Explosion in Turkey kills seventeen

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Reuters, AFP, the Associated Press are reporting that a gas explosion in a Turkish school killed at least seventeen girls Friday.
Reuters reports the initial death toll at sixteen, with 27 injured. The number of deaths later rose to 17 when a body was removed from the rubble. Two survivors were pulled from the rubble as rescuers worked into the night. One girl is still mRead More…

Memorial service held for model found dead in Missouri mansion

Friday, December 31, 2010
A memorial service was held Thursday for Adrienne Nicole Martin, the model found dead two weeks ago in the Missouri, US mansion of former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV. Martin, of Native American ethnicity, was 27 years old when she died of unknown causes, said investigators.
Martin, who had been dating the 46-year-old Busch for “the last several months” according Read More…

4.5-kilometre bridge to link Crimea with Russia

Sunday, June 17, 2007
Last week a presentation of the bridge linking the Crimea with the Krasnodar region of Russia took place in Ukraine. The project cost of the deal is estimated at US$480 million. According to specialists, the bridge can be built within two years given adequate preparation.
The bridge project includes building a highway with the width of 15 metres; there will also be a possibRead More…

Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags.
Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The arrest was byRead More…

Bones of ‘small-bodied humans’ found in Micronesian cave

Friday, March 21, 2008
Another population of small humans has been reported, this time in caves in Micronesia. Lee Berger, Steven Churchill, Bonita De Klerk and Rhonda Quinn, a team of paleontologists and anthropologists from South Africa and the United States document a group of “small-bodied humans” found in the ” in limestone caves in the rock islands of Palau, Micronesia.” The report, in aRead More…

Looted, possibly contaminated body parts transplanted into USA, Canadian patients

Monday, March 20, 2006
Fears of contaminated bone and skin grafts are being felt by unsuspecting patients following the revelation that funeral homes may have been looting corpses.
Janet Evans of Marion Ohio was told by her surgeon, “The bone grafts you got might have been contaminated”. She reacted with shock, “I was flabbergasted because I didn’t even know what he was talking about. I didn’t kRead More…

Promoting Your Website Using Animation

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There is little doubt that even over the past decade the face of advertising and marketing has changed immensely. Where television, radio and paper advertisements used to be, the internet has stepped up to the forefront and is now seemingly dominate every other media. These days the internet is the first stop for people whoRead More…

Wikinews interviews Australian Paralympic skiers Toby Kane, Cameron Rahles Rahbula, and Mitchell Gourley

Friday, December 14, 2012
Recently, Wikinews sat down with Australian standing Paralympic skiers Toby Kane, Cameron Rahles-Rahbula, and Mitchell Gourley who were in Vail, Colorado for a training camp for the start of this week’s IPC Nor-Am Cup.
((Wikinews)) I’m interviewing Cameron [Rahles-Rahbula] with a hyphenated last name, Mitchell Gourley, [and] Toby Kane. And they’re in Copper Mountain toRead More…

Nelson Mandela charity official resigns over ‘blood diamonds’

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF) trustee Jeremy Ractliffe has resigned from the charity’s board, twelve days after admitting to the possession of “blood diamonds”.
Earlier this month, supermodel Naomi Campbell testified against former Liberian president Charles Taylor when she claimed she received “very small, dirty looking stones” from two men, allegedly associateRead More…