Friday, February 3, 2006 An Australian Senate inquiry into the abortion pill “RU486” has started public hearings in Melbourne. A controversial conscience vote on the issue to overturn laws which prohibit Australian women’s access to the drug, will be held in Federal parliament on February 9. The Senate committee is considering a bill to remove
Read An Opinion On: Monarch Connected Website Submitted by: Joe Mueller GPS technology is infiltrating almost every single gadget we own. Cell phones, cars, watches, shoes, and even our pets are coming under the ever watchful eye of GPS. Since this is happening it is a good idea to take a look at the way
Wednesday, January 26, 2005The European Space Agency’s (ESA) lunar probe SMART-1 has taken its first images from a low orbit around the moon, returning images of great detail. SMART-1 caps a streak of major planetary missions by the ESA in the past year. Two features of SMART-1 have brought particular attention to the project: the
Monday, June 25, 2018 On Saturday, the plastic ban in the Indian state of Maharashtra came into force. In an attempt to minimise pollution, the state government has introduced a ban on single-use plastics. The leader of the Yuya Sena political party, Aaditya Thackeray, said on Twitter, “The ban on single use disposable plastic cups,
Friday, January 1, 2021 After an active year of original content published on the English-language Wikinews, we take a look back at some of the two dozen-plus original reports from our contributors during 2020. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_2020:_An_%27Original_reporting%27_year_in_review&oldid=4608262”
Read An Opinion On: Yoga Therapy Education byAlma Abell If you’re looking for a personal loan, an automotive loan, or a mortgage, there are a number of places you can go to look for these types of loans. However, what many people decide to do visit a local credit union. There are many reasons why
Friday, September 9, 2005 A look at some of the movies set to be released in North America, the week of 9 September, 2005. Note, “fresh” or “rotten” refer to the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating, based on North American critical reviews. The higher the percentage, the greater the percentage of critics that liked the movie.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 The rescue of the Chilean miners trapped in the San José Mine in Copiapó, codenamed Operación San Lorenzo (San Lorenzo Operation), began on Tuesday night, at around 20:00 local time (23:00 UTC). Florencio Ávalos was the first miner to be rescued, at 00:12 local time (03:12 UTC) on Wednesday. He was
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 A recent study led by Dr. Drew Westen, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia has concluded that political partisans use an “almost entirely emotional and unconscious” thought process when digesting damaging information about a favored political candidate. The experiment used fMRI scans of 30 men who self-identified
Read An Opinion On: Harbour Outdoor Submitted by: Linda Taylor Most of the people think that writing ASP is hard but that is not true. In reality, writing Active Server Pages (ASP) is just as simple as writing HTML, because they are the same. Still, an ASP tutorial wouldn’t hurt. However, in order to do