Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Safia Ahmed-jan, the director of the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs for the Khandahar province and an advocate of women’s rights and a strong critic of the Taliban‘s repression of those rights, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her home in Khandahar city in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Safia Ama-jan, as she was known locally, […]
FEMA employees pose as fake reporters during press conference
Correction — September 10, 2013 The headline should not contain the word fake: the employees posed as reporters; they didn’t pose as fake reporters, on the contrary they were fake reporters posing as real reporters. We aopologize for the error. Friday, October 26, 2007 The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under fire after the agency held a fake […]
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Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org offline raises ‘serious First Amendment concerns’
Thursday, February 28, 2008 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sided with Wikileaks.org and will defend them against a lawsuit which took the site off line in the United States. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to hosting leaked documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.” On February 18, 2008, a permanent court injunction issued […]
Surgeons reattach boy’s three severed limbs
Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party. The boy was today awake […]
US considers taxing earnings from online games
Sunday, October 22, 2006 With online gaming in persistent worlds becoming more prevalent, a US congressional committee has begun to look into the tax implications of these booming online economies. Games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life have large player driven economic systems in which – either following the rules or against them – real world currencies are […]
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‘Top Model’ winner Jaslene Gonzalez on her career and being a Latina role model
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Jaslene Gonzalez is not your typical model. She rose to fame after winning Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model, and since then, has been aggressively tapping into the fashion industry. As a result of her Latin background, Gonzalez has been successful at marketing herself both in the English-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds. However, Gonzalez is much […]
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit and family found dead
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Canadian professional wrestler Chris Benoit, who performed for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), was found dead, along with his wife Nancy, 43, and their son Daniel, 7, in their home in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday. Police are calling the deaths a “double murder-suicide.” “There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence […]
Transgender woman hired as city manager for Lake Worth, Florida
Thursday, April 9, 2009 Susan Stanton, the former city manager of Largo, Florida, has been hired as the new city manager for Lake Worth. Stanton was fired from her job as Largo’s city manager in 2007, apparently when her gender transition became public knowledge. “We said all along that we’d pick the best candidate regardless and that’s what it’s all […]