Australian Senator arrives at Parliament dressed as a beer bottle
Thursday, March 13, 2008 Family First Senator Steve Fielding arrived at Parliament today, dressed as a beer bottle to raise awareness of a bill he intends to move in the Senate today. Senator Fielding will introduce a bill to establish a nationwide refund scheme for bottles and cans. A similar scheme has operated in South […]
Wikinews interviews candidate for New York City mayor Vitaly Filipchenko
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 In early May, Wikinews extended an invitation to Vitaly Filipchenko, an independent candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election, set to take place November 2nd, alongside other candidates. Filipchenko answered some questions about his policies and campaign during a phone interview. Filipchenko, registered on the New York City Campaign […]
Illegal dye found in British food
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 London, Dublin – The illegal food dye Sudan Red 1, derived from chillies and banned in the EU since 2003, due to an associated risk of cancer has been found in several hundred products on European shelves. Products containing the illegal ingredient range from crisps, pizzas, casseroles and various chicken products […]
Female Biceps: How Female Bodybuilders Can Bulk Up
Read An Opinion On: Green Slip Compare By Guido Nussbaum Most experts claim that women can’t build big female biceps, and there is a particular grain of truth to that. Testosterone is what allows for huge bulky muscles in men, and the far majority of women can’t bulk up huge due to the lack of […]
Building collapses, leaving four dead in Hong Kong
Monday, February 1, 2010 A decades-old building collapsed along Ma Tau Wai Road in Hong Kong at about 1:30pm on Friday, local time. That building was located at 45J, Ma Tau Wai Road in Hung Hom. A shop on its ground floor was undergoing renovations when the building collapsed. The street was full of dust […]
Ford, Fiat to produce small cars together
Friday, September 9, 2005 Italian-based Fiat Auto SPA and US-based Ford Motor Co. announced they signed an agreement to cooperate in designing two small car models. This came only seven months after General Motors severed their relationship with Fiat. Both companies plan to work together on a new version of the popular Fiat Cinquecento and […]
U.S. House Ethics Committee to examine congressional press secretary vandalizing Wikipedia articles with government computer
Sunday, August 19, 2007 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Timothy Hill is the congressional press secretary working for U.S. Representative David Davis (R, TN-1) in Washington, D.C. This news story originally broke as an article appearing within […]
Profitable Currency Traders What Motivates Them?
Read An Opinion On: Blueberry Markets Site Profitable Currency Traders – What Motivates Them? by James Woolley Many people dream of becoming a successful trader, but why is this? Well I have been trading the forex markets for several years now, so I think I am in a good position to be able to tell […]
Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
Monday, January 26, 2009 On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people’s court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others. In the local court’s decision, 17 accused were indicted for the crimes of “producing, adding melamine-laced […]
New fossils from 10 million year old ape found in Ethiopia
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Researchers say that new, ten million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, prove that the theory that humans may have evolved from a species of great apes eight million years ago, may not be true, but that humans may have split from apes as long as 10.5 million years ago. At least nine […]