Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religiousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 The United Kingdom‘s Office of Fair Trading accused the credit card association MasterCard UK, which includes most major British banks, of overcharging customers between March 2000 and November 2004. The OFT found that an agreement between MasterCard UK members, setting the so-called ‘interchange fee’ – a charge paid to banks by
UK regulator warns MasterCard
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Friday, January 19, 2007 In November 2006 Pensacola, Florida evangelist Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo, were found guilty on 58 federal counts of “willful failure” to payroll taxes, structuring bank withdrawals, and obstructing federal agents. On January 19, 2007 Hovind was given ten years in federal prison, ordered to pay $640,000 in owed funds
“Dr Dino” gets 10 years in prison after failure to pay taxes
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 The body of a man was discovered on a street in Lancaster, California around 1:45 a.m PDT (UTC-7) Tuesday morning with an arrow stuck deep into his chest. Sheriff’s deputies who responded to the crime scene at 13th Street and Avenue K initially thought the victim to have been homeless, but
Archer kills elderly man on street in California, US
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has received approval from Governor General Michaelle Jean to prorogue the Canadian Parliament for about two months, up until the end of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Prime Minister’s Office has announced today. Under the prorogation, Parliament will resume on March 3, as opposed
Canadian Parliament suspended until March
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018 On Monday, United States technology giant Microsoft announced their plans to acquire GitHub, a San Francisco, California-based web-based hosting service for software version control using Git, for 7.5 billion US Dollars (USD). File photo of Nat Friedman, reportedly to become CEO of GitHub. Image: Doc Searls. In the official announcement at
Microsoft announces plan to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 A small aircraft struck an apartment building in New York this afternoon, killing the pilot and a flight instructor. Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees baseball team, was the registered owner of the aircraft and is believed to have been piloting it; his passport was found on the
Small aircraft crashes into building in New York City
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Saturday, October 9, 2010 Ubuntu logo. The 10.10 version of Ubuntu (codename Maverick Merkaat), a free operative system is to be released in the next few days. French Wikinews contributor Savant-fou (Baptiste) has interviewed Fabrice (fabrice_sp on Ubuntu), an Ubuntu’s MOTU (Master Of The Universe), member of the development team of the operative system. Ubuntu
Wikinews interviews Ubuntu developer Fabrice
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 File photo of Ashfaq Kayani, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. Image: U.S. Navy. Pakistan security forces attacked Taliban strongholds in northwest Pakistan yesterday. Aided by fighter jets and gunship helicopters they claim to have killed 21 Taliban militants in Kurram and Bajaur. The offensive targeted the remote town
Pakistan security forces airstrikes kill several Taliban militants
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