Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight murders

Friday, February 1, 2019
Bruce McArthur, from Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday admitted his guilt in eight murders. McArthur pleaded guilty to each crime at the Superior Court.
Beginning in 2010 and continuing for seven years, McArthur murdered gay men; all but one victim was found dismembered in large planters at a house he had access to. The eighth was discovered in a nearby ravine. McArthur’s firsRead More…

Crowd in Derbyshire, UK, encourages teenager to commit suicide

Sunday, October 5, 2008
It has recently been made public that on September 27, seventeen year old Shaun Dykes jumped off a multistory building following encouragement from the crowd. According to the BBC’s Today programme, a variety of different people, including youths and middle aged citizens, were telling the teenager to jump.
Alasdair Kay, director of the Derby City Mission, saw the incidentRead More…

Man jailed for manslaughter of wife in Hampshire, England

Saturday, October 31, 2009
A man has been given a prison sentence of nine years for the manslaughter of his wife in Hampshire, England. 40-year-old Sally Sinclair was head of business analysis for mobile phone provider Vodafone and had been killed in August 2008 in her home in the village of Amport, after admitting to her husband that she had had an affair. When her body was found in the kitchenRead More…

Launch of space shuttle Discovery delayed indefinitely

Sunday, February 22, 2009
NASA announced during a press conference on Friday night that the agency has decided to delay the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, which was scheduled for takeoff on February 27. NASA cited the need for additional time to evaluate the shuttle’s hydrogen fuel flow control valves. A new launch date has yet to be scheduled, though NASA is considering mid-March as an optiRead More…

Mouse makes nest in cash machine, eats money

Sunday, April 1, 2007
In Estonia, a mouse made its nest in a cash machine and spent the weekend eating tens of thousands of kroons in bank notes. The critter was discovered after a customer making a withdrawal got half-eaten bills from the machine. “
At some stage over the weekend the chewed money jammed, and the mouse seems to have spent the rest of the weekend turning the notes into beddinRead More…

Stabbing at Massachusetts high school leaves one dead

Friday, January 19, 2007
In the United States, a stabbing at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts has left a 15-year old student dead.
The stabbing happened around 7:20 am EST, before classes had started. A fight broke out in a boys’ bathroom between the 15-year old victim, James Alenson and 16-year-old suspect John Odgren, the fight spilled out in the hallway, wherRead More…

Records, competitiveness and creations centre-stage at 2007 Soochow International 24H Ultra-Marathon

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Founded in 1999, and the first-ever 24 hour ultra-marathon race in Taiwan, the 7th Soochow International 24H Ultra-Marathon, took place on November 24-25, 2007. Even though the race has been suspended in the past, in 2000 and 2006, due to poor conditions on the track field, several world-class runners participated in the 2007 race. Contents 1 First-ever Hall of FameRead More…

New fossils from 10 million year old ape found in Ethiopia

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Researchers say that new, ten million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, prove that the theory that humans may have evolved from a species of great apes eight million years ago, may not be true, but that humans may have split from apes as long as 10.5 million years ago.
At least nine fossilized teeth, one canine tooth and eight molars, of a previously unknown species oRead More…

How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach

Friday, September 9, 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is theRead More…

Wikinews interviews candidate for Cleveland mayor Arthur Kostendt

Monday, June 14, 2021
Arthur Oliver Kostendt, a candidate running in the mayoral election of the US city of Cleveland, Ohio set to take place November 2, discussed his campaign and policies with Wikinews this spring.
According to Cleveland Scene, 29-year-old Kostendt is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Republican Party but has referred to his campaign as “casual”. According to his web siteRead More…