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United States spies accused of illegally bugging the United Nations headquarters

Monday, August 26, 2013 German weekly publication Der Spiegel yesterday accused the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) of spying on the United Nations headquarters in New York. The magazine claims to have access to official NSA documents, provided by former NSA and CIA computer specialist and current fugitive Edward Snowden. If the allegations ofRead More

United States spies accused of illegally bugging the United Nations headquarters

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News briefs: February 12, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014 Wikinews Audio Briefs Dateline Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Listen to this brief Problems? See our media guide. This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Investigation of Deutsche Bank headquarters spills into second day

Monday, December 3, 2018 On Friday, German police investigators continued their previous day’s search of the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, for evidence of money laundering and other wrongdoing in connection to the group of leaked financial documents called the Panama Papers. A police spokesperson explained the roughly 170 searchers, including officers, prosecutorsRead More

Investigation of Deutsche Bank headquarters spills into second day

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’Read More

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

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Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents

Sunday, March 22, 2009 After an early morning fire began, four out of the nine people living at the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative group home located in Wells, New York were killed by the blaze. The Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office, which supervises the home, told the media that the fire started at approximately 5:30Read More

Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents

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British serial killer jailed for three prostitute murders

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 A British serial killer has yesterday entered guilty pleas to all three counts of murder he faced. Stephen Griffiths, 40, who attracted tabloid attention by calling himself the “Crossbow Cannibal”, killed the prostitutes in his flat in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and will spend the rest of his life behind bars.Read More

British serial killer jailed for three prostitute murders

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News briefs:April 24, 2005

Sunday, April 24, 2005 Contents 1 NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet 2 Bush nomination to UN post faces bi-partisan problems 3 Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq 4 5-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed by Florida police 5 British government considering new nuclear power stations