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New year introduces Illinois texting while driving ban, among other laws
Sunday, January 3, 2010 About 300 new or amended laws took effect at midnight of New Year’s Day last Friday in Illinois, ranging from government ethics reform to driving laws. One law that is likely to affect residents’ lives the most is a ban on reading or sending text messages through a hand-held device. Drivers […]
Wikinews interviews organiser of New Zealand’s Rock2Wgtn festival Phil Sprey
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 File photo of KISS, who headlined night one. Image: Wok. Across Easter weekend Wellington, New Zealand was host to Rock2Wgtn, an international two-day hard rock festival. Large crowds showed up at Westpac Stadium to see the various acts. The world has never seen an event of this kind before. Day one […]
TECA celebrates 60-year anniversary with Taipei Audio Video Fair
Saturday, November 10, 2007 The 28th Taipei Audio Video Fair (TAVF), organized by the Taipei Electrical Commercial Association (TECA), featured not only some innovative domestic market exhibition ideas, but also offered a pavilion entitled the “Global Audio and Video History Corridor”, to showcase the audio and video industry’s world-wide history. Wikinews reporter Rico Shen attended […]
Two Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants close in Buffalo, New York, USA
Friday, May 11, 2007 The front doors of the Elmwood and Bryant KFC.Image: Jason Safoutin. At least two Kentucky Fried Chicken [KFC] restaurants, operated by G & H Restaurant Specialties, have closed in Buffalo, New York “for remodeling,” according to signs placed on the front doors of at least one location on Elmwood Avenue and […]
Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant
Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]
Zimbabwe projects 15% average growth over next five years
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Economic Development Minister Elton Mangoma of Zimbabwe today unveiled a mid-range plan to relaunch and transform the Zimbabwean economy over the next five years, envisioning a 15% average rate of growth. Mangoma told reporters in the capital of Harare that he looked for 12.5% growth in gross domestic product in 2010 […]
Young child dies imitating Hussein’s execution
Monday, January 1, 2007 A Pakistani boy got his older sister to hang him in the same manner as Saddam Hussein. Mubashar Ali, 9, hanged himself, while re-enacting Hussein’s hanging with the help of elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home in the Punjab district […]
Chemical firm LyondellBasell collapses
Friday, January 9, 2009 Correction — January 17, 2009 LyondellBasell did not collapse. Although the United States units and an affiliate registered in Germany filed for voluntary bankruptcy protection, the rest of the group, including the Netherlands parent, is operating normally. Sources: “Press release: Non-U.S. Operations Not Affected By Chapter 11 Filing (English version)” — LyondellBasell, […]
Zacarias Moussaoui to serve life in prison
Thursday, May 4, 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has agreed to a federal jury’s recommendation that Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted for conspiring with al-Qaeda in the September 11 attacks, spend life in prison. He will serve his life term in a federal maximum security prison, in Florence, Colorado. “God curse America. God save […]
Iconic London mural could be restored
Monday, September 20, 2010 One of London’s most well known murals could be restored after years of neglect if plans by a group of community activists gain public support. The Fitzrovia Mural at Whitfield Gardens on London’s Tottenham Court Road was created by two mural artists and commissioned by Camden Council in 1980, but the […]