Sunday, April 11, 2010 Fifteen deaths and over 680 injuries have resulted from clashes between Red shirt protesters and government forces in the Thai capital Bangkok. The deaths of seventeen civilians, including a Japanese cameraman working for the Reuters agency, and four soldiers come after almost a month of protests. Since March 12 Red shirts, so called because of their […]
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EU warns Microsoft: forthcoming Vista risks antitrust breach
Thursday, March 30, 2006 The European Commission has warned Microsoft that features the company intends to include in its next version of Windows known as Windows Vista may breach the European Union’s antitrust laws. The EU’s commissioner in charge of competition, Neelie Kroes, wrote to Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft last week informally warning him that Microsoft’s plans to include […]
Object that fell through roof of New Jersey home not a meteorite
Saturday, May 12, 2007 An object that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home in January was not a meteorite, according to Jeremy Delaney, a geologist at Rutgers University. Instead, it appears the object was space junk or orbital debris. “Basically, it’s a piece of stainless steel. There’s huge amounts of material that have been left by the […]
Car crashes into house in Suffolk, UK, seriously injuring man
Sunday, March 24, 2013 A male driver has been hospitalised with serious head injuries after the car he was in crashed into the corner of a house in Suffolk in the east of the United Kingdom. Members of the fire service attended the incident scene, which occurred in the Carlton Colville district of the town of Lowestoft, approximately seven minutes […]
British student falls to his death from 10th floor window
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 An unnamed male student has fallen to his death from a tenth floor window in Middlesbrough, England. The 24-year-old threw himself out of an open window in Middlesbrough Tower, the main building of the University of Teesside. The drop was 120 feet high. Police and ambulance were called to the scene at around 18:30. The police […]
FBI arrests, charges man over nude videos of US presenter Erin Andrews
Sunday, October 4, 2009 The FBI have arrested a man and charged him with interstate stalking over allegations he was responsible for nude videos of United States sports news presenter Erin Andrews. The videos appeared on the Internet earlier this year. The FBI believes seven videos of Andrews were made in Nashville, Tennessee in September last year while another one […]
Murder, rape of Albert Namatjira’s great-granddaughter makes belated news
Monday, April 3, 2006 Sometime during the night of Friday, January 28, 15 year-old Jenissa Ryan was assaulted and raped in Alice Springs. She was discovered near the entrance of Centralian Senior Secondary College around 10:30 a.m., and a college employee called an ambulance. The attack was not reported in the mainstream national media until this week, when it became […]
Australian House of Representatives grows heated over industrial relations legislation
Thursday, November 3, 2005 Australian industral relations reform legislation made up of 700 pages of bill legislation and 500 additional pages of explanatory memoranda was introduced into the Federal House of Representatives November 2, where the Opposition heatedly attempted to address their perceived problem of the Government’s lack of discussion and debate over the matter. The first reading of the […]