“PGR4” pre-launch in Taiwan: TOP Drivers’ Derby

8 January, 2021

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Saturday, September 29, 2007 After the launch of “Halo 3” on Tuesday (September 25), Microsoft promoted a brand new Xbox360 racing game “Project Gotham Racing 4” (PGR4) with a friendship match as a “TOP on TOP” competition between Taiwanese World Cyber Games (WCG) PGR3 Delegate You-cheng Liu and “Drift Master of Taiwan” Po-hsiung Chou at […]

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Football’s Rooney returns to Everton

8 January, 2021

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Sunday, July 9, 2017 Manchester United’s top scorer Wayne Rooney signed a two-year contract with his boyhood club Everton, the Merseyside based football club announced today. Rooney joined Everton when he was nine years old, and made his professional debut in 2002 when he was sixteen years old. He scored seventeen goals with Everton in […]

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Gunman on the loose in Melbourne

8 January, 2021

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Monday, June 18, 2007 Police in Melbourne, Australia are on the hunt for a gunman who killed a man and injured two others in the city’s central business district this morning. Officials warned all office workers to remain indoors, and train services to Flinders Street Station were temporarily on hold, as investigations were carried out […]

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Short-tailed bats to be transferred to Kapiti Island, New Zealand

8 January, 2021

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Thursday, February 3, 2005 Tararua Ranges, New Zealand — In an attempt at a world first twenty short-tailed bats are to be moved by the New Zealand Department of Conservation from the Tararua Ranges to Kapiti Island. If the transfer to predator-free Kapiti works, it will become the first time that bats have ever been […]

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Tornado touches down in Joplin, Missouri

8 January, 2021

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Monday, May 23, 2011 A tornado touched down yesterday in Joplin, Missouri, causing widespread damage. At least 89 were killed. The path of the tornado was reported to be from one half to three quarters of a mile wide. City spokeswoman Lynn Onstot estimated the path to be nearly four miles long; Jasper County emergency […]

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Gordon Kubanek, Nepean Carleton

8 January, 2021

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Gordon Kubanek is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Nepean-Carleton riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from […]

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Communist Party candidate Shona Bracken, Toronto Danforth

8 January, 2021

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Sunday, October 7, 2007 Shona Bracken is running for the Communist Party in the Ontario provincial election in Toronto—Danforth. Wikinews interviewed her regarding her values, her experience, and her campaign. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Ontario_Votes_2007:_Interview_with_Communist_Party_candidate_Shona_Bracken,_Toronto_Danforth&oldid=539050”

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Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019

8 January, 2021

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Monday, March 25, 2019 From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the “furry fandom.” Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event’s featured guests were visual artists […]

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Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019

8 January, 2021

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Monday, March 25, 2019 From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the “furry fandom.” Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event’s featured guests were visual artists […]

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

8 January, 2021

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101. Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States. Schreckengost’s peers included the […]

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