Sunday, March 27, 2016 Netherlands and FC Barcelona football legend Johan Cruyff died in Barcelona on Thursday at the age of 68. He had lung cancer, announced last October. Per World of Johan Cruyff website statement, he died peacefully, his family present. The Dutch maestro won three Ballon d’Ors in his nineteen-year career, in 1971,…
Friday, September 26, 2008 On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party candidate Don Davies is standing for election in the riding of Vancouver Kingsway. A lawyer, he has spent the last 25 years fighting for human rights. A two-time student government representative, Davies was…
Sunday, October 21, 2007 Torture proliferates American headlines today: whether its use is defensible in certain contexts and the morality of the practice. Wikinews reporter David Shankbone was curious about torture in American popular culture. This is the first of a two part series examining the BDSM business. This interview focuses on the owners of…
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 A man missing from a camping ground in southern Utah in the Western US since July 30 was found in Australia. His automobile was found in a campground of Dixie National Forest with a note that he would be back in a few hours. An extensive search and rescue operation was…
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Jackson County, Oregon in the United States voted to reject measure 15-75, which would have provided funding to reopen county libraries, closed since April 6. The new levy, at US$0.66 per US$1000 of assessed property value, would have provided funding to open the 15 libraries left unfunded after the U.S. Congress…
Sunday, January 10, 2016 Yesterday, FC Barcelona collected three points defeating Granada-based football club Granada CF 4–0 at Camp Nou in Barcelona in a La Liga match and became league leaders again. Barcelona had greater ball possession. The match saw five yellow cards. Four away players and Aleix Vidal of Barcelona were yellow carded. More…
The time is 17:00 (UTC) on May 21st, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Violence escalates in Afghanistan 1.2 Iran stands defiant on Uranium enrichment 1.3 Militants target rally in Srinagar 1.4 Professionals and students continue strike in New Dehli 1.5 300 Vietnamese fishermen rescued after record China typhoon…
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005Terry Vo, the 10-year old Australian boy who had two hands and a foot reattached by surgeons after losing them in an accident, has had to have the foot re-amputated. He will be given a prosthetic foot in its place. The operation to re-attach three limbs was thought to have been a…