Wikinews:2006/March/8/Latest news
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"
March 5 edit
March 4 edit
- Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrated by 450,000 people
- Iranian refugee child granted $400,000 in compensation for "psychological harm"
- Coca growth up in Bolivia, Peru, claims U.S. State Department
- Diebold "whistleblower" faces criminal charges in California
- No hotel previously on site of proposed Buffalo, N.Y. hotel location
- Black Box Voting finds anomalies in electronic voting logs of 2004 U.S. election
March 3 edit
- 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
- Ayya Vaikunda Avataram declared as a holiday for Tirunelveli district
- 2006 New Zealand Maori Electoral Option
- Emergency at JDS Uniphase in San Jose, CA
- Authorities impose vehicle ban on Baghdad
- Band sticker causes bomb scare at Ohio University
- Ian Thorpe starts to recover from chest pains
- Australia will not export uranium to India
March 2 edit
- Australian Greens senator Bob Brown marks 10 years in Parliament
- Taipei mayor Ma hopes local HIV midway home "patients out only"
- Bush's Katrina statement contradicted by emerging evidence
- Amateur sex video stirs controversy on Internet
- Google.cn to move search records out of China
- Harry Browne, former US presidential candidate and best selling author, dead at age 72
- Mayor Ken Livingstone's suspension frozen pending appeal
- Costa Rica falls to Iran in football friendly
- Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
- Five dead in attack in Pakistan
- Officials in Mexico claim leaked Dirty War report isn't final copy
- South Africa to meet with Hamas representatives
- Natural gas discovered in Chile according to President Ricardo Lagos
- Kenyan TV and newspaper raided by masked police
- Uruguay turns down Argentina’s request to halt construction of pulp mills
- Bus crash outside Cusco kills at least 13
- Comedian Linda Smith dies at 48
- City Planning Board postpones decision on Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Interview with Usenet search sites targeted by the MPAA
- Photoessay: Fat Tuesday Easy in DC
- Australia's Prime Minister Howard marks 10 years in power
- Corruption blamed for Papuan rainforest destruction