 Intro From Wikinews, the free news source, this is the audio Wikinews brief for Friday, April 23nd, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and here are today's top stories: Bombings in Iraq kill dozens  Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion; eleven missing  The oil rig "Deepwater Horizon" which is located roughly 50 miles southeast off the coast of Louisiana, sank yesterday after an explosion of unknown origins occured Tuesday night. 115 of the 126 workers on board the time of the explosion have been rescued, however, 11 still remain missing although Coast Guard officials have expressed optimism that they are still alive. 6.2 magnitude aftershock provokes panic in southern Chile  Brazil's Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla  US vice president Biden says Iran sanctions likely by early May  Greece formally asks for EU-IMF loans  Chilean actor Oscar Garcés accused of sexual abuse  Ben Shephard announces departure from GMTV  British poet Peter Porter dies at age 81  On this day in history  In 1867, William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel. Category: Wikinews audio Category:Audio Wikinews News Briefs Category:Brief Categor
__NOTOC__ Intro From Wikinews, the free news source, this is the audio Wikinews brief for Friday, April 23nd, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and here are today's top stories: Bombings in Iraq kill dozens (0:16) Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion; eleven missing (1:13) The oil rig "Deepwater Horizon" which is located roughly 50 miles southeast off the coast of Louisiana, sank yesterday after an explosion of unknown origins occurred Tuesday night. 115 of the 126 workers on board the time of the explosion have been rescued, however, 11 still remain missing although Coast Guard officials have expressed optimism that they are still alive. 6.2 magnitude aftershock provokes panic in southern Chile (2:30) Brazil's Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla (3:13) US vice president Biden says Iran sanctions likely by early May (3:55) Greece formally asks for EU-IMF loans (4:57) Chilean actor Oscar Garcés accused of sexual abuse (5:33) Ben Shephard announces departure from GMTV (6:30) British poet Peter Porter dies at age 81 (7:10) On this day in history (8:09) In 1867, William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel. Category: Brief Category:April 23, 2010 Category:No publis
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