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Location of Bangalore, India.
Location of Bangalore, India.

Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have launched a search operation for the perpetrators of the Wednesday night's shootout at the Indian Institute of Science, which killed 1 scientist and injured 4 others. --PamriTalk 16:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]


[6] TMS63112 22:56, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    • I strongly support this being added to the "In the News" section -- see Main Page talk page for commentary (found here). This may be able to bump Sharon (now out of hospital) or Bolivia (too much election news on main page anyway)

Judge Rules Intelligent Design teaching unconstitutional [8]


Location of Bangalore
Location of Bangalore
  • Pamri, you are an admin. Are you asking for a peer review ? Hmm... I don't know. How about posting this on ITN when the name change takes effect ? I mean, after all the page moves are done ? -- PFHLai 07:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the current ITN entry, I don't think Anti-Arab is entirely accurate, it seems almost misleading? For one, the article doesn't use the word arab once...--Brendanfox 15:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe officially raked in $65 million ($65,556,312) in the United States and $42 million world wide on its opening weekend alone. This making its release a vast $107 million all together. Disney has been in an economic slum lately, and this was the kind of profit they needed. These numbers are #2 on the December Opening Weekends of all time (right behind Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King and in front of the first two Lord of the Rings films. With this news, Disney has officially greenlit the second book in the series, Prince Caspian to be made into a movie by 2007.
I'll pass on giving free advertising space for the hit movie. Maybe I should go and see it.... -- PFHLai 07:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • A large Hemel Hempstead Fuel Depot Explosions occured in the UK near junction 8 of the M1 just after 6 am; with the blast heard and flames visible from more than 12 miles away. A fuel refinery/storage area seems to be the centre of the blast; with broken windows and damaged buildings more than 0.5 mile away. The cause is not known as yet although there was a report of an aircraft prior to the blast, casualties are unknown.
Already posted. (not by me) -- PFHLai 08:35, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, we usually don't post obituaries on ITN. Please see criterion #5 on Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page. Thanks. -- PFHLai 08:36, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I almost posted this on ITN. This was reported very widely. There definitely is an international interest. However, it's only a draw. The whole event in Leipzig was, IMO, designed and presented to generate publicity for the games next year. (Why was Heidi Klum involved ?) As much as I'd like to see more well-done sports-related articles featured on the MainPage, I will have to pass this time. -- PFHLai 09:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • M&A transactions like this happen every day in the business world. Not sure how significant this is. And not sure if we really should help these big corporations in their advertising. I'll pass. Does any other admin want to post this ? -- PFHLai 17:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • This isn't even a real merger. It's a corporate "partnership" in Australia and New Zealand. Noone outside of Oceania will notice the difference in Yahoo!--Pharos 17:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is just an election promise. Nothing has actually been done yet. I think we should wait till something is actually done. Where's the updated article, anyway ? -- PFHLai 17:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • New medium-sized species of mammal found.[16]
  • David Cameron is elected leader of the British Conservative Party.
  • A civil law suit resulting from the death of a 27 year old woman race riots that occured in 1969 in York, PA has been settled for $2 million (US). [17] (See List_of_subjects_investigated_by_the_FBI.)
    • additional reference material: [www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/772272/posts convictions resulting from continued investigation]

A large earthquake (East African earthquake, 2005) estimated between 6.3 and 6.8 has hit East Africa, with the DRC particularly noted to have taken major damage. Epicenter located in Lake Tanganyika. More information here.--Gozar 18:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hong Kong march for universal suffrage
Hong Kong march for universal suffrage
  • SUGGESTION: From www.msnbc.com, I found an article about "The recipient of the world’s first partial face transplant was thriving medically and psychologically a week after her groundbreaking surgery, one of her doctors said Sunday.

The woman, whose face had been partially disfigured by a dog, appeared relatively normal after the operation and doctors were pleased with her mental state, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard said in a telephone interview." from [18]

Flag of Gabon, from Wikimedia Commons
Flag of Gabon, from Wikimedia Commons
--Ancheta Wis 17:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Singapore prepares to hang 25 year old Australian man Van Tuong Nguyen, convicted of trafficking in 400g of heroin, despite pleas from the Australian government to spare his life. His execution is scheduled for 6 am Singapore time, Friday morning. preceding unsigned comment by 203.217.62.238 (talk • contribs) 11:05, 2005 December 1
  • I don't think most exectutions should be on ITN. Singapore exectues its own citizens and foreign nationals pretty frequently for drug realted crimes, 400 since 1991, Nguyen's case isn't exceptional, but has recieved alot of press in Australia.--nixie 12:52, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I see. If this news item is widely reported (outside Singapore and Australia, and just being on CNN doesn't count as 'international'), I would be more supportive of this suggestion for ITN. Thanks for the quick response, nixie. Anyway, headlines need to be WIKIFIED and I did it to this headline. -- PFHLai 13:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's a good idea to put it ITN. It's encourages discussion internationally about the issue of capital punishment. --joank 22:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)