Day: March 7, 2017

Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country's unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This is the 21st consecutive month of job losses in...

Friday, November 13, 2009 Wikinews interviewed author Marc Headley about his new book Blown for Good, and asked him about life inside the international headquarters of Scientology known as "Gold Base", located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California. Headley joined the organization at age seven when his mother became a member, and worked at Scientology's international management...

Thursday, March 31, 2005 Councillors at Dresden City Council in Germany would like to match doggy-doo left by pets on the sidewalk and in parks, against a DNA database storing profiles for all of the city's 12,000 registered dogs. Karl Jobig, a Christian Democrat politician in Dresden, was surprised when his proposal received a majority vote. "In this way, Dresden will once again be one of the...

Friday, July 1, 2005 Thousands of protesters are marching through the streets of Kinshasa demanding that the government resign over delayed elections. Kinshasa - a city with nine million residents - is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were met by security forces who shot in the air and threw tear-gas grenades at the protesters. Army helicopters flew overhead as...

Sunday, December 7, 2008 Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia — The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has formally ratified the rejection of the 24 hour McDonald's in Minyama. The decision comes after council rejected the proposal earlier this week at a general committee meeting. McDonald's forwarded an 11th hour compromise to deputy mayor Tim Dwyer in order to overturn the decision. The...

Friday, November 6, 2009 Residents of the suburb of Minyama, Australia have come to a compromise with restaurant chain McDonald's. A 24 hour store was planned for the suburb but the fast food giant backed down agreeing that the store will only open overnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Every other day it will be open from five in the morning to eleven at night. As part of the compromise, a walkway...

Monday, November 28, 2005 A vote of no-confidence, to be held on Monday, is expected to signal an end to the current Canadian government. The vote is to be held at 6:30PM local time in Ottawa, Ontario. The no-confidence vote against Paul Martin's government was introduced by three of the opposition parties last week. The actual motion was proposed by Conservative party leader, Stephen Harper.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Saturday, local bodies elections were held in Balochistan, Pakistan. Pakistan has not held local bodies elections since 2002. Polling was active from 8:00AM to 5:00PM local time (0300 to 1200 UTC). High security arrangements were made; law enforcement officials were deployed at the polling stations. According to media reports, in some areas of province women were...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 According to reports from officials, at least sixteen militants were killed in Pakistan earlier today when suspected US drone attacks struck a village in the North Waziristan region, along the border with Afghanistan. The drones hit suspected fighters' hideouts, as well as a training centre, authorities said. According to the Al Jazeera news agency, local residents were...

Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a final meeting Tuesday before their separate talks with United States President Bush this week during his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Just hours before President Bush is due to touch down in Israel, Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas met in Jerusalem. Neither man issued any public...