English court jails policeman over insurance fraud

Thursday, July 1, 2010
A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company. Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen.
Hood had been disappointed with the car’s value when he tried to sell it two years after its purchase in 2008Read More…

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample. If this surgical Read More…

Riga Stag Do What To Consider When Going On A Memorable Stag Do In Riga}

More Detail Here: Bb Qs Plus Riga Stag Do – What to Consider When Going on a Memorable Stag Do in Riga by [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyQUn4U3x0[/youtube]Brian SmallRiga is set in Latvia and is the capital town of this country and is probably one of the finest stag night destinations in Europe. There are thosaunds of things to do and there are lots of stag friendly nightcluRead More…

Chef who appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ commits suicide

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Joseph Cerniglia, a chef who had appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s television show Kitchen Nightmares, has commited suicide. Cerniglia was the owner of Italian restaurant Campania. He jumped off a bridge into the Hudson river on the New York–New Jersey border. At the time of filming in 2007, Cerniglia owed suppliers $80,000.
Officials reported that 39-year-old CernigliaRead More…

2008 Taste of Taiwan Cuisine features three shows for food and packaging industries

Friday, June 20, 2008
The third annual Taste of Taiwan Cuisine opened on Wednesday of June 18, 2008 and runs until June 21. Organized by Taiwan External Trade Development Council to promote the culinary culture of Taiwan, the tradeshow featured three main shows for food and food packaging industries: “Food Taipei”, “Foodtech Taipei”, and “Taipei Pack”.
Twenty-seven countries including United StaRead More…

Crosswords/2005/September/5

Monday, September 5, 2005
Feel free to use the Wikimedia sites to solve our Wikinews crossword. Please do not fill it out online as it would spoil it for other people; print it out and fill it in at your own leisure!
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4 Previous solution Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Crosswords/2005/September/5&Read More…

Executing The Enemies Of Botox

More Detail Here: Neck Lift Fort Worth Executing The Enemies Of Botox by Dr. Crippen MD ABPh DPDThe older we get, the more likely it is that we will develop wrinkles. It’s just a fact of life. No one is immune to it. It just so happens that they may appear earlier for some people than others. It you’re concerned about the development of wrinkles on your face, don’t think that you’re aloneRead More…

Study: Partisan political thought is predominantly unconscious and emotional

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A recent study led by Dr. Drew Westen, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia has concluded that political partisans use an “almost entirely emotional and unconscious” thought process when digesting damaging information about a favored political candidate.
The experiment used fMRI scans of 30 men who self-identified as either a committed RepubRead More…

Monster.com aquires Yahoo’s HotJobs service for $225 million

Thursday, February 4, 2010
Yahoo announced plans to sell its HotJobs employment search service to Monster Worldwide for $225m, the companies said yesterday. Monster currently controls one third of online jobs postings in the United States. The two companies also struck a three-year agreement under which Monster will provide career and job content for the Internet giant’s homepage in the U.S. aRead More…

Ground broken on Northpoint development in Cambridge, Massachusetts

A view of the Leonard Zakim bridge from the construction site. The warehouses at right will be replaced by a five-acre park within two years. The elevated roadway in the foreground is the John F. Gilmore Bridge.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Cambridge, Massachusetts —Construction of two condominium buildings and a five-acre park began on March 21, in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. The buildings aRead More…