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Historical Wikinews report from 2011-12-08. Matthew Wright, host of British television programme The Wright Stuff, has apologised for remarks he made on the show in rela
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-07-06. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Pyeongchang, South Korea as host of the 2018 Winter Games today. The commi
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-02-21. The 2011 Pichileminian Week (Semana Pichilemina 2011) concluded on Saturday night, after a performance of Chilean humourist J
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-25. The Football Association (FA) charged English Premier League side Chelsea on Tuesday for "failing to ensure their players con
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-22. American blues musician Pinetop Perkins, a first generation Delta bluesman, died in Austin, Texas, Texas, on Monday at the ag
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-07-07. Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach Pablo McNeil has died at the age of 71. The cause of death was a long illness he suffered
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-27. Social networking website MySpace lost over ten million users between January and February 2011, according to comScore. In Fe
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-05-30. FIFA has suspended two of its senior officials amid allegations that they bribed voters ahead of the organization's president
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-12-03. In the United Kingdom, the BBC has received in excess of twenty-one thousand complaints after Jeremy Clarkson, the presenter
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-02-21. India won the first match of the 2011 Cricket World Cup against Bangladesh by 87 runs on February 19. The Group B match was p
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-08-24. Australia’s Nine Network has issued an apology after the rival Seven Network caught Nine News fabricating live crosses to the
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-05-11. Lord Triesman, the former chairman of the F.A., the governing body of football in England, has made new allegations of widesp
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-03. Dan Savage, author of the sex advice column Savage Love, has won a Webby Award for his work on the It Gets Better Project. He
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-17. Bolton Wanderers won the Lancashire derby with Wigan Athletic, 3-1, at the DW Stadium. The win moves Bolton out of the relega
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-21. Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of the TV series Jackass, has died in a car accident aged 34. The accident occurred near West Che
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-17. Former Australian water polo champion Keli Lane, 36, received an eighteen year prison term with a non-parole period of thirte
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-14. Subscription channel Sky has purchased the rights to broadcast US television programme Glee in the United Kingdom. New episod
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-02. Fifteen years after the Winnipeg Jets left the province of Manitoba, Canada, an announcement on Tuesday made official what ic
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-08. Business mogul and television personality Donald Trump spoke at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washingt
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-18. Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson won his first race of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, and his second car
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-11. Tera Myers, a former actress in pornographic films, has left her position as a science teacher at Parkway North High School i
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-02. The national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been banned by FIFA, the sport's international governing body. The b
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-19. Chris Moyles and David 'Comedy Dave' Vitty have broken a Guinness World Record by hosting a marathon programme on UK national
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-10. Champion Tampa Bay Rays baseball player Manny Ramirez, 38, notified the MLB on Friday that he would retire after being notifi
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-12-01. Today saw Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery reopen following a two-and-a-half-year, £17.6m (US$27.4m) refurbishm
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-05-01. Sheffield United have been relegated from the English Npower Football League Championship, after a 2-2 home draw to Yorkshire
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-05-26. Thirty-six years after he was found guilty of an armed robbery in London, a court has quashed the conviction of George Davis,
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-25. South Africa crashed out of the 2011 Cricket World Cup after being beaten by New Zealand in the quarterfinals, played at Mirp
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-23. Friday, a song by US teen singer Rebecca Black, has gone viral after the song's music video was uploaded onto video sharing w
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-08-11. Norton Fredrick, the Sri Lankan cricketer who played for the national All Ceylon team during the 1960s, has died at the age o
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-08-06. Roseanne Barr, best known for her role on the television sitcom Roseanne, officially announced Thursday on the The Tonight Sh
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-08-14. Deputy Tourism Minister Frederico Silva da Costa was among 33 Brazilian tourism ministers and officials arrested for embezzle
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-17. United States rap star Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41. The cause of death was reported by his attorney as complications
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-24. Italy's Marco Simoncelli, 24, has died after a crash during the second lap of the 2011 Malaysia Moto GP Grand Prix held at th
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-07. The production companies of the United States television programme The X Factor US have confirmed that Cheryl Cole has been r
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-06. Friday, Fennville, Michigan high school athlete Wes Leonard, 16 years old, suddenly collapsed on the basketball court after m
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-01-29. The Ipswich serial murders, in which five female prostitutes were killed in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, are to be turned into
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-14. Barry Bonds, a United States baseball player, has been found guilty of one count of obstructing justice for giving an evasive
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-04-13. Bob Dylan, the U.S. musical artist and songwriter, performed his first concert ever in Vietnam on Sunday night, forty years a
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-31. St Louis Cardinals defeated Texas Rangers over seven games to win baseball's World Series for an eleventh time yesterday. The
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-17. U.S. presidential candidate Herman Cain denied a suggestion from Huffington Post reporter Amanda Terkel that his 9-9-9 tax pl
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-07-08. Finnish cross-country skier Mika Myllylä, a six-time Olympic medalist, including one gold, has been found dead. He was 41. Po
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-20. Berlin zoo's celebrity polar bear named Knut died suddenly in his compound at the Berlin Zoo yesterday. No immediate cause of
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-10-17. The Huffington Post reported Friday that U.S. presidential candidate Buddy Roemer received a $25 campaign donation from an in
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-26. US actor Peter Falk died on Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills, California after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Falk
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-02-20. A Guatemalan football executive has been shot dead after he left a team meeting in the town of Huehuetenango. Deportivo Xinab
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-11-25. Scottish football team Hibernian F.C. (Hibs) have appointed Pat Fenlon as their new manager. Fenlon signed the contract at Hi
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-02-28. Hendrick Motorsports driver Jeff Gordon, who qualified 20th, won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500 held