Friday, November 20, 2009 FIFA – For the good of the game The Football Association of Ireland (FAI), Irish Minister for Sport, Taoiseach and Facebook social network groups are requesting a replay of the controversial FIFA World Cup play-off between Ireland and France in the interests of Fair Play. The FAI lodged an appeal with […]
Continue ReadingFriday, March 23, 2007 In a press release earlier today, New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker, along with Dean of Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine Donald F. Smith, confirmed that scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified Aminopterin as a toxin present in cat food samples from Menu Foods. Menu Foods […]
Continue ReadingA compilation of brief news reports for Monday, July 8, 2013. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=UK_Wikinews_Shorts:_July_8,_2013&oldid=1981592”
Continue ReadingSaturday, July 28, 2007 Paraguayan footballer Roque Santa Cruz has left Bayern Munich for Blackburn Rovers. Roque Santa Cruz signed a four year deal. Roque Santa Cruz became expendable after major signings by Bayern Munich. Santa Cruz became 5th choice striker after Luca Toni, Miroslav Klose, Lucas Podolski and Jan Schlaudraff. Blackburn Rovers beat Manchester […]
Continue ReadingWednesday, August 8, 2007 A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday. Workers at a drinks stall recovered the 2.5-metre (8-foot) tall toy which had a yellow head and a blue body. “We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to […]
Continue ReadingFriday, March 5, 2010 According to reports from officials, four Pakistani and one Afghan road construction workers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday by armed men. The interior ministry reported that the attack happened on Thursday morning, in the Panjwayi district in the Kandahar province, and noted that one other Pakistani and Afghan labourer were injured. […]
Continue ReadingThursday, December 10, 2009 American and European scientists say the upgraded Hubble space telescope has spotted the oldest galaxies ever seen. The images were taken with the telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in August this year. The galaxies are about 13 billion light years from Earth, meaning they formed less than one billion […]
Continue ReadingThursday, June 1, 2006 Human rights group Amnesty International has released satellite images showing how the Zimbabwean community of Porta Farm, which once housed some 10,000 people, has been completely destroyed. Taken in 2002 and 2006, the photos starkly contrast the previous built-up area with the empty scrubland that remains. According to Amnesty International, residents […]
Continue ReadingSaturday, September 29, 2018 Yesterday morning near the international airport located on Weno island of Chuuk state of the Federated States of Micronesia, Oceania a passenger airplane of model Boeing 737-800 flown by the Air Niugini carrier crashed into sea as its pilot missed the runway. All 47 people on board — by differing reports, […]
Continue ReadingFriday, August 26, 2005 Berlin’s Neukoellner Opera House is causing a stir with its new production, The Yellow Princess. The story presented in the French opera, by Camille Saint-Saens, is of an artist “whose life is dictated by a love for drugs and Japan.” As a result, the performers smoke cannabis joints on stage, and […]
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