Saturday, February 5, 2005 AUSTRALIA — Australian immigration authorities have held a mentally ill Australian woman, Cornelia Rau (also known as Anna), against her will for over 10 months, at least two of them spent in high security, where she…
Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at age 93
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 The death of Scottish artist Alan Davie was announced on Sunday. Davie, 93, was known for his colourful abstract paintings. Davie’s career also saw turns as a jeweler, a jazz musician, a lecturer, and a poet.…
Interview with Jimbo Wales
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Saturday, December 10, 2005 While this wasn’t Interview with the Vampire, getting a live interview with Jimmy…
‘Guantanamo’-style detention facility under construction on Australian Island
Monday, November 28, 2005 The Australian Government is currently building a “Guantanamo-style detention facility” – a $210 million, 800-bed Immigration Reception and Processing Centre – on Christmas Island, 1400km off Australia’s northwest coast. The project has residents concerned about the…
E Cigarettes Vs Tobacco Dependence Study
Read An Opinion On: Spell Clothing Australia August, 2015 byadmin Electronic cigarettes (often referred to as “e-cigs”) have become increasingly popular over the past few years, but relatively few electronic cigarette scientific studies have been conducted to determine whether or…
Indonesian parliament approves privatising of three major state firms
Saturday, September 20, 2008 The parliament of Indonesia has approved government plans to make an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of shares in three major state-owned firms, privatising them. They are steelmaker Krakatau Steel, Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) and national flag…
News briefs:July 12, 2010
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Up to 18 arrested, police injured in APEC rally
Saturday, September 8, 2007 An anti-APEC rally through the streets of Sydney has attracted around 5000 demonstrators, with up to 18 arrests and two police injured. In the days leading up to the rally, police had warned that the demonstration…
Share Point Document Migration Challenges When Migrating Files And Folders
Read An Opinion On: Richard Light Interactive Submitted by: Sarah Jay 1. Dealing with Special characters and Lengths in Folder and File names SharePoint does not accept certain special characters (tilde, number sign, percent, ampersand, asterisk, braces, backslash, colon, angle…
Nigerian anti-corruption officials arrest former governor James Ibori
Friday, December 14, 2007 Nigerian police arrested former Delta State governor James Ibori Wednesday on charges of abuse of office, corruption, and money laundering. According to a statement by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibori was picked up at…