Sunday, January 11, 2015 Space transport services company SpaceX launched their fifth Dragon resupply vehicle to the International Space Station yesterday. The spacecraft — containing more than 2,200kg (5,000 pounds) of food, experiments, and spare parts — successfully decoupled from the launch rocket and should reach the station early tomorrow. The launch was postponed from […]
Tamiflu maker on alert after bird flu deaths in Indonesia
Saturday, May 27, 2006 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday asked the Swiss manufacturer of the antiviral medicine Tamiflu to prepare the global stockpile of the drug for distribution after a family of seven Indonesians died from the H5N1 avian flu virus. However, the WHO says that there is no cause for alarm at […]
UK retailers MFI and Woolworths collapse
Friday, November 28, 2008 Two major retail chains in the United Kingdom — general retailer Woolworths Group and furniture vendor MFI Group — have entered administration. Entertainment UK — which distributes videos and DVDs to retailers and are owned by Woolworths — have also entered administration. “The boards of Woolworths PLC and Entertainment UK Ltd […]
Over 100 dead and hundreds missing in Indonesia after tsunami destroys island villages
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 At least 113 people are now dead and hundreds more are missing after a 10 foot (3 m) tsunami destroyed several villages in a series of remote islands in western Indonesia. The tsunami was caused by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake which struck on Monday at 9:42 p.m. local time (14:42 UTC). […]
Probate Liquidators: Buying And Selling Inheritance Assets And Real Estate
Read More About: Fortnum Afsl Authorised Representative By Simon Volkov Probate liquidators are individuals or businesses that buy and sell probated inheritance assets. The probate process is required to settle estates of individuals who have died. During probate the decedent’s last will and testament is reviewed and validated to ensure assets are distributed to rightful […]
News briefs:August 27, 2006
The time is 18:00 (UTC) on August 27th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Many dead after jet crashes in Kentucky 1.2 Canadian soldiers kill Afghan police officer 1.3 British soldier shot and killed in southern Afghanistan 1.4 Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, journalists released 1.5 Guantanamo inmate […]
Triple limb-reattachment fails – boy loses foot
Tuesday, April 5, 2005Terry Vo, the 10-year old Australian boy who had two hands and a foot reattached by surgeons after losing them in an accident, has had to have the foot re-amputated. He will be given a prosthetic foot in its place. The operation to re-attach three limbs was thought to have been a […]
Two-time Eurovision entrant Edsilia Rombley discusses music, love, and her contrasting Contest experiences
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 When she was barely 20 years old, Dutch singer Edsilia Rombley got her first large taste of international acclaim. Already a winner of the smaller imitation contest Soundmix Show, she decided to shoot higher. With a great deal of determination, she performed in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers […]
Introducing 5 Of The Most Effective Rodent Control Methods
Introducing 5 of the Most-Effective Rodent Control Methods by AndrewThomas Sometimes rats and mice get indoors and damage property, contaminate food and also transmit disease. It can be really difficult to control them. Needless to say that rats and mice cause a huge loss of food everywhere, around the globe. However, this is not all […]
NATO: 130 militants killed in Afghanistan
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 NATO has said that Afghan and international forces have killed more than 130 insurgents, including eight Taliban leaders, in an offensive in northern Kunduz province recently. In a statement on Monday, NATO said that international forces carried out the operation in Chahar Dara district last week “to stop insurgent activity and […]