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Sunday, September 16, 2007 Location of DRC within Africa. Image: Rei-artur.. The World Health Organization (WHO), non-governmental aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have sent experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to assist local health authorities with a recent outbreak of Ebola […]

Thursday, June 4, 2009 Make: Technology on your time The fourth annual Maker Faire took place this past weekend at the San Mateo Fairground in San Mateo, California located in the United States. The first Maker Faire, which took place in 2006, had approximately 20,000 people in attendance. This year, more than 80,000 people were […]

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Ron Wright, whose death in February 2021 opened the vacancy. Image: United States Congress. Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of […]

Thursday, October 25, 2007 Satellite image of Lake Djoudj comparing the September 1979 drought (left) and the November 1999 flood (right).Image: NASA. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a comprehensive report on the current state of the global environment. Climate change, food and water shortage and a decline in biodiversity threaten humanity’s survival, […]

Thursday, March 31, 2005 Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, A leader of the vicious Mara Salvatruchas(MS-13) gang, has issued orders from his prison cell for his followers to teach the American “Minutemen” volunteers a lesson when they begin patrolling the Mexican border tomorrow. MS-13 gang members are considered to be America’s most violent gang with such acts […]

Friday, November 2, 2007 Igor Moiseyev in 1932 Igor Moiseyev, who has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of folk dance, has died today after a long illness. He was 101 years old. Born Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev on January 21, 1906 in Kiev, Moiseyev graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre ballet school in 1924 […]

Thursday, June 21, 2007 A full-size Percy the Small Engine from the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends stories in Llangollen, Wales in 2005. Percy is not part of the recent recall of Thomas toy trains. Image: Thryduulf. A recall issued last week for Thomas the Tank Engine toys made in China and containing lead-based […]

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Singapore Power Building on Somerset Road.Image: Sengkang. The largest class action in Victorian history was commenced at the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday the 13th by Slidders Lawyers against electricity distribution company SP AusNet and the Brumby Government in relation to the Kilmore East fire that became part of the […]

Monday, August 21, 2006 Experts say water needs to be better managed A report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) says rising demand for irrigation to produce food and biofuels will aggravate scarcities of water. “One in three people is enduring one form or another of water scarcity,” states the report compiled by 700 […]

Thursday, November 5, 2009 Major Nidal Hasan has been identified as the gunman in the shooting The United States Army has confirmed that thirteen people have been killed after a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. An additional thirty are reported wounded, and the gunman is in stable condition after being […]