Wikinews:2008/April
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- UEFA Champions League: April 1, 2008
- Media round-up: April Fools' Day 2008
- Peruvian necklace identified as oldest gold artifact in the Americas
- Amber alert issued for missing Utah girl
- Coalition forces: Eleven 'suspected terrorists' captured
- Portuguese football club Porto in match-fixing probe
- Moldovan parliament approves new government
- UEFA Champions League: April 2, 2008
- AMBER alert issued in Maryland for missing teenaged boys
- Vandalism on online epilepsy forum triggers convulsions
- SAHTECH, SEMI, and Semiconductor Industry to promote "SEMI Safety Guideline" in Taiwan
- Taiwan Textile Foundation markets "2008 Taipei In Style" in Cross-Straits
- Former Iraqi police commander was working with insurgents
- New legal British tender revealed
- Bertie Ahern to resign as Irish premier
- US Air Force tests Minuteman III missile
- Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia
- Hser Nar Moo, missing Utah girl, found dead
- UEFA Cup: April 3rd, 2008
- China lifts ban on non-Chinese versions of Wikipedia
- African nations gather to support a ban on cluster bombs
- Wikinews interviews Jim Babka, chair of Libertarian organization Downsize DC
- NATO summit in Bucharest enters second day
- Australian Defence Department funds controversial development training
- Bristol campaigners: words by council are 'weasel words'
- Laurent Robert joins Toronto FC
- California offers rebates for alternative fuel vehicles
- Major explosion at Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska
- Moldovan president tells NATO over half a million Moldovans held hostage in separatist Transnistria
- US bomber aircraft catches fire after landing at airbase in Qatar
- UK sex offenders to be banned from some websites
- Two arrests after murder in Bristol, United Kingdom
- Sony Fair 2008 starts in Taipei, Taiwan with "HD Entertainment Park"
- 2008 MLS: Toronto FC at D.C. United
- Independent presidential candidates debate this weekend
- FA Cup: Portsmouth defeat West Brom, advance to final
- 2008 Olympic torch arrives in London
- Steve Sinnott, leader of the National Union of Teachers, dies aged 56
- Grand National won by 'Comply or Die'
- Bristol Central Library closed after fire
- Woolly mammoth demise may have been result of climate change and overhunting
- Family of 'murdered' UK teenager reacts to death
- English Premier League: Week 33 round-up
- Felipe Massa wins 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix
- 2007/08 FA Cup: Cardiff joins Portsmouth in Cup final
- Charles Manson releases album under free license
- Mugabe's party calls for recount of Zimbabwe presidential votes
- Blast kills 12 people, including senior Sri Lankan minister
- Protests surround London Olympic torch relay
- Snow falls over much of UK
- Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dies at age 84
- 401 children from Texas sect compound taken into custody
- South Australian father and daughter in sexual relationship
- Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents
- Former Managing Director of Gambian newspaper appears in court
- Princess Diana jury returns verdict of "unlawful killing"
- Olympic torch extinguished three times in Paris
- Nikolay Davydenko beats Rafael Nadal in Sony Ericsson Open
- Feist leads 2008 Juno Award winners
- Wikinews interviews Australian Statistician Brian Pink
- UEFA Champions League: April 8, 2008
- Boy killed by shark in Australia
- Gen. Petraeus, Amb. Crocker testify before US Armed Services Committee
- Soyuz TMA-12 launches
- Wikinews interviews Brooks Lindsay, founder of Debatepedia
- UEFA Champions League: April 9, 2008
- Olympic torch faces protests in San Francisco
- The Simpsons taken off Venezuelan TV after being called unsuitable
- Flickr launches video-sharing service
- Death of 4000th U.S. soldier in Iraq shines spotlight on gays in the military
- Sulfur Dioxide levels in Hawaii remain high
- Norfolk youths banned from buying eggs and ketchup
- Apple's iTunes replaces Wal-Mart as No. 1 U.S. music seller
- France recalls Íngrid Betancourt mission
- Judge in Gambian court warns media not to cover case
- Survey: Big Ben is the most popular UK landmark
- UEFA Cup: April 10, 2008
- Israel undergoes major emergency drill
- Automobile, motorcycle, and electronic industries center at TWTC & TWTC Nangang
- Man alleged to be former US prisoner faces 21 charges in Gambia
- UK nears US in cyber-crime, ahead of Nigeria, Romania
- Football: PFA release award nominations
- Deadly illegal sexual enhancement products appear on the Singaporean market
