Sunday, March 13, 2011 The tsunami caused by Japan’s magnitude 8.9 quake on Friday destroyed the commercial fishing harbor of Crescent City, California, a coastal town still recovering from a devastating tsunami in 1964. Although most of the fishing boats were removed in advance, the 198 docking slips that theContinue Reading

Monday, February 12, 2007 Cars drove home the big prize last night, from the 34th Annual Annie Awards. The animation industry’s highest honor, ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annies recognise contributions to animation, writing, directing, storyboarding, voice acting, composing, and much more. As mentioned, Pixar took home the big prize last night, after facingContinue Reading

Here’s An Opinion On: Stock Management Submitted by: Jennifer Cheek Question: 1 Company ABC is planning to migrate from Cisco MCS-hosted Cisco Unified Communications Manager applications to Cisco UC on UCS B-Series servers. Which statement about external media supportability is true for this migration? A. The Cisco Music on HoldContinue Reading

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Coinciding with Easter Sunday, Glasgow Cannabis Social Club’s annual 420 event was held on Glasgow Green, under sunny blue skies, and overlooking the river Clyde. Despite the city’s council attempting to revoke permission for the gathering at the last minute, police were happy for it toContinue Reading

Thursday, September 14, 2006 NASA scientists say that the Arctic Sea’s icecap is melting and that the icecap is melting fast. According to images captured by NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite, the Arctic icecap has lost at least 14% of its ‘perennial’ ice between 2004 and 2005. Data shows that at leastContinue Reading

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 A French Train à Grande Vitesse (High-Speed Train or TGV) has smashed the world record for a train on conventional rails by a big margin, reaching 574.8km/h (356mph) The TGV travelled over 59.8 km/h (36 mph) faster than its previous record of 515 km/h (320 mph)Continue Reading

Here’s An Opinion On: 2020 Corolla Submitted by: Al Wannestadt Like most industries, the car business has suffered over the last few years due to the economic crisis. However, recent reports show that the industry has picked up again within the last year, which is great news for auto manufacturersContinue Reading

Thursday, December 10, 2009 Several thousand people marched earlier today in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, to protest corruption in the country. Most of them were students protesting the latest corruption scandal in the country. It involves allegations that a US$600 million government bailout was given to Century Bank onContinue Reading

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Recently, Finnish open-source video game developer Perttu Ahola discussed Minetest, his “longest ever project”, with Wikinews. Started in October 2010, Minetest was an attempt by Ahola to create a sandbox game similar to Minecraft. Minecraft is a multi-platform commercial game, which was in alpha version whenContinue Reading