Wikinews interviews Duncan Campbell, co-founder of wheelchair rugby

Friday, September 7, 2012 London, England — On Wednesday, Wikinews interviewed Duncan Campbell, one of the creators of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) You're Duncan Campbell, and you're the founder of... Duncan Campbell: One of the founders of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) And you're from Canada, eh? Duncan Campbell: Yes, I'm from Canada, eh! (laughter) ((Laura Hale)) Winnipeg? Duncan...

Table Lamps Choosing The Right Lamp For Your Home

More On This Topic: Kitchen Designer Design For Indoor Kitchen By Annie Deakin Lighting plays an important role in any home. The bright lights do not bring out the beauty of a room thus, it is table lamps that you must use. Table lamps offer diffused lighting that highlight and bring to life the different parts of a home. Beautiful artifacts and paintings especially need to be highlighted with...

International participants showcase different industry cultures at 2008 Taipei Game Show

Friday, January 25, 2008 B2B Trade Area of Taipei Game Show, criticized by trade buyers last year, but accompanied with 2008 Taiwan Digital Content Forum, moved to the second floor at Taipei World Trade Center for world-wide participants with a better exchange atmosphere this year. Not only local OBMs (Softstar Entertainment, Soft-World International Corp., International Games System Corp., ...,...

Petition pressures City of Edinburgh Council to review clause affecting live music scene

Thursday, June 25, 2015 Live music venues in Edinburgh, Scotland are awaiting a review later this year on the 2005 licensing policy, which places limitations on the volume of amplified music in the city. Investigating into how the policy is affecting the Edinburgh music scene, a group of Wikinews writers interviewed venue owners, academics, the City of Edinburgh Council, and local band The Mean...

Finding Affordable Houston Ac Repair

More On This Topic: Air Con Maitland Submitted by: Boricua If you live in the Houston area, you will find that Houston AC repair is much more affordable than replacing your current air conditioning unit. This is the case when it comes to both commercial and residential units. In order to keep your unit working for many years into the future, you will want to make sure that you hire the right...

Man bites dog, charged with animal cruelty

December 15, 2004 In a rare case of man-bites-dog, a Gainsville, Florida man was arrested on an animal cruelty charge on Saturday after authorities determined that he had been biting his dog as punishment. The man — Mount Lee Lacy, age 21 — told officers that biting was an effective form of punishment. He had most recently used biting in response to his dog defecating in the house. He has...

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 issued condolences to the victims' families....

Naomi Campbell testifies against former Liberian president

Thursday, August 5, 2010 Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified for prosecutors on Thursday in a war crimes case against former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Taylor allegedly gave an uncut blood diamond to Campbell in 1997 when they met for dinner in South Africa, according to Professor David Crane of Syracuse University. Crane told Voice of America, "The testimony itself is important because...

Adposition: A Key Part Of Speech

More On This Topic: Speech Therapy For Adults Adposition is a linguistics concept that is quite hard to define. It can be classified in three groups. First of all, there are the prepositions that all of us are very familiar with because English is a prepositional language. You know those tiny little words that need to put before a nouns or other words to have a meaning. English language has a...

Iran says it’s ready for standoff over nuclear activities

This article features in a News Brief from Audio Wikinews: Thursday, January 18, 2007 Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that his country is prepared to have a standoff with the United States. The move comes as the U.S. decided to send another aircraft carrier to the Middle East. According to the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the USS Stennis was dispatched to the region to...