Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in…
UK house prices have fallen 10.5% this year, says Nationwide Building Society
Thursday, August 28, 2008 After dropping 1.9% in July, house prices in the United Kingdom are now falling at the fastest rate since 1990, according to Nationwide Building Society. The average price of a home has dropped by £20,000 down to £164,654, losing 10.5% of its value in 2008. Property values fell by 1.9% in…
Why You Should Consider Joining Group Yoga Classes
Read An Opinion On: Pranayama Techniques Can Pranayama Cure Anxiety byAlma Abell Almost everyone has exercise and wellness goals, but achieving them isn’t as easy as making them. Finding a community of people that you can belong to, while working out, can make a tremendous difference in reaching your goals. One way that you can…
New video of captured British troops aired; protests at UK embassy in Tehran
Monday, April 2, 2007 Iran state television broadcast a new video of two officers among the fifteen British sailors and marines seized by Iran last week. Yesterday, Iranian students demonstrated in front of the British embassy in Tehran over the incident. Demonstrators threw stones, firecrackers and a smoke grenade but were prevented from entering the…
Biologist Nick Bos tells Wikinews about ‘self-medicating’ ants
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Nick Bos, of the University of Helsinki, studies “the amazing adaptations social insects have evolved in order to fight the extreme parasite pressure they experience”. In a recently-accepted Evolution paper Bos and colleagues describe ants appearing to self-medicate. I have no doubt that as time goes on, there will be more…
Wikinews Shorts: April 1, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Sunday, April 1, 2007. Contents 1 Nepal: Former rebels join government; elections set for June 2 Russia bans foreigners from retail sales jobs 3 Google TiSP April fools joke 4 Iranian students protest outside British embassy in Tehran Five former Maoist rebels were sworn in as ministers as part…
Louisiana locked down; New Orleans could become a “toxic soup”
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Ivor van Heerden, Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes, is warning that floodwaters resulting from Hurricane Katrina could carry toxic waste from the “Industrial Canal” area in New Orleans – the site of many…
Congressman Cunningham admits taking bribes
Monday, November 28, 2005 U.S. Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R–CA) pled guilty today to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence as a member of the House Appropriations Committee to help a defense contractor get business. In total he pled guilty to one count of income tax evasion and four counts of…
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Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/AL-KY
See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools. Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It…