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BBC to cut Electric Proms for financial reasons
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 File:Bbcr2electricpromslogo.jpg The logo for the BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms(Image missing from Commons: image; log) The BBC have announced they are to axe annual music festival Electric Proms from their schedule for financial reasons. The festival first took place in October 2006. The 2011 event will not go ahead, with last […]
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Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019 From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the “furry fandom.” Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event’s featured guests were visual artists […]
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Wikinews interviews on contributions to open-source: Opera
Monday, January 6, 2014 File:BRUCE LAWSON OPERA.png Bruce Lawson. Image: Bruce Lawson.(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Wikinews interviewed Opera, a Norwegian software company, about its contributions to open-source, such as software. Questions discussed current workflow, dynamics of contributions, and background. ((Wikinews)) What caused your initial interest in open-source software? Bruce Lawson: Opera has long […]
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Big Brown victorious in Kentucky Derby, runner-up Eight Belles breaks down
Saturday, May 3, 2008 In a dominating performance, Big Brown triumphed in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. Jockey Kent Desormeaux gave Big Brown a stalking ride, even as he was 4-wide along the backstretch. Once they reached the top of the stretch, Big Brown grabbed the lead and won going away, 4 3/4 lengths away from […]
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Category:Cannabis
This is the category for cannabis, a drug with recreational and medicinal uses. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 12 September 2021: Australia: Wikinews interviews Rebecca Jennings, independent candidate for Daly by-election 16 February 2018: United States: Berkeley, California declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational cannabis 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise […]
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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 […]
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Libya frees foreign HIV medics
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 “Freedom for the Bulgarian Nurses” symbol.Image: www.nestesami.bg. Libya has freed six foreign medical personnel who were convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV and sentenced to death. In jail since 1999, the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria, today. The president of Bulgaria, Georgi […]
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British political candidate Nigel Farage injured in plane crash on polling day
Thursday, May 6, 2010 Farage is the former leader of UKIP A political candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has been injured in a plane crash. Nigel Farage, the former leader of the party, was in a two-seater plane when it crashed at an airfield in Northamptonshire. The plane crashed just one hour […]
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Surprise demolition of partially collapsed building in Buffalo, New York met with opposition
Saturday, June 14, 2008 Buffalo, New York —Wikinews has learned that, in a surprising turn of events, the city of Buffalo located in New York, has ordered and begun an emergency demolition on a three story 19th century stable which partially collapsed on Wednesday June 11 causing at least five homes to be evacuated. Residents […]