Thursday, February 5, 2009 The Queensland Greens will run an environmental lawyer against incumbent treasurer Andrew Fraser at this years Queensland state election in Australia. Larissa Waters will be the party’s candidate for the seat of Mt Coot-tha. Ms Waters says she is hoping that the premier does not call the election in May, as…
Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home
Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust@home logoImage: Stardust@home. Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in deep space and landed back on Earth on January 15, 2006. It was decided that a collaborative online review process would be used to “discover” the microscopically small samples the…
Benazir Bhutto buried; violence erupts in assassination aftermath
Friday, December 28, 2007 Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack yesterday, has been buried in her ancestral home in the village of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. Meanwhile, violence has erupted across the nation in protest to the 54-year-old opposition leader’s death. The Pakistani government has…
Insider Tips: Selecting A Go Zone Property Manager
Read An Opinion On: Cmms Software For Aged Care Submitted by: Michael Zari INTRODUCTION In Part 1 of this series, we went over some of the basics for getting an tenant into your newly purchased GO Zone property. Then in Part 2 of this series, we detailed the different options for marketing, getting a tenant,…
Category:Science and technology
This is the category for science and technology. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 28 March 2023: “Avast ye scurvy file sharers!”: Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge 19 March 2023: Study: floods, droughts more intense in past 20 years due to higher global temperatures 9 March 2023: Netherlands set to…
Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England
Monday, December 2, 2013 Location of West Midlands within England Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described…
KKE: Interview with the Greek Communist Party
Thursday, May 13, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald has performed an interview with Dr Isabella Margara, a London-based member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In the interview Margara sets out the communist response to current events in Greece as well as discussing the viability of a communist economy for the nation. She also…
Sahara City Homes Solapur New High End Apartments}
Read An Opinion On: Investment Property In Brisbane Submitted by: Humayun Quaiser Sahara City homes Solapur is another luxurious sequence of apartments set in the heart of the Pune city from Sahara Infrastructure located at Main Solapur Pune Highway Road, Solapur. The project lies in close vicinity to major landmarks of the city with city…
13 schools torched in southern Thailand
Thursday, June 14, 2007 A school burns in 2005. Image: Brian Carter. In an apparent coordinated attack, 13 schools were set ablaze late yesterday in southern Thailand, an escalation of violence that authorities are blaming on Muslim insurgents. The 13 schools were burned in Pattani and Yala, two of the three restive, Muslim-majority Thai provinces…
Iranian International Master Dorsa Derakhshani discusses her chess career with Wikinews
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Dorsa Derakhshani in Baku, 2017 (Image: Gibraltar Chess Festival) In February 2017, the Iranian Chess Federation announced two teenage chess players, Dorsa Derakhshani and her younger brother Borna Derakhshani, were banned from representing the national team. The federation announced their decision although Dorsa Derakhshani had previously decided and informed the chess…