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Thursday, January 4, 2007 Toxic chemicals were found in four Canadian politicians after they volunteered to have their blood tested as part of Environmental Defense’s report titled Toxic Nation on Parliament Hill. The federal politicians that were tested are: Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, Health Minister Tony Clement, NDP Leader Jack Layton, and Liberal Environment Critic […]

Thursday, December 20, 2007 Wikinews reporter David Shankbone is currently, courtesy of the Israeli government and friends, visiting Israel. This is a first-hand account of his experiences and may — as a result — not fully comply with Wikinews’ neutrality policy. Please note this is a journalism experiment for Wikinews and put constructive criticism on […]

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Heavy rains in western Indonesia have triggered landslides across the region that have killed dozens of people. Meanwhile, other areas were devastated by major flooding, with water reaching two metres high in some locations. Search and rescue chief Eko Prayitno in Java told reporters that police, soldiers and volounteers were working […]

Thursday, December 17, 2009 The European Commission and Microsoft have finalised the proposal for a ‘browser ballot’ in Windows, following the Commission’s concern that Microsoft was unfairly using its operating system monopoly to gain control of the browser market. The browser ballot will give Windows users an option of switching to one of twelve competing […]

Monday, April 11, 2005 Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims to have found the notorious “chili finger” at a Wendy’s outlet in San Jose, California, has filed lawsuits against other businesses, according to researchers at the Associated Press. Her previous court battles included the national El Pollo Loco chicken-chain, a previous employer, and […]

Monday, June 11, 2007 The Blender Foundation, which maintains the open source 3D tool Blender, has announced two new projects, codenamed Peach and Apricot. Project Peach will be a new open source movie, following in the footsteps of last year’s Elephants Dream project (which was initially codenamed Orange). Apricot, on the other hand, will use […]

Saturday, February 16, 2008 While nearly all cover of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, there are small political parties offering candidates, and those who choose to run without a party behind them, independents. Wikinews is interviewing some of these citizens who are looking to become the 43rd person […]

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 On Sunday, at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, F.C. Barcelona won the Copa del Rey ((en)) Spanish language: King’s Cup . The team defeated Bilbao based football club Athletic Bilbao 3–1 to clinch the title. Uruguayan striker Suárez was fit to play this final after recovering from hamstring injury. Lionel […]