Tuesday, May 24, 2005 A Malaysian woman and her three year old daughter were released from Villawood Detention Centre on bridging visas yesterday after media coverage in Australia and Malaysia. Naomi Long, who recently turned three, was born in the Centre. Her mother, Virginia Long, was detained after trying to leave Australia on a false […]
Read MoreStudy reports that 28% of broiler chickens struggle to walk
Thursday, February 14, 2008 A recently released report written by people from the Royal Veterinary college, the University of Warwick, and the University of Bristol has found that 27.6% of chickens reared for human consumption struggle to walk, although a “considerable variation in walking ability between flocks,” was reported. The study reported that “27.6 per […]
Read MoreScientists discover Earth-like planet
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Correction — August 22, 2006 The source titled Discovery of OGLE 2005-BLG-390Lb, the first cool rocky/icy exoplanet is indicated below as published by the Institut d’astrophysique de Paris. However, the publisher is in fact, the Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork (PLANET) Collaboration. The error is regretted. An international group of 73 scientists using […]
Read MoreANZACs remembered ninety years after assault on Gallipoli
Monday, April 25, 2005 Australians and New Zealanders throughout the world stood still for their national war memorial days in remembrance of the failed Australian and New Zealand Army Corps — ANZAC — attack on Gallipoli, Turkey that began on 25 April 1915. The fateful attack was designed to end the First World War more […]
Read MoreConvicted double murderer executed by electric chair in Tennessee, US
Sunday, November 4, 2018 At 7:26 p.m. local time on Thursday, the state of Tennessee, United States executed Edmund Zagorski. Zagorski had been convicted of killing two people in 1983. Mere minutes before his execution, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear his case. Zagorski asked for execution by electric chair instead of lethal […]
Read MoreIsrael undergoes major emergency drill
Thursday, April 10, 2008 Israel has tested its readiness for a state of war and emergency by testing its emergency services and shelters on a national scale. The drill is to be analyzed in order to determine the elements which need to be corrected and fixed, and Israel’s emergency readiness is to be assessed. Israeli […]
Read MoreEnjoying Prints: Animal Scrubs Rule The Day!
Read An Opinion On: Mens Shirts Australia Buy Shirts Online Australia By Max Johnson Nothing compares to getting the best work wear for your career and money. Of course, this is not always easy, but if you happen to work within the healthcare or medical industry, you will absolutely love the possibilities you will get […]
Read MoreStreet protests in Hungary over PM’s taped lies
Sunday, September 17, 2006 Despite rainfall and Sunday late evening local time, street demonstrations started in Hungary hours after almost all of Hungarian electronic media coordinatedly published a taped recording of prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány‘s confidential address made to a gathering of socialist MSZP leaders on 26th May 2006. In the recording, Mr. Gyurcsány is […]
Read MoreWikinews Shorts: August 8, 2009
A compilation of brief news reports for Saturday, August 8, 2009. Contents 1 Leader of Pakistan Taliban may have been killed in drone attack 2 Hillary Clinton arrives in South Africa 3 Anniversary of Georgian War marked by mutual accusations 4 Police in the United Kingdom ordered to review policing of demonstrations 5 Son of missing […]
Read MoreWikinews interviews Darcy Richardson, Democratic Party presidential challenger to Barack Obama
Friday, November 25, 2011 U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Darcy Richardson of Florida took some time to answer a few questions from Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn. Richardson, 55, is a political activist that helped form the New Democrats in 1989 and founded the progressive Battleground Blog earlier this year. He is also a political […]
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