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 […]
Category:Football (American)
This is the category for American football, a sport similar to rugby. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 4 February 2022: Washington D.C. football team replaces controversial name with “Commanders” 9 February 2016: Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos defeat Carolina Panthers 24–10 16 September 2014: National Football League from United States Senators: zero […]
Several groups seek to purchase Saturn auto brand
Thursday, May 7, 2009 Penske Automotive Group, Inc., an Ohio-based investment group and Telesto Ventures have indicated separately that they are interested in purchasing the Saturn auto brand from General Motors (GM). According to The Wall Street Journal, Nissan-Renault is interested in purchasing Saturn. Bloomberg, however, indicated that Nissan-Renault may be a partner of Penske’s […]
China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]
Queues form outside struggling UK bank; calm urged
Saturday, September 15, 2007 Nervous savers have re-formed queues this morning outside many branches of Northern Rock, after the £2.68 billion bank took an emergency loan from the Bank of England, the UK central bank. Shares in the bank had dropped 25% by lunchtime yesterday in London – and stood nearly 60% lower from their […]
Labour politician Tony Benn dies aged 88
Friday, March 14, 2014 Tony Benn, British Labour Party politician and left-wing campaigner, died this morning at his home in west London at age 88. Benn’s health had been declining since a stroke left him hospitalized in 2012. Benn’s father and both grandfathers were MPs (Members of Parliament) in the Liberal party; his father defected […]
Australia/2005
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Elon Musk emails tell Tesla employees return to office, or “assume you have resigned”
Friday, June 3, 2022 Leaked correspondence between Tesla, Inc. boss Elon Musk and members of his executive team sent on Tuesday but published on Wednesday reveal his insistence that employees maintain an in-office presence for 40 hours per week “or depart Tesla.” One email first published by Electrek and corroborated by Reuters with the subject […]
Federally-funded abstinence programs fraught with problems: Report
Thursday, December 2, 2004 WASHINGTON, DC — According to a report issued by U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Henry A. Waxman (D–CA), the majority of abstinence-only sexual education programs in schools contain incorrect or misleading information. The report found that over 80% of the curricula used by the recipients of the grants contained incorrect information, […]
Looted, possibly contaminated body parts transplanted into USA, Canadian patients
Monday, March 20, 2006 Fears of contaminated bone and skin grafts are being felt by unsuspecting patients following the revelation that funeral homes may have been looting corpses. Janet Evans of Marion, Ohio was told by her surgeon, “The bone grafts you got might have been contaminated”. She reacted with shock, “I was flabbergasted because […]