6th All-women crew steers Tippu Express ahead of International Women's Day  All-women crew prior to the departure of on Thursday. As a part of a ten-day celebration of International Women's Day, an all-women crew ran the Mysuru-Bengaluru in the region of Karnataka, India. B Shiva Parvathi and Rangoli Patil were the locomotive and co-locomotive pilots of the train, covering 139 km to reach the state capital. 8th Mysore Divisional Railway Manager discusses International Women's Day celebration  Aparna Garg, the Mysore Divisional Railway Manager discussed about this year's initiatives for International Women's Day by South Western Railway's Mysore division with Wikinews Wikinews spoke with Mysore Divisional Railway Manager Aparna Garg about the ten-day campaign around International Women's Day. This year's theme of the celebration was "Each for Equal", an initiative of Mysore Division. Speaking of the gender-distribution ratio, Garg said "we have ten percent only women employees. Out of a total of, say, 6900 [employees], we have around 650. So that is around ten percent." Interview with Mysore Railway Divisional Manager Aparna Garg. Garg discussed the challenges faced by women working for the Indian Railways. "Challenges, I would say, are the same as you find in the society. For a women to achieve something, is not as easy as it is for a man. They have to put double the effort, and the recognition comes very late. And then women are multi-tasking everywhere. So a lady who comes to work in the office: first sees her house and then she comes [to work] and then again she goes back and she does [household work]. So she is much more pressure, and I find them very sincere. Despite all the pressure, I find them extremely sincere and dedicated." 13th Stores in Australia lower toilet paper limits per transaction  Empty supermarket shelves during toilet paper shortage in Sydney, New South Wales. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in various countries, people started stocking up various things including toilet paper. Stores started limiting the number of packages per transaction. 14th International Master Dorsa Derakhshani discusses her chess career  in , 2017  Interview with IM Dorsa Derakhshani. In March, Wikinews interviewed Iranian chess , discussing her chess career. 30th Neuroscientists tell Wikinews about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats  Interview with Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats. 22nd Astronomer tells Wikinews about discovery of closest black hole known so far  Artistic impression showing the orbits of the triplet of the system. The red trajectory is of the black hole. The two stars are located in the and visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere.  Interview with Thomas Rivinius about the discovery of the closest known black hole so-far. A study published by European Southern Observatory researchers reported the discovery of the closest known black hole from the . Wikinews interviewed researcher Thomas Rivinius. 28th Archæologist Dr Naomi Martisius discusses study about Neanderthals' behaviour  350px|The interview with Dr Naomi Martisius. A study published in May conducted by Dr Naomi Martisius and other researchers concluded Neanderthals living in Europe tens of thousands of years ago were more sophisticated than previously thought. The now-extinct species used to carefully select bones from a particular animal species to manufacture their bone tools, the research showed. 30th Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews  File photo of Perttu Ahola. In June, Wikinews spoke to Finnish open-source developer Perttu Ahola. About ten years ago, Ahola created Minetest, a similar to . Ahola told Wikinews he took it as a challenge to create a game like Minnecraft when it was in its . 7th Astronomer Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet  Interview with Anthony Boccaletti. A study reported in March potential signs of formation of an exoplanet around the star — something never observed before. Located in the , AB Aurigae is about 520 away from the . The astronomers observed the around the star. The astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's in Chile to study this system. 25th On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2020  Darcy Richardson in 2011. In the second of six monthly articles chronicling the 2020 US presidential election, Wikinews interviewed retired marine Billy Joe Parker, vice presidential nominee of the US Prohibition Party, historian Darcy Richardson, vice presidential nominee of the and Reform parties, and educator Tiara Lusk, vice presidential nominee of the Life and Liberty Party. 