Saturday, April 9, 2005 Following a Senate hearing in which the Bush administration’s nominee for EPA administrator, Stephen Johnson, stoutly defended his plan to pay parents to document the effects on infants of insecticide use in the home, he reversed course and stopped the program. Among the original requirements for the 60 families requested to be participants in the “Children’s […]
Sizzler salad bars shut after rat poison found in food
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 The Sizzler Restaurant franchise in Australia has closed the salad bars in all of its 29 restaurants across the country, after rat poison was discovered in food at two of the chain’s outlets in Brisbane. Self-serve salad bars at the restaurants have been closed in response to a sabotage scare. Sizzler Australia Managing Director Bo Ryan […]
Fish Head Curry Chicken Biryani Mutton Biryani Indian Restaurant
Click Here To Know More About: Lunch Time Nz Site Lunch Time fish head curry_chicken biryani_mutton biryani_indian restaurant by AnjapparAnjappars humble beginnings started in Chennai more than 50 years back offering the Chennai some typical Chettinad food. As time passed, Anjappar became synonym for Chettinad Cuisine. The peoples demand as led us to take this experience overseas. Anjappar has been […]
Death toll from Borneo bridge collapse reaches eleven
Monday, November 28, 2011 The death toll from the weekend suspension bridge collapse on the Indonesian island of Borneo has risen from four to eleven. Search and rescue teams continue to look for bodies in the Mahakam River. The number of wounded is currently 39 injured; reports from locals suggest 33 people remain missing at the scene in East Kalimantan’s […]
Scotland sets date for referendum
Saturday, March 23, 2013 On Thursday, Scotland’s First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond set the date September 18, 2014, for the country’s referendum on political independence from the rest of the United Kingdom. The question to be presented at the ballot is: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”; if a majority vote “Yes”, the union of […]
Oddest Delivery Locations For Courier Jobs}
Click Here To Know More About: Earthmoving Equipment Perth Australia Mining Truck Oddest Delivery Locations for Courier Jobs by Norman Dulwich Courier jobs sometimes involve deliveries to (or collections from) some pretty odd locations. Here are just a few real-life examples that may raise an eyebrow or two. Altitude sickness Let’s start with the driver who arrived at a delivery […]
Suspect in Oklahoma girl’s murder blogged about depression, “dangerously weird” fantasies
Monday, April 17, 2006 Kevin Ray Underwood, the suspect in the murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin of Purcell, Oklahoma, reportedly kept a weblog in which he joked about cannibalism, discussed the effects of not taking his prescribed medicine, and talked about “dangerously weird” fantasies. Underwood was arrested Friday after investigators searched his apartment and found Jamie’s body in a […]
Wikinews Shorts: September 6, 2006
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Iconic London mural could be restored
Monday, September 20, 2010 One of London’s most well known murals could be restored after years of neglect if plans by a group of community activists gain public support. The Fitzrovia Mural at Whitfield Gardens on London’s Tottenham Court Road was created by two mural artists and commissioned by Camden Council in 1980, but the mural has since decayed and […]
‘Purity’ ring case taken to High Court
Saturday, June 23, 2007 Lydia Playfoot, a 16 year old schoolgirl from West Sussex, England, has been faced with expulsion by her school, Millais School of Horsham, for wearing a purity ring that symbolises her dedication to chastity. Her case, that she should be allowed to wear the ring as it is an “expression of [her] faith and should be […]