5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist

Friday, September 29, 2006 Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children’s Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support, […]

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Everything You Need To Know About Body Piercings

By Roberto Sedycias Many people have body piercings and you can get one by going into a tattoo parlor or into a place that sells jewelry and also does piercings. It is most common to have an ear piercing on the ear lobe, which is most seen on women but also seen on men. There […]

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Dog Training How To Control Biting

By Kelly Marshall One thing you can count on when bringing home a new dog is the fact that he will nip and bite at your fingertips during the first few days or weeks. This is totally normal and there is no reason to get frantic that you may have purchased an aggressive dog. However, […]

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Report finds FBI missed multiple chances to stop 9/11

Saturday, June 11, 2005 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) missed several opportunities to uncover and to possibly stop the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, a report has found. The agency did not respond to leads and failed to follow up a theory that al-Qaeda was sending its members to US-based flight […]

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Wikinews Shorts: August 13, 2009

A compilation of brief news reports for Thursday, August 13, 2009. Contents 1 Paris suffers second night of violence 2 No concrete progress but North American leaders express solidarity 3 Mexican federal police foil plot to assassinate President Calderón 4 Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to another three years of house arrest 5 Four Rio Tinto […]

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Iraqi elections kept low-key, but secure, in Paris

Saturday, January 29, 2005 Fourteen countries outside of Iraq have been selected for the installation of polling stations for the Iraqi National Assembly election. Among these, Paris, capital city of France, will welcome voters from France, Belgium, and Switzerland. While the event has not been kept secret, the French government and media have been quite […]

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Feud between CNBC and The Daily Show continues to escalate

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Jim Cramer, CNBC’s host of Mad Money, plans to appear on The Daily Show Thursday, in the midst of an escalating feud between Cramer and the Comedy Central show’s host, Jon Stewart. Jim Cramer has been the only CNBC employee to publicly respond to Daily Show segments strongly criticizing the television […]

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Crosswords/2005/February/7

Monday, February 7, 2005 Feel free to use the Wikimedia sites to solve our Wikinews crossword. Please do not fill it out online as it would spoil it for other people; print it out and fill it in at your own leisure! < Previous crossword. Contents 1 Quick crossword 2 Across 3 Down 4 Yesterday’s […]

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