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Television New Zealand announces job losses; news worst hit

Friday, April 13, 2007 TVNZ’s headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph by Gabriel Pollard. New Zealand’s state-owned broadcaster, TVNZ (Television New Zealand) announced yesterday its proposed redundancy cuts that will see jobs go from various sectors, the most going from their news and current affairs sector. At least 140 people…

Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Edmund WhiteAll photos: David Shankbone What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has…

Britain’s Royal Windsor Castle to get hydro-electric power plant

Monday, July 25, 2005 Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. Windsor Castle, one of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom’s official residences, is to get a hydro-electric power scheme. The £1 million project will consist of a series…

G7 says “all available tools” will be used to solve crisis

Saturday, October 11, 2008 The financial leaders pose for a group photo. In the midst of the intensifying global financial crisis, finance ministers and central bankers of the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom – met in Washington, D.C. and released…

Wikimedian activist Adrianne Wadewitz dies

This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thursday, April 10, 2014 A video from 2012 where Wadewitz discusses the impact of Wikipedia Image: Vgrigas. News broke early this morning on Facebook that Wikipedian Adrianne…

Assassin of Turkish-Armenian journalist ‘treated as national hero’

Saturday, February 3, 2007 Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, was assassinated Placards held in Dink’s funeral reading “We are all Hrant Dink” and “We are all Armenian” in Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian. These placards were later protested by MHP and CHP, two major Turkish political parties, as well as by…

James Bond set at Pinewood Studios destroyed by fire

Sunday, July 30, 2006 Firefighters have confirmed that the large James Bond sound stage at Pinewood Studios has been destroyed by fire. It is thought eight fire engines were called to the scene near Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire on Sunday morning, where filming for Casino Royale, the latest Bond movie,…

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