourth quarter. The measure comes on top of existing turnaround plans announced in January, in which 25,000 to 30,000 positions should be cut and…