Wednesday, January 28, 2009 More than 400 senior managers within the United Kingdom’s BBC, which employs around 28,500 people, have been told that they face a real-terms pay cut as bonuses and pay rises are scrapped this financial year. Tuesday’s announcement said that bonuses will not now be paid and pay rates will stay fixed […]
Sunday, December 5, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO – Shawn Fanning, the creator of Napster and a founder of Snocap, Inc., on Friday revealed his plans for a legal peer-to-peer file-sharing platform. Snocap has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group to make the company’s entire catalogue available through the new service. Financial terms of the deal […]
Thursday, May 25, 2006 A jury in Houston found Former Enron Corp. CEOs Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling guilty of 6 kinds of white-collar crime on May 25. Lay was convicted of all ten counts against him, while Skilling was convicted of only nineteen of the charged twenty-eight counts. The variety of charges […]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Today, at 18:37 (CEST), exactly five years after creating first article in Polish language, Polish Wikipedians wrote the 300,000th article. The article is a stub about a Lithuanian […]
Sunday, July 2, 2006 Canada Day was celebrated at Parliament Hill. People came across Canada to Ottawa to celebrate Canada’s 139th birthday. About 25,000 people including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his wife and their two children were there. The party got started at about 12:00, noon ET. The ceremony was in English and in French. […]
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 Tom Cruise this week took the delivery service to a whole new level. Celebrating his 43rd birthday with numerous guests at a party in the USA, Cruise decided to call up his three favorite chefs, all living in Italy, to prepare a meal. Cruise decided to fly all three chefs out […]
Here’s An Opinion On: Restaurant Menus Wellington Menu Restaurant Wellington Hotels in London and Belfast- Luxury blended with unmatched hospitality and Service by mohd sameer While London with its breathtaking landmarks, age old history and world class shopping has something to offer to everyone; Belfast though smaller in size is no less exciting being home […]
Thursday, February 21, 2008 In Serbia’s capital Belgrade protesters have broken into the United States embassy, and have set fire to an office, which is now extinguished. The break-in followed massive protests against Kosovo’s independence that was declared last Sunday. A couple of hundreds of thousands protested in front of the parliament building in Belgrade […]
Monday, March 19, 2007 At least 10 pets, 9 cats and 1 dog have died as a result of eating contaminated pet food, says the United States Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. The contamination caused cats and dogs to both go into kidney failure. At least 51 brands of cat food and 40 brands […]
Friday, February 6, 2009 Denny’s 1,600 chain restaurants across North America, Puerto Rico and Canada, were slammed for eight hours Tuesday with hungry patrons standing on sidewalks for nearly two hours to take advantage of the $5.99 “Grand Slam Breakfast” giveaway. Denny’s, a dining chain with annual revenue of about $900 million, has advertised in […]