Category:June 9, 2010

December 24, 2017 By

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PM John Howard’s nuclear push causes alarm

December 24, 2017 By

Monday, May 22, 2006 Wikinews Australia has in-depth coverage of this issue: Australian nuclear debate Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced he wants a “full-scale nuclear debate”, and three of his senior federal government frontbenchers – Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Resources Minister, Ian Macfarlane, and Environment Minister Ian Campbell – have all suggested Australia, […]

Book Fair 2.0; On bloggers, ebooks and pirates

December 23, 2017 By

Friday, October 12, 2007 The Internet is very much present at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007, not just, like in previous years, as a means for the journalists who have 80 workplaces for their own notebooks to report on the fair, but like before as a chance – and as a threat for rights-owners of […]

Tour de France: Sandy Casar wins stage 18

December 23, 2017 By

Friday, July 27, 2007 Sandy Casar of France has won stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de France in a time of 5h 13′ 31″. Axel Merckx came in second. Sandy Casar, Alex Merckx, Laurent Lefevre, and Michael Boogerd took control of the stage with a break-away that gave them a 10-minute lead on the […]

Drug-resistant staph deaths surpass AIDS in the United States

December 22, 2017 By

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005 alone, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is more people than were killed by AIDS in the United States. More than 94,000 Americans were afflicted with MRSA infections […]

Creator of website satirizing Glenn Beck on winning domain name case

December 22, 2017 By

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Wikinews interviewed the creator of a parody website satirizing American political commentator Glenn Beck, about his thoughts after prevailing in a domain name dispute brought by Beck before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Florida resident Isaac Eiland-Hall created the website in September, and it asserts Beck uses […]

Typhoon Ketsana leaves over 140 dead in the Philippines after heavy flooding

December 21, 2017 By

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 The Philippines has appealed for international assistance following the worst flooding in more than 40 years. At least 140 people have been killed and another 32 are missing as a result of the heavy rains, and the death toll from the disaster continues to rise. The Philippine government has been attempting […]

Category:August 3, 2010

December 21, 2017 By

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United States: Amtrak train derails near Olympia, Washington

December 21, 2017 By

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Mass protest grows against Kudankulam nuclear power plant in India

December 21, 2017 By

Saturday, September 15, 2012 Thousands of people, including women and children, have gathered since Sunday on the southern coast of India, to protest against the operation of the nuclear power plant of Kudankulam and the nuclear program of the government. An official announcement stated that the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s inspection of the reactor pressure […]