Wikinews interviews Australian sit skier Victoria Pendergast

Saturday, December 15, 2012 Yesterday, Wikinews spent time with with Australian Paralympic skier Victoria Pendergast who was in Copper Mountain, Colorado for this week’s IPC Nor-Am Cup. ((Wikinews)) I’m interviewing Victoria Pendergast who is an Australian female sit skier on the development team. Victoria Pendergast: Yer, that’s right. ((Wikinews)) How have you been doing here […]

BP reports progress in oil spill cleanup

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 BP reported Tuesday that it captured nearly 25,000 barrels of crude oil on Monday from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The energy company also reported that a third of the oil captured was subsequently burned off. This indicates that the oil spill recovery operations may have […]

The South Park Hotel Trivandrum}

The South Park Hotel Trivandrum by Anjela Rock The South Park Hotel is the luxurious five star hotels in Trivandrum. The hotel is centrally located and is just at a distance of 6 kilometers from the domestic and international airport of the city. City railway station and bus stand both are just 3 kilometers from […]

Two bus shelter incidents in Marseille

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Tunisia casts vote in first free election

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Voters in Tunisia went to the polls on Sunday in the first elections for the country since the events of January this year, when President Ben Ali was toppled after twenty three years by the revolt which triggered the Arab Spring. The electoral commision announced that 90 percent of the 4.1 […]

CBS to invest in Electric Sheep Company

Monday, February 26, 2007 The officials from CBS stated on Monday that the company is going to invest in virtual world content developer Electric Sheep Co., which develops 3D properties in several virtual worlds like the one called Second Life. In recent months corporate investors are paying more attention to virtual worlds. This is mainly […]

Mats Hummels completes Bayern signing

Thursday, May 26, 2016 On Monday, German football club FC Bayern Munich completed the signing of Mats Hummels, who captained Bayern’s rivals Borussia Dortmund this past season. 27-year-old defender Hummels, who was an academy player at Bayern before moving to play for Borussia Dortmund, agreed to a five-year deal. I’m looking forward to everything that […]

Australian Prime Minister’s popularity at all time low

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 According to recent polls, Australian Prime Minister John Howard‘s popularity has hit an all time low in response to his policies in industrial relations. This has combined with a backlash against Treasurer w:Peter Costello, after he said in an interview on Lateline that religious teachings caused children “only a little harm”. […]

Germans and Arabs establish a search engine that competes with Google

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 In the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Seekport, a German and Saudi founded technological company, began to start on a web-search engine dedicated to the Arabic language called Sawafi. According to Arabic marketing officials, it is predicted to compete with the popular web-search engines, such as Google or Yahoo. Sawafi’s goal […]

State Farm Insurance allegedly destroying papers

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Zach Scruggs, a lawyer for United States Senator Trent Lott, says that State Farm Insurance Company is destroying records related to claims for damage from Hurricane Katrina. The records allegedly contain information saying that State Farm fraudulently denied insurance claims made by its policy holders, including Lott, that had homes there […]