Toyota’s US sales fall by 8.7%

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Toyota Motor Corporation, the Japanese automobile maker, posted an overall 8.7% drop in sales in the United States for last month. This comes after recent safety recalls of its vehicles, as well as congressional investigations over Toyota’s safety standards. The model that had the highest drop in sales was the CamryRead More

In pictures: Japan earthquake and tsunami

Friday, March 18, 2011 A week ago today, at 2:46 pm JST, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of the T?hoku region in Japan. The earthquake created an extremely destructive tsunami that spawned 10 metre (33 ft) high waves just moments later. The tsunami travelled 10 km (6 mi) inland causing massive destructionRead More

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See More About: Polypac Website Submitted by: Rabb Neet Have You Ever Wondered How To Get Facebook Likes and Use Them To Your Advantage? On the off chance that you are one of the many web marketers or online entrepreneurs who is still lost in terms of taking benefit the distinctive long range informal communicationRead More

Ash-triggered flight disruptions cost airlines $1.7 billion

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said today that the flight disruptions triggered by the recent eruption of a volcano in Iceland cost the global airline industry a total of $1.7 billion dollars. For an industry that lost $9.4bn last year and was forecast to lose a further $2.8bn in 2010,Read More

Qatari proxy IP address temporarily blocked on Wikipedia

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia blocked editing by a proxy IP address [1] belonging to Internet users in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Qatar for a period of twelve hours due toRead More

Texting And Driving

See More About: Compare Green Slips Nsw Australia By Brenda Williams The other day, I saw a commercial regarding using your cell phone while driving. Only a few years ago, cell phones were practically non-existent, only being utilized by corporate executives and people who had the resources to have ‘car phones’. However, now, cell phonesRead More

Fall ’08 styles at New York Fashion Week: the ’70s are back

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 The fourth day of New York Fashion Week debuted few daring designs even from designers known for such work. With few exceptions, the overwhelming theme was “old is new” and that the ’70s were even more in fashion than the shows on Sunday suggested. Among the designers to unveil their FallRead More

Taco Bell mascot Gidget dies from stroke at 15

Thursday, July 23, 2009 Gidget, the chihuahua featured in the Taco Bell adverts in the United States has died from a stroke. The dog died at the age of 15 on Tuesday night. Sue Chipperton, the owner and trainer of Gidget commented saying, “She made so many people happy.” She passed at Chipperton’s home inRead More

US VX nerve gas disposal test a success

Monday, May 9, 2005 Workers at Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana have completed a successful test-run of a chemical reactor designed to dispose of Cold War stockpiles of VX nerve agent. After encountering initial difficulties when the temperature in the reactor grew too high, workers were able to adjust the speed of the device. 180Read More