This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Today, some of the leading biologists in the world announced that they are starting a new project to write the Encyclopedia of Life, a project that aims to…
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Buffalo, New York — According to police in Buffalo, New York, no one was injured after a semi-trailer truck carrying paper from Ontario, Canada hit a railroad viaduct, tearing the truck in half. At approximately 11:00 p.m. EDT (UTC-4) on April 21, an unidentified man driving the truck westbound on Walden…
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Environmentalists in Brazil are urging the country’s residents to urinate in the shower while washing themselves, to help conserve water and save the rainforest. Television ads being aired in the country claim that by doing so, the nation could save over 1,000 gallons of water per household each year. SOS Mata…
Friday, January 12, 2007 Buffalo, New York — Reports say that a subway train and a car have collided in downtown Buffalo, New York. Witnesses say that calls to 911 came in just before 12:00 p.m. [EST] that a car had driven onto the tracks of the Metro Rail operated by the Niagra Frontier Transit…
Thursday, November 2, 2006 Prime Minister Stephen Harper has agreed to send the government’s ‘Clean Air Act‘ to an all-party committee for review, before its second reading, after Tuesday’s 25 minute meeting with NDP leader Jack Layton at the PMO. Layton had asked for changes to the conservatives’ environmental bill during the meeting with the…
By William Gabriel Freshly whipped cream is easy to prepare these days without having to rely on those pre-packed ones. All you need is a cream whipper along with cream chargers or disposable gas cylinders to create it. However, you cannot use just any type of gas cylinder. It has to be nitrous oxide cartridges.…
Thursday, June 19, 2008 Buffalo, New York — Judge Justice Christopher Burns of the New York State Supreme Court has ordered a halt to an emergency demolition on a 19th century stable and livery on 428-430 Jersey Street in Buffalo, New York that partially collapsed on Wednesday June 11, initially causing at least 15 homes…
Monday, January 22, 2007 The governor of the south Sudanese Warab state, Anthony Bol Madut told the Reuters news agency that at least a thousand people in the state have died of Meningitis and another unidentified disease. He said that the unknown disease had symptoms similar to Yellow fever but the patients died quickly. The…
Friday, August 17, 2007 The National Hurricane Center in Miami now says that the Atlantic’s first hurricane has reached Category 4 status, with winds up to 140 mph (225 km/h). Dean is now being called a “major hurricane.” While the storm is currently moving west through the Carribean, additional strengthening is forecast within the next…
Saturday, April 2, 2011 A bomb positioned below the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom has exploded, killing him. The unidentified 25-year-old officer, recently employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland after graduating from a college of police training three weeks prior, was directly involved in the incident as he…