Saturday, December 2, 2006 Stephane Dion has won the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada today at Palais des congrès de Montréal with 2,521 (54.7%) votes to former Harvard academic Michael Ignatieff with 2,084 (45.3%) votes. Dion entered the convention as a dark horse but surged past three other candidates to win on the […]
Correction — November 19, 2009 In the final line of this article, it is stated that The West Australian is a News Limited paper. It is actually independent – the News Limited paper in Perth is the Sunday Times. Tuesday, March 17, 2009 With an election coming up this Saturday in the Australian state of Queensland,
Wikinews previews the 2009 Queensland state election
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Friday, January 26, 2007 Actress Nicole Kidman was injured in a car accident while filming the movie, The Invasion. The car reportedly went off course, and ran into a light pole on West Sixth Street in Los Angeles, California. “The stunt driver apparently went off course and hit a light post,” said Karen Smith, a
Nicole Kidman injured during movie stunt
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Sunday, July 3, 2005 São Paulo, Brazil —On June 30, in Brazil, deputy Roberto Jefferson testified to deputies and senators of a Commission that is investigating the alleged Post Office Service scandal. Jefferson’s testimony along with new evidence supporting his testimony are putting the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a difficult
New denunciations of Brazilian deputy and evidence make things difficult for Lula
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Monday, December 31, 2007 What would you tell your grandchildren about 2007 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 year’s time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2007, what would the question be? The year that you first signed on to Facebook? The year Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse fell
Wikinews’ overview of the year 2007
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Monday, September 20, 2010 One of London’s most well known murals could be restored after years of neglect if plans by a group of community activists gain public support. The Fitzrovia Mural at Whitfield Gardens on London’s Tottenham Court Road was created by two mural artists and commissioned by Camden Council in 1980, but the
Iconic London mural could be restored
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Click Here To Find Out More About: Richard Light Interactive It Submitted by: Daniel Crow When it comes to looking after your vehicle there are a number of different areas that you will need to take into consideration. Perhaps your car needs an MOT, or a deep valet clean which is long overdue. Your vehicle
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Monday, November 5, 2007 In the 1980’s and the 1990’s there were multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children or non-consenting adults in the context of Satanic rituals that has come to be known as The Satanic Panic. In the United States, the Kern County child abuse cases, McMartin preschool trial and the West Memphis
Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore
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A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Contents 1 US hands over security for Anbar province to Iraq 2 Stanford builds helicopters that teach themselves acrobatics 3 Malaysian man uses nut to extend penis, gets stuck Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a new one. The United States military
Wikinews Shorts: September 3, 2008
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Monday, July 31, 2006 MADRID, Spain — Floyd Landis requested the testing of his backup urine sample today. “We’ve sent the fax to the UCI this afternoon.” “Now we’ll have to adjust to their calendar,” said Jose Maria Buxeda, one of Landis’s two Spanish lawyers, of the Swiss-based International Cycling Union. Landis’s lawyers say they
Landis asks for additional test
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