Saturday, March 7, 2009 Raymond Lee Oyler of California, United States has been convicted of the murders of five US Forest Service firefighters killed while attempting to control a wildfire he had lit. Oyler, 38, set the Esperanza Fire out…
Dental Implants In Kalamazoo, Mi Replace Teeth And Create Beautiful Smiles
Read An Opinion On: Dental Chatswood Centre Best Dentist Chatswood byAlma Abell Losing a tooth is a very upsetting experience for most people. They have to face the process of having their tooth removed and then look at the hole…
PBS show asserts greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants dimming future
Saturday, April 22, 2006 This week, the Public Broadcasting Service aired a NOVA program titled “Dimming the Earth”, which presented research by leading scientists on the complex systems of our global climate and human activity’s effect on it. One of…
Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series begins in Sydney
Friday, September 20, 2013 Cathedral Square, Sydney, Australia —Wikinews attended the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series in Cathedral Square, Sydney, ongoing from Wednesday. This is the first time an international wheelchair rugby event has been held outdoors, and in this arena.…
Grandmother of Barack Obama dies at 86
Monday, November 3, 2008 Madelyn Dunham, the maternal grandmother of United States 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama, has died of cancer at 86, just one day before the election. Dunham, who was born in Peru, Kansas in 1922, helped to…
The Onion: An interview with ‘America’s Finest News Source’
Sunday, November 25, 2007 Despite the hopes of many University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) students, The Onion was not named after their student center. “People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from,” said President Sean Mills in…
Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean
Thursday, June 23, 2011 NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected…
Long Island-sized iceberg to ram Antarctic coast
Friday, January 14, 2005 The Drygalski Ice Tongue on Antarctica’s coastline may be bitten off this week by a huge iceberg which is on a collision course with the floating glacier tongue. Antarctic scientists, at the nearby McMurdo Research Station,…
On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2016
Sunday, July 17, 2016 The following is the second edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s…
Suicide bomber kills 24 children in Iraq
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 A suicide bomber has killed as many as 24 children in Iraq. According to an Iraqi eyewitness, US troops were handing out sweets to children gathered around their Humvee military vechicle in eastern Baghdad when a…