Saturday, April 1, 2006 On Thursday night, a failure of the Optus B1 satellite affected the Sky Pay TV network and also caused a blackout of other satellite-based systems. Sky TV subscribers will get a refund for the inconvenience. The satellite was down from Thursday evening to Friday morning. It also covers international emergency service […]
Read MoreSaturday, August 20, 2005 A power outage in Indonesia that left about 100 million people without electricity has caused a political crisis. The country’s state-owned energy monopoly, PLN, has not determined the immediate cause, and the country’s president has ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate. The blackout appears related to deficiencies in […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 30, 2007 Astronauts and ground controllers are looking at apparent damage to the International Space Station P6 4B solar array spotted by the crew during deployment. NASA halted the deployment of the solar array wing to evaluate the damage. Deployment is about 75 percent complete with 25 of 31 bays deployed. The crew […]
Read MoreSaturday, October 4, 2008 The U.S. Senate passed a revised bailout bill designed to help the struggling U.S. financial economy, which has measures nearly identical to the bill rejected by the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday. “Senate Democrats and Republicans believe it is essential that we work quickly on this important legislation to restore […]
Read MoreThursday, March 13, 2008 An Atlas V rocket has successfully launched a classified spy satellite for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The satellite, currently known to the public as NRO L-28, or Launch 28, is believed by amateur enthusiasts to be a signals intelligence (SIGINT) spacecraft, known by the codename Trumpet. The Atlas […]
Read MoreMonday, October 19, 2009 A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime […]
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Read MoreSaturday, March 10, 2007 Police in Napier, New Zealand were amused when a 45-year-old woman called to report the theft of her ” carefully nurtured” cannabis plants, that she had been growing in buckets at her home. The crying woman told a constable the plant theft was the fourth from her property in four years. […]
Read MoreFriday, May 29, 2009 A 48-year-old man in Ohio has been arrested and is facing charges of obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct after refusing to stop cutting the grass at a local public park. John Hamilton of Sandusky says on Thursday the grass in Sandusky Central Park was over 12 inches long. He decided […]
Read MoreAudio Wikinews News Brief for October 25, 2007 Recorded by: DavumayaProblems listening to the file? See media help. RSS This is the Audio Wikinews Brief for October 25, 2007. Contents 1 Bus explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia kills many civilians 2 UN report: climate change and food shortage major problems for Earth’s future 3 Chinese police […]
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