Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. Aviv Sharon, a 24-year-old Israeli […]
Google blocks home device from responding to Burger King commercial
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Friday, April 14, 2017 On Wednesday afternoon at around 2:45 PM US Eastern Time (1845 UTC), Google prevented its Google Home speaker from responding to prompts by a Burger King commercial advertising the chain’s Whopper hamburger, after […]
Polish PM Beata Szyd?o welcomes US troops
Monday, January 16, 2017 Polish Prime Minister Beata Szyd?o on Saturday headed a ceremony in the Western town of ?aga? welcoming US troops. The troops are in the region in response to Russian action in Ukraine and began arriving earlier this week. “Each Polish family must feel safe”, Szyd?o said. “It is the duty of the Polish state, the government […]
Vitamin D deficiency more common, serious, than thought
Friday, November 2, 2007 Two scientists working at McGill University in Canada, reporting on their research and the research of other scientists, state in Scientific American that Vitamin D may have many uses in the human body besides building strong bones. According to the scientists, Luz E. Tavera-Mendoza and John H. White, Vitamin D intake may also be beneficial in […]
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British government advises against non-essential travel to Kenya
Thursday, January 3, 2008 The British Foreign Office is advising Britons against all but essential travel to Kenya because of the violence following the disputed presidential elections. The warning and the violence are heavily affecting Kenya’s tourism industry, which relies heavily on European tourists escaping the winter cold. The travel warning recommends that those already in Kenya stay indoors and […]
Dog’s throat cut in Cairns, Australia
Thursday, July 15, 2010 In what the RSPCA calls a “horrific” case of animal cruelty, a dog’s jaw was taped shut, and its throat cut, in Cairns, Australia. The Staffordshire mix, who was found by police in a critical condition last Thursday, was reportedly struggling to breath and bleeding heavily due to her throat being slashed and her muzzle being […]
The Use Of Temporary Car Insurance}
Here’s An Opinion On: Acting Coach Sydney Acting Classes Sydney Submitted by: Lenker Mills Conventionally, a car insurance action lasts for a year at a time. Perhaps you’re just searching afterwards a car while a acquaintance is on holiday, and you allegation to be insured to drive it. You don’t wish to yield out a abounding years exceptional for a […]
Pupils fed through gates, school criticised
Friday, September 15, 2006 Schoolchildren at Rawmarsh Comprehensive School in South Yorkshire, England, are being fed fish and chips by their parents through the school gates at lunchtimes because parents do not believe their children are being given enough choice of food at lunchtime. The parents are standing outside the school gates in a cemetery to take the orders of […]
UK culture minister Maria Miller called to resign following alleged threat to Telegraph newspaper
Sunday, April 6, 2014 Calls for the ouster of British government minister Maria Miller have been increasing following a claim by the Daily Telegraph newspaper that Miller’s special adviser used the threat of press regulation to try and prevent publication of a story about Miller’s expenses. A poll published today by a number of newspapers shows a majority of the […]