Wikinews 2020: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review

Friday, January 1, 2021 After an active year of original content published on the English-language Wikinews, we take a look back at some of the two dozen-plus original reports from our contributors during 2020. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_2020:_An_%27Original_reporting%27_year_in_review&oldid=4641414”

China offers Africa financial aid including $10 billion in loans

Sunday, November 8, 2009 Members of the FOCACImage: Wangyunfeng. China has offered Africa concessional loans worth US$10 (€6.5) billion as part of a host of new measures aimed at improving the economy of African nations. The announcement was made at the opening of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Leaders of […]

Messi passes from penalty for Suárez’s hat-trick as Barça beats Celta 6-1

Monday, February 15, 2016 Yesterday, Barcelona football star Lionel Messi made a risky pass from the penalty spot to Luis Suárez, setting up the completion of a Suárez hat-trick against Celta Vigo, and Barça defeated them 6–1 in a La Liga match at Camp Nou. Suárez climbed to the top spot for La Liga this […]

Why Mesothelioma Lawyers Are Expected To Be More Than Just Lawyers

Read An Opinion On: Building Dispute Lawyer Gold Coast Why Mesothelioma Lawyers Are Expected to Be More than Just Lawyers by Daniel Mover Mesothelioma litigation involves more than what meets the eye. Due to the complexity of mesothelioma cases, mesothelioma attorneys are required to possess qualities such as patience, understanding, and compassion in addition to […]

Neuroscientists tell Wikinews about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats

Thursday, April 30, 2020 In findings published last month in the journal Current Biology, neuroscientists from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience examined harm aversion in laboratory rats for conspecifics — rats not wanting to hurt other members of the same species — and reported which region of the brain was crucial for it. Wikinews caught […]

American animator Jack Zander dies, aged 99

Thursday, December 20, 2007File:Puss Get the Boot.jpg A screenshot of Puss Gets The Boot, which Zander animated(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Jack Zander, the animator whose career lasted from the “golden age” of theatrical animation into the 1980s, has died at the age of 99 on Monday, December 17. Born in May of 1908, […]

US Senate passes stimulus package

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The United States Senate passed a stimulus package worth US$838 billion on Tuesday, aimed at creating millions of new jobs and steering the economy out of the recession. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed the bill by a vote of 61-37, with only three Republicans supporting the plan. The move comes in the […]

Use A Construction Equipment Rental Service To Increase Safety On Your Job Site}

Read An Opinion On: Buy Pneumatic Hammer Australia Use a Construction Equipment Rental Service to Increase Safety on Your Job Site by Josh MyshakIf you work in construction, you know how valuable cranes are when it comes to moving and placing large and heavy objects. Almost every construction site needs at least one crane, if […]

Suicide bomber kills twelve in northwest Pakistan

Saturday, March 6, 2010 At least twelve civilians have died and over 25 wounded in a suicide bombing in the Hangu District of north-west Pakistan, Thursday night. A convoy of 140 vehicles running from Tall, in Hangu District to the town of Parachinar in Kurram Agency, FATA was targeted. The victims, some of them women, […]