Wikinews Shorts: August 18, 2010

A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, August 18, 2010. An unemployed, single mother from South Carolina has confessed to suffocating her two toddler children with her bare hands. After suffocating her one year-old and two year-old sons, 29 year-old Shaquan Duley drove her car into a river. Police have identified the suffocated children as […]

Helpful Hints For Exterior Home Improvement

More On This Topic: Painters Port Stephens Helpful Hints for Exterior Home Improvement by johysos8da While there are the standard home improvement projects, there are also others that aren\’t done as often. You can find information on the most complex projects, so you\’re only limited by your imagination. Any contractor will be happy to take […]

Mexico authorities find over four dozen corpses

Monday, May 14, 2012 Authorities in Mexico have discovered 49 headless and dismembered dead bodies abandoned on the side of a road at the entryway to San Juan, a town located within Cadereyta JimĂ©nez municipality. The bodies, six female and the other 43 male, were discovered by police at approximately 0400 CDT (0900 UTC) yesterday. […]

George Bush proposes economic growth package worth up to US$150 billion

Saturday, January 19, 2008 George W. Bush, the president of the United States has suggested an economic growth package that could be worth almost 1% of the United States’ GDP (the US GDP is appoximately US$15 trillion). The package is expected to come in the form of tax cuts. In a speech which took place […]

Adposition: A Key Part Of Speech

More On This Topic: Speech Therapy For Adults Sydney Adposition is a linguistics concept that is quite hard to define. It can be classified in three groups. First of all, there are the prepositions that all of us are very familiar with because English is a prepositional language. You know those tiny little words that […]

Sydney Opera House ‘No War’ activists face court for paint cans

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 Two activists convicted for painting the words “NO WAR” in five-metre-high red letters on the highest sail of Sydney Opera House in March 2003, are facing court action again to prevent them from auctioning the equipment used to paint the controversial sign. Dr Will Saunders and David Burgess were sentenced to […]

eBay removes Canadian town’s listing of sperm whale carcass

Thursday, May 8, 2014 Citing violations of its policy regarding “Marine mammal items”, eBay terminated an online listing on Monday by the town of Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, for a 40 ft (12 m) sperm whale carcass reportedly beached upon its shores about a week prior. With an initial asking price of […]

Wal-Mart accused of workers rights violations

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 A class-action suit has been filed with the Superior court of the state of California accusing Wal-Mart of failing to ensure their suppliers’ employees work in acceptable conditions. The suit, representing workers from six countries across four continents, conceals the identities of 17 workers from China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Swaziland and Nicaragua […]

Know Things Before Buying Property Anywhere

More On This Topic: Reverse Mortgages For Australians It increases its value with the phase of time. Earlier people use to invest much in gold and silver but the time has changed now. Today, most of the people are taking interest in property and are buying it as a treasure for future. But, here it […]

London Knights trade Steve Mason to Kitchener Rangers

Sunday, January 6, 2008 On the morning of January 4, 2008, while at the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, 19-year-old goalie Steve Mason received a phone call from Canada informing him that he was traded by the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights to the Kitchener Rangers. In a press release Friday, Kitchener Rangers Head […]