Thursday, August 27, 2015 Austrian police today found an estimated 20–50 decomposing corpses in an apparently abandoned lorry. Roadworkers who spotted the vehicle, which had been there since yesterday at least, alerted police. Responding officers found it full of corpses. The lorry is on the so-called “Eastern Motorway”, the A4, close to the Hungarian border. […]
Debian to shutdown public File Transfer Protocol services
Friday, April 28, 2017 Debian, a free and open source (FOSS) Linux-based operating system, on Tuesday announced they are to shut down Debian’s public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in November, via their official website. The public FTPs are to be redirected to Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from November 1. On Debian’s announcement list, Cédric Boutillier, […]
New Ghanaian currency introduced
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 New currency notes are being introduced in Ghana today. The new currency, to be called the Ghanaian cedi, replaces the previous cedi which has been in circulation since 17 February, 1967. The Ghanaian cedi will be exchanged at 10,000 old cedis to one new Ghanaian cedi. The exchange rate against the […]
Pakistan’s intelligence agency said to support Taliban
Sunday, June 13, 2010 A report from the London School of Economics claims that the intelligence agency of Pakistan, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has close ties to the Taliban in Afghanistan. According to the report, the ISI actively provides the Taliban with services such as funding, weapons, and the training of troops. Additionally, the report, […]
Scottish judge criticises medical care of murdered baby
Saturday, November 27, 2010 A judge in the High Court in Aberdeen, Scotland has criticised the care doctors gave to baby Alexis Matheson. Lord Uist made the comments while sentencing Mark Simpson, who was yesterday convicted of murdering the six-week-old girl. Simpson, 29, will serve at least twenty years of his life sentence after he […]
News briefs:July 20, 2010
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British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
Sunday, December 7, 2008 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikinews has learned at least six of the United Kingdom’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms that are causing major problems for UK […]
Why Choose Cessna 190
More On This Topic: Cafe Furniture Sydney Bar Furniture Why Choose Cessna 190 by A. James David There are a lot people who love to travel in the sky. If your business obliged you to travel a lot and it may cost a lot of money in renting planes then it is better to buy […]
11-year-old California girl charged for throwing stone in defense
Monday, July 18, 2005 An 11-year-old girl faces serious assault charges in California after casting a stone at a group of boys who were throwing water balloons at her. In April, Maribel Cuevas was apprehended by Fresno, California police and spent five days in a detention center after throwing the object at the group of […]
UK Wikinews Shorts: July 8, 2013
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, July 8, 2013.