Thursday, February 16, 2006 On February 13, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Deion Sanders announced his re-retirement from the NFL. Last January, many assumed Sanders would be leaving the league after spending 14 years in it. Sanders won back-to-back Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys. Sanders is the first professional athlete to win […]
Read An Opinion On: Mr Property Services Hedge Funds Can Do More Than Hedge Fund-Type Mutual Funds by Shane Flait Hedge funds use a variety of techniques to seek an absolute return no matter what the markets do. Their performance has instigated the birth of many hedge-type mutual funds. But SEC restrictions on mutual funds […]
Sunday, February 27, 2005A last gasp effort is underway to prevent the deportation of Montserratian refugees from New York City, U.S.A., to the disaster-stricken volcanic island they fled ten years ago. Representative Major Owens (D, NY), of Brooklyn, is hoping the outpouring of support for victims of the Asian tsunami will save the refugees from […]
Monday, May 25, 2009 The Church of Scientology in France is in court today, fighting charges that the organization has been a part of “escroquerie en bande organisee”, organized fraud. Prosecutors claim that the Church is engaged in illicit practices in attempts to sell their alleged self-help material. The Church also faces charges of illegally […]
Saturday, January 31, 2015 South African Justice Minister Michael Masutha yesterday announced he is granting parole to Eugene de Kock, an apartheid-era assassin who has spent twenty years in prison. After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 de Kock was arrested and subsequently detailed his actions to the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). […]
Read An Opinion On: Buy Cashmere Cardigans Cashmere Cardigans A Beginner’s Guide to the various styles of materials and the way to wash ThemWe wear different types of materials daily, however, the likelihood is that that we tend to don’t understand what they’re, or perhaps the way to the lookout of them. smart materials area […]
Friday, March 5, 2010 Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, claimed Britain believed Africa is “barbaric”, hours before a state visit to Queen Elizabeth II. These claims were made after the Daily Mail described him as a “sex-obsessed bigot and vile buffoon.” Zuma accused Britons of considering themselves to be culturally superior owing to their […]
Friday, August 5, 2016 On Wednesday, an Emirates Boeing 777 crash-landed in Dubai with 282 passengers and 18 crew on board, according to the airline. This resulted in the death of a firefighter, Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan, who died fighting the fire at the crash. The Director-General of the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority, Saif […]
Read An Opinion On: Mdentistry byAlma Abell Teeth are crucial to body image and how people see themselves in either a positive or negative light. There are a lot of reasons for why some people have stained teeth, and it doesn’t always come down to personal responsibility. Some people don’t always get the coaching when […]
Saturday, January 19, 2013 Zaragoza, Spain — On Thursday, Wikinews traveled to Zaragoza, Spain to interview the nation’s most decorated Paralympian and IPC Athlete Council representative Teresa Perales. A wide range of topics about the Paralympics and sport in Spain were discussed including the evolution of Paralympic sport, disability sport classification, funding support across all […]