Read An Opinion On: Professional Driving School Perth Driving Lesson Packages Perth Transportation solutions by Daniel Crow Commuting can be difficult if your only means of transport is a bicycle or by foot. Due to this, in our modern age, it is extremely common to learn to drive when you are old enough to do […]
Ben Shephard announces departure from GMTV
Friday, April 23, 2010 Ben Shephard has announced his departure from GMTV, the current television breakfast programme on ITV in the United Kingdom, having been a presenter on the programme for ten years. His current contract ends in April 2010, but he is expected to leave by the end of the Summer of 2010, according […]
Canadian National Exhibition takes place in Toronto
Sunday, September 2, 2007 From August 17 to September 3, 2007 the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE or The EX) came back to Toronto for its 128th year. It is the largest in Canada and the fifth largest in North America. The three day Canadian International Airshow, the horse show called “Tom Bishop’s Trick Riding Show”, […]
Bravitude and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation on the main French TV network
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The newly elected Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation scheduled talk on the main French TV was met with questions about a last minute deletion of the entry for […]
Train cars derail into the Thompson River, British Colombia, chemicals spilled
Saturday, July 5, 2008 Chemicals in the Thompson River were said to be found after four Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) cars containing chemicals derailed near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada on Tuesday night. The derailment occurred just northeast of Lytton when a landslide hit in the middle of a freight train with about 100 cars […]
Emergency declared in US state of Washington, eight additional casualties, many still without power
Monday, December 18, 2006 A state of emergency was declared Sunday for the U.S. state of Washington by governor Christine Gregoire, as additional reports of storm-related casualties surfaced. The state National Guard has been deployed to aid in distributing supplies. Thousands were still without power in the coastal and Puget Sound regions, though most urban […]
Many in Texas still reeling following hurricane Harvey
Monday, August 28, 2017 Citizens across Texas were still dealing with the effects of hurricane Harvey, days after the storm made landfall on Friday. A meteorologist for CNN called the storm a “one-in-1,000-years-type of event.” Media sources today stated the storm will still continue to wind its way across the state for the next four […]
Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave
Thursday, August 5, 2010 File:Google Wave.jpg Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption. Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that “Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing […]
California’s violent video game ban law ruled unconstitutional by US Court of Appeals
Sunday, February 22, 2009 A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday has declared unconstitutional California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793, the California “ultraviolent video games law” that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. Federal judge Consuelo M. Callahan has ruled that the 2005 statewide ban, which has yet […]
News briefs:August 14, 2006
The time is 19:00 (UTC) on August 14th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 UN sponsored ceasefire in Israel-Lebanon begins 1.2 Tamil Tigers say Sri Lanka’s government bombed orphanage 1.3 Colombo land mine explosion kills seven 1.4 Suspected low pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu virus found in the United States […]