U.S. Housing prices down 9% since February

Sunday, June 26, 2005 Houses in New Orleans The median house price in the United States plunged 6.5% in May to $217,000. In February of 2005, the median price of a home was $237,300. The Economist newspaper said in its June 16th issue; “In other words, it looks like the biggest bubble in history.” by […]

Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol

Thursday, October 19, 2017 On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium’s KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack). Their study claimed KRACK affects every modern device using Wi-Fi; it can be fixed by […]

Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean

Thursday, June 23, 2011 This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Image: NASA/JPL/SSI. NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. […]

Crosswords/2005/February/19

Saturday, February 19, 2005 Feel free to use the Wikimedia sites to solve our Wikinews crossword. Please do not fill it out online as it would spoil it for other people; print it out and fill it in at your own leisure! < Previous crossword. Contents 1 Quick crossword 2 Across 3 Down 4 Yesterday’s […]

Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics

Monday, December 3, 2007 “People call me because they know I will come. If nothing else you write, I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come. People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. ‘You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!’“Image: […]

No breakthrough in the WTO trade talks

Friday, July 29, 2005 Two days of ministerial talks have ended without agreement and evidence of a possible deadlock between developing and developed countries. 148 member countries are trying to reach a consensus on how to proceed with the Doha round of talks which are scheduled to be agreed in 2006. However, they are now […]

Post-mortem examination reveals Stephen Gately “died of natural causes”

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Gately, at a performance earlier this year. Image: MangakaMaiden. An autopsy performed on Tuesday revealed that the late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately “had died of natural causes”. Officials from the Spanish island of Majorca that Stephen had suffered from an accumulation of fluid on the lungs, or as it is known […]

CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate David Sparrow in Don Valley West

Friday, October 10, 2008 In an attempt to speak with as many candidates as possible during the 2008 Canadian federal election, Wikinews has talked via email with David Sparrow. Sparrow is a candidate in Ontario’s Don Valley West riding, running under the New Democratic Party (NDP) banner. The riding was set to vote in a […]

Australian ministers lose veto power over territory laws

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Ministers in Australia’s federal government have lost the power to veto laws in the nation’s two mainland territories after legislation passed the national parliament. The legislation requires for both chambers of the parliament to strike down laws made in the Northern Territory (NT) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) parliaments. We’ve […]