Thursday, May 6, 2010 Goodluck Jonathan, the acting president of Nigeria, was formally sworn in today, several hours after president Umaru Yar’Adua died. The oath of office was administered in…
Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal
Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial…
ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data
Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter…
14,000-acre Southern California ‘Crown Fire’ at 82% containment, evacuation orders lifted
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Republican leaders in US want more tax relief in economic stimulus
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Stanford physicists print smallest-ever letters ‘SU’ at subatomic level of 1.5 nanometres tall
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Virginia man arrested for plotting to bomb Washington DC metro
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Commerce Commission fines BNZ $5 million
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 The New Zealand Commerce Commission has fined the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ). It has been forced to pay NZ$5 million in compensation to its customers,…
United States: Two dead in Kentucky high school shooting
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Tuesday morning, before the start of classes at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, United States a shooter opened fire on students and faculty. The…
National plant materials center goes native in Washington, DC
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