Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced on Tuesday that Old Parliament House in Canberra has been heritage listed. It is the 31st entry on the National Heritage List. The listing acknowledges the role the building has in shaping Australia’s culture and protects it from being modified in any way which could […]
Read MoreEleven HIV/AIDS patient-protestors detained in Myanmar
Friday, June 8, 2007 Myanmar authorities detained 11 HIV/AIDS patients for three days in a Yangon hospital following the group’s recent demonstrations calling for the release of detained HIV/AIDS activist Phyu Phyu Thinn. The patients were being detained at Waybargi Infectious Diseases Hospital on the outskirts of Yangon. “The patients were given a series of […]
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Read MoreGround broken on Northpoint development in Cambridge, Massachusetts
A view of the Leonard Zakim bridge from the construction site. The warehouses at right will be replaced by a five-acre park within two years. The elevated roadway in the foreground is the John F. Gilmore Bridge. Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Cambridge, Massachusetts —Construction of two condominium buildings and a five-acre park began on March […]
Read MoreKatrina raised gas prices higher than ever
Sunday, September 11, 2005 The retail price of gasoline has risen higher than ever in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The losses from the deadly hurricane include the destruction of oil refineries all around the Mexican Gulf area, and resulted in a cut of nearly 11 percent of U.S. refining capacity. It is estimated that […]
Read MoreSeveral dead in Oregon college shootings
Sunday, October 4, 2015 Nine people were killed on Thursday by 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. By various reports seven or nine people were also injured. Officials said Mercer killed himself during the subsequent shootout with police. Mercer began the killing spree in a class where […]
Read MoreSingapore police arrest death penalty book author
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Singapore police arrested British author and journalist Alan Shadrake one day after the launch of his book about the country’s use of the death penalty. Shadrake, 75, was arrested on Sunday morning at a hotel in Singapore and taken into custody by police on charges of criminal defamation, in response to […]
Read MoreSteve Kubby, co-author of California Proposition 215, grows dangerously ill in US custody
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Steve Kubby who was facing extradition from Canada, returned to California, was arrested, and is now in custody in Placer County, California Jail, pending a hearing today. He is a medical cannabis patient who relies on the drug to regulate the symptoms of malignant phenochromocytoma, a cancer of the adrenal gland […]
Read MoreMake Way For The Chevrolet
Find Out More About: Sydney Used Car Sales Cheap Car Dealers Sydney Submitted by: Dorothy Wood Chevrolet, an automobile brand of General Motors (GM), has a racing pedigree. The Chevy cars of today traces their roots from Louis Chevrolet, a race-car driver during the early 1900s who was hired by GM founder William Durant to […]
Read MoreOne dead after bus and bicycle crash in Hampshire, England
Monday, July 19, 2010 A person has died after being involved in a collision between a bus and a bicycle in Hampshire in the south of England, United Kingdom. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was cycling in the seaside resort of Southsea when a number 700 Stagecoach single-decker bus, which was travelling […]
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