Calpine declares bankruptcy, cites natural gas prices
Thursday, December 22, 2005 Electrical power generator Calpine Corporation declared bankruptcy on Tuesday. The San Jose, California based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Federal Court, to facilitate debt restructuring and to allow for normal operations to continue. Calpine has obtained secured debtor-in-possession financing from Deutsche BankContinue Reading
Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green candidate Mark Grenier, Welland
Saturday, September 15, 2007 Mark Grenier is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Welland riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Minor alterations not affecting the content have been made to this interview; the originalContinue Reading
Russian mathematician declines Fields Medal
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 A Russian mathematician, Grigori (“Grisha”) Perelman, who is credited proving the Poincaré conjecture declined to accept the Fields Medal, regarded as the highest honor in the field of mathematics. The Fields Medal, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”, was awarded this year toContinue Reading
Police remove valuables from unlocked cars
Thursday, August 27, 2009 Police officers in Richmond in south-west London, England are removing valuable items like handbags and laptops from unlocked vehicles and leaving notes telling owners to collect their items in Twickenham police station in a bid to try and encourage car drivers to lock the doors ofContinue Reading
NFL: Brett Favre traded to the New York Jets
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Quarterback Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets for a conditional fourth-round draft selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. The trade was later confirmed by ESPN and the Jets themselves. The multiple National Football League record-holder was the starting quarterback of the GreenContinue Reading
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FEMA employees pose as fake reporters during press conference
Correction — September 10, 2013 The headline should not contain the word fake: the employees posed as reporters; they didn’t pose as fake reporters, on the contrary they were fake reporters posing as real reporters. We aopologize for the error. Friday, October 26, 2007 The United States Federal Emergency Management AgencyContinue Reading
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Seeds placed in Norwegian vault as agricultural ‘insurance policy’
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Commission president JoséContinue Reading
City of Edinburgh Council seek to improve local music scene
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1 2 Yesterday evening saw the Usher Hall in Edinburgh host a meeting between representatives of the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) and the local rock and pop music scene. The meeting was dominated with local musicians’ complaints over the “zero tolerance” policy Edinburgh is viewedContinue Reading