BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off
Friday, June 27, 2008 Newspaper The Guardian reports today that the sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC Resources Ltd., has cost £3.4m in consultancy fees — over £1m more than […]
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Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan engaged
Monday, January 15, 2007 This article features in a News Brief from Audio Wikinews: Legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has confirmed that his son Abhishek and former Miss World Aishwarya […]
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Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal extended
Monday, October 2, 2006 Buffalo, New York —Sam Savarino, CEO of Savarino Companies, the development company to be in charge of building the Elmwood Village Hotel at Forest and Elmwood […]
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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his […]
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Kenya government fires health worker strikers over failure to ‘report back to work’
Saturday, March 10, 2012 The Kenyan government has dismissed 25,000 striking health workers, mostly nurses, citing failure to heed government orders to recommence work and concern for the welfare of […]
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Seeds placed in Norwegian vault as agricultural ‘insurance policy’
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from […]
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Iran-Pakistan pipeline at risk
Saturday, November 2, 2013 The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project is at risk of cancellation as negotiations between the government of Iran and the Pakistani government remain unresolved. The Iranian Oil […]
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Google launches free city wide Wi-Fi in Mountain View, California
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Google on Wednesday inaugurated a free city-wide Wi-Fi system in its home town of Mountain View, California. Google insisted that it had no plans to offer […]
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Last British volume car manufacturer closes down
Friday, April 15, 2005 The last British-owned volume car manufacturer, MG Rover, has closed down, with the loss of 5,000 jobs. International accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCooper was brought in last week […]
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First face transplant performed on French woman
Thursday, December 1, 2005 Surgeons in France have performed a face transplant operation on a French woman who had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a […]
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