Wikinews:2006/March/12/Latest news
March 12 edit
- United Kingdom hit by snow storms
- Swedish olympic snowboarder dies during practice run
- 2006 Formula 1 season starts with GP of Bahrain
- Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia
- Arrests for kite flying in Pakistan spring festival
- Man takes baby and woman hostage in hospital
- Czech woman wins the first Sudoku world championship
- NASA spacecraft enters Mars orbit
March 11 edit
March 10 edit
- Gale Norton resigns as U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- Global measles deaths plunge by 48% over past six years
- Japanese Buddhist priest arrested for child prostitution
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal delayed further
- American hostage Tom Fox found dead in Iraq
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Martian orbit
- USA leaving Abu Ghraib
- Czech pub food eating experiment resulted in lost weight, lower cholesterol
- Daisuke Enomoto will be the fourth space tourist at the ISS
- Wikipedia's Wales is considering a "stable" version
- Three charged following release of Cronulla riot wanted photographs
March 9 edit
- Bangkok blast injures two tourists
- Former teacher in France surrenders after holding 22 hostage in school
- NFL owners agree to CBA extension, 30-2
- Toronto to have socialized city-wide wi-fi access
- UK vending machines begin selling sex toys
- Agriculture's impact on human evolution clarified
- Wikinews interviews Gary Fung from isoHunt
March 8 edit
- Eighteen found dead in a bus in Iraq
- Largest mass extinction in 65 million years underway, scientists say
- Witness convicted of perjury in Best Bakery trial sentenced to one year
- Buffalo, NY magazine to publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
- North Korea fires missiles during training exercise
- Gordon Parks, African American filmmaker, dies at 93
- Study reveals 10% of telecommuters work nude
- Bonobo chimp threatened in Congo
- Police release photographs of those of interest in connection with Cronulla riots
- Events cancelled at Humber due to college strike
- Sault professor sides with students during college strike
- Australian emergency services personnel exposed to asbestos
- Small plane crashes on median of Interstate 75 in Michigan
March 7 edit
- Australians need bigger toilets
- Big 12 names players, coach of the year
- New Zealand's 2006 Census is held tonight
- U.S. Pentagon releases Guantanamo detainees' names
- House approves renewal of the Patriot Act
- Three explosions in Varanasi, India
- Multiple vehicles crash in West Palm Beach, FL
- Chávez accuses US of plotting separation of oil rich state
- Ontario college teachers begin strike
- Hall of Fame baseball player Kirby Puckett dies of stroke
- Dana Reeve, 44, wife of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer
- Ukraine does not allow Transnistrian goods transit without Moldovan customs stamps
- Australian Senator Bob Brown calls for ban on junk food ads
- Book review controversy over Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell'
- Porn star promotes Italian wine
March 6 edit
- Pakistan government blocks bloggers ahead of Bush visit
- Transit strike affects 100,000 in Helsinki
- AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billion
- Thaksin rebuffs resignation calls while elite call for appointed PM
- 2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre
- Australian Prime Minister visits India
- New Zealand online auction web site bought for NZ$700 million
- BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
- Dvdrs.net closes - "can not recover from recent events"