- 2008 AutoTronics Taipei: Participants from IT industry to participate COMPUTEX uncertainly
- TARC to showcase R&D achievements in 2008 AutoTronics Taipei
- Public consultation on Avonmouth Wind Farm proposal ends
- Wikinews interviews Jeremy Hanke, editor of MicroFilmmaker Magazine
- Spain's new cabinet has more women than men
- Kata Air An-32 crashes - all presumed dead
- EBay Australia to only permit payment via PayPal
- Over 60 dead in Kenya cholera outbreak, state issues alert
- Large earthquake strikes south of New Zealand
- Authorities in Belgium raid Church of Scientology
- Nine dead, scores injured after bombing in Iran
- Teräsbetoni frontman J. Ahola on representing Finland at Eurovision 2008 & more
- Wikinews reports from 2008 Taiwan Open Source Developers' Conference
- Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article
- 2008 Taipei AMPA: IT industry will pulse the growth of automotive industry
- 2008 Boao Forum for Asia starts with sectors on economy, environment, and the Internet
- 3000 homeless after fire breaks out in Chad refugee camp
- Bristol Central Library reopens after being closed due to fire
- Indiana congressional candidate Tony Zirkle defends speech at Nazi meeting
- Counting continues for Nepal's Constituent Assembly elections
- All confirmed dead on Kata Air An-32, Moldova asks for Russian investigatory help
- Atlas rocket launches ICO G1 satellite
- Physicist John Wheeler dies at age 96
- Economic policy makers conclude Washington meetings
- NGOs in Taiwan to promote carbon-decreasing movements in different sectors before Earth Day
- Two British servicemen killed in roadside bombing
- 11 policemen dead after attack by Taliban
- Large earthquake strikes coast off French Guiana
- Bush marks 265th anniversary of birth of Thomas Jefferson
- Bombings in Iraq kill scores
- US airlines Delta and Northwest agree to merge
- MLB: Joba Chamberlain leaves Yankees to be with ill father
- Man falls down elevator shaft; woman breaks his fall
- Pope Benedict XVI visit to the United States begins
- Zimbabwe's election delay could have 'serious implications', warns UN Secretary-General
- Pegasus rocket launches C/NOFS satellite
- 2008 SecuTech Expo starts in Taipei, Taiwan for grasping global security industry
- Former US president Carter meets with former deputy-PM for Hamas
- 13 arrested in Rhys Jones murder investigation
- Plane crash in Congo kills at least 70
- Family blames Scientology for daughter's death
- Stolen Generations used as medical guinea pigs, Australian inquiry told
- Disney animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
- 'Expelled' producers accused of copyright violations
- Japan Airlines fined US$110 million for price fixing
- George Bush meets with Gordon Brown
- Indonesia angered as nation's airlines all remain banned in EU airspace
- Brazilian President: not continuing to use biofuels would be a 'crime against humanity'
- Wikinews Shorts: April 17, 2008
- 2008 Computex Preview: WiMAX, threat? opportunity?
- Bomb hurt seven police in Basque city of Bilbao
- All metal cladding taken off Cabot Circus Tower due to fault
- Chair of European Parliament's agricultural committee discusses biofuels with Wikinews
- Eric Bogosian on writing and the creative urge
- Putin orders Russian government to normalize relations with Georgia
- Ariane rocket launches Vietnam's first satellite
- Stagnant air spreads across England
- Public disclosure made of final report on deaths of nine in Finnish school shooting
- Robert Mugabe denounces Britain and opposition
- Police have one week to question terror suspect caught in Bristol, UK
- Minor earthquake shakes Illinois
- Controlled explosion in Bristol, United Kingdom; man arrested on suspicion of terrorism
- YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended
- Copy of handbook for leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints obtained by Wikinews
- French anthropologist Germaine Tillion dies at 100
- Halema`uma`u crater erupts in Hawaii, USA
- Bus crash in Spain leaves 9 Finnish tourists dead
- Chinese hackers call off attack on CNN website
- Zimbabwe begins vote recount
- Zimbabwe bound Chinese arms ship heads for Angola
- California student arrested in criminal threats made on Wikipedia
- Pope addresses UN in NY as US visit continues
- 10 arrested over Ugandan school fire as death toll reaches 20
- First funeral for Elim students
- Zimbabwe bound arms ship flees from South Africa
- Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft lands
- Second controlled explosion to be carried out in Bristol, United Kingdom
