Tuesday, December 1, 2009 With two by-elections coming up in Australia, many minor parties and independents will be looking to gain a seat in the House of Representatives. Stephen Murphy is one of the independents. Mr Murphy is a computer programmer from the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. “After growing up in South-East Melbourne I studied…
Explicit Canadian workplace safety ads pulled from TV due to Christmas season
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Controversial and explicit Canadian workplace safety ads have been pulled from television, and paper ads from some bus shelters for the Christmas season. However, the ads will return to air in January. “It’s totally erroneous to suggest we’re pulling anything,” chairman of the Workplace Safety and Information Board of Ontario, Steve…
Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Ron Wright, whose death in February 2021 opened the vacancy. Image: United States Congress. Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of…
Twins announcer Herb Carneal dies at 83
Monday, April 2, 2007 The Minnesota Twins are ready to take the field for their season opener Monday, April 2, but they will be doing it without their legendary radio announcer Herb Carneal. Carneal died at age 83 in his Minnetonka home Sunday of congestive heart failure. He had declared a week prior to his…
Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of PETA, on animal rights and the film about her life
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Ingrid Newkirk (with Little Man): “I want to more closely associate humans with the other animals, because if we took Biology 101 we know we are all animals. It’s just that we decide we’re gods, they’re trash. That’s just invalid, wrong from every point of perspective: scientific, moral and everything else.…
Ryanair sue Associated Newspapers, Mirror Group
Saturday, August 17, 2013 Irish budget airline Ryanair have added newspaper publishers Associated Newspapers and Mirror Group to their legal targets in a High Court defamation action filed yesterday in Dublin that also targets Channel 4. A Ryanair Boeing 737 pictured in 2006. Image: WikiABG. The move confirms the carrier’s expression of intent to sue…
Category:Food and Drug Administration
This is the category for the Food and Drug Administration, the US watchdog for food, medicines, and medical devices. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 26 December 2016: Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine 2 May 2012: Poison control centers educate public on hand sanitizer consumption 23 December 2011: Walmart recalls…
Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery delayed until at least Thursday
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Insignia of the STS-133 mission, the final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. Image: NASA. Space Shuttle Discovery’s final launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed at least an additional day. Launch is now targeted for 3:29 PM EDT on Thursday. The launch was originally scheduled…
Wikinews Shorts: May 7, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, May 7, 2007. Existing and planned gas pipelines in Europe A 30 meter section of a gas pipeline in Luka (near Kiev) in Ukraine has been destroyed by an explosion. Although supplies to Europe via this pipeline have stopped, Ukrainian Energy Minister Georgi E. Boyko said that supplies…
Space Shuttle Discovery launch scheduled for Tuesday
Saturday, July 23, 2005 NASA has announced that the Space Shuttle Discovery is due to blast off on Tuesday 26 July at 10.39 am EDT. The news that the 43 hour countdown will be restarted on Saturday comes after the successful resolution of the problems that forced the aborting of the previous launch attempt. The…