November 9, 2007 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events 12 'fire bombs' found inside EU interior ministers agreed that Buffalo, New York apartment nine member states from central house and eastern Europe are Buffalo, New York – The Buffalo sufficiently prepared to join EU's Fire Department is currently Schengen border-free zone on investigating how 12 "fire bombs" December 21. ended up inside an abandoned •A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk apartment house on 15 Allen helicopter crashes in Santa Lucia Street in Allentown, a di Piave, Italy, killing four people neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and injuring six. on Wednesday November 7. Latest trial of the One Laptop •The US Senate confirms Michael In an exclusive report, Wikinews Per Child running in India; Mukasey as the Attorney General has learned from a witness who Uruguay orders 100,000 of the United States. wishes to remain anonymous, that machines •At least 29 miners are killed in a at approximately 12:00 p.m. EST gas leak in a colliery in China's (UTC-5) Heidi Garner called 9-1-1 Edmund White on writing, Guizhou province. to report that while walking her incest, life and Larry Kramer dog, it had been attacked by two •Pakistan Television quotes Wikinews talks other dogs when it sniffed under a President Pervez Musharraf as to the gate of the house. When police saying that Pakistan will hold Princeton arrived to investigate and retrieve elections before 15 February University the assaulting dogs, they entered 2008. professor about the house and found the 12 fire his literary •A 3 metre storm tide heads for bombs. It is not known what the existence, sexual prowess, the English Channel, causing devices were made of or what the Chinese politics and his feud with dozens of flood warnings by the explosive material was, but activist Larry Kramer. UK's Environment Agency. Prime unconfirmed reports say the main Minister Gordon Brown calls an explosive source was gasoline. Featured story emergency COBRA meeting for Friday, as the wave could The Hazmat team, the bomb New Zealand police blocked potentially affect thousands of squad and emergency services from laying terrorism charges properties and a threat to many were then dispatched to the scene, Following dozens of anti-terror lives. The tidal wave is thought to to dispose of the devices according raids across New Zealand a few be caused by gale-force winds off to witness reports. It is not known weeks ago, the Solicitor General Scotland and high tides. 200 are where they were taken. has advised the Police evacuated. Commisioner, Howard Broad, the Both dogs were immediately put to •At least seven construction New Zealand Police will not lay sleep, because they were fighting workers are killed and 15 others charges. over the body of the dead dog. It injured when a bridge under is not known who is the owner of construction collapses in Dubai, the dogs, as the house was not United Arab Emirates. rented, and no one was supposed •Georgia's opposition says it is to be living there. suspending anti-government protests in Tbilisi, after President If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Saturday, November 10, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 Wikinews has also learned, while products — in the year to 31 investigating the property history, Since April 2004 members of the March 2007 Worldwide had a the Erie County's Department of BBC pension scheme have seen turnover of £810.4 million, Finance says that the building, their contributions into it increase generating profits of £111 million. which also has a storefront, is regularly, the BBC — like many allegedly owned by a Richard other employers — having reduced The BBC wants to use any money White who happens to live next its contribution (to 4.5% of raised to be put into international door at 17 Allen. White bought the payroll) over a ten year period commercial expansion and property from Edward G. Koch in when the stock market was content, most probably through 1996. The building was built in booming in the 1990s. Worldwide. 1910. The Guardian is seen as a reliable It had been intended to float It is not known what the devices source on BBC matters, having Resources back in 2005, but this were going to be used for and an reported the proposed sale of BBC was postponed for two years investigation is ongoing. It is not Television Centre back in January following strike action and ACAS known if there are any suspects. 2007, with the formal talks in June 2005 — the BBC announcement finally being made giving an undertaking that there Because of a severe amount of by BBC Director General Mark would be no preparations made to garbage and dog feces, the City of Thompson on October 18, 2007. sell the company until January Buffalo has condemned the 2007, and no sale allowed before building. Background to the sale July of this year. The current time- The Resources business-to- scale would see its disposal by the BBC Resources sale could be business unit was formed in 1998 end of the current financial year in unprofitable and operates television studios, March 2008. The sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC post-production and outside Resources Ltd., has hit a hurdle broadcast facilities for it's parent Queues start to form for UK after it emerged that the BBC share-holding company, the BBC. iPhone launch tomorrow could be left with a loss of up to It does not own any studios or Queues have started to form today £15 million on the deal. The cost premises, its assets being staff outside the London Apple store for of transferring the pensions of BBC and equipment. the launch of the iPhone. The Resources staff from the BBC phone launches tomorrow at 6.02 pension scheme to its new owners Advertised for sale on 16th August p.m. UTC exclusively onto the O2 could be up to £50 million in the Financial Times, The Times network amid controversy. The according to a Guardian and Broadcast and last year iPhone was launched five months Newspaper report. making profits of £5.2 million with ago in the United States and is set a revenue of £126 million, the to launch in the United Kingdom Managers from the division will disposal — led by Ernst & Young — and Germany tomorrow. meet with union representatives invited expressions of interest for from BECTU on Monday to discuss the whole division or for each of its Many people have braved the poor this and related sale issues. BECTU three operations separately. The weather and have set up camp in general secretary, Gerry Morrissey BBC has yet to release the names the street in a bid to be the first of is quoted as saying: "If the BBC of the short-listed companies. many thousands to buy the gets less than £50 million for BBC product on the first day of it's Resources then how can it fulfil its BBC Resources was the first of the release in the UK. Apple have duty of care to licence fee payers?" BBCs commercial business-to- already sold 1.4 million of the business divisions to be set up as units in the US, some of which It is believed that the BBC had a limited company and will be the have already been imported into hoped that a surplus in its pension last to be sold, the BBC having the UK un-officially. The cost of fund could be used to bridge the previously divested itself of BBC the device is set as £269 on a possible £50 million gap — but the Technology and BBC Broadcast — minimum £35 per month contract trustees of the fund have said BBC Worldwide, formerly BBC and will be sold at The Carphone "no". A BBC source said: "This is Enterprises, will remain in-house Warehouse, O2 and Apple Stores being discussed at the highest as it earns revenue from the across the UK. level". archive, media and licencing of If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, November 10, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 The iPhone has a touch screen third, we basically had the match scoring when Pavlyuchenko fired display and can act as a phone, totally under control – apparently his penalty shotdown the middle text device, web browser, music so much under control that some goal after Stefan Kießling fouled player and email client all in one. of my players thought we could Dmitri Torbinskiy. Adler brought The launch of the product onto one relax. Then we went and conceded down Ukraine midfielder Maxym phone network only has caused a totally unnecessary equaliser Kalynychenko. Mozart scored on controversy internationally and after a throw-in. That goes down the issuing penalty. Freier cut the has led to many people using free as two points dropped, but I’m still lead in half but the Bayer and paid methods of unlocking the confident we can win the group.“ Leverkusen were unable to find an phone to be able to use it on other equaliser. networks even though it voids the Oliver Kahn: “We became very warranty. Apple replied to this careless in the last 20 minutes. We 2007/08 UEFA Cup: Nürnberg move by releasing software kept on attacking, but we forgot vs. Everton patches that, when installed, will that teams in Europe are capable Everton defeated Nürnberg 2-0 to prevent functionality of the phone.