Jermaine Pennant jailed for drink-driving

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Aylesbury, England — The Arsenal F.C. midfielder Jermaine Pennant, currently on loan to Birmingham City, has today pleaded guilty to drink-driving, driving while disqualified, and driving without insurance by Aylesbury magistrates court. Pennant received a sentence of three months imprisonment. Pennant’s lawyer, Bary Warbutton, has said that the footballer will appeal agRead More…

Wikinews interviews Joe Schriner, Independent U.S. presidential candidate

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Journalist, counselor, painter, and US 2012 Presidential candidate Joe Schriner of Cleveland, Ohio took some time to discuss his campaign with Wikinews in an interview.
Schriner previously ran for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008, but failed to gain much traction in the races. He announced his candidacy for the 2012 race immediately following the 2008 election. SchrineRead More…

American Samoa received eight minutes warning before 2009 tsunami

Friday, September 24, 2010
People in American Samoa were given only eight minutes warning that a tsunami, which killed 32 people in the unincorporated territory, resulting from the 2009 Samoa earthquake, was approaching. A report published by the United States Congress admits that the warning was issued sixteen minutes after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Samoa. The tsunami killed nearly 20Read More…

Shelving Off Debt Through Consolidation

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The recent economic hardship that hit the world market worldwide is damaging. It is said to be the caused by filing up of unmanageable debts that brought down even multinational giants. People from all walks of life are also gripping to the economic blows that they too are having hard time to manage their debts. HRead More…

Indonesia shuts down 4 airlines and grounds 5 others over safety concerns

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Indonesia has shut down four airlines and grounded five others with the potential of similar licence revocations for failing to meet safety standards.
The largest company to lose its licence is Jatayu Gelang Sejahtera. The other companies are all small airlines operating only aircraft with a passenger capacity of fewer than thirty, and are Aviasi Upataraksa, Alfa Trans DiRead 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…

20 Creative Topics For Thesis Writing For Uk College Students}

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A few lucky graduate students find their thesis topics early in their graduate years, but some search for the right ones for long and fail to settle on one. Some wait until the time comes to write the thesis. You may fall into the last two categories, and you are eager about knowing how to come up with good tRead 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…

British military secrets leaked on social networking sites

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted sixteen instances of sensitive information being leaked on social networking websites in the past eighteen months. Ten employees have been disciplined for misuse of the sites. The revelations follow a Freedom of Information request by Lewis PR and computer security company F-Secure.
The MoD would not comment on what disciRead More…