Category:Jewellery

25 September, 2020

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This is the category for jewellery. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 8 April 2014: Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at age 93 12 August 2011: Three killed amongst Birmingham, England riots 13 July 2011: 21 people killed and 113 reported injured in three blasts in Mumbai 4 July 2011: Hidden treasure worth […]

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Category:July 15, 2010

25 September, 2020

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? July 14, 2010 July 16, 2010 ? July 15 Pages in category “July 15, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:July_15,_2010&oldid=1924516”

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Oil in Alberta spill may be carcinogenic

25 September, 2020

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 The province of Alberta, Canada is considering legal action against Canadian National Railway for failing to warn that a derailment last week contaminated Wabamun Lake with a hazardous chemical. The 700,000 litres of heavy Bunker C fuel oil that spilled into the lake asphyxiated birds and killed fish. In addition, one […]

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Bull fighting banned in Catalonia

25 September, 2020

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 The parliament of Catalonia, an autonomous region of Spain, today voted to outlaw bullfighting – an iconic sport in much of the country. The vote was held after animal rights activists, led by Catalonian animal rights group Prou! (Catalan for “Enough!”), who claim the practice is “barbaric”, collected 180,000 signatures to a […]

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Drug-resistant infections on the rise in American hospitals

25 September, 2020

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April 9, 2005 A rise in flesh-eating staph infections has worried doctors about the possible spread of drug resistant bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as staph, is a bacteria that commonly causes skin infections in otherwise healthy people. However, as a persistent threat in hospitals, it tends to infect patients who are already sick and […]

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Randall Munroe, writer of xkcd, talks about the comic, politics and the internet

25 September, 2020

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 Randall Munroe is the writer of the popular webcomic xkcd. The comic is known for its geeky humor and minimalist drawing style that generally uses stick figures. Munroe worked as a contractor for NASA before writing xkcd full time in 2006. Wikinews reporter Joshua Zelinsky interviewed Munroe at Vericon, Harvard’s annual […]

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88th annual Brita Kongreso draws to a close

24 September, 2020

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Monday, May 7, 2007 The 88th annual Brita Kongreso (British Congress) in Letchworth, England drew to an official close, Sunday, after a weekend of presentations, courses, lectures, and activities in Esperanto. With the final excursion to Cambridge (town of the Third Universal Esperanto Congress in 1907) taking place on Monday, the event will draw to […]

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Highly preserved mammoth presents scientists with blood sample

24 September, 2020

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Friday, May 31, 2013 An extremely well preserved woolly mammoth has been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, announced Wednesday. The adult female was found with blood preserved still intact in ice cavities. When palaeontologists excavated the animal, blood flowed from the space below the animal’s abdomen. The discovery was made on the Lyakhovsky Islands […]

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Category:July 15, 2008

24 September, 2020

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? July 14, 2008 July 16, 2008 ? July 15 Pages in category “July 15, 2008” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:July_15,_2008&oldid=2985253”

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