Saturday, February 14, 2009 Investigators in Ireland have found wiring problems in several Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340s as part of their investigation into a fire on board one such aircraft that was forced to divert to Shannon Airport. The Virgin jet was headed from London Heathrow Airport to Chicago with 143 passengers and thirteen crew […]

Saturday, December 16, 2006 A Toronto team of scientists have discovered a trigger for Type 1 diabetes, a breakthrough that could lead to the overall prevention of the common disease. The team discovered that abnormal nerve endings in the pancreas’ insulin-producing cells (Islets of Langerhan) initiated a chain reaction that caused Type 1 diabetes in […]

Thursday, June 12, 2008 June 12, 2008 Austria 1 – 1 Poland Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Attendance: 51,428 Referee: Howard Webb (England) Ümit Korkmaz 56’Andreas Ivanschitz 64’Roland Linz 64’Ivica Vasti? 64’Roman Kienast 64’Sebastian Prödl 72’René Aufhauser 74’Jürgen Säumel 74’Ivica Vasti? pen. 90+3′ 30′ Roger Guerreiro 46′ Mariusz Jop 46′ Pawe? Gola?ski 58′ Marcin Wasilewski 61′ […]

Saturday, September 24, 2005 Recently, Google had released Google Desktop 2 (beta), software that aims to provide information on a side-bar that sticks to the right end of your screen. Content on Google Desktop include e-mail searching, news and weather, subscribing to RSS-syndicated websites, and more features. One particular feature of Google Desktop is how […]

Saturday, May 20, 2006 The People’s Republic of China has announced the completion of an enormous dam across the Yangtze River, an important milestone for the world’s largest hydroelectric project. The official Xinhua News Agency reports the event as a “landmark in the construction of the project.” Launched in 1993, the Three Gorges Project, including […]

Monday, December 11, 2006 On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report it was stated that Anderson had “solved a very important problem” that was 1200 years old, the problem of division […]

Thursday, May 13, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald has performed an interview with Dr Isabella Margara, a London-based member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In the interview Margara sets out the communist response to current events in Greece as well as discussing the viability of a communist economy for the nation. She also […]