Thursday, June 21, 2007 A full-size Percy the Small Engine from the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends stories in Llangollen, Wales in 2005. Percy is not part of the recent recall of Thomas toy trains. Image: Thryduulf. A recall issued last week for Thomas the Tank Engine toys made in China and containing lead-based […]
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The implosion of a relationship between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and journalist Rachel Marsden has resulted in controversy and international headlines. Associated Press and ABC News have also
Wikipedia founder embroiled in affair and financial allegations
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Wednesday, July 6, 2005 The Commons of Saxonburg retirement home entrance Joshua J. Goyette allegedly confessed to breaking into a Saxonburg, Pennsylvania retirement home and beating 86-year-old Gertrude “Trudy” Johanson in the early morning of June 25, 2005. The crime, which shocked the small community north of Pittsburgh, was not the only one which occurred
Pennsylvania man admits to June 25 beating of elderly woman
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 CDC map of cases per million of Salmonella Saintpaul by state Over 1000 cases of illness have now been identified in a foodborne salmonellosis outbreak that began in mid-April 2008 in the United States. As of July 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 1013 confirmed infections
Salmonella outbreak sickens over one thousand in United States
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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.
How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 Prosecutor Christian Du Four has released more details on the fatal stabbing in a day care center in East Flanders, Belgium, yesterday, in which two children (six and nine months old) and one employee were killed. Ten children and two adults were injured. The alleged perpetrator, a 20-year-old man from nearby
Details emerge on fatal stabbing at Belgian day care centre
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Bucharest, Romania — The city centre of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is set to get a major facelift due to a real estate project called Esplanada (The Esplanade), which will be constructed by TriGranit Development Corporation. The total investment in the project will be greater than 800 million euro and
Bucharest to be ‘rebranded’ for 800 million euro
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 US interrogators have claimed that they are under pressure to find incriminating evidence against Iran when they interview Iraqi insurgents, The Observer reported on Sunday. Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for the US military in Iraq, told the British newspaper that information about Iran is “gold”. “They push a
US interrogators complain of “sickening” pressure for evidence on Iran
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Two Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, magnified 50,000 times. An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms across the U.S. Usually elderly or very ill hospital patients get the disease.
U.S. superbug expected to emerge in Canada
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The effect of the flooding Image: Manoj nav . The Kosi River changed course one week ago to a path which it has not taken for over 100 years. While 900,000 people were evacuated by rescue workers, new data has revealed that 50,000 people, from the town of Saharsa, have refused
50,000 people refuse evacuation after flooding in India caused by river changing course
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