Monday, May 21, 2007 The Belgian bus company De Lijn parked a red MGB on top of one of their buses. Do you have a hard time finding a parking space? Take the bus or tram if you go to the city. That’s the message Belgian bus company De Lijn (The Line) is sending to…
Wikinews interviews Darcy Richardson, Democratic Party presidential challenger to Barack Obama
Friday, November 25, 2011 Democratic Party presidential candidate Darcy Richardson.Image: Darcy Richardson. U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Darcy Richardson of Florida took some time to answer a few questions from Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn. Richardson, 55, is a political activist that helped form the New Democrats in 1989 and founded the progressive Battleground Blog…
U.S. President given clean bill of health at 2005 annual checkup
Sunday, July 31, 2005 U.S. president released the results of high annual medical checkup July 31. The doctors said the president was in “excellent health”. The doctors did note some minor skin lesions from spending too much time in the sun and suggested sunscreen for the President. It is U.S. tradition for sitting presidents to…
Man in UK convicted for having obese dog
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 A British man, Ronald West, has been convicted of animal neglect after authorities received complaints about his five-year-old dog being severely overweight. Authorities discovered the case of neglect in December 2008 after a neighbor complained that West’s Border Collie Taz appeared to be too fat. File photo of a Border Collie…
US adds 173,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate drops to seven year low
Monday, September 7, 2015 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the US economy added 173,000 jobs in July. Job growth has averaged 221,00 per month for the past three months.Image: Bureau of Labor Statistics. The US economy added 173,000 jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The unemployment rate fell…
Iraqi deputy health minister kidnapped
Sunday, November 19, 2006 Deputy to the Iraq Health Minister, Ammar al-Saffar, who lives with his sister in Baghdad’s Sunni neighbourhood of Adhamiya, was kidnapped today. It is reported that six uniformed men and others wearing suits, arrived at Mr Saffer’s home in police cars and pickup trucks and took him off. As one of…
Acting teacher and director Milton Katselas dies at age 75
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Acting teacher and director Milton Katselas died Friday at age 75, after suffering from heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He began the Beverly Hills Playhouse in 1978 and taught acting classes there to noted actors including George Clooney and Gene Hackman. Katselas is survived by a…
Teen broadcasts suicide online
Sunday, November 23, 2008 A Pembroke Pines, Florida teenager killed himself Wednesday, November 19, while broadcasting on the live video site Justin.tv. After making suicide threats and being encouraged by Justin.tv viewers and Bodybuilding.com forum members, Abraham K. Biggs, 19, committed suicide by taking an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, which had been prescribed for…
U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on constitutionality of lethal injection
Monday, January 7, 2008 Lethal injection history and laws in the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the use of lethal injection as a method for the imposition of the death penalty in the United States. Two men, Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., who were convicted of…
Category:Health
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