News briefs:April 23, 2010

January 23, 2017 By

 Correction — August 24, 2015 These briefs incorrectly describe BP as ‘British Petroleum’. In fact, such a company has not existed for many years as BP dropped this name when becoming […]

Sevilla signs Sirigu on loan from Paris SG

January 23, 2017 By

Monday, August 29, 2016 On Friday, French capital football club Paris Saint-Getmain announced they loaned Italian goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu to Spanish club Sevilla F.C. till the season end. 29-year-old Sirigu […]

Italian ambassador to South Africa dies in accident

January 23, 2017 By

Sunday, April 20, 2008 The Italian ambassador to South Africa died in a car accident Saturday while hunting and on a game viewing safari in Limpopo province. At least two […]

Chili Finger Incident

January 20, 2017 By

Friday, May 6, 2005 On Thursday the 22nd of March, 2005, Anna Ayala, a woman from Las Vegas, claimed to have found a human finger in her bowl of chili […]

Finnish terrestrial analogue TV network shut down

January 20, 2017 By

Saturday, September 1, 2007 The terrestrial analogue television broadcasts in Finland ended in September 1, 2007, at 04:00 local time, marking the transition to the digital DVB-T standard. DVB broadcasts […]

DirecTV tunes out Trio, network in limbo

January 20, 2017 By

Saturday, January 1, 2005 The future of the artsy Trio channel became increasingly grim Saturday as satellite TV giant DirecTV dropped the fledgling network from its national channel lineup. When […]