Sunday, April 17, 2005Starting in 2006, HM passport service of Britain will begin use of biometric chips in the issuance of passports. Essential to this scheme is the creation of a central database for passport holders that contains fingerprint and biometric data. This database, along with fingerprinting facilities, will be shared by the controversial Identity […]
Read MoreFormer Texas nurse charged with murder for allegedly injecting bleach into patients
Thursday, April 2, 2009 A former nurse from Texas is in jail after a grand jury in Angelina County indicted her over allegations she murdered patients by injecting bleach into them. Kimberly Saenz is suspected of killing five people at the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin. A sudden string of deaths caused the center to […]
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Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed to answer some questions by […]
Read MoreTen dead on Minnesota Indian reservation after school shooting
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 A 17-year-old Minnesota student is believed to have shot his grandfather and grandmother, drove his grandfather’s squad car to the high school, and shot a security guard, a teacher and five other classmates, later committing suicide. This happened at 3pm local time on Monday (2100 UTC), and as many as 14 […]
Read MoreWikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thursday, October 22, 2020 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is […]
Read MoreAMBER alert issued in Maryland for missing teenaged boys
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Maryland State Police have issued an AMBER alert for two teenaged boys who were reportedly abducted in a 2004 black BMW 645 with Maryland temporary tags. According to the Baltimore Sun, the vehicle was later found, but the victims are still missing. Police say that at 3 a.m. EDT (UTC-4), early […]
Read MoreCategory:Tattoos
This is the category for tattoos, a form of body modification using ink and a needle. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 8 April 2014: Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at age 93 19 March 2014: Texas police name ‘person of interest’ in DeBerry woman’s disappearance 25 July 2012: Wikinews interviews Great Britain […]
Read MoreWikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 held on wikis and education
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Sunday, October 28, 2007 Yesterday, a chilly Amsterdam hosted the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007. Held at the Aristo centre in a suburb of the city and run by Wikimedia Netherlands, the conference […]
Read MoreCategory:Tattoos
This is the category for tattoos, a form of body modification using ink and a needle. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 8 April 2014: Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at age 93 19 March 2014: Texas police name ‘person of interest’ in DeBerry woman’s disappearance 25 July 2012: Wikinews interviews Great Britain […]
Read MoreNew 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 the Reserve Bank and Telecom New Zealand in May, 2006, and offering to fix them. […]
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