Blood recipients contract HIV in Peru

February 6, 2020 0 Comments

Friday, September 14, 2007 At least four people in Peru have contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS after receiving blood transfusions that were infected with the deadly virus. As a result, all of Peru’s 240 blood banks have been closed pending further investigation and an emergency has been declared by the government. “This situation …

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

February 6, 2020 0 Comments

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. …

Benefits Of A Rope Course In Rehabilitation

February 5, 2020 0 Comments

Click Here To Know More About: Cotton Rope Australia Cotton Rope For Sale byAlma Abell The use of rope courses in rehabs in Oklahoma come from what is referred to as adventure based therapy. One of the best parts of this type of therapy is that no matter what type of physical condition you are …

New York Times to start charging for access to web news

February 5, 2020 0 Comments

Friday, March 18, 2011 The challenge now is to put a price on our work without walling ourselves off from the global network … The New York Times announced on Thursday that it will start charging for full access to NYTimes.com, its online version. Beginning March 28, U.S. visitors who do not subscribe to the …

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike

February 4, 2020 0 Comments

Thursday, June 8, 2006 The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in an air strike on a building north of Baqubah city, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. “Today [sic] Zarqawi has been terminated,” he said Thursday, and suggested the man the United States had placed a $25 …

Wikinews interviews Mark Bunker, producer of anti-Scientology website ‘XenuTV’

February 3, 2020 0 Comments

Monday, February 18, 2008 Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website www.xenutv.com (XenuTV), Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date. …

Iconic London mural could be restored

February 3, 2020 0 Comments

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 …

In depth: Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal controversy

February 2, 2020 0 Comments

Friday, May 26, 2006 Buffalo, N.Y. Hotel Proposal Controversy Recent Developments “120 year-old documents threaten development on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal” — Wikinews, November 21, 2006 “Proposal for Buffalo, N.Y. hotel reportedly dead: parcels for sale “by owner”” — Wikinews, November 16, 2006 “Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel …

What Are Car Wraps?}

February 2, 2020 0 Comments

Click Here To Know More About: Corporate Signage Sydney Business Signage Sydney What Are Car Wraps? by Seth Paris A car wrap is nothing but a hi-tech vinyl decal which is attached directly to the exterior surface of cars and also other vehicles. The application of these stickers is so precise, that they are often …

HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer

January 31, 2020 0 Comments

Sunday, May 18, 2008 An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that no …