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- Obama announces plan to build roads, railroads and runways
- Six dead in arson attack in Bridgetown, Barbados
- Independent Member of Australian Parliament calls for better indigenous policy
- Wikinews Shorts: September 6, 2010
- Nine dead after small plane crashes in New Zealand
- Samsung releases its first tablet computer
- Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League semi finals
| Obama announces plan to build roads, railroads and runways Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 In a speech in Wisconsin, US President Barack Obama announced a USD50 billion plan to restore 150,000 miles of roads, lay 4,000 miles of railroad tracks and rebuild 150 miles of airport runways within six years. The speech was given at an annual Labor Day festival in Milwaukee to union workers on Monday afternoon. "All of this will not only create jobs immediately, it's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul," Obama said during the speech. The president also said that "we are going to rebuild 150,000 miles of our roads — that's enough to circle the world six times... We're going to lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways — enough to stretch coast-to-coast" and that he was "going to keep fighting, every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around". More... |
| Six dead in arson attack in Bridgetown, Barbados Posted:
Monday, September 6, 2010 Six people have died after a clothing store was set on fire during an armed robbery in Bridgetown, Barbados. Two men entered Campus Trendz Clothing Store wielding machetes and demanded money. The pair then set a fire and fled the scene. More... |
| Independent Member of Australian Parliament calls for better indigenous policy Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 In the hopes of resolving Australia's political gridlock of a hung parliament after the 2010 Australian federal election, Independent member of Parliament (MP) for Kennedy in Northern Queensland, Bob Katter, has released a list of policy initiatives such as indigenous housing which he considers to be the criteria that will determine who he will side with to form a government. Katter, who was a former State Minister for Indigenous Affairs in Queensland, suggests that past governments have oppressed indigenous Australians and put issues pertaining to indigenous Australians on the backburner, stating "So what do you want? To just oppress them all until there's none of them left? That's the policy that's out there at the moment". More... |
| Wikinews Shorts: September 6, 2010 Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 President Alvaro Colom says torrential downpours causing flooding and landslides have undone the country's reconstruction from Tropical Storm Agatha in May. Up to eighteen people are reported killed in rain-related incidents across the country as weather systems in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific batter the region, and forecasters expect another 48 hours of precipitation. At least ten people were killed, 20 rescued, when a landslide buried a bus as it traveled on the Inter-American highway in the worst single-incident. Five people are dead, 39 injured after a suicide bombing in the Dagestan Republic of the North Caucasus. The information is still unfolding, and earlier reports had three killed, 26 injured. The attack occurred at 00:30 local time (20:30 UTC) when a Zhiguli car packed with explosives drove into the gates of a military base near Buynaksk. AFP reports a second explosion nearby on a nearby highway, but with no injuries. More... |
| Nine dead after small plane crashes in New Zealand Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010
Nine people died in New Zealand after a small tourist plane crashed on Saturday afternoon on the West Coast of the South Island, killing all on board. The aircraft, a Fletcher FU24 owned by a local sky diving company, crashed and caught fire at 13:15 local time soon after taking off from the Fox Glacier Airport to carry out tandem skydiving over the Fox Glacier. The cause of the accident is not yet known, but the plane banked, dipped, smashed nose-first into the ground, and burst into flames. More... |
| Samsung releases its first tablet computer Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 At the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) industrial exhibition in Berlin, the South Korean corporation Samsung released its first tablet computer, called "Galaxy Tab". The device features the Android operating system and a seven-inch screen. Samsung's own applications, called "Reader's Hub" and "Media Hub," display ebooks and videos respectively. Latest Flash, and an interface to stream to TV also are included. Wireless technologies supported include 3G networks, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. More... |
| Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League semi finals Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 The Gippsland Football League Semi Finals were played over the weekend. The Gippsland Football League (officially Gippsland League, GL) is the only major Australian rules football competition in the Gippsland region according to the Victorian Country Football League. The Second Semi Final was traditionally played second, as the name suggests, but recent trends have seen it played first. More... |
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