Thursday, June 20, 2013 Two bodies have been discovered in Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, 40 metres away from the wreckage of the SMS […]
ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data
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 […]
Crucifix in Northern Italy collapses, crushing man to death
Saturday, April 26, 2014 Ahead of Sunday’s scheduled canonization of Pope John Paul II, in the Italian village of Cevo, a massive stone and wood […]
Executives from global Internet industry meet at 2008 APRICOT
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The twelfth-annual Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (a.k.a APRICOT) returned to Taiwan this year at the Taipei Howard […]
William Salice, creator of Kinder Surprise eggs, dies at 83
Sunday, January 1, 2017 On Thursday, William Salice, credited with creating Kinder Surprise eggs, died at age 83 in Pavia, Italy because of a stroke, […]
Bankruptcy for U.S. automaker GM becomes almost certain after bondholder offers fail
Thursday, May 28, 2009 The United States automobile manufacturing firm General Motors announced on Wednesday that most of its bondholders did not exchange GM’s US$27 […]
Late-night vote sets Obamacare up for filibuster-free repeal
Saturday, January 14, 2017 At 1:30 a.m. on Thursday morning the United States Senate voted to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better […]
Ten dead on Minnesota Indian reservation after school shooting
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 A 17-year-old Minnesota student is believed to have shot his grandfather and grandmother, drove his grandfather’s squad car to the high […]
Ethics debate surrounds surgery to stunt disabled girl’s growth
Friday, January 5, 2007 An ethical controversy has surged in the United States and elsewhere around nine-year-old Ashley X (her family name has not been […]
News briefs:July 15, 2010
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