Oldbury nuclear power station suffers fire
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Oldbury nuclear power station in South Gloucestershire, England caught fire today after overheating. No-one was injured in the blaze which is believed to have been an accident and was extuinguished within minutes by an automatic sprinkler system. The fire took place on the non-nuclear side ofContinue Reading
Peggy Whitson, record-breaking ‘American space ninja’, returns to Earth
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Just after sunrise on Sunday (1:21 UTC), NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson, 57, returned to Earth in Kazakhstan, in a Soyuz capsule, after a 288-day mission in the International Space Station (ISS), bringing her lifetime total days in space to 665, the most for anyContinue Reading
Teenage boys rape 13-year-old in Zurich, film act on cellphone
Friday, November 17, 2006 A group of 13 teenage boys raped a 13-year old school girl in Zurich last weekend, reports the website of the German language newspaper 20 Minuten. The report says that the girl was raped repeatedly and the act was filmed on mobile phones. Six of theContinue Reading
U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance Randall L. Tobias resigns
Saturday, April 28, 2007 Randall L. Tobias, the United States Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator, has resigned after he admitted to ABC News to being a customer of Pamela Martin and Associates, a call girl company. A woman by the name of Jeane Palfrey, who worked for PamelaContinue Reading
Obituaries: January 21-27, 2008
Wikipedia has more about this subject: Deaths in 2008 Sunday, January 27, 2008 The following deaths were reported over the past week: Richard Darman, who was the trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Non-Executive Chairman of the AES corporation, as well as being the aide to five presidents diedContinue Reading
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Click Here To Know More About: Ford Escape Cheap Car Dealers Sydney Best Use of Wind Shield by krista denes [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRWzbELUy0[/youtube] Wind shield is not only the chunk of auto glass but it is lot more than this. Actually wind shield is a component that protects us from wind andContinue Reading
Canadian university students would prefer MP3 players over car radios
Friday, March 30, 2007 At Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, students are finding that popular MP3 players, such as Apple’s iPod, are very convenient devices for listening to music at the gym, while traveling on foot, and in the car. In a recent ad-hoc survey conducted by WikinewsContinue Reading
General Motors automobile sales plunge by 45%
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 General Motors Corporation (GM) announced on Wednesday that it saw a 45% drop in United States vehicle sales for its cars in March. Executives from several auto firms, however, said that there was some hope for the auto industry to stabilise, as car sales rebounded inContinue Reading
Continental Airlines to face charges over Air France Concorde disaster
Thursday, July 3, 2008 United States air carrier Continental Airlines and two of their employees have been charged over the crash of Air France Flight 4590. The disaster involved a Concorde crash on July 25, 2000 near Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France that killed all 109 on boardContinue Reading
Seagate 7200.11, Es2 And Diamond Max 22 Firmware Failures The So Called Bricked Drives}
Click Here To Know More About: Desa Desa.Com.Au Seagate 7200.11, ES2 and DiamondMax 22 Firmware Failures The so called Bricked drives by chris09 A widespread firmware problem has recently been causing ever increasing numbers of hard drives to become terminally inoperable on power up. This issue affects the following driveContinue Reading