Sunday, November 22, 2009 A 29-year-old woman from Quebec in Canada claims to have lost her long-term health care benefits she was receiving for depression, after her insurance company discovered pictures of her on Facebook smiling and having fun. Nathalie Blanchard alleges that Manulife Financial cut off her long-term benefit payments because she was “available…Continue reading
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Law center helps defend open source
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law Professor, will head the newSoftware Freedom Law Center (SFLC). An initial 4 million dollars has been provided by Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to fund the project. The law center will provide free legal service for open source projects and developers. In 2004 OSDL established a…Continue reading
Peculiarities Of Mexican Cuisine
Click Here To Know More About: Buy Pressure Cooker Peculiarities of Mexican Cuisine by Michael Querrie What makes Mexican cooking so delicious? – that is, authentic Mexican cooking, like the sopes you may remember eating in Oaxaca. The answer is love. It is the one essential ingredient to truly delicious food anywhere, and traditional Mexican…Continue reading Peculiarities Of Mexican Cuisine
40 million credit cards compromised
Saturday, June 18, 2005 MasterCard International announced Friday that multiple instances of fraud have been tracked back to CardSystems Solutions, Inc., a company that processes credit card transactions and other payments. Customer names, banks, and account numbers of up to 40 million cardholders have been exposed, of which about 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards, the…Continue reading
Anti-junta demonstrations grow in Bangkok
Monday, June 11, 2007 Anti-junta demonstrations in Bangkok reached their largest point yet on Saturday night, when between 10,000 and 15,000 protesters marched from Sanam Luang to the Royal Thai Army headquarters to call for the resignation of Council for National Security chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin. Yesterday, Sonthi, the leader of last year’s coup d’état,…Continue reading
Reus to miss Euro 16 due to injury
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Today, Joachim Löw, manager of the German national football team, dropped Borussia Dortmund midfielder Marco Reus from the UEFA Euro 2016 squad. Marco Reus, who turned 27 years old today, is suffering from a groin injury. He also missed the 2014 FIFA World Cup with an ankle injury. Löw said their…Continue reading
Take Control Of Your Image With Reputation Changer
Click Here To Know More About: Crisis Communications Australia Take Control of Your Image with Reputation Changer by Kevin T. Scott When you are on your way to a highly successful career, the last thing you need holding you back is negative press floating around in cyberspace. The Internet can be a wealth of knowledge,…Continue reading Take Control Of Your Image With Reputation Changer
Wikinews interviews Spain’s most decorated Paralympian, Teresa Perales
Saturday, January 19, 2013 Zaragoza, Spain — On Thursday, Wikinews traveled to Zaragoza, Spain to interview the nation’s most decorated Paralympian and IPC Athlete Council representative Teresa Perales. A wide range of topics about the Paralympics and sport in Spain were discussed including the evolution of Paralympic sport, disability sport classification, funding support across all…Continue reading
Turkey sets the price to lift the ban on YouTube and Google services
Friday, June 11, 2010 Turkey’s Finance Ministry has given Google a tax demand of $18.6 million, and Transport and Communications Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m called on Google to register as a taxpayer in the country to “help accelerate” the lifting of a ban on YouTube and Google services. As The Register reported, access to search engine…Continue reading
Australia: Victoria lockdown extended by a week with 85 active cases recorded
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Yesterday, with 85 active cases of COVID-19 in the Australian state of Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews has extended the state’s current lockdown by a week until July 27 at 11:59 p.m. (0159 UTC). Since a five-day lockdown was first announced last Thursday, cases have been recorded in areas across Victoria, including…Continue reading