Friday, August 6, 2010 Since last reported, the flooding in Pakistan has spread and has now struck more than four million people. The UN reports it has left at least 1,600 people dead. The floods have been confirmed as the worst in eighty years. Heavy monsoon rains led to the flooding of the huge Indus […]
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Friday, September 28, 2007 Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither and glockenspiel peacock, and the only complaint coming from the audience at the Bowery
Bat for Lashes plays the Bowery Ballroom: an Interview with Natasha Khan
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Dogs needs to be potty trained just like human kids. Dogs need to go when they need to go and as good owners we need to make it happen. This article aims to provide more information on potty training for dogs. Dog potty training requires patience and commitment to achieve the objective which is to
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Nick Bos, of the University of Helsinki, studies “the amazing adaptations social insects have evolved in order to fight the extreme parasite pressure they experience”. In a recently-accepted Evolution paper Bos and colleagues describe ants appearing to self-medicate. I have no doubt that as time goes on, there will be more
Biologist Nick Bos tells Wikinews about ‘self-medicating’ ants
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to
Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out
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Sunday, January 27, 2019 In findings published earlier this month in Ecological Applications, scientists from the University of Washington and Center for Ecosystem Sentinels examine the reason for the plummeting numbers of female Magellanic penguins, Spheniscus magellanicus, that have been reported at the birds’ breeding sites in South America over the past twenty years and
Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris
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Friday, February 6, 2009 Denny’s 1,600 chain restaurants across North America, Puerto Rico and Canada, were slammed for eight hours Tuesday with hungry patrons standing on sidewalks for nearly two hours to take advantage of the $5.99 “Grand Slam Breakfast” giveaway. Denny’s, a dining chain with annual revenue of about $900 million, has advertised in
Denny’s Super Bowl free ‘Grand Slam Breakfast’ brings 2 million diners
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Monday, August 17, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Earlier this month, over 150 delegates from cultural institutions, government and the online community gathered at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra over one and a half days
It’s a GLAM wrap: Curators meet collaborators at Canberra conference
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Click Here To Find Out More About: Weekend Parking Melbourne Submitted by: Alex Reddle Thanks to technology, long-distance dating isnt just possible its easy, and more popular than ever. That is, if you have these 5 apps. — They say long-distance relationships never work but thats before we had modern technology. Your soul mate isnt
This article’s primary contributor, Patrick Gillett, is an alumnus of Sunshine Coast Grammar School. Monday, August 30, 2010 A deal between Sunshine Coast Grammar School headmaster Nigel Fairbairn and the Independent Education Union of Australia has ended a week of uncertainty for 22 of the Queensland, Australia school’s staff. Last week Wikinews obtained a list
Teachers at Australian school shocked at no warning over redundancies, can apply before ‘externals’
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