November 18, 2006 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events New PlayStation 3 lines wear the burqa. (BBC) to Barry Bonds, is ordered to go people up in stores today to prison for the third time for •Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant The new PlayStation 3 is getting contempt of a grand jury for reports that officers of the more people lining up in stores refusing to testify against Bonds Military Intelligence and Security than people walking out. Ebay regarding alleged perjury in Service of the Netherlands have has pages full of PlayStations at connection to an earlier steroids physically abused prisoners in the about US$3,000 up to US$5,000. investigation. Iraqi governorate of Al Muthanna. Alleged Russian spy captured •Australian and New Zealand Wild storm forces Vancouver to in Montreal Canada military forces are on standby to issue boil water advisory An alleged Russian spy was fly to Tonga following riots in the Wednesday's storm has caused the arrested in Montreal. He had Tongan capital Nuku'alofa entire Greater Vancouver area to threatened national security. The yesterday. Eight people died in issue a boil water warning. The man is identified as a Russian spy the riots. The Tongan government storm overwhelmed three local and has been living under a false declares a state of emergency water reservoirs which serves name. and passes emergency laws more than two million people. giving security forces the right to stop and search people without a Featured story The local medical health officer warrant. advised that tap water not be used Proposal for Buffalo, N.Y. •Kazakh President Nursultan for anything. hotel reportedly dead: parcels Nazarbayev calls on the for sale "by owner" Government to switch the "We know that with turbidity levels A proposed hotel that was alphabet used in the Kazakh this high there is an increased risk supposed to be built at the corner language from Cyrillic letters to of gastrointestinal illness. So of Elmwood and Forest Avenues Latin. people need to be aware of that, in Buffalo, New York is apparently although it's their choice," warned off the table and properties are •Former Uruguayan dictator Juan Dr. Patricia Daly, medical health for sale. María Bordaberry is arrested in officer for Vancouver Coastal connection with the 1976 Health Authority. "If I'm asked, I'm Wikipedia Current Events abduction and assassination of 2 telling the public: Don't drink the congressmen. • UK prime minister Tony Blair has water from the tap at this time. admitted that Iraq is 'pretty •President of the United States Drink bottled water or boil your much a disaster' in an interview George W. Bush and Prime water for a full minute." broadcast today on Al Jazeera Minister of Australia John Howard English. discuss Iraq strategy over lunch. The Greater Vancouver area has The two leaders are attending an received a total of 236.8mm of •The Government of the rain this month. The rainfall record Netherlands announces it will Asia-Pacific Economic of 350.8mm was set in 1983, introduce a bill banning the Cooperation meeting in Hanoi. according to measurements taken wearing of the burqa in public, •The Chinese Government blocks at Vancouver International Airport. stating that burqas disturb public internet access to Wikipedia in order, citizens and safety. About China less than one week after a Starbucks, a coffee shop, in 5% of the Dutch population is year-long ban was lifted. downtown Vancouver had to stop Muslim, but only a few dozen •Greg Anderson, personal trainer serving coffee and grocery stores If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Saturday, November 18, 2006 Wikinews Page 2 had to turn off the produce It has gotten so bad that two repeatedly refused to show ID sprayers used to cool vegetables. gunmen in Putnam, Connecticut, while the officers were making a came up to 15 to 20 people usual 11:00PM safety sweep of a BC Hydro are busy at the moment standing outside Wal-Mart a little campus library. Tasers are meant repairing power and telephone after 3:00 a.m. and demanded to be non-lethal weapons which lines blown down in the heavy money. One man resisted and he immobilize people by discharging winds. It left over 220,000 was shot. Police are now on the an electrical charge into their customers without electricity. scene and are searching for the bodies. Their use has been suspects. considered controversial. 2006 MLS championship goes to Houston Dynamos Ebay is restricting PlayStation 3's A statement put out by the Ninety minutes wasn't long enough to only experienced ebay sellers University of California, LA police to decide the Major League with high ratings. Only one PS3 department says that the student, Soccer's 2006 Championship game can be listed per eBay account. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, was last Sunday between the Houston The listing has to include a photo asked to leave multiple times Dynamo and the New England of the pre-order receipt and the during the incident and refused. It Revolution. At the end of seller must guarantee shipment goes on to say that when officers regulation play the score stood at within 30 days starting from the tried to escort him out of the 0-0. date of purchase. library he continued to refuse to cooperate. Two 15 minute overtime periods Convoy attacked in Iraq, 5 commenced. In the 113th minute kidnapped Some witnesses refute this Revolution striker Taylor Twellman Five contractors, four Americans statement saying that finally put the ball into the net and an Austrian, working for Tabatabainejad had been walking from 18 meters out, giving New Crescent Security Group were toward the door of the library England a 1-0 lead. Minutes later - kidnapped in Iraq after their when police grabbed him. one commentator mentioned it convoy was attacked and hijacked happened while New England was by militants. At least 2 of the Police tasered Tabatabainejad still celebrating its goal - Houston's American men have been freed by multiple times after the student Brian Ching, with a header assist police officers, but the security attempted to encourage other from Brian Mullan, brought the guard from Austria, a 25 year-old students to join him in his act of score back to a tie at 1-1. former soldier, has been killed. His resistance. This action was caught body was found in Safwan, Iraq by another student via a cell Five minutes later the according to a police officer for the phone. The video has been posted championship game went into a Basra, Iraq police force. to YouTube. best-of-five penalty kick period. "Police were able to free two of the This is the third incident this Making the final score 4-3, Brian foreigners kidnapped and they are month where a LA police Ching made the winning kick that in good health," said the Basra department has been taped finally gave Houston the 2006 provincial governor, Mohammed al- engaging in critical behavior. Major League Soccer championship Waili. as the record crowd of 22,427 in Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams Frisco's Pizza Hut Park watched. The men were on their way to in a statment promised an Nassiriya, Iraq and were taking a investigation saying that the safety New PlayStation 3 lines people road that is supposed to be of the university students is a up in stores today guarded to ensure the safety of paramount concern. The new PlayStation 3 is getting convoys traveling in the region. more people lining up in stores China reinstates ban on than people walking out. eBay has The fate of the other two missing Wikimedia after short-lived pages full of PlayStations worth at men is not yet known. loosening about US$3,000 up to US$5,000. HEFEI, China (Wikinews) After Machines sold out in minutes at UCLA student tasered about one week of free access to stores across the US. repeatedly Chinese Wikipedia, millions of UCLA police tasered a student who netizens in mainland China found If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, November 18, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 their acess blocked once again. All look. Thursday. Police secured 3 mobile requests for pages on the site are phones. Police say that securing now answered only with the error She was 5'8'' tall and weighed only the phones ensures the movies message "The page cannot be 88 pounds. Doctors consider this don't get published on the Internet displayed." weight normal for a 12-year-old and cannot spark potential copycat girl who is no more than 5 feet acts. According to test results and tall. Her mother has revealed to feedback available so far, the press that her diet, since the The alleged act took place in the everything has been reverted to last two months, consisted only of flat of an 18-year-old colleague of what it was before mid-October. apples and tomatoes. a 15-year-old friend of the victim. No direct access to any project The victim and four of the arrested page under the Wikimedia Reston's death is set to strengthen suspects attend the same school in Foundation is available, and the claims of links between the fashion Zurich Oerlikon. keyword "zh.wikipedia.org", which industry and eating disorders. It is the URL of Chinese Wikipedia, is comes shortly after one of Verena Lang Temperli, a school a banned search term.