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The rollout of the Shuttle Discovery in April, 2005 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 thatRead More

Monday, December 12, 2005California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied clemency for gang founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams, a death row inmate in California convicted of four murders in the 1979. Stanley Williams was the founder of a notorious Crips street gang. He was convicted in 1981 for the four murders — one of a murder ofRead More

This is the category for Education. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 25 May 2022: Attack at Texas elementary school kills at least 19, including 18 children 19 March 2022: Scientists announce decoy-proof Ebola antibodies 11 February 2022: Ten-year Tennessee study shows preschool associated with poorer student performance 29 October 2021: Northern MarianasRead More

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Saturday, April 2, 2005 Stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg was found dead Wednesday in his hotel room in New Jersey. The comedian, originally from the St. Paul, Minnesota region, was on an east coast tour of the USA. Hedberg started his career in South Florida, and later worked in Seattle. While the cause of Hedberg’s deathRead More

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Federal marshals seize killer beds on behalf of the FDA On behalf of the FDA, U.S. Federal marshals have begun seizing beds which have killed at least seven patients out of about 30 who had become trapped by the products. Three versions of the bed were found to be “dangerous toRead More

Monday, August 21, 2006 Location of remote island of Nauru, where Australia is sending 8 Burmese refugees Eight Burmese boat people, who arrived off Western Australia‘s Ashmore Reef last week, say they wish to claim refugee status. The group of 8 men, aged between 24 and 40, are being held in detention on Christmas IslandRead More

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 According to reports, at least 30 people have been killed in fighting between farmers and cattle herders in the central Nasarawa State of Nigeria. Member of parliament Mohammed Baba Ibaku said that the incident began on Friday, when armed herders raided the farm village of Udeni Gida. He commented that scoresRead More

Monday, January 26, 2009 Half a million participated in anti-China demonstrations on October 25, 2008 (“1025 demonstration”) in Taiwan.Image: MiNe. On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people’s court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others.Read More

This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Hilary Duff appeared at MuchMusic on April 23, 2007 to promote her music on their program Live@MUCH. Duff will appear at the 2007 MMVAs, with dozens of otherRead More