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Thought-controlled cybernetic arms demonstrated

Friday, September 15, 2006 Jesse Sullivan has two cybernetic arms, after electrical burns suffered while working as an electrical utility lineman resulted in amputation of both his arms at the shoulder. Claudia Mitchell has a similar cybernetic left arm, after a motorcycle accident resulted in amputation. Sullivan and Mitchell shook hands with these thought-controlled prosthetic […]

‘Each makes the other more difficult’: University of Sussex professor L. Alan Winters speaks to Wikinews on trade, COVID, Brexit

This article is under development. You are welcome to discuss its development or contribute to it.If it is ready to be reviewed and fact-checked, Submit for review?Template:Assistant:Submit/form’Each makes the other more difficult’: University of Sussex professor L. Alan Winters speaks to Wikinews on trade, COVID, BrexitSubmit for review by changing the {{develop}} tag to {{review}} […]

Getting Your Horse Prepared For Eventing

Here’s An Opinion On: Ariat Boots Online Australia Submitted by: Jhon Carlos Eventing is a horse competition where horse and biker compete in several disciplines of riding. It can be compared to a triathlon as it consists of cross-country, dressage and show-jumping within a competition. The first phase of a three day event is dressage. […]

Gunman kills self and hostage in Texas NASA building

Friday, April 20, 2007 Around 1:40 p.m. CDT, NASA employees reported that two shots were fired in the NASA Building 44 in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. A SWAT team later reported that Bill Phillips, a contract engineer with Jacobs Engineering, had killed David Beverly as well as himself, leaving a female hostage […]

Elizabeth II annuls Fred Goodwin knighthood

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch, has today withdrawn and annulled a knighthood given to Fred Goodwin in 2004, heeding the advice given to her by a forfeiture committee. Goodwin is the former chief executive at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) and was awarded his knighthood by the British […]

Apartment block blaze kills nine in Mississippi, US

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 A blaze at an apartment block killed nine people early yesterday morning in Mississippi, US. The dead included six young children, and the building was seriously damaged after fire broke out at 4 a.m. in Starkville. All nine victims were in the same apartment in the two-story building, which was split […]

News briefs:January 04, 2008

Contents 1 Wikinews News Brief January 04, 2008 23:35 UTC 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Israeli troops kill 9 in Gaza 1.3 Georgian President faces election challenge 1.4 US unemployment hits two-year high 1.5 Israel plans crackdown on West Bank settlement outposts 1.6 Transaven Airlines plane carrying 14 people crashes off Venezuelan coast 1.7 Sportswriter Milt Dunnell […]