Friday, March 3, 2006 The San Jose, California fire department and Hazardous Materials crews today responded to a chemical emergency at a JDS Uniphase manufacturing facility. The incident, at 80 Rose Orchard Drive, off North First St., sent between 15 and 17 people, including two firefighters, to the hospital with symptoms and for observation. Those […]

Friday, March 5, 2010 According to a BBC report, funds raised for famine relief aid in Ethiopia, such as those raised by the Live Aid benefit concert pictured here, were “siphoned off” by rebels to buy weapons. Image: Squelle. An investigation by the BBC has revealed that millions of dollars in famine relief aid money, […]

Friday, March 5, 2010 According to a BBC report, funds raised for famine relief aid in Ethiopia, such as those raised by the Live Aid benefit concert pictured here, were “siphoned off” by rebels to buy weapons. Image: Squelle. An investigation by the BBC has revealed that millions of dollars in famine relief aid money, […]

Monday, October 16, 2006 MS logo Last month Microsoft Corporation made accusations against the European Commission, stating that it may cause delays in the final release of their latest operating system, Windows Vista (formerly known as Longhorn). Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, stated: “We recognize that the European Commission does not give ‘green lights’ for […]

Monday, April 18, 2005  Notice — January 27, 2011 This article has been withdrawn on suspicion of copyright infringement. Only a small amount of text has been salvaged.  Sir Richard Branson, successful British entrepreneur, better known as the founder of the Virgin brand, has made a suggestion to the next British chancellor to both save MG […]

Saturday, March 14, 2015 This weekend saw the opening of two new exhibitions at Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Wikinews attended Thursday’s press preview for the event where a full contingent of the capital’s press turned out to see the striking collection of paintings, photographs, and other works. Presented below are a selection of […]

Thursday, May 17, 2007 Recent cyber attacks in Estonia that have paralyzed the high tech country’s Web sites are a threat to national security, according to the country’s Minister of Defense. This has concerned NATO, seeing that Estonia is a member state of the organization. The attacks have subsided this week. The Defense Minister Jaak […]

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Columbia University President Lee Bollinger Wednesday jokingly named Bill Clinton to a professorship. In opening remarks at the Kraft Program Series, “Challenges of New Democracies,” he said that “the last time he was here I said that ‘one more lecture,’ and he’d be up for tenure. So, this is it. Today […]

Friday, December 2, 2005The Australian Federal Opposition has hounded the Treasurer, Peter Costello, over the appointment of Robert Gerard to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board. Mr Gerard announced on Friday 2nd that he will resign from the Board, citing the events of this week as the reason. On Tuesday, November 29, Wayne Swan, […]

Friday, March 9, 2007 Imagine coming back from a camping trip in the desert. Then a few months later you notice in your photos from the trip that you camped inside a giant impact crater so big that no one documented it before. Could it happen? During several trips to the Black Rock Desert, mostly […]