Sunday, June 18, 2017 On Friday, US director John G. Avildsen, best known for directing the 1976 film Rocky for which he won an Academy Award for the Best Director and the 1980s The Karate Kid trilogy, died at the…
Continue Reading
Interview with gay marriage movement founder Evan Wolfson
Sunday, September 30, 2007 Evan Wolfsonphoto: David Shankbone Evan Wolfson, the founder of the modern gay marriage movement, tells the waiter he would like an iced decaf and “the usual.” Wolfson, one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the…
Continue Reading
Category:Mining
This is the category for mining. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 10 January 2020: Greek prime minister reaffirms EastMed pipeline project is open for other countries to join 3 June 2016: Glencore announces Tahmoor mine in New…
Continue Reading
Wikinews interviews U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney
Friday, March 7, 2008 McKinney before speaking at the Green Party Presidential Debate in 2008. Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Cynthia McKinney, one of the candidates for the Green Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. McKinney is…
Continue Reading
Protesters arrested after barricading themselves inside portion of Keystone Oil Pipeline
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Matt and Glen inside the pipeline with one of the barrels in view at the bottom. Gas masks symbolize the “poisonous tar sands” that will go through the pipe when completed. Image: Tar Sands Blockade. Two…
Continue Reading
Dublin Pride 2018 attracts tens of thousands of people
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 On Saturday, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride in the Irish capital Dublin attracted a record number of people. According to the organisers of the Pride, about 60 thousand people attended the event, almost…
Continue Reading
World’s oldest living woman dies at age 115
Friday, January 19, 2007 The world’s oldest known woman, Montrealer Julie Winnefred Bertrand, died on Thursday, passing away peacefully in her sleep. She earned the distinction as the oldest living woman when 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden of Tennessee, U.S.A. died on…
Continue Reading
Wikinews interviews U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney
Friday, March 7, 2008 McKinney before speaking at the Green Party Presidential Debate in 2008. Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Cynthia McKinney, one of the candidates for the Green Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. McKinney is…
Continue Reading
New Zealand Reserve Bank phone hacker not convicted
Thursday, September 28, 2006 Gerasimos Macridis, 39-years-old, left the court room discharged without conviction after hacking into the New Zealand Reserve Bank’s phone system and then asking for money for his services after pointing out these security flaws to both…
Continue Reading
Apple to hold media event on September 1, may update iPods and Apple TV
Friday, August 27, 2010 Apple may introduce a new iPod Touch (first generation pictured) next week.Image: Nsy. Apple Inc. will hold a music-centered event in San Francisco, California on September 1. It has been widely speculated that the company will…
Continue Reading