Monday, May 11, 2009 Several Lancaster County, Pennsylvania high schools held their junior-senior proms this past weekend, and per tradition, they received gifts from the prom committee. Instead of traditional prom favors, however, Warwick High School in Lititz ordered more than 450 shot glasses and distributed them to students, in…
Emergency inspections ordered on all Boeing 737s in aftermath of China Airlines explosion
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 The burnt-out wreckage of the aircraft. Image: Thomas Mitchell. The United States Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive to all owners and operators of certain Next Generation Boeing 737s to inspect their aircraft in light of recent developments in the investigation of the…
31 killed in Afghanistan bus bombing
Saturday, September 29, 2007 Map highlighting location of Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus carrying more than 50 people in Kabul, Afghanistan killing at least 31 and critically injuring 17 of the people on board. 28 were Afghan soldiers, and so far at least two civilians…
Actor Alan Cumming returns OBE for British Empire’s ‘toxicity’
Monday, January 30, 2023 Cumming at New York Fashion Week on February 11, 2011. Image: Christopher Macsurak. On Friday, Scottish theatre and film actor and producer Alan Cumming said how “the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples around the world” affected his decision to return…
Kansas library discusses Wikipedia
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. A diverse group of approximately 25 people gathered at the Johnson County Library on Monday to participate in reference librarian Scott Vieira’s class,…
Avro Vulcan returns to the air after restoration
Thursday, October 18, 2007 An Avro Vulcan For the first time in 14 years, an Avro Vulcan heavy bomber has taken to the skies over England. The newly-restored aircraft took off from Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire. The craft flew for about 25 minutes in the first of three planned test flights…
Huygens moon probe to land on Titan
Thursday, January 13, 2005File:Huygen probe-decent nasa.jpg Huygens probe descent to Titan. (illustration by NASA)(Image missing from Commons: image; log) The Huygens Probe will enter theatmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon,Titan, on January 14 at approximately 9 a.m.UTC. The 318 kg probe will hit the Titan atmosphere at 6 kilometers per second….
Australian governments to meet for first COAG meeting of 2006 today
Friday, February 10, 2006 Australian Parliament House, where the COAG meeting will be held The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will meet in Canberra today for its first meeting of 2006. Members of COAG are the Prime Minister, State Premiers, Australian Capital and Northern Territory Chief Ministers, and the President…
Pennsylvania cop on trial for allegedly murdering girlfriend’s estranged husband
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 The trial began today for a Pennsylvania state trooper accused of killing his girlfriend’s estranged husband. Kevin Foley, 43, is accused of cutting the throat of John Yelenic, a dentist who was in the final stages of finalizing a divorce from his wife, Michele. According to…
Microsoft announces plan to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 On Monday, United States technology giant Microsoft announced their plans to acquire GitHub, a San Francisco, California-based web-based hosting service for software version control using Git, for 7.5 billion US Dollars (USD). File photo of Nat Friedman, reportedly to become CEO of GitHub. Image: Doc Searls….