Three charged following release of Cronulla riot wanted photographs
January 23, 2021
Friday, March 10, 2006 Three men have been arrested and a further six "positively identified" following the public release of photographs showing "persons of interest" to police in relation to the Sydney riots last year. A 20-year-old man from Warilla, a suburb of Wollongong, handed himself into police yesterday after seeing his photograph in a newspaper. He was subsequently charged with riot and affray. An 18-year-old man from Bella Vista was arrested in a Baulkham Hills...
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Ziff Davis sells 1UP to UGO Networks/Hearst, closes Electronic Gaming Monthly
January 21, 2021
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Electronic Gaming Monthly is now dead. EGM was one issue away from its 20th anniversary in February 2009. An internal email leaked to industry website Gamasutra on Tuesday revealed that EGM was to be closed following the acquisition of the online element of the 1UP network by competitor Hearst Corporation's UGO Entertainment and that the January 2009 issue (with Wolverine on the cover) would be the final printed issue of the iconic...
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Apple to give free cases, refunds to iPhone 4 owners
January 20, 2021
Saturday, July 17, 2010 Apple Inc. announced Friday that it will give owners of its new iPhone 4 a free case in response to mounting concerns over the device's antenna placement. The iPhone 4 antenna is actually a metal strip that wraps around the side of the device, which has caused dropped calls when held in a certain way. The announcement came in a rare press conference held by Apple on Friday morning. During the event,...
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Arinze and Tettamanzi equal favorites as new Pope
January 17, 2021
Tuesday, April 5, 2005Irish betting shop chain, Paddy Power, is taking bets for a new Pope. The current front runners are Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Italy, who have each been given odds of 11-4. "Our feeling is, we held off a few days, and now the cardinals themselves are convening in Rome," Darren Haines, a spokesman for Paddy Power said. "We do it very much in the same way as...
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Television actors acknowledged by SAG Awards nominations
January 8, 2021
Thursday, January 4, 2007 The Actor® Statuette is awarded to each year's SAG Award winners. Mark Hill/Screen Actors Guild ©1995 Introduced by Alan Rosenberg, current President of the Screen Actors Guild, Grey's Anatomy star Sandra Oh and Bobby, Happy Feet actor Elijah Wood announced nominees for "the Actors". The award ballots will be mailed to voters tomorrow. The Guild's entire active membership is allowed to vote, before the January 26 deadline. It is the only award...
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Switzerland: charges dropped in the Aubonne bridge affair
January 1, 2021
Thursday, February 16, 2006 Nyon — The prosecutor did not withhold complains for "simple" and "severe" physical harm by negligence against gendarmes Poget and Deiss in the trial of the Aubonne Bridge affair. Verdict will be given of Friday in the morning. Contents 1 Facts 2 Plaintifs 3 Prosecutor 4 External links 5 Sources Retrieved from "https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Switzerland:_charges_dropped_in_the_Aubonne_bridge_affair&oldid=779275"
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How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
December 28, 2020
Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the primary agency for engineering support during such emergencies. A USACE team was...
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US Senator Rand Paul blocks synthetic marijuana legislation
December 24, 2020
Friday, March 30, 2012 Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is the lone holdout preventing a vote on synthetic marijuana legislation in the US Senate through a procedural block that is allowed under the rules. Until Paul lifts his block, the Senate will not be able to act on legislation that has already passed the US House of Representatives last December. Wikinews has investigated the block on the legislation. Synthetic marijuana can be sold over the counter...
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Baby in California born with 12 functioning fingers and toes, in a rare case of polydactylism
December 22, 2020
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 A six-pound infant born in San Francisco, California has six perfectly formed and functional fingers and toes on his hands and feet, so that it isn't considered a disability or deformity, say doctors at Saint Luke's Hospital who were amazed by the oddity. In a medical rarity, super baby Kamani Hubbard was born two weeks ago with 24 working digits. He is healthy and home with his parents in Daly City, California....
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Australia/2006
December 20, 2020
Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December [edit] Retrieved from "https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Australia/2006&oldid=804654"
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