13th Water main bursts in White Plains, New York, US  240px|The burst pipe destroyed the street. In August, a broke in the US city of White Plains, New York, cutting off the water supply to most of the city. The burst pipe caused a huge crater to form in a major intersection in the heart of the city, flooding the streets. Emergency crews were on the scene to repair the pipes in order to restore water service. Almost all customers had water restored by the evening of the same day. 25th Caloundra defeat Wynnum in round 4 of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season  Caloundra's bench during the first half. In August, Caloundra defeated 45–24 in their Round 4 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union match which was played at the Grenada Street ground in Wynnum. 1st University defeat Maroochydore in round 5 of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season  Maroochydore played much of the first half in their attacking half. They went into the break down by only two points – 12 points to 10. In the round five of Australian Sunshine Coast Rugby Union, University defeated Maroochydore 22–10. 30th On the campaign trail in the USA, August 2020  Jo Jorgensen campaigning in August 2020 In the fourth of six monthly articles chronicling the 2020 US presidential election, Wikinews took a deeper look into an August bat attack on Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen, highlighted three points of controversy in the American Independent Party's presidential nomination of Rocky De La Fuente for president and entertainer for vice president at its August convention, and examined questions about the citizenship of Senator Kamala Harris, whom then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected as his running mate in August. 19th Interview with Don Blankenship, U.S. Constitution Party presidential nominee  Don Blankenship Wikinews interviewed businessman Don Blankenship, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Constitution Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 22nd Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng  200px|Portrait of Wayne Tseng 22nd Wikinews interviews Phil Collins, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential nominee  Phil Collins Wikinews interviewed former trustee Phil Collins, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Prohibition Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 23rd Wikinews interviews Bill Hammons, Unity Party of America presidential nominee  Bill Hammons Wikinews interviewed entrepreneur Bill Hammons, 2020 presidential nominee of the Unity Party of America, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 26th GitHub blocks public access to youtube-dl after RIAA issues DMCA notice  Philipp Hagemeister had previously maintained youtube-dl's source code In October, after reciving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notice from the (RIAA), code hosting and sharing website GitHub blocked the public access to , a software which can download videos from the internet via the . 29th Wikinews interviews Jo Jorgensen, U.S. Libertarian Party presidential nominee  Jo Jorgensen Wikinews interviewed psychology professor Jo Jorgensen, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Libertarian Party, about her background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on her 2020 presidential campaign, her political agenda, and policy positions. 30th Wikinews interviews Brian Carroll, American Solidarity Party presidential nominee  Brian T. Carroll. Wikinews interviewed retired teacher Brian Carroll, 2020 presidential nominee of the American Solidarity Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 27th Interview with Sandra Jephcott, Sustainable Australia candidate for Groom by-election  Portrait of Jephcott. Following the resignation of 's MP for family reasons, the Australian in Queensland had a by-election. Sandra Jephcott of the party was one of the four candidates running for the by-election. Wikinews spoke with Jephcott about her campaign. 27th Interview with Craig Farquharson, Liberal Democrat candidate for Groom by-election  200px|Portrait of Craig Farquharson. Wikinews also interviewed Craig Farquharson, who was the candidate for the 2020 Groom by-election following John McVeigh's resignation as the MP. 14th Red Hat to move focus away from CentOS in favour of Stream  Logo of CentOS. US-based software company announced they were shifting their investments from to a rolling-release of CentOS Stream as an upstream for the development of (RHEL). This led to many users expressing their frustration on (IRC), Reddit and CentOS project's mailing list. 18th Gregory Kurtzer discusses plans for Rocky Linux  Gregory Kurtzer announced Rocky Linux to take the place of CentOS.  Logo of Rocky Linux After Red Hat's announcement to stop investing in CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer announced to fill in the void of CentOS. Kurtzer had started CAOS Linux, which was then succeeded by CentOS when Rocky McGaugh, a developer of CAOS rebuilt the source code of RHEL to provide a monetarily free alternative. 25th Dr Seager tells about organisms thriving in oxygen-less environment  File photo of Dr Sara Seager. A study published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr and other researchers in May showed like and were able to survive in 100\% as well as 100\% atmosphere. Wikinews reached out to Dr Seager to discuss the findings of this study in which organisms thrived in an oxygen-less environment.
