Wikinews interviews Duncan Campbell, co-founder of wheelchair rugby

15 April, 2021

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Friday, September 7, 2012 London, England — On Wednesday, Wikinews interviewed Duncan Campbell, one of the creators of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) You’re Duncan Campbell, and you’re the founder of… Duncan Campbell: One of the founders of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) And you’re from Canada, eh? Duncan Campbell: Yes, I’m from Canada, eh! (laughter) ((Laura […]

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How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach

14 April, 2021

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Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. […]

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PAP returned to power in 2006 Parliamentary Elections, Singapore

13 April, 2021

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 The incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) has retained its power in the Singapore parliament after getting 66.6% of the valid votes. It maintained 82 of the available 84 seats after securing 45 of the 47 contested seats, together with 37 of the seats that it won on Nomination Day on 26th […]

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Mileage Reimbursement Managing Income Efficiently

13 April, 2021

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Get More Information Here: Benefits Of Cameras In Classrooms As technology continues to take over seemingly every field of every industry, there is one thing that it can’t replace, a good old fashioned face to face meeting. Every day, a slew of people make their living on the road, traveling to existing clients or attempting […]

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Music duo The Bellamy Brothers accuse Britney Spears of plagiarism

13 April, 2021

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Sunday, February 20, 2011 US pop and country duo The Bellamy Brothers are accusing pop music singer Britney Spears — also from the United States — of plagiarism in her latest single “Hold It Against Me”. The group believes that Spears is “ripping off” one of their songs, a 1979 track entitled “If I Said […]

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“Camp Casey” moves to safer land, as Mother’s protest continues

12 April, 2021

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 In Crawford, Texas, anti-war protesters led by American Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier, have found a new place to demonstrate. “A kind gentleman from down the road, closer to the Bush ranch, has offered us the use of his property,” said Sheehan to the reporters, as the camp prepared […]

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Andrea Muizelaar on fashion, anorexia, and life after ‘Top Model’

12 April, 2021

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Monday, November 26, 2007 In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada’s Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. From working in a dollar store in her hometown of Whitby, Ontario, to modeling haute couture in Toronto, she had reached her dream of becoming […]

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Get Your Properties Renovated By An Interior Designer

12 April, 2021

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Get More Information Here: Sydney Kitchens Design Get Your Properties Renovated by an Interior Designer by satish jain234 Who doesn t want their houses and properties to look good? People are always in search of getting something new, renovating it in a better way. But can you manage to do this task alone? Nope! You […]

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Five convicted in abortion case in Portugal

11 April, 2021

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 A doctor, his assistant and three women who were found to have undergone abortion were convicted of violating abortion laws in Portugal. The three women were found to have undergone abortion in violation of Portuguese law. Abortion is illegal in Portugal except where a pregnancy is caused by rape or when […]

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Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean

11 April, 2021

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Thursday, June 23, 2011 NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal […]

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