Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year. What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps the year that Obama became […]
Clearing the air: Positions of Canadian parties vis-à-vis the environment
Thursday, September 18, 2008 Canadian Federal Elections 2008 Day Stories from the 2008 Canadian Federal Elections 13 October 2008: CanadaVOTES: Libertarian John Kittridge in St. Paul’s 13 October 2008: Canadian scientists protest Harper’s attacks on science 10 October 2008: CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Paul Arbour in Carleton—Mississippi Mills 10 October 2008: CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Jo-Anne Boulding in Parry Sound—Muskoka 10 October […]
Wikinews Shorts: November 26, 2008
A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, November 26, 2008. Contents 1 Leader of Lib Dems, British political party, concerned over lack of men in childcare 2 Pakistani hackers attack Indian website 3 Apple told to drop iPhone ad in UK 4 Deadly shootings in Mumbai leave 10 people dead 5 Contaminated syrup kills 25 children in Nigeria Contribute to […]
Three men arrested under suspicion of organising dog fights in southern Finland
Wednesday, August 15, 2007File:240-dogFighting.jpg File photo of two dogs fighting(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Three Finnish men have been arrested as part of an investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) into apparent illegal dogfights in various locations in the south of the country. Dog fights, in which two dogs are pitted head-to-head for the entertainment of […]
Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana
Thursday, July 12, 2007 Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags. Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The […]
How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. The U.S. Army Corps of […]
BBC: Ethiopian famine aid ‘siphoned off’ to buy weapons according to rebels, report
Friday, March 5, 2010 According to a BBC report, funds raised for famine relief aid in Ethiopia, such as those raised by the Live Aid benefit concert pictured here, were “siphoned off” by rebels to buy weapons. Image: Squelle. An investigation by the BBC has revealed that millions of dollars in famine relief aid money, including the money raised from […]
England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth
Friday, December 15, 2017 On Tuesday, parents of baby Vanellope Hope Wilkins and representatives of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, England reported to the press that Vanellope has survived three weeks after being born with her heart outside her chest, a rare birth defect known as ectopia cordis. She has been operated on three times, initially less than an hour after […]
UK government stops compulsory testing of fourteen-year-olds
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 14-year-old children in Britain are no longer subject to compulsory testing Image: KF. The UK Government has stated that children in Britain will no longer be required to take compulsory, externally marked tests at the age of fourteen. The change takes effect immediately, meaning that children who were due to take the test this year no […]
Wikinews interviews Sandra Jephcott, Sustainable Australia candidate for 2020 Groom by-election
Friday, November 27, 2020 Groom, highlighted in green, within the state of Queensland.Image: User:Canley. Portrait of Jephcott.Image: Sustainable Australia. Voters in the Australian electoral district of Groom are scheduled to go to the polls in a by-election this week following the resignation of Liberal National MP John McVeigh for family reasons. Groom is located in the state of Queensland, and […]