4-year-old boy killed by dog in Liverpool, England
March 7, 2022
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 A four-year-old boy has been killed by a dog in the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. The child has been identified as John Paul Massey. The animal belonged to his uncle. The boy's 63-year-old grandmother Helen Foulkes tried to protect the boy but ended up getting bitten by the dog in the process. She had to receive hospital treatment for the injury. The dog itself was shot dead in the front...
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Melbourne Victory clinch A-League premiership
March 5, 2022
Sunday, December 17, 2006 Melbourne Victory has won the 2006-07 A-League football (soccer) premiership after defeating New Zealand Knights 4-0 at Olympic Park, Melbourne. The win takes Melbourne to 41 points, 13 ahead of Sydney FC in second place, with only four games remaining in the regular season. This makes it mathematically impossible for the Victory to be caught. The regular season consists of 21 home-and-away rounds, with each team playing each other team three times....
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Man claims Blue Man Group put camera down throat; allegations denied
March 3, 2022
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 The Blue Man Group issued a press release Friday morning refuting a man's claims that they forced a tube down his throat as part of a show. Earlier this week, audience participant James Srodon filed a court claim in Cook County Circuit Court that members of performance trio forced a dirty tube down his throat against his will while he was part of a skit called "Esophagus Video." The description of the...
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Lobby groups oppose plans for EU copyright extension
March 3, 2022
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 The European Commission currently has proposals on the table to extend performers' copyright terms. Described by Professor Martin Kretschmer as the "Beatles Extension Act", the proposed measure would extend copyright from 50 to 95 years after recording. A vast number of classical tracks are at stake; the copyright on recordings from the fifties and early sixties is nearing its expiration date, after which it would normally enter the public domain or become...
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Interview with Jimbo Wales
March 2, 2022
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Saturday, December 10, 2005 While this wasn't Interview with the Vampire, getting a live interview with Jimmy Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation is requiring more work and planning than ever. Four contributors to four different Wikinews language editions (with Swedish, Netherlands, and Polish) arranged to interview "Jimbo" in the Wikinews IRC channel, squeezed...
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Cold as ice: Wikinews interviews Marymegan Daly on unusual new sea anemone
February 19, 2022
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 In late 2010 a geological expedition to Antarctica drilled through the Ross Ice Shelf so they could send an ROV under it. What they found was unexpected: Sea anemones. In their thousands they were doing what no other species of sea anemone is known to do — they were living in the ice itself. Discovered by the ANDRILL [Antarctic Drilling] project, the team was so unprepared for biological discoveries they did not...
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GitHub blocks public access to youtube-dl after RIAA issues DMCA notice
February 16, 2022
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Monday, October 26, 2020 On Friday, code hosting and sharing website GitHub blocked the public access to youtube-dl, a software which can download videos from the internet via the command-line. The blockade came after GitHub received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notice from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After...
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Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro injured in Preakness, does not finish race
February 11, 2022
Saturday, May 20, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, sent as the post-time odds-on favorite in this year's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, breaks down in the opening stretch of the race, shattering any chance of a Triple Crown winner this year. Bernardini, the 12-1 4th choice out of 9, ends up winning this year's Preakness, stopping the clock at 1:54.65. Following up 5 1/4 lengths behind was Sweetnorthernsaint, sent to the post...
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Wikinews interviews Dr. Robert Kelly and Dr. Jim Gill regarding joint scientific venture in North Korea
February 11, 2022
Sunday, September 8, 2013 File:Robert Kelly File Photo.JPG A group of volcanologists from the UK and USA have traveled to North Korea to assist them with conducting scientific investigations and installing equipment near the volcano Mount Paektu. Wikinews interviewed Dr. Robert Kelly of Pusan National University (PNU) in South Korea, who specialises in security and diplomacy and Dr. Jim Gill from the University of California who has visited the Chinese side of Mount Paektu. ((Wikinews)) Given...
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English court jails policeman over insurance fraud
February 9, 2022
Thursday, July 1, 2010 A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company. Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen. Hood had been disappointed with the car's value when he tried to sell it two years after its purchase in 2008. He arranged for...
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