Fallen power cable kills 26 in Congo-Kinshasa

Friday, February 4, 2022 At least 26 people were killed on Wednesday in the outskirts of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo when a high-tension electric power cable was struck by lightning and fell to the ground near a marketplace. The country’s energy provider, Société Nationale d’Électricité, said it happened during a severe storm and

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Category:July 14, 2010

? July 13, 2010 July 15, 2010 ? July 14 Pages in category “July 14, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:July_14,_2010&oldid=1848983”

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WHO’s reaction to H1N1 influenced by drug companies, reports claim

Sunday, June 6, 2010 Reports suggest the World Health Organisation’s declaring a swine flu pandemic was an error driven by drug companies, and lead to unjustified fear. A year after the swine flu pandemic was declared, stocks are left unused and governments try to abandon contracts, pharmaceutical companies have profited at least £4.6billion from the

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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, Wikiwhatia? Wikipedia. Scott opened the

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Son of actress and model Anna Nicole Smith dead

Thursday, September 14, 2006 American model and actress Anna Nicole Smith‘s son Daniel Smith, 20, died in the Bahamas, while visiting his mother, who had just given birth to a girl. Authorities state that one other person was in the room at the time, and the person was not a hospital staffer. The person’s identity

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Doctor Who returns as UK Saturday night timeslot lord

Sunday, March 27, 2005 After almost a decade off the air, the science fiction television series Doctor Who returned with new episodes to BBC airwaves on Saturday night, drawing a large audience. Starring movie actor Christopher Eccleston, the ninth actor cast to play the Doctor, as the newly reincarnated Time Lord, the new series showed

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U.S. House rejects Senate version of payroll tax cut

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Yesterday, the United States House of Representatives voted to effectively reject the Senate version of a bill, passed with bipartisan support, to extend a payroll tax cut two months past its year-end expiration date. The House voted instead to create a conference committee to settle differences between members of both bodies.

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