Monday, December 14, 2009 Welsh footballer Ryan Giggs was named as the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in a ceremony Sunday night. The 36-year-old Manchester United and Welsh international player has won a record eleven Premier League titles in his career, and made over 800 appearances for his club. Giggs holding the Premier […]
Read MoreBolivian president announces legal action over Obama’s ‘crimes against humanity’
Correction — October 4, 2013 The last paragraph of this article should say “President Maduro” rather than “President Morales”. We apologize for the error. Saturday, September 21, 2013 The Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Thursday he will file legal charges against the United States President Barack Obama for crimes against humanity. President Morales announced he was […]
Read MoreCategory:University of Sheffield
This is the category for the University of Sheffield, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 5 March 2014: Wikinews interviews specialists on Russian intervention in Ukraine 21 July 2010: Astronomers discover largest star on record 4 October 2009: Second stone circle found one mile from Stonehenge 30 January […]
Read MoreIraqi elections kept low-key, but secure, in Paris
Saturday, January 29, 2005 Posters were installed just prior to the polling. Barriers block parking and access to cars; visitors are filtered at the entrance. A bus of CRS police waits in front of the polling station entrance. Fourteen countries outside of Iraq have been selected for the installation of polling stations for the Iraqi […]
Read MoreRussian commander: Tu-160s penetrate US airspace undetected
Tuesday, April 25, 2006File:Tu 16019.jpg The Tupolev Tu-160 is a supersonic stategic bomber(Image missing from Commons: image; log) A senior Russian air force commander has claimed that new, upgraded Tu-160 bomber aircraft were unchallenged by US air defense systems when they penetrated a radar zone near the Canadian coast in US territory during an April […]
Read MoreMicronesia left behind by the Paralympic movement
Thursday, August 30, 2012 Sir Philip Craven at the International Paralympic Committee press conference Image: Laura Hale. London, England — At the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) press conference Monday, Sir Philip Craven indicated the goal of the IPC is to grow disability sport globally. At the same time, according to Paul Bird of the Oceania […]
Read MoreUK Chancellor of the Exchequer makes 2005 Budget speech
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 Gordon Brown (file) The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honourable Gordon Brown PC MP, in a speech to the British House of Commons today presented his ninth Budget, what is very likely to be his last Budget before the next UK General Election. This opened the parliamentary debate […]
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Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager
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 […]
Read MoreBush backtracks over legal status of alleged “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 President George W. Bush ordered Jose Padilla, detained by the US Military as an alleged terrorist, to be transferred out of military custody in order to face trial in a federal criminal court. He is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, aiding terrorist groups and other acts against US nationals […]
Read MoreMine explosion in northeastern China kills at least 42, dozens more trapped
Saturday, November 21, 2009 An explosion at a gas mine in northeastern China has killed at least 42 people today, state media reported. 66 more miners are feared to have been trapped as well. Another 400 were able to escape safely. The news agency Xinhua said that 528 workers were in the mine, located in […]
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