Wikinews:2006/March/6/Latest news
March 6[edit]
- Pakistan government blocks bloggers ahead of Bush visit
- Transit strike affects 100,000 in Helsinki
- AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billion
- Thaksin rebuffs resignation calls while elite call for appointed PM
- 2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre
- Australian Prime Minister visits India
- New Zealand online auction web site bought for NZ$700 million
- BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
- Dvdrs.net closes - "can not recover from recent events"
March 5[edit]
- Deported Australian granted visa after two years in Serbian limbo
- Howard's 10 year party gatecrashed
- H5N1 bird flu virus reaches Poland
- South Dakota governor signs abortion ban into law
- Minnesota GOP's CD raises privacy concerns
- Ayman al-Zawahri releases new video tape
March 4[edit]
- Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrated by 450,000 people
- Iranian refugee child granted $400,000 in compensation for "psychological harm"
- Coca growth up in Bolivia, Peru, claims U.S. State Department
- Diebold "whistleblower" faces criminal charges in California
- No hotel previously on site of proposed Buffalo, N.Y. hotel location
- Black Box Voting finds anomalies in electronic voting logs of 2004 U.S. election
March 3[edit]
- 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
- Ayya Vaikunda Avataram declared as a holiday for Tirunelveli district
- 2006 New Zealand Maori Electoral Option
- Emergency at JDS Uniphase in San Jose, CA
- Authorities impose vehicle ban on Baghdad
- Band sticker causes bomb scare at Ohio University
- Ian Thorpe starts to recover from chest pains
- Australia will not export uranium to India
March 2[edit]
- Australian Greens senator Bob Brown marks 10 years in Parliament
- Taipei mayor Ma hopes local HIV midway home "patients out only"
- Bush's Katrina statement contradicted by emerging evidence
- Amateur sex video stirs controversy on Internet
- Google.cn to move search records out of China
- Harry Browne, former US presidential candidate and best selling author, dead at age 72
- Mayor Ken Livingstone's suspension frozen pending appeal
- Costa Rica falls to Iran in football friendly
- Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
- Five dead in attack in Pakistan
- Officials in Mexico claim leaked Dirty War report isn't final copy
- South Africa to meet with Hamas representatives
- Natural gas discovered in Chile according to President Ricardo Lagos
- Kenyan TV and newspaper raided by masked police
- Uruguay turns down Argentina’s request to halt construction of pulp mills
- Bus crash outside Cusco kills at least 13
- Comedian Linda Smith dies at 48
- City Planning Board postpones decision on Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Interview with Usenet search sites targeted by the MPAA
- Photoessay: Fat Tuesday Easy in DC
- Australia's Prime Minister Howard marks 10 years in power
- Corruption blamed for Papuan rainforest destruction
March 1[edit]
- Duke upset by FSU
- Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003
- English Wikipedia reaches one million articles
- Saddam Hussein admits to requesting trials
- Thaksin denies rumours of resignation
- Possible first case of mad cow disease in Sweden
- Sydney woman charged in Perth heroin seizure
- Brisbane woman charged with Sizzler poisoning
- Random driver drug testing to become permanent in Victoria
- Sizzler salad bars shut after rat poison found in food
February 28[edit]
- "Aggressive" Bird Flu found in Sweden
- Two zoo bears killed after biting four-year-old boy
- Venezuela's government to restrict flights to the US
- Da Vinci Code publisher Random House in court
- India and U.S.A. work toward nuclear fuel agreement
- Cyclone Emma crosses West Australian coast
- Former AWB chairman paid almost $1,000,000 by AusAID
- Thinktank recommends changes to Australian student fees
- English Wikipedia has over 1 million registered users
- Residents and business owners attend "private" meeting on Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal