Wikinews:2006/March/9/Latest news
March 9[edit]
- Bangkok blast injures two tourists
- Former teacher in France surrenders after holding 22 hostage in school
- NFL owners agree to CBA extension, 30-2
- Toronto to have socialized city-wide wi-fi access
- UK vending machines begin selling sex toys
- Agriculture's impact on human evolution clarified
- Wikinews interviews Gary Fung from isoHunt
March 8[edit]
- Eighteen found dead in a bus in Iraq
- Largest mass extinction in 65 million years underway, scientists say
- Witness convicted of perjury in Best Bakery trial sentenced to one year
- Buffalo, NY magazine to publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
- North Korea fires missiles during training exercise
- Gordon Parks, African American filmmaker, dies at 93
- Study reveals 10% of telecommuters work nude
- Bonobo chimp threatened in Congo
- Police release photographs of those of interest in connection with Cronulla riots
- Events cancelled at Humber due to college strike
- Sault professor sides with students during college strike
- Australian emergency services personnel exposed to asbestos
- Small plane crashes on median of Interstate 75 in Michigan
March 7[edit]
- Australians need bigger toilets
- Big 12 names players, coach of the year
- New Zealand's 2006 Census is held tonight
- U.S. Pentagon releases Guantanamo detainees' names
- House approves renewal of the Patriot Act
- Three explosions in Varanasi, India
- Multiple vehicles crash in West Palm Beach, FL
- Chávez accuses US of plotting separation of oil rich state
- Ontario college teachers begin strike
- Hall of Fame baseball player Kirby Puckett dies of stroke
- Dana Reeve, 44, wife of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer
- Ukraine does not allow Transnistrian goods transit without Moldovan customs stamps
- Australian Senator Bob Brown calls for ban on junk food ads
- Book review controversy over Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell'
- Porn star promotes Italian wine
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