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Explosion, fire on guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf injures five

Saturday, September 15, 2007 Five civilian contractors have been injured after an explosion and fire onboard the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf at 9:25 a.m. today. A large explosion erupted from the ship’s berthing area where welding work was being conducted during a stop in Norfolk, Virginia. A fire broke out two decks […]

Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Gordon Kubanek, Nepean Carleton

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Gordon Kubanek is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Nepean-Carleton riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from […]

Torino & Messina thrown out of Italy’s Serie A football championship for next season

Friday, July 15, 2005 Torino and Messina are facing the risk of expulsion from Serie A because of fraud. Both clubs submitted false financial information to the Serie A management. Covisoc, the body who must ratify that all clubs have the funds necessary to be registered for the new season, have found problems with both […]

United Nations: More people with access to cell phones than toilets in India

Friday, April 16, 2010 According to a United Nations survey, more people in India, the second most populous country in the world, have access to mobile phones than to a proper toilet. Over half a billion cell phones are active in India, but only 366 million people there have access to a toilet. “It is […]

Residents evacuated after partial building collapse in Buffalo, New York

Thursday, June 12, 2008 Buffalo, New York —At least two homes have been evacuated, and 14 or more are on standby to evacuate in Buffalo, New York after a very large three-story building partially collapsed on the city’s West Side. According to the Buffalo Fire Department, the number four side of an old horse stable […]

Íngrid Betancourt returns to France

Friday, July 4, 2008 Freed hostage Íngrid Betancourt arrived in France today, two days after being rescued from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who had kept her captive in the Colombian jungle for more than six years. Standing alongside President Nicolas Sarkozy at a military air base southwest of Paris, Betancourt said, “I […]

Apple unveils new Intel-based Mac

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Apple Computer announced on Tuesday the first generation of their products to use Intel processors. The iMac and the new MacBook Pro – a notebook computer replacing the PowerBook – are said to be up to four times faster than their predecessors (up to two times faster in the iMac, four […]

British company designs Paris Hilton protest panties

Sunday, June 3, 2007 With photographers and media gathering for an appearance by Paris Hilton, who is sentenced to serve jail time, the fashion industry has joined the ‘free or jail Paris Hilton debate.’ British company Mio Destino designed a line of prison-striped lingerie embroidered with the words ‘Free Paris’ in support of Hilton. A […]

Invisibility shield gets blueprint

Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Two engineers, Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have come up with a ‘plasmonic cover’ which they claim could render objects “nearly invisible to an observer”. The idea is still in its infancy, but it is said not to violate any obvious laws of physics. […]

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]