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A portrait of Scotland: Gallery reopens after £17.6 million renovation

Thursday, December 1, 2011 Today saw Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery reopen following a two-and-a-half-year, £17.6m (US$27.4m) refurbishment. Conversion of office and storage areas sees 60% more space available for displays, and the world’s first purpose-built portrait space is redefining […]

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Prince William marries Kate Middleton—live updates

Friday, April 29, 2011 Prince William of Wales, the second in line to the British throne, and Kate Middleton will today be married at Westminster Abbey in London. Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of the city […]

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Wikinews 2014: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 With the English-language Wikinews continuing to increase the amount of original content published, we take a look back at some of the eighty-plus original reports from our contributors during 2014.

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The History Of The Buffalo Nickel Part I}

The History of the Buffalo Nickel – Part I by Keith Scott The buffalo nickel (also known as the Indian head nickel) was produced from 1913 through 1938 and was designed by James Earle Fraser. It is actually a bison, […]

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Truck loses control in Andhra Pradesh, kills more than a dozen

Sunday, April 23, 2017 More than fifteen people were killed near the police station in Yerpedu, Andhra Pradesh, India after a heavily loaded truck lost control on Friday afternoon at about 1:45 P.M. IST (0815 UTC). People, mostly from the […]

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Wikinews interviews Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential candidate

Sunday, March 30, 2008 While nearly all cover of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of […]

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Haitian earthquake: in pictures

Friday, January 15, 2010 Haiti was hit by a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on Tuesday, killing an unknown number of people, and destroying up to ten percent of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince. No official death toll […]

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Missing nun found dead

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 According to Buffalo, New York Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson, Sister Karen Klimczak, 62, a Catholic nun who went missing on Friday, has been found dead in a shallow grave. Her body was found inside a […]

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US reveals Nazi war criminal’s location was known two years before his capture

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 The 27,000-pages of documents released on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret. The […]

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Bad Oral Habits Can Damage Your Teeth

We all know that bad habits can cause damage to our dental health but we really do not know how much damage it will bring us to neglect and forget to brush our teeth. This article will discuss how important […]

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