Asbestos controversy aboard Scientology ship Freewinds

February 24, 2019 0 Comments

Friday, May 16, 2008 Controversy has arisen over the reported presence of blue asbestos on the MV Freewinds, a cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology. According to the Saint Martin newspaper The Daily Herald and the shipping news journal Lloyd’s List, the Freewinds was sealed in April and local public health officials on …

Toronto to have socialized city-wide wi-fi access

February 22, 2019 0 Comments

Thursday, March 9, 2006 Toronto’s public utility, Toronto Hydro Telecom, will make Canada’s largest city into a huge wireless hotspot. “This is both an exciting and very important initiative for the city of Toronto”, said Toronto’s mayor, David Miller. “It puts us on the leading edge of the telecommunications industry nationwide and globally.” Toronto Hydro …

Andrea Muizelaar on fashion, anorexia, and life after ‘Top Model’

February 22, 2019 0 Comments

Monday, November 26, 2007 In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada’s Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. From working in a dollar store in her hometown of Whitby, Ontario, to modeling haute couture in Toronto, she had reached her dream of becoming …

Native Hawaiian sovereignty bill to be debated in U.S. Senate in June

February 21, 2019 0 Comments

Saturday, May 13, 2006 The U.S. Senate has scheduled debate and a vote in June on a bill that would allegedly initiate a process for Native Hawaiians to achieve the same level of self-governance and autonomy over their own affairs that many Native American tribes currently have. Critics of the bill characterize it as going …

Settlers allegedly steal Palestinian water in the West Bank

February 21, 2019 0 Comments

Sunday, August 19, 2007 Residents of the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a water pipe carrying drinking water to the nearby Palestinian village of Dir al-Khatab, and the rerouted water pipe is being used to fill a swimming pool. The pipe brings fresh drinking water into the pool and …

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike

February 20, 2019 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 …

Death toll from Borneo bridge collapse reaches eleven

February 20, 2019 0 Comments

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 …

Eleventh Docudays UA concludes

February 18, 2019 0 Comments

Monday, March 31, 2014 The Eleventh International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA, in Kyiv, Ukraine, ended on Friday. The Awards Ceremony was held in the Red Hall of the Kyiv Cinema House. There were 36 documentary films competing for prizes in three festival programs: DOCU/Short, DOCU/Right, DOCU/Life. There were also special prizes from …

New fossils from 10 million year old ape found in Ethiopia

February 18, 2019 0 Comments

Thursday, August 23, 2007 Researchers say that new, ten million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, prove that the theory that humans may have evolved from a species of great apes eight million years ago, may not be true, but that humans may have split from apes as long as 10.5 million years ago. At least nine …

Wikinews interviews Mario J. Lucero and Isabel Ruiz of Heaven Sent Gaming

February 14, 2019 0 Comments

Friday, November 7, 2014Albuquerque, New Mexico —Online entertainment is a booming market, and plenty of players are making their play; back in March of this year The Walt Disney Company bought the multi-channel network Maker Studios. What is web entertainment, and the arts therein? And, who are the people venturing into this field? Wikinews interviewed …