Friday, September 13, 2013 A study in Nature Communications last month reported the University of St Andrews near Edinburgh, Scotland was briefly home to the world’s fastest spinning manmade object. Physicists accelerated a microscopic sphere of atoms to 600 million revolutions per minute; it then, according to press coverage, disintegrated. Wikinews contacted the team to […]
What Are You Running From, And To, And Why?
Click Here To Know More About: Property Me Site Submitted by: Liesl Garner All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist, best known for his contributions to The New Yorker. (1894-1961) Can you imagine how the […]
“Woofstock” dog festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 North America’s largest outdoor dog festival came back to Toronto last weekend for its fifth year. It ran from the 9th of June to the 10th of June at Toronto’s historical St. Lawrence Market. A Wikinews reporter was there on Sunday to report on some of the events that happened on […]
U.S. man murdered by wife in Hong Kong
Thursday, September 1, 2005 A U.S. housewife was convicted on Sept. 1, 2005 of her husband’s murder by a Hong Kong high court. On November 2, 2003, she apparently laced his milkshake with sedatives and beat him to death in their apartment while he was unconscious, sources say. Nancy Kissel was handed a unanimous life […]
Hunting Down For Treasures? Dig In And Invest In The Aruba S Real Estate To Have A Hideaway
Click Here To Know More About: Real Estate Elermore Vale Nsw Hunting Down for Treasures? Dig in and Invest in the Aruba s Real Estate to Have a Hideaway by Taylor White Aruba lies approximately on 12 degrees north of the equator and is 18 miles (29 km) away from the Peninsula of Venezuela. You […]
Thousands take part in protests across US against government’s financial policy
Sunday, March 1, 2009 Last Friday, thousands of people, in a total of more than thirty US cities, took part in a protest against the economic policy of the US government. The event, which was inspired by the Boston Tea Party, took place due to comments made by CNBC presenter Rick Santelli. “This is America! […]
Queensland’s biggest oil spill in 35 years
Friday, January 27, 2006 A oil spill in Queensland, Australia has been described as a tragedy for the area’s marine life and the biggest oil spill in 35 years. The clean-up is expected to take up to a week and cost more than AU$3 million. The spill occurred in Gladstone Harbour on the central Queensland […]
Tips To Know Breast Cancer Symptoms And Treatment
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Putin calls US troops in Poland ‘a threat’
Friday, January 13, 2017 Reports yesterday indicated Russian President Vladimir Putin views the arrival of US troops in Poland as “a threat”. Earlier this week around a quarter of 4,000 troops earmarked for Poland crossed into Poland from Germany. Also included were trucks, tanks, and Humvees. Many are set to be based in ?aga?, where […]
Greenhouse-gas emission targets may come later says Ban Ki-moon
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 The United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon says setting greenhouse-gas emission targets may have to wait until after the U.N. Climate Change Conference being held in Bali. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters it may be too “ambitious” to set targets for greenhouse-gas emissions in the draft text of an agreement aimed […]