- Former US President Jimmy Carter meets with Hamas Leader
- 11 killed in Mexican military helicopter crash
- Condoleezza Rice in Iraq for surprise visit
- Families evacuated in Bristol, United Kingdom not allowed to return to home
- Italian ambassador to South Africa dies in accident
- British foreign secretary: 'President Mugabe persists in his ambition to steal the election'
- Pyrotechnics at Ecuador nightclub rock concert trigger 15-fatality fire
- Pope concludes visit to US with Mass at Yankee Stadium
- Evacuated Bristol families return home
- Australian Bureau of Statistics faces budget cut
- Hillary Clinton threatens to 'totally obliterate' Iran if it attacks Israel
- China, France attempt to repair relations in wake of protests
- UK Independence Party gains first MP
- German football: Lahm's contract offer withdrawn; Schlaudraff to Hannover
- Five injured after explosion in UK pub
- Georgian spy plane shot down
- US President Bush meets with Canadian and Mexican leaders
- 1200 schools may be closed by UK teachers strike
- Getting even with the law: Wikinews interviews New York City's 'Jimmy Justice'
- Skeletons found under home in Hertfordshire
- Semi truck crashes into viaduct in Buffalo, New York
- 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs enter second round
- Postal worker saves baby's life
- Some results released in recount of Zimbabwe election results
- Skype launches "Unlimited" monthly service to change communication style
- McCain launches tour of US states
- Hillary Clinton wins Pennsylvania, cuts Obama's lead
- Wikinews Shorts: April 23, 2008
- US Senate unanimously passes genetic nondiscrimination bill
- Republic of Molossia hosts state visit
- Earth Day 2008 marked in various ways
- US claims North Korea helped Syria build reactor bombed by Israel
- Ukrainian manufacturer preparing to sell Adolf Hitler dolls
- UK teachers strike in first national teachers strike in 21 years
- Wikinews holds a follow-up interview with Max Riekse, Constitution Party candidate for the 2008 U.S. presidential election
- Long March 3C rocket launches Tianlian-1 satellite
- At least 25 dead in Sri Lanka bus bombing
- Arsonist behind Namdaemun gate fire in Seoul imprisoned for 10 years
- US Marine charged with rape of Japanese girl
- Series of earthquakes strikes Reno, Nevada area
- Teen charged with seven felonies related to threats made on Wikipedia, Wikinews interviews administrator who contacted police
- UK City Councillor suspended from party after expressing controversial views
- Helen Thomas probes White House on torture; online community sends flowers
- Strike shuts down Toronto's transit system
- Iraqis begin second round of negotiations in Finland
- 55 people die in Casablanca mattress factory fire
- Wikinews Shorts: April 26, 2008
- Shuttle Discovery moved to VAB ahead of May launch
- Tunisia, South Korea partner to monitor air quality
- 2008 PeoPo Citizen Journalism Forum to prospect the vision of citizen journalism in Taiwan
- National Hockey League playoff news: April 26, 2008
- Stage collapse at Christian rock concert
- Game modified to match New Zealand, police investigate
- Owner and manager of Moroccan factory arrested over 55-fatality fire
- California wildfire forces evacuation of thousands
- Spectator killed and 10 injured in German airshow crash
- Toronto transit workers ordered back to work
- Last Titan launch complex at Cape Canaveral demolished
- Vandals deface family crypt of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
- Austrian man kept daughter prisoner in cellar for 24 years
- National Hockey League playoff news: April 27, 2008
- Lakshmi Mittal tops Sunday Times Rich List
- Soyuz rocket launches GIOVE-B satellite
- President of Afghanistan uninjured after assassination attempt
- Large increase in number of foreclosures across US
- Wikimedia board of trustees announces restructure
- Eos Airlines files for bankruptcy
- Zenit rocket launches AMOS-3 satellite
- Journalists banned from Mount Everest
- Two trains collide in China killing dozens and injuring hundreds
- PSLV rocket launches ten satellites
- Wikinews Shorts: April 28, 2008
- 2007/08 UEFA Champions League: Manchester United vs. Barcelona
- Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
- Kimi Räikkönen wins 2008 Spanish Grand Prix
- Microsoft's attempt to buy out Yahoo may never happen
- Wikinews interviews Mr. Orange of IWL in Taiwan about wrestling
- Bush meets with President of Guatemala
- US Dept. of Justice IP address blocked after 'vandalism' edits to Wikipedia
- Philadelphia Flyers beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-2