Sunday, February 13, 2005 New York –”Buy cheap Viagra through us – no prescription required!” Anyone with an active email account will recognize lines like this one. According to some reports, unsolicited advertisements (spam) for Viagra and similar drugs account for one in four spam messages. BACKGROUND Spamming remains one of the biggest problems facing email users today. While users […]
New Zealand school children put fight videos on YouTube
Friday, October 27, 2006 Approximately seven videos showing school children beating their peers have been put on the Google-owned video service, YouTube. The videos are recorded using cellphone cameras from students at Auckland Grammar School, Tauranga Boys’ College and Saint Kentigern College and other unidentified schools, according to New Zealand newspaper, The Press. Auckland Grammar has three videos of bullying […]
Wikinews interviews Jim Hedges, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate
Saturday, January 29, 2011 U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate Jim Hedges of Thompson Township, Pennsylvania took some time to answer a few questions about the Prohibition Party and his 2012 presidential campaign. The Prohibition Party is the third oldest existing political party in the United States, having been established in 1869. It reached its height of popularity during the late […]
China loans Ethiopia US$349 million for construction of expressway
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 China has loaned Ethiopia US$349 million worth of funds for the construction of the the country’s first modern expressway, making Ethiopia among the first beneficiaries of the recently implemented China-Africa development funding plan. The road is to be close to 80 kilometres long, and will connect Nazaret (also called Adama), the country’s second-largest city, with the […]
2008 TaiSPO: Interview with Ideal Bike Corporation and Gary Silva
Friday, March 28, 2008 2008 Taipei International Cycle Show (Taipei Cycle) & Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO) not only did a best reunion with conjunctions of the launch of Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition and the concurrent cycling race of 2008 Tour de Taiwan but also provide opportunities and benefits for sporting goods, bicycle, and athlete sports industries […]
Space shuttle Discovery safely arrives at launch pad
Friday, May 19, 2006File:148888main sts121atpad lg.jpg On Friday in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Space Shuttle Discovery began its 4.2 mile, 7 hour long journey to the launch pad, completing successfully. Discovery weighs approximately 4.5 million pounds. The launch was supposed to occur in May, but NASA pushed back the date because of a faulty fuel sensor. This will be Discovery’s second […]
Leader of South Korea requests foreign involvement in decommissioning of nuclear test site
Friday, May 4, 2018 On Tuesday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in contacted the United Nations and requested U.N. supervision of the decommissioning of Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, a subterranean tunnel network beneath Mount Mantap where all six of North Korea’s nuclear tests took place. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly said during April 27’s session of the 2018 Inter-korea […]
Euro 2008 Qualification: Scotland vs. Ukraine
Saturday, October 13, 2007 October 13, 200715:00 (UTC) Scotland 3–1 Ukraine Hampden Park, Glasgow Attendance: 51,366 Referee: Peter Vink Miller 4′ (3)McCulloch 10′ (1)McCulloch 45’+4’Ferguson 45’+4’McCulloch 60’Dailly 60’McFadden 68′ (4)Miller 72’Brown 76’Maloney 76’McFadden 80’O’Connor 80’O’Connor 89′ Match Report 3′ Nesmachniy 15′ Shevchenko 24′ (4) Shevchenko 37′ Vorobey 46′ Gusev 46′ Rotan 64′ Vorobey 64′ Nazarenko 70′ Rotan 73′ Tymoschuk 73′ Shelayev Scotland took a […]
Tanker truck fire causes collapse on Oakland Freeway
Sunday, April 29, 2007 A tanker truck carrying approximately 8,600 gallons of unleaded gasoline caught on fire on the Interstate 80/880 interchange in Oakland, California early Sunday morning around 3:40 AM. The fire resulted in the collapse of at least two sections of bridges at the interchange, including one carrying I-580. The multi-level freeway interchange known as the MacArthur Maze […]