April 6, 2007 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories OECD releases report on New Grady Sizemore got things started Zealand's environmental for the Indians by hitting a solo Cruise ship evacuated off performance home run in the first, but the Sox Greek coast The Organisation for Economic Co- would tie it up in the second on a Close to 1,600 passengers and operation and Development (OECD) Paul Konerko RBI groundout. crew are being evacuated from the has released a report on the Another Indian homer came from Cruise liner Sea Diamond, which environmental performance of the the bat of Jason Michaels, but the ran aground near Santorini Island New Zealand Government. Sox again tie it up in the fourth in Greece. The cruise operator has Although the Government applauds with Tadahito Iguchi hitting an RBI announced that all passengers the findings as vindicating its path sacrifice fly. Chicago took their first have been safely evacuated and to sustainability the report makes a lead of the game in the seventh all crew are safe. wide range of recommendations in with a Scott Podsednik RBI, but order to improve environmental Jason Michaels would tie it up again British navy personnel back performance. It calls for better in the eighth. In the bottom of the home protection of water, a clarification ninth inning, an inside pitch hit The fifteen sailors and marines, and strengthening of climate batter A.J. Pierzynski, walking in detained for thirteen days by Iran change policy, an upgrade of waste the winning run and ending the for allegedly straying into their management and improvement game. waters, have been released and environmental reporting. flown to Heathrow International Chicago starter Mark Buehrle left Airport. The British government The previous report was released in the game in the second inning insists they were in Iraqi waters 1996 and a number of suffering from bruising on his when they were captured. improvements have been noted. forearm after being hit just below Thse include minimising harmful the elbow of his pitching arm. He Featured story substances in agriculture and has been diagnosed with having a fisheries, improving drinking water, contusion on his left forearm, and Forty Hells Angels locations in balancing social and environmental his status will be day-to-day. Matt Canada raided by police concerns and expanding protected Thornton is credited a blown save Thursday around 40 Hells Angels areas. for giving up Chicago's one run lead locations were raided by police in in the eighth. Cleveland starter Ontario, New Brunswick, and It is part of a second cycle of peer Jeremy Sowers pitched the first six British Columbia. Police arrested reviewed reports on the OECD innings, giving up just a hit and more than 30 people in all three member countries. two runs. selected provinces. MLB: White Sox defeat Indians The White Sox, now 1-2, are Wikipedia Current Events 4-3 following hit batter staying in town to play the visiting •Three men are charged with It was an unusual ending to Minnesota Twins while Cleveland, involvement in the 7 July 2005 Thursday's game at U.S. Cellular now 2-1, will go home to face off London bombings. Field between the Chicago White against the Seattle Mariners. Sox and the Cleveland Indians. •Former rebel leader Ramzan With the game tied going into the MLB: Pirates complete sweep Kadyrov takes office as President ninth inning, Cleveland pitcher of Astros of Chechnya. Roberto Hernández hit batter A.J. The Pittsburgh Pirates swept the Pierzynski with the bases loaded, Houston Astros in a 5-4 victory at walking in the winning run. the Minute Maid Park Wednesday. Xavier Nady did very well in the If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Friday, April 6, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 first three games of the season, boarding a small ferry that is English Oak. I took the lid off the going 1 for 4 with 2 runs to lift the helping with the operation. box of ashes [of his father] and he Pirates over the Astros. Tom is now growing oak trees and would Gorzelanny made his debut in the The ship was about one nautical love me for it!," said Richards in a last game of the series, giving up 3 mile - 1.8km - from the island's statement also adding that the runs on 7 hits, with 2 errors, with coast when it ran aground. The interview was "lost in the usual one ball batted and four strikeouts. ship's operators, Louis Cruise Lines, slanting." This is the first time since May earlier said that a "controlled 1991 that the Pirates swept the evacuation" was underway, but that Bert, who had been the father of Astros. "there is no danger to passengers". Richards, died when he was 84, The ship had left the Athenian port back in 2002. Trailing by two runs in the fifth, of Piraeus on Monday for a five-day Pittsburgh capitalized on three tour of the islands. The sea was Richard's manager later told the fielding errors to put them ahead calm when the incident occurred. NME that the remarks had been by two. Craig Biggio hit a solo made "in jest", and should not be home run with two outs in the "Some passengers have already taken seriously. ninth inning, but Pittsburgh closer reached the island and no-one has Salomon Torres struck out the last been hurt," an official at the British navy personnel back batter and picked up the save. Santorini coastguard has said, home whilst Merchant Marine Minister The fifteen British navy personnel The Astros are off until Friday when Manolis Kefaloyiannis said to detained by Iran landed at just the St. Louis Cardinals visit for reporters, "Thankfully, everything gone 12:00 noon BST at Heathrow three games. Meanwhile, the has gone well so far. Emergency International Airport, following their Pirates are concluding their opening services responded very quickly release after thirteen days of road trip in Cincinnati before and very well." captivity. returning home to face the Cardinals. Keith Richards denies reports The sailors and marines were that he snorted his father's captured by Iranian border guards Cruise ship evacuated off ashes on March 23 in the Persian Gulf Greek coast According to a recent interview, near the Shatt al Arab waterway. An evacuation operation is Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Iran says they were in Iranian underway as a Cruise ship runs Richards is said to have snorted his territorial waters while the UK aground off the coast of Santorini, late father's ashes mixed with insists they were operating in Iraqi a Greek island, leaving up to 1,167 cocaine. waters under the terms of a UN passengers and 391 crew to mandate. abandon the ship. In an interview with the NME magazine he is quoted as saying Iranian President Mahmoud Cruise operator Louis Cruise Lines "The strangest thing I've tried to Ahmadinejad on Wednesday has announced that all passengers snort? My father. I snorted my announced that he would free the have been safely disembarked, with father. He was cremated and I fifteen British captured navy no casualties and that all the crew couldn't resist grinding him up with personnel as a "gift to the British are safe. a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't people." have cared, he didn't give a shit. It Many of the passengers on board went down pretty well, and I'm still The crew are back on British soil, the Sea Diamond ship are either alive. He went down pretty well." after landing in an area usually American or German, local news reserved for VIPs such as the reports. The ship is taking on water Despite the interview, Richards Queen, and have arrived at a after striking a reef in the volcanic denies he said anything like that military base for de-briefing and island's lagoon, similar to a lake, and that he ever used cocaine. thorough mental and physical and issued a distress signal, health checks, and to meet their launching an operation that has led "I wouldn't take cocaine at this waiting families. more than a dozen ships and five point in my life unless I wished to Greek Navy helicopters evacuating commit suicide. The truth of the “The disagreements we have with all the people on board, with many matter is that I planted a sturdy your government we wish to If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Friday, April 6, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 resolve peacefully through Ray Cooper, uncle to Royal Marine Cuddyer left the game following the dialogue. I hope - as I've always Adam Sperry, said that this is "the fourth inning after being hit by a hoped - that in the future we are best present imaginable. Whoever bouncing foul ball in the chin. He able to do so.” has been in the right or wrong, the was given five stitches and is —British Prime Minister, Tony Blair whole thing has been a political expected to be ready to play on mess, so let's just get them home", Friday when the team travels to They left Iran at approximately whilst his grandmother, Margaret Chicago to face the White Sox. 8:00 a.m local time from Mehrabad Sperry, said that "I don't think I Baltimore will head to New York to International Airport located in would have ever gone out of the face the Yankees after their off day.