Monday, May 9, 2005 Workers at Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana have completed a successful test-run of a chemical reactor designed to dispose of Cold War stockpiles of VX nerve agent. After encountering initial difficulties when the temperature in the reactor grew too high, workers were able to adjust the speed of the device. 180 […]
How A Website Design Company Can Help New Start Up Businesses And Services
Read More About: Notebooks For Sale byChantel Ledbetter There is a lot of potential to sell products online. In fact online is the most convenient, effective and most proven method that is helping B2B and B2C setting a new path and trend for online business. Every small business owner and big business owner seeks their […]
Freighter hits fishing boat in Gulf of Suez; thirteen dead
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 A freighter hit a fishing boat around midnight on Sunday morning in the Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea. Of the 40 Egyptian fisherman on board, thirteen are dead and thirteen more missing. Survivor Al Sayyed Mohamed Arafat told local media he jumped from the fishing boat, named Badr al-Islam, […]
Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris
Sunday, January 27, 2019 In findings published earlier this month in Ecological Applications, scientists from the University of Washington and Center for Ecosystem Sentinels examine the reason for the plummeting numbers of female Magellanic penguins, Spheniscus magellanicus, that have been reported at the birds’ breeding sites in South America over the past twenty years and […]
Portable Solar Power Revealed
Read More About: Solar Battery Prices Submitted by: Jim Martin The same photovoltaic systems that convert solar energy into electricity are becoming available as portable systems that you can carry wherever you want. The fixed solar systems have already dramatically transformed the whole idea of power generation, compared to the conventional fossil fuel generators. We […]
85 Hindu pilgrims killed in India lorry crash
Saturday, September 8, 2007 A minimum of 85 Hindu pilgrims have been killed in India and 64 injured after their lorry and trailer plunged 24m (80ft) into a river gorge late last night. Approximately 150 people were on board when the driver lost control on a sharp bend near the village of Nagbavji, Rajasthan, smashing […]
Puppy Training, A Positive Introduction To Basic Obedience Exercises
Read More About: Dog Litter Box Submitted by: Pat Nolan Learning How to Learn Pups are learning all the time and there is no reason to wait for them “to grow up” before you begin training. You can start your pup’s first lessons at seven weeks. Doing some early training will turn on circuits in […]
Wikinews Shorts: August 11, 2008
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, August 11, 2008. Contents 1 Ohioville creek bones are not human 2 Etna motorcyclist killed when hit by tree 3 Police dog found in Pasadena, California 4 Somalian police chief dies 5 Cassini probe passes Saturn moon Enceladus Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a […]
Crossrail train approved for London
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 The £16 billion Crossrail Scheme, that will run through London, Berkshire and Essex was given the go ahead; construction will begin by 2010 and it is expected to be finished by 2017. The line, that will provide 24-hour trains to the centre of London from the east and the west, will […]
“No H5N1 virus” found in blood tests of suspected human Bird Flu cluster
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Preliminary tests performed on samples taken from six villagers in the Kabanjahe District of Sumatra in Indonesia have tested negative for the deadly H5N1 Avian Flu virus. “Investigations by the ministry of health lab and Namru, too, on August 2 and 3 on all specimens collected from the suspected cases in […]