Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Ikeda Kanako, a 21-year-old senior student of the Meiji Gakuin University and the first daughter of celebrity surgeon Yuko Ikeda, was kidnapped at about 1225 (UTC+9), June 26, 2006, in Shibuya, Tokyo. A bullet was fired and one officer slightly cut when police stormed a Kawasaki apartment to rescue the girl. […]
Saturday, January 3, 2009 University of Ghana law professor John Atta Mills, age 64, was confirmed on Saturday as the winner of the runoff presidential election, the fifth in Ghana since the return to multi-party democracy in 1992. According to Electoral Commission Chair, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Atta Mills obtained 50.23 percent of ballots cast on December […]
Read An Opinion On: Compare Green Slip Quotes Nsw By Loren Yadeski For most parents, choosing the daycare center where they will have to leave their children is one of the most important decisions they will have to make. This is because what the children will encounter in the daycare center can actively influence their […]
Friday, March 11, 2005 A Lockheed-Martin built Atlas V launch vehicle, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 21:42 UTC (4:42 p.m. EST). It placed the Inmarsat 4 F-1 communications satellite into orbit. This was Lockheed-Martin’s second try to launch the satellite. Yesterday’s attempt ended in a scrub when the flight control computer passed a […]
Friday, June 1, 2007 A former mailman who proposed to paint the town hall pink, turn the local town square into a nudist pool, and to plant a marijuana field in the local park has been elected to the Reus, Spain town council. Ariel Santamaria promised to show up to the town’s council meetings dressed […]
Sunday, October 7, 2007 John Ogilvie is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Carleton—Mississippi Mills riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews […]
Read An Opinion On: Rfid Supply Chain Australia Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was among the state, local and federal officials that gather in Bethesda Monday to mark the installation of a new, solar-powered electric motor vehicle charging station. The station is situated outside the SunTrust bank at 10401 Old Georgetown street. The 18-foot, 1,410-watt “solar […]
Sunday, November 4, 2007 Australian federal member of Calare, Peter Andren died on Saturday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was aged 61. Mr Andren who had held the seat since being elected in 1996 had previously announced his intention to run for the senate after his electorate was changed for the 2007 […]
Monday, December 11, 2006 On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report it was stated that Anderson had “solved a very important problem” that was 1200 years old, the problem of division […]
Read An Opinion On: Buy Best Air Compressor Australia Submitted by: Alek Jones As far as tourist destinations go the Western Cape of South Africa must be one of the most enjoyable in the world. More than three million tourists flood the vineyards, mountains, gardens, the beaches, monuments, stadiums and restaurants of the Western Cape […]