Thursday, May 13, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald has performed an interview with Dr Isabella Margara, a London-based member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In the interview Margara sets out the communist response to current events in Greece as well as discussing the viability of a communist economy for the nation. She also […]
US Library of Congress plans archive of Twitter
Thursday, April 15, 2010 The US Library of Congress plans to create an archive of every “tweet,” or post made on Twitter. It announced the move via Twitter. Twitter’s general counsel Alex MacGillivray told the BBC: “I think it shows the tweets are an interesting part of the historical record. This project however is not […]
Explosions near British consulate in New York shatter windows
Thursday, May 5, 2005 Videotape from security cameras appeared to show a cyclist lighting metal canisters that were filled with gun powder, and throwing them toward the building before fleeing the scene, police sources said. The make-shift explosives blew up in a concrete flower box, shattering glass but causing no injuries. Two explosions were heard […]
Belgian LGBT refuge shelter announced during annual Brussels Pride
Monday, May 21, 2018 First-ever Belgian refugee shelter “Refuge” for the victims of violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community was announced this Friday by the initiators, one day prior to Brussels’ LGBT Pride rally. The refugee shelter is to open in the Belgian capital Brussels in July. Brussels is to grant […]
FIFA World Cup 2018 Day 2: Uruguay, Iran win three points each with late goals; Portugal-Spain share the spoils
Saturday, June 16, 2018 Yesterday, day two of the 2018 FIFA football World Cup, Uruguay defeated Egypt 1–0 with an 89th minute winner scored by José Giménez; Iran defeated Morocco 1–0 due to Aziz Bouhaddouz’s own goal moments before the final whistle; and in the final match of the night, Portugal vs Spain, both the […]
Occupation in London enters fifth day
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street and other “Occupy” protests, activists set up camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London on Saturday, and they plan to remain indefinitely. The protest thus far has been described as “largely peaceful” by a police spokesman. On Saturday, an estimated thousand or more people […]
NASA launches satellites to study northern lights
Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Delta II rocket blasted off from NASA’s Cape Canaveral launch pad today, carrying five satellites designed to investigate the northern lights and the electromagnetic storms that cause them. The launch had been twice delayed due to bad weather, but was eventually performed at 23:00 UTC. NASA and the Canadian Space […]
Firefighters rescue nearly a dozen animals in Buffalo, New York house fire
Friday, June 22, 2007 Buffalo, New York —A three alarm fire at a house owned by John and Evelyn Bencinich, two of the initiators of a lawsuit filed against the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal in Buffalo, required firefighters to rescue eight cats and two dogs in Buffalo, New York today. At about 8:30 (eastern time) […]
A leak at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility on Cumbrian coast, England
Monday, May 9, 2005 At the Sellafield reprocessing plant, a leak in the process was spotted on April 19. The leak did not cause danger to people or the environment but it disturbed the normal operation of the plant. Workers at the plant noticed a discrepancy in the amount of material being reprocessed that enters […]
ISS crew bypass faulty switch to power-up computers
Saturday, June 16, 2007 NASA said yesterday that four lanes (processing channels) out of six on the two navigational and support computers that had crashed earlier in the week on the International Space Station (ISS) were now operational and may be put back online today. The two computers, the Russian Central Computer and Terminal Computer, […]