DeLay declares ‘victory’ in war on U.S. budget fat

Monday, September 19, 2005
Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay has declared an “ongoing victory” in spending cuts. He stated that the federal government was running at peak efficiency and that there was nothing left to cut from the U.S. federal budget. DeLay supports additional deficit spending for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, on top of the this year’s existing $331 billion feRead More…

Clash of cultures: Somali and Latino workers at U.S. meat packing plants

Friday, October 17, 2008
Muslim Somali workers at a meat packing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska wanted to pray. Their colleagues from Latin America wanted to work. A dispute over the company’s break schedule led to formal discrimination claims, mass job walk-offs and public protests by both sides last month, and a reported 200 firings.
Tensions at the plant began after a Federal government raRead More…

Fitness And Health Promotion Offers Fulfilling Career

Read An Opinion On: Pre Employment Screening Fitness and Health Promotion Offers Fulfilling Career by Jason WhiteThose who are interested in assisting individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices that will reduce or prevent the occurrence of acute and chronic diseases by providing professional fitness assessments, recommendations for health and fitness exercise regimes and strategies to Read More…

Singapore Airlines to be compensated for A380 delays

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Singapore Airlines says that it will be compensated by Airbus for the additional delay in delivery of its new superjumbo A380’s.
The double-deck commercial aircrafts’ delivery, originally due later this year, will be delayed until October 2007. The main fault has been found to be problems in the aircraft’s 500km of wiring. In a statement on the Airbus website, the compaRead More…

Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Andrew McAvoy, Windsor-Tecumseh

Monday, September 24, 2007
Andrew McAvoy is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Windsor-Tecumseh riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.
Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive ConsRead More…

Indian Railway: all-women crew steers Tippu Express ahead of International Women’s Day

Friday, March 6, 2020
Yesterday, an all-women crew ran the Mysuru–Bengaluru Tippu Express in the Indian state of Karnataka. The state-run Indian Railways launched this event ahead of International Women’s Day, for promoting gender equality at work places.
B Shiva Parvathi was running the train as loco pilot (locomotive pilot), and 22-year-old Rangoli Patil was her loco co-pilot. The train leRead More…

China steps up anti-gambling campaign

Sunday, February 20, 2005
Beijing (??; pinyin: B?ij?ng) —Chinese President Hu Jintao is stepping up a government campaign to eradicate illegal gambling in China, detaining over 4,000 gamblers in an effort to clean up the public image of the Communist party.
Cadres and officials within the party have been caught using illicit funds, sometimes embezzled from local, state-run organizations, to gRead More…

Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags.
Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The arrest was byRead More…

Avalanche buries cars in Colorado

Saturday, January 6, 2007
An avalanche on U.S. Route 40, which was 100 feet wide and 15 feet deep, has buried many cars, caused other cars to be pushed over the edge of an expressway, and injured eight people, just outside of Denver, Colorado. The avalanche started at 10:30 AM, starting about 12 miles off Interstate 70, and taking three different paths down the mountain before coming to a stop.
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