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Thursday, July 14, 2005 First Active logo First Active has become the first financial institution to offer 100% mortgages in the Republic of Ireland. The bank previously offered 100% financing to professionals in finance and medicine, but is now to offer this product to anyone who can afford to meet the repayments. The development is

Sunday, July 25, 2021 Reg Kidd, mayor of the City of Orange.Image: Orange City Council. After a seven-day lockdown began in three rural councils in New South Wales, Australia, Wikinews reached out to Reg Kidd, the mayor of the City of Orange. Orange is one of the three areas that is now currently under lockdown

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Tom Clancy signing books in Boston in 1989. Image: Gary Wayne Gilbert. The bestselling US novelist Tom Clancy died yesterday in a hospital in Baltimore, according to his publisher. The sixty-six year old is best known for a series of novels themed around espionage, military affairs and geopolitical intrigue, many of

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Batters overpower pitchers on this the second day of 2007 BWC. Italy, Chinese Taipei, Japan, and Canada easily won by ending early the games against their opponents as their aggressive hitting made it look like batting practice. Contents 1 South Korea vs Venezuela 2 USA vs Panama 3 Netherlands vs Australia

Saturday, March 1, 2008 While nearly all coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. Wikinews has impartially reached

Saturday, October 17, 2015 Edmonton police have closed down an Edmonton, Alberta, Canada pizza restaurant for a single day for delivering alcoholic beverages despite not being licensed to do so. It is unclear when this incident occurred, but the CBC reported that it occurred “recently”, after police searched the shop in September. File photo of

Saturday, April 17, 2010 In a new setback to the Thai government’s efforts to ease mounting political tensions, protest leaders escaped from their hotel Friday after security forces arrived to arrest them. Red-Shirt protesters ride through Bangkok, Thailand last month. Image: Takeaway. One, Arisman Pongruangrong, climbed down three floors using a rope, and was rushed

Sunday, October 21, 2007 “If you get in here,” says Bill, “and say, ‘Listen. I want to suspend this girl, and I want to spank her until she’s black and blue, and I have a girl that wants to do that, I probably–when I met her and interviewed her, I probably would have told her,

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Rising steam from the explosionImage: Arvind Grover. A pipe has burst in New York City, the largest city in the United States, causing a generator to explode. The explosion occurred in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central Terminal (GCT) and the Chrysler Building, and approximately at the intersection of 41st Street and

Thursday, August 28, 2008 John Cena at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina in 2003. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company World Wrestling Entertainment issued a press release last night, stating that wrestling performer John Cena is expected to recover from his injuries, after a surgery. WWE Medical Program head, described in a press release as a