6th All-women crew steers Tippu Express ahead of International Women's Day alt=A line of women outside of a train| All-women crew prior to the departure of on Thursday. As a part of a ten-day celebration of International Women's Day, an all-women crew ran the Mysuru-Bengaluru in the region of Karnataka, India. B Shiva Parvathi and Rangoli Patil were the locomotive and co-locomotive pilots of the train, covering 139 km to reach the state capital. 8th Mysore Divisional Railway Manager discusses International Women's Day celebration alt=Garg seated at a table| Aparna Garg, the Mysore Divisional Railway Manager discussed about this year's initiatives for International Women's Day by South Western Railway's Mysore division with Wikinews Wikinews spoke with Mysore Divisional Railway Manager Aparna Garg about the ten-day campaign around International Women's Day. This year's theme of the celebration was "Each for Equal", an initiative of Mysore Division. Speaking of the gender-distribution ratio, Garg said "we have ten percent only women employees. Out of a total of, say, 6900 [employees], we have around 650. So that is around ten percent." Interview with Mysore Railway Divisional Manager Aparna Garg. Garg discussed the challenges faced by women working for the Indian Railways. "Challenges, I would say, are the same as you find in the society. For a women to achieve something, is not as easy as it is for a man. They have to put double the effort, and the recognition comes very late. And then women are multi-tasking everywhere. So a lady who comes to work in the office: first sees her house and then she comes [to work] and then again she goes back and she does [household work]. So she is much more pressure, and I find them very sincere. Despite all the pressure, I find them extremely sincere and dedicated." 13th Stores in Australia lower toilet paper limits per transaction alt=Rows of empty shelves| Empty supermarket shelves during toilet paper shortage in Sydney, New South Wales. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in various countries, people started stocking up various things including toilet paper. Stores started limiting the number of packages per transaction. 14th International Master Dorsa Derakhshani discusses her chess career alt=Derakshani smiling| in , 2017 alt=| Interview with IM Dorsa Derakhshani. In March, Wikinews interviewed Iranian chess , discussing her chess career. 30th Neuroscientists tell Wikinews about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats alt=| Interview with Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats. 22nd Astronomer tells Wikinews about discovery of closest black hole known so far alt=A bright celestial body with another one orbiting it closely| Artistic impression showing the orbits of the triplet of the system. The red trajectory is of the black hole. The two stars are located in the and visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. alt=| Interview with Thomas Rivinius about the discovery of the closest known black hole so-far. A study published by European Southern Observatory researchers reported the discovery of the closest known black hole from the . Wikinews interviewed researcher Thomas Rivinius. 28th Archæologist Dr Naomi Martisius discusses study about Neanderthals' behaviour alt=| 350px|The interview with Dr Naomi Martisius. A study published in May conducted by Dr Naomi Martisius and other researchers concluded Neanderthals living in Europe tens of thousands of years ago were more sophisticated than previously thought. The now-extinct species used to carefully select bones from a particular animal species to manufacture their bone tools, the research showed. 30th Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews alt=A man seated at a laptop| File photo of Perttu Ahola. In June, Wikinews spoke to Finnish open-source developer Perttu Ahola. About ten years ago, Ahola created Minetest, a similar to . Ahola told Wikinews he took it as a challenge to create a game like Minnecraft when it was in its . 7th Astronomer Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet alt=| Interview with Anthony Boccaletti. A study reported in March potential signs of formation of an exoplanet around the star — something never observed before. Located in the , AB Aurigae is about 520 away from the . The astronomers observed the around the star. The astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's in Chile to study this system. 