February 27, 2007 the Free-Content News Source That You Can Write! Page 1

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February 27, 2007 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Explostion near Afganistan Guinea after reaching an into the Grayrigg rail crash finds base kills 14, U.S. Vice agreement with the trade union that a key part of the set of points President may have been movement and the Opposition. was missing. (The Daily target Telegraph) •Talpiot Tomb: Film director James An explosion outside an American Cameron claims to have found •Scientists find over 20 new military base in Afghanistan ossuaries that once contained the species of animals as the Larsen occurred as U.S. Vice President remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his Ice Shelf breaks in the Antarctic. Dick Cheney was making a disciple Mary Magdalene, and surprise visit. •Four Guatemalan police officers their son, named Judah. jailed for the 19 February slaying Scorsese finally scores Oscar •Insurgency in Saudi Arabia: At of three Salvadoran deputies to gold with "The Departed" least three French citizens have the Central American Parliament Martin Scorsese's violent epic The been shot dead in an attack near are shot dead inside a maximum Departed captured the Best the historical site of Madain Saleh. security prison; a riot ensues. Picture of 2006 at the 79th Annual •The Iraqi Government has come •Vice President of the United Academy Awards, held Sunday to an agreement to divide oil States Dick Cheney makes evening in Los Angeles. revenue and encourage foreign surprise visits to Pakistan and investment in the country. Afghanistan to encourage Featured story President of Pakistan Pervez •A bomb inside the Iraqi Ministry Musharraf and President of Liberals in Quebec gain of Public Works kills at least five Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to support over separatist Parti people. It also injures Vice increase border security between Québécois President Adil Abdul-Mahdi and the two countries and to take Following an upcoming election in the Minister for Public Works further action against the Taliban Quebec, the Parti libéral du Reyad Ghareeb in a possible and al-Qaeda. Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec) assassination attempt. are in the lead, well ahead of the •United Kingdom Secretary of •The International Court of Justice separatist Parti Québécois (PQ), State for Defence Des Browne finds Serbia guilty of failing to says a poll done by Montreal announces the deployment of an prevent genocide in the based newspaper Le Devoir. additional 1,400 troops to Srebrenica massacre, but clears it Afghanistan. of direct responsibility and Wikipedia Current Events complicity in a case brought forth • Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye by Bosnia and Herzegovina. Golfer sues law firm over becomes the new Prime Minister Wikipedia article defacement •The Daily Telegraph reports that of Chad, replacing interim PM Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller wants to sue Israel is negotiating with the Adoum Younousmi who stood in the anonymous person who United States for an air corridor for Pascal Yoadimnadji since vandalised his article in the over Iraq to carry out an air strike Yoadimnadji's death on 23 Wikipedia encyclopedia, a website on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli February 2007 in Paris. resource almost anyone can edit. Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim •Guinean general strike, 2007: Sneh calls the information An IP address from Josef Silny & President of Guinea Lansana "baseless." Associates, a Miami education Conte appoints Lansana Kouyate •The preliminary inquiry by the consulting firm, wrote a biased as the new Prime Minister of Rail Accident Investigation Branch paragraph about him creating If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 uproar from the golfer. The entry Whitaker won the award for Best was posted twice: once sometime Actor for his performance in The Gary Slaight, President and CEO of last year, and again in December Last King of Scotland), denying Standard Radio also commented on 2006. The paragraph was removed Peter O'Toole an Oscar for the the deal. last month, and deleted from the eighth time (not counting an article history by Danny Wool, a honorary Oscar won in 2003). The "We are looking forward to staff member of the Wikimedia acclaimed documentary An becoming a part of the Astral Media Foundation. Inconvenient Truth (conceived by family," said Gary Slaight, President former Vice President Al Gore about and CEO of Standard Radio. "We Zoeller is suing Josef Silny & global warming) won the Best are pleased to see our legacy live Associates to find out who added Documentary Feature award, and on with a company such as Astral this text. Happy Feet won for Best Animated that has such a strong track record Feature. and commitment to its employees "The Zoeller family wants to take a and to the Canadian radio and stand