Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A London man charged on Sunday with drugging and murdering four men made his first court appearance yesterday. Stephen Port, 40, was remanded to appear before a higher court tomorrow.
The revolving sign outside Metropolitan Police HQ.Image: "Man vyi".Port faces four counts of murder and four counts of "administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict...
Thursday, November 8, 2007
OLPC XO-1 Mass Production has startedIndia is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay and Galadima in...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
North America's largest outdoor dog festival came back to Toronto last weekend for its fifth year. It ran from the 9th of June to the 10th of June at Toronto's historical St. Lawrence Market. A Wikinews reporter was there on Sunday to report on some of the events that happened on the last day.
The "Woofstock" dog festival attracted as many as 140,000 people with their...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A London man charged on Sunday with drugging and murdering four men made his first court appearance yesterday. Stephen Port, 40, was remanded to appear before a higher court tomorrow.
The revolving sign outside Metropolitan Police HQ.Image: "Man vyi".Port faces four counts of murder and four counts of "administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict...
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The ubiquitous plastic bag(Image missing from Commons: image; log)They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
"First clinical signs of bluetongue: rise in temperature, followed by hyperaemia of oral cavity and mucus membranes leading to oedema of the lips, tongue and face." Image: Institute for Animal Health and DEFRA.A highly dynamic Bluetongue (or catarrhal fever) infection of sheep herds is underway in Germany. From August 2006 till September 9, 2007, 1,833 farms had...
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
HamburgerAustralian Greens Senator Bob Brown today called for a ban on junk food advertisements during times that children are watching TV. In a press release, the Senator referred specifically to the previous night's episode of Four Corners.
"The extensive use of psychologists to analyse little children’s responsiveness to TV advertising, including how best to influence...
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Currently, there are blackouts, heavy rain, and high winds in British Columbia. Over 220,000 BC Hydro customers have no power. Buildings have already collapsed and trees have been knowed down. Five Vancouver rivers were in danger of flooding, which rain fell at 10 mm an hour for more than six hours at midday.
The steel frame of a four-storey building under...
Friday, February 3, 2006
Computer security experts warn that a malicious computer worm, dubbed "Kama Sutra," is set to wreak havoc this Friday, February 3rd on Microsoft Windows computers worldwide. Kama Sutra is designed to destroy files that end in .doc, .zip and .pdf.
The Kama Sutra worm has been spreading through cyberspace since January 16, packaged in emails with subject headings such as:...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Brown Swiss is the breed of dairy cattle that produces the second largest quantity of milk per annum, over 9000kgGiving a cow a name and treating her as an individual with "more personal touch" can increase milk production, so says a scientific research published in the online "Anthrozoos," which is described as a "multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of...