C-17 crashes near air force base in Alaska

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Friday, July 30, 2010 A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, operated by the United States Air Force, crashed on Wednesday near Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska at about 6:15 pm (0215 Thursday UTC), killing all four crew members. The plane was practicing for the 2010 Arctic Thunder air show. These facts were confirmed by Air Force Lt. Gen. Dana Atkins, Commander of Alaskan Command NORAD, in an impromptu press conference later in the evening. Col.Continue reading

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Collector Cars Are Fun To Own, Drive, And Invest In}

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Here’s An Opinion On: Pensioner Loans Australia Aistralian Premier Finance Website Collector Cars Are Fun To Own, Drive, And Invest In by Collector cars are passenger vehicles that are twenty-five years old or older. They are good cruising cars and are particularly well-suited for a summer jaunts. Collector cars are simply those cars deemed by their owners as classic, as having sentimental value, or are worth a lot more money than the average late-model car.Continue reading

Barack Obama presents rescue plan after GM declaration of bankruptcy

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Monday, June 1, 2009 In a televised speech from the White House at 16:00 UTC today, President of the United States Barack Obama presented a reorganization plan following the 12:00 UTC announcement by General Motors that it had filed for bankruptcy and Chapter 11 protection from its creditors, the largest bankruptcy of a U.S. manufacturing company. Describing the problem with the company as one that had been “decades in the making,” Obama explained the rationaleContinue reading

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Adam Aircraft receive $105 million in funding for A500 and A700

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 US aircraft manufacturer Adam Aircraft have received US$105 million in funding for two aircraft that they currently produce, namely the Adam A500 and the Adam A700 AdamJet. Both are carbon-bodied six-seat civil utility aircraft. The A500 is piston-engined and has a Push-pull configuration and the A700 is of a new variety of aircraft known as very light jets (VLJs). A significant proportion of the money came from a senior secured creditContinue reading

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News briefs:January 4, 2007 2

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The time is 22:00 (UTC) on January 4, 2007, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Australian Police net $540 million in “liquid ecstacy” 1.2 Record number of bicycles sold in Australia in 2006 1.3 Saddam’s co-defendants to be executed Thursday 1.4 Britain makes final World War II debt payments 2 Closing statements [edit]

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Camel sacrificed at major Turkish airport

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Saturday, December 16, 2006 After finding out that he will not have to service a troublesome brand of British-made planes, RJ-100, at the airport, ?ükrü Can, the manager of Turkish Airlines maintenance service, decided to slaughter a camel right on the tarmac of Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. Airport manager Vedat Muftuoglu was quoted to say: No one should do such a thing just because an airline has rid itself of some aircraft Turkish minister of transportationContinue reading

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Dove ad viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube

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Saturday, November 4, 2006 An advertisement for Dove beauty products has been viewed by well over three million people, without ever being on television. A copywriter from Ogilvy Toronto, the advertising agency that created a spot named “evolution”, uploaded the advertisement to video sharing website YouTube. While the official upload of the ad itself has been viewed 1,119,262 times, there are dozens of copies of the ad on YouTube, adding to a minimum of 3,059,546Continue reading

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40 million credit cards compromised

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Saturday, June 18, 2005 MasterCard International announced Friday that multiple instances of fraud have been tracked back to CardSystems Solutions, Inc., a company that processes credit card transactions and other payments. Customer names, banks, and account numbers of up to 40 million cardholders have been exposed, of which about 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards, the company said. Visa and American Express cards were also affected. “The breach appears to be the largest yet involving financialContinue reading

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5 Quick Ways To Draw Traffic Through Search Engine Optimization Methods

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Submitted by: Ian Simmonds Search motor optimization (SEO) will be the practice of enhancing a website’s visibility because they build in certain elements to increase the targeted traffic the site receives coming from SE. SEO depends on the way in which S.E work and people are recognized to search for.Most individuals who search the web are aware of major industrial search engines for example Google, Bing as well as Yahoo! Your site stands a veryContinue reading

Madrids Must See}

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Here’s An Opinion On: Gps Tracking Devices Car Tracking Device Madrids must-see by johnalbert21 As the capital and largest city in Spain, Madrid is also known as a tourist destination. There is too much glory in its history, especially during the Spanish gold time. The achievement it has gained during the period of Renaissance has left us a cultural and historic treasure. Built on the river Manzanares in the central point of the Spanish continent,Continue reading