Wikinews:2011/July
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers strike over planned pension changes
- U.S. space agency NASA sues ex-astronaut
- US children who celebrate Independence Day more likely to become Republicans, says Harvard study
- Congressman Thad McCotter to run for U.S. President
- Former Brazilian president Itamar Franco dies aged 81
- Philippine Foreign Secretary Del Rosario to visit China amid South China Sea territorial dispute
- South Korean city wins 2018 Winter Olympics
- US Senate postpones vote on Libya conflict to focus on national debt
- Despite speculation, aides say Biden will remain on Obama ticket
- Over half of Romanian terminal grade students fail baccalaureate exam
- Officers accused of framing men for murder in UK's 'biggest' trial of police
- Bahamas become fourth country to ban shark fishing
- Jamaican Olympian and coach Pablo McNeil dies aged 71
- End of an era: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on final mission in program
- Cassini spacecraft captures large storm on Saturn
- Finnish Olympic champion skier Mika Myllylä found dead
- June jobs report shows rising US unemployment, economic outlook worsens
- Polar bears related to extinct Irish bears, DNA study shows
- Murdoch axes News of the World after hacking allegations startle politicians
- British Gas to increase electricity, gas prices
- Murdoch empire in crisis after newspaper closes: BSkyB bid halted, former editor arrested, anger at chief executive
- South Sudan gains independence
- US government reports decline in teen birth rate and binge drinking, rise in poverty and drug abuse
- China's consumer prices rise to a three-year high in June as food prices soar 14.4 percent
- Stun gun found on JetBlue flight in Newark, New Jersey
- Syrian security forces raid Homs, one killed, twenty injured
- Former US First Lady Betty Ford dies aged 93
- No single cause of autism, research review concludes
- Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President, shot dead in Kandahar
- Study shows long-term couples more satisfied with relationships and sex lives
- Murdoch drops BSkyB bid amid public, political pressure
- 21 people killed and 113 reported injured in three blasts in Mumbai
- American television producer Sherwood Schwartz dies aged 94
- Russian tour boat sinks, killing over 100
- Indonesian volcano eruption prompts thousands to evacuate
- Euro reaches new lows
- Drought stricken Somalia nears famine
- Ron Paul announces he will not seek U.S. House re-election in 2012; will focus on presidential campaign
- Lizards are capable of problem-solving, study shows
- Obama raises $35M re-election funds from 244 campaign 'bundlers' since April
- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticizes Turkey over human rights concerns
- Former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer announces run for president
- Space Shuttle Atlantis landing concludes program
- British painter Lucian Freud dies aged 88
- Two shot outside Los Angeles nightclub
- Singer Amy Winehouse dies at age 27
- At least 85 dead in shooting at Norwegian youth camp
- Aaron Swartz arrested and charged for downloading JSTOR articles
- Train accident in China kills at least 43
- Norway gunman defends actions as 'gruesome but necessary'
- US to host North Korean diplomat for nuclear talks
- Protests over housing costs sweep across Israel
- Nguyen Cao Ky, former leader of South Vietnam, dies aged 80
- Norwegian police lower death toll in massacre