Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. …

Wind Powered Items And Other Environmentally Friendly Promotional Objects

Click Here To Know More About: Kids First Aid Workshop Sydney Baby First Aid By Miles Lovegrove One of the great concerns with the production and distribution of promotional items is the vast quantities of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources that are used to make these items. Tons of plastic are expended on this …

Gay Talese on the state of journalism, Iraq and his life

Saturday, October 27, 2007 Gay Talese wants to go to Iraq. “It so happens there is someone that’s working on such a thing right now for me,” the 75-year-old legendary journalist and author told David Shankbone. “Even if I was on Al-Jazeera with a gun to my head, I wouldn’t be pleading with those bastards! …

Police ends demonstration of anarchist squatters in Belgium

Saturday, June 23, 2007 Last Monday, the police entered the abandoned house in Leuven, Belgium, that anarchist squatters had occupied for seven years. None of the squatters were present at the time, mostly due to exams. The premises was evacuated and the police dumped everything inside in containers. The house, which the squatters had baptised …

Wikinews Shorts: December 20, 2008

A compilation of brief news reports for Saturday, December 20, 2008. The United States government has announced that it will give US$17.4 billion in loans to help three of the nation’s automobile makers – Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford – avoid bankruptcy. The money will be taken from the $700 billion bailout package originally intended to …

The Many Facets Of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services

Click Here To Know More About: Superannuation Advisors Superannuation Perth By Sean A. Kelly Consolidating your debts may not be an easy thing for you to do all by yourself. This may be because the process often involves numerous negotiations with creditors and also endless paperwork. For this reason, many people with overwhelming debts sign …

NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

Sunday, April 24, 2005 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ®, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group. …

New environmental housing regulations for Western Australia

Friday, May 25, 2007 The Western Australian Government has announced that after September 1, 2007 all construction approvals for new homes must comply with new Environmental regulations. The new regulations known as Five Star Plus will be implemented in two stages. Michelle Roberts, minister for Housing and Works, announced that the first stage would increase …