Correction — August 24, 2015 These briefs incorrectly describe BP as ‘British Petroleum’. In fact, such a company has not existed for many years as BP dropped this name when becoming a multinational company. The initials no longer stand for anything. …
Rocketeers find possible impact crater in Nevada
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…
Why Is The Pathway To Mortgage Approval Tightening?
Click Here For More Specific Information On: House Builders Toowoomba Best Home Builders In Toowoomba Why Is The Pathway To Mortgage Approval Tightening? by Frank Collins The mortgage credit tightening has affect lots of people nationwide. Many people last year…
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Welcome to Wikinews, the free-content news source you can write! September 13, 2018 18:08 UTC | Latest articles RSS |Audio RSS|Print RSS Seven dead in campus shooting at Northern Illinois University Seven dead in campus shooting at Northern Illinois University…
Germany gives 16.7 million euro loan to Albania to improve its water supply
Friday, May 6, 2005 Germany will lend Albania €16.7 million (USD21.5 million) as part of a loan in order to help the country improve its water supply networks in two southeastern towns, Pogradec and Korca. The deal was signed last…
US House of Representatives passes health care bill
Monday, March 22, 2010 The United States House of Representatives has passed the controversial health care bill, as amended by the Senate. The bill passed 219 to 212. “This bill is complicated, but it’s also very simple: Illness and infirmity…
17 million accounts’ hashed passwords, emails stolen, Zomato says
Friday, May 19, 2017 Yesterday, Zomato, a food ordering and restaurant finding company, announced security breach of more than 17 million accounts, via their official blog. A hacker operating under the alias nclay uploaded evidence to prove they had the…
Wikinews interviews Dr. Michael Mazilu on creating world’s fastest spinning manmade object
Friday, September 13, 2013 A study in Nature Communications last month reported the University of St Andrews near Edinburgh, Scotland was briefly home to the world’s fastest spinning manmade object. Physicists accelerated a microscopic sphere of atoms to 600 million…
U.S. President Obama’s farewell address focuses on accomplishment
Thursday, January 12, 2017 United States President Barack Obama gave his official farewell address on Tuesday night from McCormick Place in Chicago, reflecting on personal and national accomplishments. This is expected to be his last major speech before officially handing…
Interview: PRS, the UK’s music royalty collection society
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 PRS for Music is the UK’s music royalty collection society tasked with working on behalf of copyright holders, specifically authors and music publishers. Founded in 1914, the PRS is a non-profit organisation with 350,000 UK businesses…