Wikinews interviews organiser of New Zealand’s Rock2Wgtn festival Phil Sprey

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Posted on February 16, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 File photo of KISS, who headlined night one. Image: Wok. Across Easter weekend Wellington, New Zealand was host to Rock2Wgtn, an international two-day hard rock festival. Large crowds showed up at Westpac Stadium to see the various acts. The world has never seen an event of this kind before. Day one […]

Arrest made as mayor of Gda?sk, Poland stabbed on stage

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Posted on February 13, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Monday, January 14, 2019 An individual has been arrested after Pawe? Adamowicz, mayor of the Polish city of Gda?sk, was stabbed last night whilst on stage at a fundraising event. He died today. We couldn’t win Reports on the implement used vary between a knife and a “sharp tool”. The attacker is reported to have […]

Vestas protesters sacked with immediate effect

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Posted on February 12, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Thursday, July 30, 2009 A Vestas worker stays in touch with the outside world via his mobile telephone. Eleven of the 25 workers at the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight, England who have been carrying out a sit-in since Monday July 20 have been sacked with immediate effect. According to one of the […]

Bayern Munich signs Corentin Tolisso from Lyon

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Posted on February 10, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Thursday, June 15, 2017 Yesterday, German football club FC Bayern Munich announced signing of Corentin Tolisso from Olympique Lyonnais. The 22-year-old French international midfielder has signed a five-year contract. Tolisso joined Lyon’s academy when he was 13-years-old and made 160 appearance for the club in all competitions scoring 29 goals. Via their official website, Lyon […]

India signs on to chemical patents to comply with WTO order

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Posted on February 9, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 A bill passed by India’s Parliament put an end to the manufacture of many cheap generic drugs copied from products protected by foreign company patents. A Patents Amendment Bill (2005) has been condemned by foreign aid groups who expect a significant rise in drug costs as a result of the bill. […]

Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

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Posted on February 9, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Thursday, August 16, 2007 The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to […]

More US recalls: Fish pool toy rips fingernail off child, numerous toys with excessive lead

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Posted on February 9, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Saturday, November 10, 2007 The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled more products over the last few days, though not all because of excessive lead. While American toy companies have been rocked in the last few months by numerous unsafe Chinese-made products, mostly due to excessive amounts of lead in paint, a few of […]

Cats could play significant role in transmitting bird flu to humans, say Dutch researchers

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Posted on February 3, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 According to Dutch researchers, tests performed on cats at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Medical Center by Dutch show that cats could play a key role in transmitting bird flu to humans. Reports have noted that there are increased deaths in Europe and Asia involving cats that are carrying the deadly disease and also […]

U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images

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Posted on January 31, 2023 | Posted on Admin

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has threatened on Friday to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breached […]

Category:Music

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Posted on January 31, 2023 | Posted on Admin

This is the category for Music. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 10 August 2022: Judith Durham, lead singer of The Seekers, dies at 79 8 February 2022: Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar dies at age 92 5 August 2021: DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper’s comments on HIV/AIDS 11 […]