to put a stop to this. Canada's Astral Media Inc. to television industries." Otherwise, we're all just victims of aquire Standard Radio the Internet vandals out there. Canadian Astral Media Inc. will buy All of Astral's radio stations are run They ought not to be able to act out Standard Radio Inc., which runs in Quebec and Atlantic Canada and with impunity," said Zoeller's many radio stations in Canada. it also runs various television attorney, Scott Sheftall. Standard Radio Inc. is the largest stations across Canada. Astral also privately owned multimedia has two french channels that Through the court, Wikipedia can company in Canada. broadcast on Sirius satalite radio not be sued for a vandalous edit. Canada. The person or company, in this Montreal based Astral Media Inc. case, will be sued. In fact, the will buy all of the assets from The company hopes to finalize the Wikimedia Foundation has not been Standard Radio Inc. for about deal in or before April. contacted by Zoeller or his CAN$1.2-billion. Standard Radio representatives about the lawsuit. Inc.'s 52 radio stations, and Astral's Chelsea beats Arsenal in 29, will be brought together by Carling Cup Scorsese finally scores Oscar Astral Media Inc. This will give A heated showdown occured in the gold with "The Departed" Astral 81 radio stations in total. all London Carling Cup final Martin Scorsese's violent epic The This makes Astral the largest radio yesterday at Millennium Stadium. Departed captured the Best Picture operator in Canada of FM and AM Chelsea fielded a full strength side, of 2006 at the 79th Annual radio. including Andriy Shevchenko, Academy Awards, held Sunday Michael Ballack, Didier Drogba, and evening in Los Angeles. The Warner "With the acquisition of Standard skipper John Terry. Arsenal on the Bros. movie also won three other Radio, Astral Media will not only be other hand fielded a young side, Oscars, including Best Director for acquiring the best performing radio including Theo Walcott, Cesc Scorsese (his first ever award), stations in the country, we will at Fabregas, Jeremie Aliadiere, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best the same time acquire a company Justin Hoyte. Film Editing. with similar values and culture. said Ian Greenberg, President and Despite their apparent lack of The musical Dreamgirls, which CEO of Astral Media. experience, Arsenal started out the headed into the awards ceremony match strongly, with crisp passing with the most nominations, "Over the past four decades the and great control. They pressed managed to score only two Oscars Slaight family has built a their advantage, and forced for Best Supporting Actress remarkable collection of strong Chelsea keeper Petr Cech into (Jennifer Hudson) and Best Sound radio brands and has contributed several saves. On 12 minutes, Theo Mixing. meaningfully in shaping the Walcott struck gold, as he Canadian radio industry as we orcestrated a give and go with Among the other winners were Alan know it today. We are delighted Abou Diaby and slotted the ball into Arkin (Best Supporting Actor, Little with the prospect of welcoming the far corner of the net, scoring Miss Sunshine) and Helen Mirren Standard Radio's employees into his first ever goal for the Gunners. (Best Actress, The Queen). Forest our team." Soon after, Baptista of Arsenal had If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 a legitimate claim for a penalty, but along with Adebayor of Arsenal. On a personal note, I want to thank referee Howard Webb wouldn't hear The game was finally called at 101 my husband Billy and our two boys of it. Chelsea struck back quickly, minutes, and stand in skipper Cedric and Jack, whose and a hint of offside was shown as Lampard was able to hoist the unconditional love gives me the Didier Drogba was played in by an Carling Cup. courage to fight every day for what over the top ball by Michael I believe in. And a special thank Ballack. The Ivory Coast striker Sherry Lansing thankful for you to the members of the didn't wait for a whistle, and slotted Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar Academy for this extraordinary the ball between Manuel Almunia's Given to an "individual in the honor. I promise to spend the rest legs to tie the match. A few more motion picture industry whose of my life trying to live up to it.” chances were spurned due to poor humanitarian efforts have brought finishing before the break, but the credit to the industry", the Jean She joins a list of only been six game went into halftime drawn at Hersholt Award is not an annual honorees in the last seventeen one a piece. honor, but rather an occasional years, Audrey Hepburn (1992, prestigious title. posthumously), Elizabeth Taylor The second half started much as (1992), Paul Newman (1993), the first, with the youthful This year's winner was Sherry Quincy Jones (1994), Arthur Hiller exuberance of Arsenal showing Lansing, the former CEO of (2001), and Roger Mayer (2004).

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