Sunday, May 29, 2005 In a result predicted by polls, a 54.87% majority of French voters voted non in Sunday’s European Constitution referendum. Of France’s […]
Read MoreRescuers hunt Brazilian plane carrying four UK passengers
Sunday, May 4, 2008 Rescuers in Brazil are seeking a plane that disappeared Friday carrying six people, two local pilots and four British investors interested […]
Read MoreKnight Foundation and Mozilla send geeks into newsrooms
Friday, November 11, 2011 In London last weekend, journalists, software developers, filmmakers, designers and many others spent time discussing ideas and building tools at the […]
Read MoreSearching for asteroids, extraterrestrial life a little more rocky: Budget cuts threaten to close Arecibo, world’s largest radio telescope
Friday, July 18, 2008 For nearly half a century the world’s largest telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has been observing our solar […]
Read MoreNew study claims Stonehenge was a place of healing
Thursday, September 25, 2008 Archaeologists Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University and Geoff Wainwright, President of the Society of Antiquaries, claimed to have found evidence that […]
Read MoreLatest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines
Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village […]
Read MoreStolen minibus recovered 35 years after theft
Friday, November 6, 2009 A 1965 Volkswagen minibus that was stolen in 1974 has been recovered by customs agents in Los Angeles. The vintage minibus […]
Read MoreAuthor Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive
Monday, October 11, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working […]
Read MoreiPad 2 goes on sale in United States
Sunday, March 13, 2011 The new version of Apple Inc.’s tablet computing device, the iPad 2, has gone on sale in the United States at […]
Read MoreMan allowed to keep deceased friend in warehouse freezer
Friday, August 26, 2005 Russian businessman Xiao Li Bei has received permission to keep his deceased friend in an industrial freezer. Police in the town […]
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