Monday, October 25, 2010 Five police officers were injured as they attempted to quell a demonstration over plans to build a large garbage tip on the edge of an Italian town, officials confirmed on Saturday. Two police officers and three carabinieri suffered minor injures during the protest, which lasted several hours. Residents of Terzigno, a municipality in the Province of […]
Chunichi Dragons win the 2007 Konami Cup
Monday, November 12, 2007 In the final of the Konami Cup 2007, Chunichi Dragons battled SK Wyverns again, many Japanese spectators hoped for Dragons to take revenge on Wyverns and win the championship. This was really a intensive match with starting pitchers George Kenneth Rayborn from SK versus Daisuke Yamai. Even though Byung-kyu Lee hit a 2 runs HR to […]
“Woofstock” dog festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 North America’s largest outdoor dog festival came back to Toronto last weekend for its fifth year. It ran from the 9th of June to the 10th of June at Toronto’s historical St. Lawrence Market. A Wikinews reporter was there on Sunday to report on some of the events that happened on the last day. The “Woofstock” […]
Gifts For Sailboat Owners And Sailing Enthusiasts
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Online Bet By John C. Banks Sailboaters and nautical enthusiasts love t shirts and other items that display their favorite type of sailboat, sailing event or nautical slogan. There are endless designs to choose from, varying from simple text only slogans to designs that depict several sailboat designs. Simple line art logos depicting […]
More than 75 dead as Typhoon Rai sweeps through Philippines
Sunday, December 19, 2021 On December 16, Typhoon Rai, locally known as Typhoon Odette created havoc in Philippines. More than 300 thousand people were evacuated from the south eastern islands of Philippines. After making landfall, the storm ripped off roofs and toppled concrete power poles while knocking out communications and electricity. Today, the Government of Philippines said that more than […]
Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers’ bills
Monday, November 29, 2004 HANOVER, Germany —Internet portal and mail-provider Lycos Europe has launched a program to increase spammers’ bills by having thousands of voluntary users’ computers repeatedly query websites from which spam originates. Such a tactic would increase the bandwidth costs for these websites. However, it also faces legal questions. Spamming, the mass sending of unsolicited emails, is lucrative […]
China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 total Chinese exports reached US$1.2 […]
Commercial Trash Compactors Common Sense
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TARC to showcase R&D achievements in 2008 AutoTronics Taipei
Friday, April 11, 2008 In the Opening Day of 2008 AutoTronics Taipei (April 9), the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) invited Jamie C. Hsu (Consultant of Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of the China and Former Management Executive Director of General Motors Global Technology) for a speech in the “Pavilion of Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium (TARC)” […]
US considers taxing earnings from online games
Sunday, October 22, 2006 With online gaming in persistent worlds becoming more prevalent, a US congressional committee has begun to look into the tax implications of these booming online economies. Games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life have large player driven economic systems in which – either following the rules or against them – real world currencies are […]