Friday, September 28, 2012 Melbourne, Australia — Monday, following her return from London, Wikinews talked with Amanda Carter, the longest-serving member of Australia’s national wheelchair basketball team (the Gliders). ((Wikinews)) You’re Amanda Carter! Amanda Carter: Yes! ((WN)) And, where were you born? Amanda Carter: I was born in Melbourne. ((WN)) It says here that you spent your childhood living in Banyule? Amanda Carter: City of Banyule, but I was West Heidelberg. ((WN)) Okay. And you…

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 A series of large explosions have occurred close to Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire, UK. The source of the explosions has been confirmed as the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal (HOSL), Hemel Hempstead, known locally as the Buncefield complex. Up to 150 fire fighters are reported to be at the scene with 10 fire appliances and 1 specialist foamer. The first ‘blast’ was heard near Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 Dec at 6 am.…

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Papyrologists at Oxford University in England last week reported major literary finds in examining old fragments of papyrus with a new technique: multi-spectral imaging (MSI). The fragments were unearthed near the buried town of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in a major archaeological find a century ago. Many of the fragments were unable to be read until now. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Infrared_technology_enables_recovery_of_lost_classical_writings&oldid=2584473”

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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=4608262”

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Saturday, July 19, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile on Thursday according to US officials, over disputed eastern Ukraine by an unidentified party. The flight, which departed Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in The Netherlands at 10:15 UTC en route to Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, disappeared from radar at 13:15 UTC near Hrabove, a village in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. 283 passengers and 15 crew…

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This is the category for Southampton, a city in Hampshire, England. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 3 January 2017: UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic 23 September 2011: Southampton City Council votes against water fluoridation 13 August 2011: David Cameron responds to rioting, promises changes on policing 11 April 2011: British seaman appears in court, charged with murder after shooting on nuclear submarine 8 April 2011: Two shot on nuclear submarine…

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 The BBC Television Centre has been placed up for sale by the corporation. Plans to sell the centre originally came forward in 2007 but the BBC only appointed Lambert Smith Hampton, a commercial property consultant, in November of last year. The building which is based in Shepherds Bush, London was opened in 1960 and is the home of BBC News and BBC Vision. The BBC stated they were interested in preserving…

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