Sunday, September 28, 2008 A fire on Saturday destroyed the main hall of the Egyptian National Theatre in Cairo. Six people have been injured including three firefighters. No one was in the theatre at the time as it was closed for the weekend. Egyptian state culture minister Faruq Hosni, said “The fire broke out in the main hall of the theatre. It was probably caused by an electrical short circuit.” Ataba Square was filled with thick white smoke just after sunset as a total of 22 fire engines responded. Egyptian…
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U.S. warns of al Qaeda threat to stock trading and banking websites
Friday, December 1, 2006 The U.S. government warned private financial services that al Qaeda is planning a cyber attack on the U.S. stock and bank accounts, officials said on Thursday. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke says: “There is no information to corroborate this aspirational threat. As a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution, US-CERT issued the situational awareness report to industry stakeholders.” The officials said that the attacks are aimed at destroying the databases of U.S. banking and stock market web sites. The Homeland Security group claims…
Web startup Sqoot loses sponsorship after failed advert deemed sexist by social media
Sunday, March 25, 2012 Within 24-hours of posting a web advertisement for an upcoming hackathon in Boston, Massachusetts, web startup Sqoot has lost four sponsors for the event, in what has been described as the “worst startup PR crisis in recent history.” This caused them to postpone the event and apologize in response to thousands of tweets that opposed the advert and found its content sexist. On March 20, Sqoot, an API provider that delivers daily deals like Groupon and Gilt City, posted an online advert for their upcoming Boston…
A Gist Of Speech Therapy In Queens, New York, Brooklyn.}
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Speech Pathology Newcastle Submitted by: Develop Speech If a child has speech or language difficulties, he may not ‘grow out of it’. Without speech & language therapy, his speech or language could fall further behind his peers as he grows older. Speech pathologists provide expert advice, prevention education and treatment in a broad range of areas, including language, speech, stuttering, voice, augmentative and alternative communication and swallowing. Working with the full range of human communication and its disorders, Speech pathologists treat speech, language,…
‘Fascinating’ and ‘provocative’ research examines genetic elements of bipolar, schizophrenia
Saturday, October 1, 2011 Last week, Nature Genetics carried twin studies into the genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This special report examines the month’s research into the illnesses in detail, with Wikinews obtaining comment from experts based in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Mental Illness Awareness Week, which starts tomorrow. Eleven genetic regions were identified; seven of these were for schizophrenia and five of those were hitherto undiscovered. The parallel studies, conducted separately, examined more than 50,000 people worldwide and identified two…
Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thursday, October 22, 2020 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is scheduled to take place this week. Tseng runs a firm called eTranslate, which helps software developers to make the software available to the users. In the candidate’s questionnaire, Tseng said eTranslate had led to him…
Daughter of Yuko Ikeda kidnapped to ransom in Tokyo; freed 13 hours later
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Ikeda Kanako, a 21-year-old senior student of the Meiji Gakuin University and the first daughter of celebrity surgeon Yuko Ikeda, was kidnapped at about 1225 (UTC+9), June 26, 2006, in Shibuya, Tokyo. A bullet was fired and one officer slightly cut when police stormed a Kawasaki apartment to rescue the girl. Kanako was dressed in a white light half-sleeved cardigan, blue jeans with a bistre belt made of leather, a spring green camisole and carried a bag of Vuitton when she was abducted at a bus…
Dance Through Life With Enthusiasm By Connecting To Your Inner Core
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Ballet Dance Classes For Kids Dance Through Life with Enthusiasm by Connecting to Your Inner Core by Liz Fletcher Brown What if, no matter how challenging life became, there was a way to keep your balance, vitality and enthusiasm in the dance of life? Well you can and you do it by connecting to your core. So what is your core? Your core is your true powerhouse? Your core is the essence of who you are. It is the place that is always…
O.J. Simpson named suspect in robbery
Friday, September 14, 2007 Reports say that O.J. Simpson, a former American football player is a suspect in a robbery that took place on Thursday night at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Simpson was not immediately arrested and was later released. He was not a guest at the hotel. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) began to question Simpson and at least five other people, after they were accused of breaking into a room in the hotel, with at least one of the individuals holding a…
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Antofagasta, Chile
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Authorities in Chile say at least two people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a powerful earthquake struck in the north, sending terrified residents into the streets and cutting power to some of the country’s copper mines. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 15:40:53 UTC. Officials said two women were killed Wednesday when their houses in the town of Tocopilla collapsed during the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. They also said another person may…