Wikinews Shorts: April 23, 2008
A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, April 23, 2008. An attack on a U.S. Marine checkpoint in the western Iraqi town of Ramadi saw two marines killed and an additional three wounded. The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives in his vehicle at theContinue Reading
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Here’s An Opinion On: Retirement Villages In Nsw Submitted by: Gregory Frost There are quite a number of challenges facing people today, keeping up with what an ordinary individual goes through each day can be quite daunting especially if your laden with many responsibilities. Research has it that as theContinue Reading
Australian–US team of scientists finds Atlantic warming causes Pacific climate trends
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 A team of scientists from Australia and US has found a solution for a challenging problem in climate research. Climate models predicted more greenhouse gases would weaken the equatorial Pacific trade winds.However, over the past two decades, observations showed this Walker circulation was getting stronger, acceleratingContinue Reading
Wikinews interviews Aurélien Miralles about Sirenoscincus mobydick species discovery
Thursday, January 24, 2013 1 2 3 4 A group of researchers published a paper about their discovery of a new species of Madagascar mermaid skink lizards last December. The species is the fourth forelimbs-only terrestrial tetrapods species known to science, and the first one which also has no fingersContinue Reading
Message in bottle travels from UK to Australia
Friday, January 20, 2006 A message in a bottle thrown into the sea by a four-year-old girl in England has been found 9,000 miles away in Western Australia. Alesha Johnson threw the bottle into the water at Morecambe Bay, Lancashire last July, enclosing her Heysham address, and a picture ofContinue Reading
How To Start A Boutique In The Right Direction
Here’s An Opinion On: Simple Loan Agreement Australia By Eveline Wong Before one can say exactly how to start a boutique, one must know exactly what a boutique is. Therefore, a boutique is basically a small shop that sells odd or unique things. Usually, it is geared more toward woman’sContinue Reading
Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, inContinue Reading
Wikinews interviews spokesman for Greek far-left party Xekinima
Monday, May 3, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald today interviewed Petros Tzomakas, a Greek far-left activist and member of Xekinima, which is the Greek division of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The party is a member of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). Tzomakas also sits on his localContinue Reading
Category:Science and technology
This is the category for science and technology. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 31 July 2020: “Avast ye scurvy file sharers!”: Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge 7 July 2020: Astronomer Anthony Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet with Wikinews 28 June 2020:Continue Reading
ABC to move Internet news network back to U.S. TVs
April 6, 2005 The U.S. television network ABC says its 24-hour news network, ABC News Now, will become a permanent 24-hour television news network starting in July. Currently, the operation is only available on the Internet as a streaming media web site. The network started as a experiment by theContinue Reading