New Year fire kills at least 59, injures 212 more at Bangkok pub

Thursday, January 1, 2009 2009 has been designated as the Year of the Earth Ox (?) (by the Chinese calendar). A Thai inferno greeted the world and the Year of the earth Ox (?) after a pyrotechnic display started a blaze which ripped through Santika, a three-story Bangkok nightclub, in Ekkamai Soi 9 (Sukhumvit 63), …

How Much Does A Pacemaker Cost Me?

Read An Opinion On: Hair Loss Treatment New York By Hannah Munson Pacemakers also known as pacers are devices that are designed to avoid the heart from going too slowly and to function properly. This device help control abnormal heart rhythms. As well as the rate at which it beats. It may be used temporarily, …

Mass shooting takes place in New York City subway system

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 The 36th Street Northbound Platform. Image: Harrison Leong. The 25th Street Southbound Platform. Image: Adam Moss. Tuesday, at around 8:30 a.m. New York Time (1230 UTC) a mass shooting took place on a train between the 25th Street Station and the 36th Street Station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of …

Sarkozy in UK to mark historic de Gaulle war broadcast

Sunday, June 20, 2010 Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!—Charles de Gaulle broadcast Nicolas Sarkozy visited the UK today to celebrate the 70th anniversary since Charles de Gaulle made his war broadcast. The French president and the Prince of …

Bat for Lashes plays the Bowery Ballroom: an Interview with Natasha Khan

Friday, September 28, 2007 Natasha Khan at the Bowery Ballroom.photo: David Shankbone Lizzy Carey Caroline Weeks. Abi Fry Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither …

Start Your Career With Artificial Intelligence

Read An Opinion On: Mad4 Heli Site What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Artificial Intelligence is the skill of machines to apparently think for themselves. AI is established when a task, previously performed by a human and assumed of as needful the capability to learn, reason and solve difficulties, can now be complete by a machine. …

NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

Sunday, April 24, 2005 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group. …

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

Monday, October 11, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as …

Thousands continue to flee fighting in Yemen

Friday, December 11, 2009 The United Nations refugee agency reports thousands of civilians continue to flee their homes in northern Yemen as fighting between government troops and Al Houti rebel forces enters a fifth month. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says the situation in the Saada province remains particularly tense as more …