Wednesday, December 7, 2005 The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun to address concerns raised by the EU, the Council of Europe, and several member countries about the CIA’s detention practices upon her arrival in Germany for…
FIFA to make changes after Thierry Henry handball
Thursday, December 3, 2009 FIFA, the world governing body for association football, yesterday announced it was setting up a working group to conduct an inquiry into the introduction of assistant referees and technology into the world game, in the wake…
Protesters block day-care centres in Denmark
Friday, September 29, 2006 A standoff is forming in Aarhus, Denmark‘s second largest city, located mainly in the Region Central Jutland, with politicians seeking to make budgetary cuts for 2007 on one side, and parents, paedagogs and elderly-care professionals on…
Murderer of road accident victim sentenced to death
Saturday, April 23, 2011 Yao Jiaxin, a 21-year-old student at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music, was sentenced to death on Friday. Yao, from Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province, was convicted of homicide after stabbing a cyclist to death. On the…
Category:Blurpeace (WWC2010)
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Wikimedia Foundation’s first Wikimania convention held in Germany
Monday, August 8, 2005 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. On Thursday, August 4 Wikimedia opened its doors to the first ever Wikimania…
Over 60 illegal miners die in South African mine fire
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Over 60 miners were killed in an abandoned gold mine shaft near Welkom, in the Free State province of South Africa, after a fire broke out inside the mine. 36 bodies from the Harmony Gold mining…
Stanford physicists print smallest-ever letters ‘SU’ at subatomic level of 1.5 nanometres tall
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 A new historic physics record has been set by scientists for exceedingly small writing, opening a new door to computing‘s future. Stanford University physicists have claimed to have written the letters “SU” at sub-atomic size. Graduate…
Wikinews interviews Tyan Taylor, Australian goalball player
Tuesday, September 4, 2012London, England— Yesterday, following a three–nil loss to the United States, Wikinews interviewed Tyan Taylor of Australia’s national goalball team. The sport was created in 1946, exclusively for people with a visual disability and, designed to help…
Taliban leader: Osama bin Laden is “still alive” and “Taliban ready to strike Americans”
Thursday, March 1, 2007 Mullah Dadullah, a high ranking official for the Taliban in Afghanistan, has said that the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden is “still alive” and that “messages are exchanged to share plans” with Bin Laden. Dadullah…