Monday, July 17, 2006 Robert Brooks, chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who was famous for opening a restaurant selling chicken wings by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead yesterday, police said. Brooks was 69 years old. An autopsy is waiting to be performed later on today. Since opening its first store in Clearwater, Florida […]
See More About: Deck Builder Brisbane Brisbane Deck Builder Submitted by: Rob Jones Learn about the basic stages in preparing and executing a successful cedar decking project. A cedar deck offers all kinds of aesthetic and practical benefits to a property. It also adds value to a property as a whole. Making sure that all
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Saturday, July 22, 2006 More than 650 people have now died after a tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Java on Monday afternoon. In the past few days, around 100 dead bodies have been recovered, and it is estimated that over 300 people are still missing. An underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 triggered
Death toll in Indonesian tsunami continues to rise
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Saeb Erekat, head of the Palestinian Negotiation Group, delivered to the UN Security Council on Tuesday a letter from the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, urging the UN to tend to the issue of Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons who have gone on a hunger strike. He further noted that a
Mahmoud Abbas asks UN urgently attend to hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 The finance ministers of the G8, the world’s eight richest countries, after years of pressure from wide coalitions of human rights campaigners, such as the Committee for the abolition of third world debt (CADTM), have agreed to a deal to relieve the debts of 18 of the poorest countries in the
G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 At least twelve children have been injured after a swing ride at the Puyallup, Washington Spring Fair toppled over. The ride is called a ‘LollySwing’, which is located in Kiddyland, where the riders sit in swings while the machine spins them around. It is owned by Funtastic Traveling Shows which has
Twelve injured in Washington after ride at fair topples over
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Saturday, November 27, 2010 A judge in the High Court in Aberdeen, Scotland has criticised the care doctors gave to baby Alexis Matheson. Lord Uist made the comments while sentencing Mark Simpson, who was yesterday convicted of murdering the six-week-old girl. Simpson, 29, will serve at least twenty years of his life sentence after he
Scottish judge criticises medical care of murdered baby
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 When Wouter Van Bellingen became the first black registrar in Belgium, he knew there would be negative reactions, but he admitted that he didn’t expect them to be “so direct, so soon.” In February, three couples refused to pledge their wedding vows in front of the first black alderman of the
Mass wedding held against racism in Belgium
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