Saturday, April 8, 2006 A Honolulu man who fell into the sewage-contaminated Ala Wai Yacht Harbor died Thursday night of a massive bacterial infection that caused the loss of one of his legs, septic shock, and ultimately organ failure. Oliver Johnson, 34, a Honolulu mortgage broker, died between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. HST Thursday (0715-0730 […]
UK tabloid Daily Star pays libel damages to Ozzy Osbourne
Saturday, June 7, 2008 The Daily Star, a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, has paid an undisclosed amount of libel damages to Ozzy Osbourne stemming from an inaccurate representation of his appearance at the Brit Awards. Osbourne, famous for both his solo rock career and fronting the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, was hosting […]
Who Is Abc Per Head?
Read More About: Mlb Futures ABC Per Head is a pay per head companythat provides services to the bookies or bookmakers to help them growtheir business and with more than 17 years of experience in thesportsbook industry is one of the most popular, reliable, safe,secure, easy, personalized and competitive pay per head companies andwas created […]
Author of My Billion Year Contract reflects on life in elite Scientology group
Thursday, January 14, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Nancy Many about her book My Billion Year Contract, and asked her about life working in the elite Scientology group known as the “Sea Org“. Many joined Scientology in the early 1970s, and after leaving in 1996 she later testified against the organization. Published in October, Many’s book […]
Suncor makes bid to take over Petro-Canada
Monday, March 23, 2009 Two of Canada’s largest energy companies are merging, with Suncor Energy making a CA$19.2-billion bid to take over Petro-Canada. Suncor shareholders purchased $19.2 billion in stock and now own about 60% of Petro-Canada. Petro-Canada shareholders own the remaining 40%. Suncor is reported to be the third largest Canadian energy producer, and […]
Drone smartphone app to help heart attack victims in remote areas announced
Monday, August 26, 2013 German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the ‘Defikopter’: a medical drone, launched by smartphone app, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack victims in remote areas quicker than an ambulance. The Defikopter is to be launched by an app that sends out the GPS […]
Secret Robot Doubles Money Every Month
Read More About: Forex Trading Forum Submitted by: Patrickwh Sumlic They are merely a bunch of pc code written by geeks to reside in the Forex trading platform on your computer and also nowadays also within the virtual space of external hosting computers. The abilities of automated Forex robots are a far cry from the […]
Four new breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 This year, four breeds of dogs are competing for the first time in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. The new breeds making their Westminister debuts this year, are the Plott, a hunting hound originally bred by two German immigrant brothers […]
Internet group Anonymous hacks No Cussing Club’s website, owner’s e-mail account
Friday, January 23, 2009 Wikinews has learned that the internet group known only as “Anonymous” has hacked the website of the No Cussing Club (NCC), nocussing.com, for at least two days in a row. On day one, the group hacked into the website, replacing the content with links to images of alleged e-mail conversations. The […]
Wikinews interviews former Salt Lake City mayor and 2012 presidential candidate Rocky Anderson
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Former Salt Lake City mayor and human rights activist Rocky Anderson took some time to discuss his 2012 U.S. presidential campaign and the newly-created Justice Party with Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn. Anderson served as mayor of Salt Lake City for eight years (2000–2008) as a member of the Democratic Party. […]