Wikinews:2005/April/13

• Conservative Party launches manifesto
• Police investigate new lead in 'Chili Finger' case; Ayala abandons lawsuit
• Torvalds codes temporary replacement for Bitkeeper
• New Zealand Cricket under pressure to stop Zimbabwe tour
• Tory candidate in election gaffe
• Blair launches third and final manifesto
• Unions ballot to "shut down the BBC"

Cheaper version of Windows XP launched in Brazil

• Microsoft releases low-cost Windows XP Starter Edition in Brazil
• Britons urged not to vote by post
• Sit-in at Washington University, St. Louis enters ninth day
• NASA rethinks abandoning Hubble
• Indiana businessman held hostage in Iraq

A new treaty settles long time border disputes between China and India.

• India-China border-treaty hoped to improve ties, facilitate trade

The European Parliament approved the Accession Treaties of Romania and Bulgaria

• Survey finds Spam tolerance growing
• European Parliament approves accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU
• Romania to adopt euro between 2012 and 2014
• TAROM cancels all Bucharest-Arad flights
• New industrial area to be created in Arad county, Romania

Four Romanian ambassadors recalled by President Băsescu

• Four Romanian ambassadors recalled
• IBM and National Geographic to launch DNA database project
• Death toll mounts in Nepal civil conflict
• Britney Spears announces she is pregnant
• NZ Prime Minister In Mid-Air Emergency