July 9, 2018

Schweinsteiger announces retirement from international football

Monday, August 1, 2016 On Friday, German football captain and Manchester United F.C. midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger announced retirement from international football. Debuting in 2004, Schweinsteiger has won 120 international caps, Germany’s fourth all time most capped player. He was part of the German squad for the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament in France and became the […]

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July 8, 2018

George H. W. Bush to attend Sydney CEO conference

 Correction — August 29, 2005 See Bush attendance at Australia CEO conference a hoax.  Thursday, August 25, 2005 It was revealed today that George H. W. Bush will be attending the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney next week. Mr. Bush is a wealthy businessman and member of Skull and Bones. He has also been President […]

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July 8, 2018

Australian National Archives release Loans Affair documents

Saturday, January 1, 2005 The National Archives of Australia have, as part of their standarddocument release cycle, released thirty year old documents from theWhitlam government. The centre piece of the 1974 archives are a series of documents fromthe Australian Cabinet and the Treasury pertaining to the attempt toobtain a $US4 billion loan by the Whitlam […]

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July 3, 2018

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]

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July 2, 2018

‘Imagine a world without free knowledge’, in Russia

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Access to the Russian-language Wikipedia is disabled across almost all its pages today, due to the Russian parliament, the Duma, debating amendments to the law “About information” which […]

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