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Here are a few "best of" Wikinews articles, chosen by the community. See the Featured Article Candidates page for nominations and discussions of candidate articles for this page. Or, subscribe to the RSS feed!

The complete list of Wikinews' featured articles can be found here.

Criteria

Featured articles should, at a minimum:

• Be formatted correctly (including sources)
• Have pictures (they should make a good visual impression)
• Be well-written - see the Wikinews:Style guide
• Cover the news event comprehensively without rambling

In addition, we should try to choose articles that were worked on by several editors, to highlight the collaborative nature of Wikinews. We should also make an effort to find the best examples of original reporting: scoops exclusive to Wikinews, extensive coverage, and excellent research.

Current featured articles

There are currently 94 featured articles.

• 26 February 2013: Wikinews interviews Irene Villa
• 7 February 2013: Same-sex marriage in the UK passes second reading in Commons
• 24 January 2013: Wikinews interviews Aurélien Miralles about Sirenoscincus mobydick species discovery
• 19 January 2013: Wikinews interviews Spain's most decorated Paralympian, Teresa Perales
• 8 January 2013: Three cities submit bids for 2020 Summer Olympics
• 10 May 2012: No surprises for sport in 2012/2013 Australian federal budget
• 14 March 2012: Sandra Fluke insists she will not be silenced
• 25 February 2012: Syrian citizen journalists risk death, targeted; city of Homs facing starvation
• 26 January 2012: 'Davos man' versus 'Camp Igloo'; 42nd World Economic Forum convenes in Swiss alps
• 25 January 2012: One year on: Egyptians mark anniversary of protests that toppled Mubarak
• 13 January 2012: Observing the 2012 Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US, and wider world
• 22 December 2011: Cypriot court clears all of wrongdoing in Greek air disaster
• 21 December 2011: Wikinews interviews former Salt Lake City mayor and 2012 presidential candidate Rocky Anderson
• 1 December 2011: A portrait of Scotland: Gallery reopens after £17.6 million renovation
• 1 October 2011: 'Fascinating' and 'provocative' research examines genetic elements of bipolar, schizophrenia
• 10 September 2011: Out of space in outer space: Special report on NASA's 'space junk' plans
• 4 September 2011: Military plane crashes in Chilean Juan Fernández Archipelago; reports say no survivors
• 29 July 2011: National Museum of Scotland reopens after three-year redevelopment
• 30 June 2011: Wikinews interviews US National Archives Wikipedian in Residence
• 7 April 2011: ACLU, EFF challenging US 'secret' court orders seeking Twitter data
• 12 March 2011: Special report on Japanese tsunami emergency in Pichilemu, Chile
• 5 December 2010: UK Parliament to vote on tuition fee rise on Thursday
• 1 December 2010: Latest 'CableGate' disclosures hint at US diplomatic tactics in Spain and beyond
• 24 October 2010: Wikinews investigates the reconstruction of Pichilemu, Chile after February earthquake
• 10 September 2010: BP report into Gulf of Mexico disaster lays blame on other contractors
• 30 August 2010: Teachers at Australian school shocked at no warning over redundancies, can apply before 'externals'
• 8 June 2010: Strike ballot to go ahead despite British Telecom's belated new pay offer
• 15 May 2010: Colegio Preciosa Sangre, Pichilemu, amidst other Chilean schools celebrate Student's Day
• 3 May 2010: Chilean earthquakes in the O'Higgins Region: photoessay
• 10 April 2010: Polish President Lech Kaczyński dies as his plane crashes in Russia
• 31 March 2010: Wikinews discusses H1N1 with the WHO
• 18 March 2010: Chilean earthquakes: in pictures
• 29 January 2010: Tony Blair tells Iraq Inquiry he would invade again
• 15 January 2010: Haitian earthquake: in pictures
• 15 January 2010: Haiti relief efforts: in depth
• 31 December 2009: Icelandic government passes Icesave deal; €12,000 debt per citizen
• 16 December 2009: Payment pending; Canadian recording industry set for six billion penalties?
• 10 November 2009: Creator of website satirizing Glenn Beck on winning domain name case
• 8 November 2009: China offers Africa financial aid including $10 billion in loans
• 5 November 2009: Thirteen dead, several wounded in Fort Hood, Texas shooting
• 2 November 2009: Karzai declared winner of Afghan elections, runoff polls cancelled
