Sweden’s Crown Princess marries long-time boyfriend

Monday, June 21, 2010 Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976 took place Saturday when Crown Princess Victoria, 32, married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, 36. The ceremony took place at Stockholm Cathedral. Over 1,200 guests, including many rulers, politicians, royals and other dignitaries from across the world, attended the wedding, which […]

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Honda demonstrates mind-reading robotic technology

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 File:Robot asimo cropped.jpg At its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Honda Motor Company demonstrated on Tuesday technology which links a person’s thoughts with robots. The operator wears a helmet which scans for electric currents stimulated by brain activity, but also uses infrared sensors to detect changes in blood flows in the head. […]

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Anarchists threaten “mayhem” at 2010 Olympics

Monday, December 10, 2007 On Saturday night, anarchists reportedly hurled pieces of pavement through the windows of a Royal Bank location, demonstrating against their sponsorship of the Vancouver Olympics. An anonymous posting Sunday evening to Infoshop News, an independent anarchist news website, reports that the Royal Bank of Canada branch at 1st and Commercial had […]

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News briefs:May 5, 2007

It’s 19:50 UTC on Saturday, May 5, 2007. Hello, I’m David Jacobson with Audio Wikinews, News briefs and en.wikinews.org . Contents 1 A Kenya Airways jet with 115 on board crashes 2 Mohammad Khatami meets Pope Benedict XVI 3 Kentucky faith-based agency under fire for religious coercion 4 Closing statements […]

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