Topic: NEWS english - on June 9, 2004 at 3:53:00 PM CEST
Coming up, ready to drink canned wine!
Barokes, a range of wines in 250 ml aluminium cans, will hit the markets in New South Wales in September for 3.99 dollars each.
According to news.com, Barokes canned wine is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneurs Greg Stokes and Steve Barics and it was launched in Japan and Taiwan 18 months ago.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 9, 2004 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Cellphone thief nabbed by SMS plot
A cellphone thief in central China was arrested after accepting a text message offer from the owner of a free spare battery, a news report said on Wednesday.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 9, 2004 at 3:06:00 PM CEST
Film Industry Gives Controversial Iraq Film Ovation
Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Iraq war film "Fahrenheit 9/11" won a standing ovation on Tuesday night from an audience of film industry professionals attending its West Coast debut at Academy Award headquarters.
After an audience of more than 600 people in the theater of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cheered, whistled and laughed their way through the two-hour film, they jumped to their feet to give Moore a standing ovation as he took the stage.
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Topic: 911 - on June 9, 2004 at 2:53:00 PM CEST
TIA now verifies flight of Saudis
The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly. Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 9, 2004 at 2:52:00 PM CEST
The boy's too big for his boots - literally!
At the age of just 15 he weighs 96kg, is almost 2,12m tall and has a foot that is 35cm long ...
Jacques Barnard gives a new meaning to the adage of being too big for one's boots. The bashful Amanzimtoti lad wears a size 20 (UK size) shoe size which, according to a local shoe dealer, is roughly 10 times bigger than that of an average child his age.
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Topic: W A R - on June 9, 2004 at 2:51:00 PM CEST
Prison Interrogators' Gloves Came Off Before Abu Ghraib
After American Taliban recruit John Walker Lindh was captured in Afghanistan, the office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld instructed military intelligence officers to "take the gloves off" in interrogating him. The instructions from Rumsfeld's legal counsel in late 2001, contained in previously undisclosed government documents, are the earliest known evidence that the Bush administration was willing to test the limits of how far it could go legally to extract information from suspected terrorists.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 9, 2004 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Pig's Blood Spill On German Highway Causes Crash, Traffic Jams
A truck carrying 9,000 gallons of pig's blood was rear-ended and spilled its entire cargo on the German autobahn Wednesday, forcing the highway to close for several hours.
The truck hauling the waste blood from the Netherlands for disposal was pulling onto the autobahn near Sittensen at about 4:15 a.m. from a rest stop when it was rear-ended by another truck, police spokesman Klaus-Dieter Kroll said.
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Topic: TV - on June 9, 2004 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
Sky: was pay, now some free
BSkyB is to launch a package of up to 200 free channels to counter the growing threat from Freeview, the rival service backed by the BBC offering 30 channels for no fee.
In a major change of policy, BSkyB is abandoning its "pay-TV only" service and trying to appeal for the first time to satellite "refusniks" who have never been attracted to the concept of subscription TV.
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Topic: TV - on June 9, 2004 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
TV Journalist Electrocuted When Live Van Contacts Voltage Wires
A television journalist covering a gas well explosion was apparently electrocuted Tuesday when his station's van came in contact with high voltage wiring, the station said.
Matt Moore, an employee of KBTX in Bryan-College Station, was setting up for a live shot in Hearne when he was killed.
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Topic: NATURE - on June 9, 2004 at 2:46:00 PM CEST
Beekeepers Remove 700,000 Bees From Man's Home
ake Worth resident Norm Gitzen didn't mind the more than half-million bees living in the roof of his house until recently. Rather, he said, they were "kind of mesmerizing," and he often sweetened his morning coffee with honey dripping from the hives.
But when the bees started coming into the house, stinging him and his nephew, his love of that cohabitation changed. Local beekeepers started removing at least 700,000 bees from a tower above his breakfast nook on Tuesday, filling four buckets with honey weighing close to 65 pounds.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 9, 2004 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Bunker siege enters second day
An armed siege which began after a man broke into a former nuclear bunker in Fife has entered its second day.
Firearms officers and negotiators were called to Scotland's Secret Bunker near Anstruther, which is now a Cold War museum, at about 0130 BST on Tuesday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 9, 2004 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
'Sleepy' man left legless by train
A 49-year-old man was left legless after being run over by a train in Pretoria on Tuesday night, police said.
Inspector Percy Morokane said the man, who was identified only as J Sibanyoni, had been travelling from Pretoria to Mamelodi about 7pm.
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