• 1 November 2009: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah withdraws from elections
• 29 October 2009: AFL provides insufficient support for European leagues: Germany
• 19 October 2009: Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones
• 19 October 2009: US free speech lawyer Marc Randazza discusses Glenn Beck parody
• 20 August 2009: Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi released on compassionate grounds
• 14 July 2009: U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images
• 10 May 2009: Past Eurovision contestants give advice to this year's performers, speculate on who will win
• 29 April 2009: Swine flu outbreaks appear globally; WHO raises pandemic alert level to 5
• 14 March 2009: US, UK investigators seek 777 engine redesign to stop repeat of London jet crash
• 2 February 2009: Eurovision '82 winner Nicole talks about 'Ein bißchen Frieden', her success and the Contest today
• 7 December 2008: British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
• 22 November 2008: US Nazi leader talks about Barack Obama, the economy and more
• 22 October 2008: 2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools goes online
• 10 October 2008: Global markets plunge
• 18 July 2008: Searching for asteroids, extraterrestrial life a little more rocky: Budget cuts threaten to close Arecibo, world's largest radio telescope
• 8 July 2008: Philippines ferry disaster: ship owner sues over toxic cargo; recovery deadline set & more
• 24 June 2008: City to sue owner of partially collapsed 19th century livery in Buffalo, New York
• 21 May 2008: UK minor faces charges for calling Scientology 'cult' at protest
• 16 May 2008: Asbestos controversy aboard Scientology ship Freewinds
• 23 April 2008: Pope Benedict XVI visit to the United States begins
• 18 April 2008: YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended
• 13 April 2008: Teräsbetoni frontman J. Ahola on representing Finland at Eurovision 2008 & more
• 13 April 2008: Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article
• 26 March 2008: Popular soap opera 'The Young and the Restless' celebrates 35 years on the air
• 12 March 2008: One year on: IFALPA's representative to ICAO, pilot and lawyer on ongoing prosecution of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 pilot
• 13 February 2008: Billy West, voice of Ren and Stimpy, Futurama, on the rough start that shaped his life
• 9 January 2008: Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel
• 13 December 2007: Interview with Reggie Bibbs on his life with neurofibromatosis
• 3 December 2007: Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics
• 8 November 2007: Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore
• 30 October 2007: ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
• 30 September 2007: Interview with gay marriage movement founder Evan Wolfson
• 2 August 2007: Highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses
• 14 May 2007: Smoke from massive warehouse fire in Buffalo, New York USA can be seen 40 miles away
• 6 May 2007: Kenya Airways jet with at least 114 on board crashes
• 12 April 2007: Violence in Uganda over forest clearing proposal
• 22 March 2007: Mass wedding held against racism in Belgium
• 8 March 2007: DUP and Sinn Féin make gains in Northern Ireland Assembly election
• 6 March 2007: Broken stormwater drain led to Guatemala sinkhole
• 23 February 2007: Virgin train crashes in England
• 7 February 2007: Furry fans flock to Further Confusion 2007
• 3 November 2006: U.S. military tribunal law faces first court challenge
• 14 October 2006: "Friday the 13" Buffalo, New York snow storm in pictures
• 16 March 2006: Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal threatened by possible lawsuit
• 13 February 2006: New South Wales set to adopt harsher anti-cannabis laws
• 8 February 2006: Wikinews investigates Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate staff members
• 13 January 2006: Distributed computing to get "interstellar project"
• 12 December 2005: Major explosions at UK oil depot
• 19 November 2005: Australian man to be executed in Singapore
• 25 October 2005: Anniversary of Tak Bai incident marked with lawsuits
• 11 July 2005: Pope John Paul II dies
• 8 July 2005: Coordinated terrorist attack hits London
• 2 July 2005: Entrepreneur's RFID chip implant to open doors, start car

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