? July 13, 2010 July 15, 2010 ? July 14 Pages in category “July 14, 2010”
Study: Women susceptible to high dietary glycemic load
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Women who eat “high-glycemic” foods, which cause blood sugar levels to spike, are at risk for coronary disease, according to a large study of Italians published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association. In this study men were not affected the same way, but the […]
Building collapses, leaving four dead in Hong Kong
Monday, February 1, 2010 A decades-old building collapsed along Ma Tau Wai Road in Hong Kong at about 1:30pm on Friday, local time. That building was located at 45J, Ma Tau Wai Road in Hung Hom. A shop on its ground floor was undergoing renovations when the building collapsed. The street was full of dust […]
Wikinews 2014: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review
Wednesday, December 24, 2014With the English-language Wikinews continuing to increase the amount of original content published, we take a look back at some of the eighty-plus original reports from our contributors during 2014.
Australian murder victims killed in different ways
Thursday, July 3, 2008 69-year-old grandfather John Walsh stands accused of murdering three victims in the small New South Wales town of Cowra. All victims were killed in different ways. Media organisations have reported that the 69-year-old man killed his five year old grand daughter by drowning; her seven year old brother was killed by […]
Category:June 9, 2010
? June 8, 2010 June 10, 2010 ? June 9 Pages in category “June 9, 2010”
Dan Rather resigns as anchor, to stay on as correspondent
Monday, November 22, 2004 Dan Rather has announced that he will retire on March 9th, 2005 as anchor of CBS Evening News. He will continue to be a correspondent for both of the 60 Minutes shows. It is reported that Rather’s leaving has nothing to do with a report in 2004 regarding US President Bush’s […]
Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]
US undergraduate commits suicide after ‘outing’ via webcast
Thursday, September 30, 2010 Tyler Clementi, eighteen, a freshman at Rutgers University in the United States, jumped off the George Washington Bridge last Wednesday after roommates broadcast his same-sex encounters online. Clementi shared a room with Dhraun Ravi, in Davidson Hall on Rutgers’ Piscataway campus. On September 19, Dhraun Ravi is alleged to have secretly […]
Formula One set to see standardised engines
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Formula One looks set to enter an era of standardised engines. The FIA is meeting with teams in Monte Carlo and is expected to approve the use by some teams of a standardised power unit provided by Cosworth, an automotive engineering company, from 2010 onwards. The move to a standard engine, […]