Friday, June 10, 2005 The Swedish organization Antipiratbyrån (The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau) suffered a massive blow today when the Swedish government’s Data Inspection Board stated that the Bureau’s storage of Internet user’s IP addresses is illegal. Antipiratbyrån is an organization representing the movie and software industry in Sweden, working to protect the intellectual property of its beneficiaries. This spring they […]
News briefs:August 2, 2010
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How Sports Trading Pins Are Awarded
Click Here To Find Out More About: Foreign Exchange Market Trading Hours How Sports Trading Pins Are Awarded by Brett Woodson A number of trading pins are awarded for a variety of reasons in different sports. For example, in football and baseball athletes and teams sometimes can win trading pins for winning championships and tournaments. In soccer and hockey, certain […]
Ten-year-old computer glitch prevents delivery of 1,380 Canadian health results
Sunday, May 24, 2009 The Saskatoon Health Region in Saskatchewan, Canada recently discovered a fax machine problem which had not relayed almost 1,500 X-rays, Computed tomography (CT) and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, ultrasounds, and other medical imaging test results to doctors. The fax machine is part of the automated Radiology Information System. An audit revealed that medical diagnostic tests […]
Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” wins Man Booker Prize 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 The 2009 Man Booker Prize has been awarded to British author Hilary Mantel for her historical novel Wolf Hall. 57 other authors were short-listed, including former winners AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, as well as Sarah Waters, whose book, The Little Stranger, has sold more copies than Wolf Hall. I can tell you at this moment […]
Ukranian railway accident generates huge phosphor cloud
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 An alarm for heavy chemical pollution has been issued in the Lviv region, Ukraine, where yesterday evening a railway disaster led to a fire involving 15 containers of liquid yellow phosphorus. Extinguishing the fire proved extremely difficult because water cannot be used: in contact with phosphorus, water creates poisonous gas. It took six hours before the […]
Special Builder Firm
Click Here To Find Out More About: Newcastle Luxury Granny Flats Special builder firm by Christopher Baxla Periodically, in your quest to have things finished speedily, we at times forget regarding a lot of the essential matters prior to getting into a contract. Sometimes, when we become excited with our plans, we decide to commit easily and jump on the […]
20 years on: Lockerbie victims’ group head talks to Wikinews
Sunday, December 21, 2008 On this day twenty years ago, a transatlantic airliner broke up in midair and came down onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 people on board Pan Am Flight 103, and eleven people on the ground, lost their lives in what remains the worst air disaster in British history. The disaster was an act of […]
Alex Trebek, host of US TV game show ‘Jeopardy!’ suffers heart attack
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Reports say that the host of the United States television game show Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek, 67 is being hospitalized after suffering from a minor heart attack. “Alex Trebek, host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ has had a minor heart attack. He is resting comfortably in a Los Angeles, California hospital, and he will be back in the studio for […]
Actor Jerry Orbach dead at age 69
Friday, December 31, 2004 New York City — Actor Jerry Orbach died in his home in Manhattan at age 69. Orbach was a staple of American cinema, stage and television, with his most recent role being in the NBC police drama “Law and Order.” Orbach is survived by his wife of 25 years, Elaine Cancilla, and his two sons Anthony […]