Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their…
Rutte elected leader of the VVD
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Mark Rutte has been elected leader of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). In a close internal election, the junior minister for Education beat the minister for Immigration and Integration Rita Verdonk and backbencher Jelleke Veenendaal. On 31 May 2006, the party’s president Jan van Zanen announced the…
Category:Iain Macdonald (Wikinewsie)/Aviation
Aviation articles by Wikinewsie Iain Macdonald. Power firm helicopter strikes cables, crashes near Fairfield, California Germany bans Mahan Air of Iran, citing ‘security’ Lion Air disaster: Crashed jet’s voice recorder recovered from Java Sea Iranian cargo plane crashes into Karaj houses Police warn new drone owners to obey law after disruption at UK’s Gatwick Airport…
How Googles Real Time Access To Tweets May Impact Your Seo}
Read An Opinion On: Digital Marketing Services Online Submitted by: Amaya Dixit A few years back, when you did a search you may have chanced upon a Tweet or two in your SERPs. Through a deal that was struck between the two, Google gained access to Twitters data stream and in return, these tweets would…
30,000-year-old Austrian statue traced to stone from Italy
Saturday, March 5, 2022 In findings published on Monday in Scientific Reports, scientists from the University of Vienna and Vienna Natural History Museum, Austria found the stone used to carve the Venus of Willendorf came from northern Italy, hundreds of miles from its origin, on the other side of the Alps. The 30 thousand-year-old sculpture…
Wikinews interviews Joe Schriner, Independent U.S. presidential candidate
Saturday, April 17, 2010 Journalist, counselor, painter, and US 2012 Presidential candidate Joe Schriner of Cleveland, Ohio took some time to discuss his campaign with Wikinews in an interview. Schriner previously ran for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008, but failed to gain much traction in the races. He announced his candidacy for the 2012…
How To Get Into Medical School With A Low Gpa
Read An Opinion On: Registered Nurse Programs San Diego How To Get Into Medical School With A Low GPA by John Galt42 Your acceptance to med school doesn’t solely depend on getting a high GPA, but you can’t slack off to the point where you have to ask yourself how you can get into medical…
Airliner crashes in China, 42 killed
Friday, August 27, 2010 42 people have died in the crash of an airplane that was flying to Yichun in the province of Heilongjiang, north-eastern China, on Tuesday. 54 people, including the captain, survived the crash. Chinese government news agency Xinhua reported that the Embraer 190 jet missed the runway during landing, was damaged and…
Drunk coach driver arrested after crash injures at least 30
Monday, September 3, 2007 The driver of a National Express coach has been arrested on suspicion of Drunk Driving and Dangerous Driving after his coach clipped the curb and overturned, hitting a lamp post and tree, at Newport Pagnell services, in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, at around 16:00 BST. Six of the 33 passengers were seriously…
HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer
Sunday, May 18, 2008 An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that no…