Find Out More About: Quantity Surveyor Sydney By Kevin Dwinnell The Internet browser has long been the workhorse of surfing the web. Like most workhorses, it’s not much to look at, but it gets the job done. That’s all changing. The days of the boring gray browser are waning. Through a design element called a […]
Tuesday, March 8, 2005Genetic abnormalities behind the premature aging disease Progeria have been corrected in cells in a step towards gene therapy for the condition. Affecting about one in eight million children, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria (HGP) causes sufferers to rapidly experience symptoms of old age. The average life expectancy of those afflicted is just around 14 […]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. […]
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 […]
Find Out More About: Stabbing Pain Below Knee Cap Have you ever waked up feeling great pain starting right from your upper thighs and reaching your feet? Do you experience troublesome pain in the lower back that spreads downward and does not seem to go away whatever you do to get rid of the same? […]
Sunday, December 14, 2008 Ksenia Sukhinova of Russia, won the Miss World 2008 crown on Saturday, outshining 108 other international competitors. She was crowned by her predecessor Miss World 2007, Zhang Zilin of the People’s Republic of China. She pledged to “help people” and said, “I think I can help people and I want to […]
Sunday, July 2, 2006 Two contestants from Big Brother in Australia have been escorted from the show. Ashley, a pseudonym for Michael Cox of Perth, and John, a pseudonym for Michael Bric of Melbourne, sexually assaulted a contestant known as Camilla. Camilla climbed into John’s bed after stating that she wished one of the boys […]
Find Out More About: Brisbane Property Value byAlma Abell Few things have the potential to bring about a greater sense of Pride or Prejudice among homeowners than the lawns they keep. On the one hand, a beautiful, verdant lawn is the dream of countless millions of homeowners, not just in America, of course, but around […]
Saturday, July 16, 2005 At least 54 people died today when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a gas station near a mosque in Musayyib, about 60 km south of the Iraqi capital. Some 80 people are reported to have been injured. Witnesses said a fuel tanker was slowly approaching the pumps at the […]
Thursday, July 28, 2005 The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) early morning Thursday, with a narrow vote of 217 in favor, 215 against. Voting was held open for an hour, 45 minutes past the House’s 15-minute voting rule as the President along with other supporters lobbied into the […]