Wikinews:2006/March/28/Latest news
March 28[edit]
- Australia grants temporary asylum to 12 Commonwealth Games athletes
- Thousands rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants' rights
- Thousands strike in UK over pensions
- 5.5 magnitude earthquake shakes Tokyo
- Rivers flood in central Europe
- Beatles' Apple Corps sues Apple Computer
- Turn up and don't vote, urge anti-Thaksin activists
- Thai police forward anti-Thaksin PAD accusations to Corruption Commission
- Exit polls suggest Kadima victory in Israeli elections
- UK petrol prices rise to five-month high
- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card resigns
- Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger dies at 88
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal gets final approval by city Planning Board
- Long Beach, CA Redevelopment Agency ends talks for church
- Australian artist Pro Hart dies
March 27[edit]
- Bomb blast near Mosul, Iraq kills at least 40
- Airbus A380 safety test injures 33
- Sweden names Jan Eliasson new Foreign Minister
- UK PM addresses joint sitting of Australian Parliament
- Prince closes XVIII Commonwealth Games
- Seattle shooting leaves seven dead
- Greek court rules worship of ancient Greek deities is legal
- Western Australia braces for another cyclone
- Creekstone Farms sues USDA for refusing to allow mad cow testing
- Crash kills Indy driver Paul Dana
- George Mason University upsets UConn, advances to Final Four
March 26[edit]
- European Union demands release of Belarusian opposition leader
- Australia's new controversial workplace regulations come into effect this week
- Shiites claim coalition forces killed men in a mosque
- Canadian Idol comes to Ottawa
- Georgia mother loses child custody over humorous religion
- Candace Parker double dunks, makes basketball history
- Canadian Press speculates on special forces role in Iraq
- XVIII Commonwealth Games competition ends
- Protesters rally for a second time against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Pentagon: Russia provided information to Iraq
March 25[edit]
- Riots greet French government's labor reform
- Cape Town charges Frontline Fellowship pastor with Halloween paintball assault
- Norman Kember returns home safely
- Riot police arrest Belarusian opposition leader Kozulin
- Buck Owens, country music icon, dies at 76
- Tens of thousands rally against Thailand's Prime Minister
- Greece, Greeks celebrate Independence day
- Council pres. removes Easter bunny from St. Paul, MN city hall
- Hyshot tests hypersonic "scramjet" in Australia
- Police arrest roof-climbing graduate of high school in Hopkinton, Massachusetts
- FCC head Kevin Martin endorses telcos' tiered Internet plan
March 24[edit]
- 42 West Papuan asylum seekers get temporary Australian visas
- Bush declares immunity from Patriot Act oversight
- U.S. court adds limit to police searches
- Mishap destroys SpaceX Falcon 1 after maiden launch
- Violence, arrests end Minsk, Belarus protests
- Benedict XVI Elevates 15 to Cardinal
- University suspends lecturer accused of racism
- Over five hundred hispanic students protest immigration laws in Los Angeles
- Journal Nature study 'fatally flawed', says Britannica
- Lawsuit accuses Chicago priest of molesting 13-year-old boy
- Explosion in French college
- BNP lose council seat in Keighley
- Virologists discover why H5N1 doesn't spread easily between humans
- Correspondence of late Greek Orthodox leader of Americas to be published