Tuesday, September 26, 2006 New Zealand has been voted the coolest place in the world by United Kingdom brand: CoolBrands. Coolbrands is owned by a consultancy firm in the UK, called Superbrands. It started in 2001, CoolBrands is a way of telling how ‘cool’ a brand is. Superbrands defines “brands that have become extremely desirable […]
Category:Federal Emergency Management Agency
This is the category for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a US disaster mitigation body. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 23 May 2011: Tornado touches down in Joplin, Missouri 24 April 2011: Tornadoes damage hundreds of Missouri homes, force closure of airport 24 September 2010: American Samoa received eight minutes warning before […]
Advertise Your Company With Promotional Beanie Hats And By Showing You Have A Heart
By Matt Franks Winter is coming, and with it, the colder weather. Soon people are going to be bundling up tight and protecting themselves against the cold and the snow. There are a lot of promotional items that companies are ordering so that they are remembered during the colder months, and one of the popular […]
Pennsylvania state trooper found guilty of first-degree murder
Friday, March 20, 2009 In the United States, a suspended Pennsylvania state trooper has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing his girlfriend’s estranged husband. Kevin Foley, 43, faces a mandatory life sentence without parole for slashing to death John Yelenic, a Blairsville dentist who was in the final stages of divorcing his wife, Michele. […]
Satirist Stephen Colbert runs for U.S. President
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 The American satirist Stephen Colbert has announced that he will run for the Presidency of the United States. He made his announcement on his mock news show The Colbert Report. However, Colbert said that he would only run in his home state of South Carolina as a favorite son. He also […]
Ottawa plans tax windfall to deal with budget surplus
Sunday, October 9, 2005 Canada’s federal government has announced a new program that plans to share unexpected budget surpluses with ordinary citizens. It should be introduced in Ottawa as early as Friday. The Surplus Allocation Act would share any surplus equally between tax cuts, new spending and debt relief. It would not replace Canada’s $3 […]
What Are Situations Necessitating Emergency Dentistry Attention
What are situations necessitating emergency dentistry attention by Gentle Dentle Care When you have a significant toothache abruptly in the centre of the night is just not the merely situation where you may need the emergency dental treatment. In simple fact, there may be other situations also where you\’d probably require your services associated with […]
Former Satyam CEO Raju, his brother and CFO arrested and detained in profit-fraud scandal
Monday, January 12, 2009 Byrraju Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman of Satyam Computer Services, and his brother, B. Rama Raju, the company’s managing director, were arrested late Friday by Andhra Pradesh police. The brothers were placed under judicial custody in a Hyderabad, India jail and will remain there until January 23. Facing charges of criminal […]
Tom Cruise Scientology promotional video leaked to the Internet
Thursday, January 17, 2008 Two days before Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States, a video showing Cruise promoting Scientology was leaked to the Internet. The promotional video appeared on video-sharing sites including YouTube, Gawker.com and radar online.com, and clips […]
US free speech lawyer Marc Randazza discusses Glenn Beck parody
Monday, October 19, 2009 Wikinews interviewed US free speech lawyer Marc Randazza, on his defense of a parody website which satirizes American political commentator Glenn Beck. Florida resident Isaac Eiland-Hall created the website in September, and it asserts Beck uses questionable tactics “to spread lies and misinformation”. The case Beck v. Eiland-Hall is currently before […]