25th On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2020 alt=Richardson smiling, wearing a suit| Darcy Richardson in 2011. In the second of six monthly articles chronicling the 2020 US presidential election, Wikinews interviewed retired marine Billy Joe Parker, vice presidential nominee of the US Prohibition Party, historian Darcy Richardson, vice presidential nominee of the and Reform parties, and educator Tiara Lusk, vice presidential nominee of the Life and Liberty Party. 13th Water main bursts in White Plains, New York, US alt=An intersection with caution tape| 240px|The burst pipe destroyed the street. In August, a broke in the US city of White Plains, New York, cutting off the water supply to most of the city. The burst pipe caused a huge crater to form in a major intersection in the heart of the city, flooding the streets. Emergency crews were on the scene to repair the pipes in order to restore water service. Almost all customers had water restored by the evening of the same day. 25th Caloundra defeat Wynnum in round 4 of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season alt=A football team seated on the ground at the sideline of the field| Caloundra's bench during the first half. In August, Caloundra defeated 45–24 in their Round 4 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union match which was played at the Grenada Street ground in Wynnum. 1st University defeat Maroochydore in round 5 of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season alt=Two rugby teams on the field| Maroochydore played much of the first half in their attacking half. They went into the break down by only two points – 12 points to 10. In the round five of Australian Sunshine Coast Rugby Union, University defeated Maroochydore 22–10. 30th On the campaign trail in the USA, August 2020 alt=Jorgensen holding a microphone, standing at a lectern| Jo Jorgensen campaigning in August 2020 In the fourth of six monthly articles chronicling the 2020 US presidential election, Wikinews took a deeper look into an August bat attack on Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen, highlighted three points of controversy in the American Independent Party's presidential nomination of Rocky De La Fuente for president and entertainer for vice president at its August convention, and examined questions about the citizenship of Senator Kamala Harris, whom then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected as his running mate in August. 19th Interview with Don Blankenship, U.S. Constitution Party presidential nominee alt=Blankenship wearing a suit, looking to the camera| Don Blankenship Wikinews interviewed businessman Don Blankenship, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Constitution Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 22nd Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng alt=Tseng smiling| 200px|Portrait of Wayne Tseng 22nd Wikinews interviews Phil Collins, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential nominee alt=Collins smiling| Phil Collins Wikinews interviewed former trustee Phil Collins, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Prohibition Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 23rd Wikinews interviews Bill Hammons, Unity Party of America presidential nominee alt=Hammons smiling| Bill Hammons Wikinews interviewed entrepreneur Bill Hammons, 2020 presidential nominee of the Unity Party of America, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 26th GitHub blocks public access to youtube-dl after RIAA issues DMCA notice alt=Hagemeister smiling| Philipp Hagemeister had previously maintained youtube-dl's source code In October, after reciving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notice from the (RIAA), code hosting and sharing website GitHub blocked the public access to , a software which can download videos from the internet via the . 29th Wikinews interviews Jo Jorgensen, U.S. Libertarian Party presidential nominee alt=Jorgensen smiling| Jo Jorgensen Wikinews interviewed psychology professor Jo Jorgensen, 2020 presidential nominee of the US Libertarian Party, about her background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on her 2020 presidential campaign, her political agenda, and policy positions. 30th Wikinews interviews Brian Carroll, American Solidarity Party presidential nominee alt=Carroll smiling| Brian T. Carroll. Wikinews interviewed retired teacher Brian Carroll, 2020 presidential nominee of the American Solidarity Party, about his background, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on his 2020 presidential campaign, his political agenda, and policy positions. 27th Interview with Sandra Jephcott, Sustainable Australia candidate for Groom by-election alt=Jephcott smiling| Portrait of Jephcott. Following the resignation of 's MP for family reasons, the Australian in Queensland had a by-election. Sandra Jephcott of the party was one of the four candidates running for the by-election. Wikinews spoke with Jephcott about her campaign. 27th Interview with Craig Farquharson, Liberal Democrat candidate for Groom by-election alt=Farquharson speaking| 200px|Portrait of Craig Farquharson. Wikinews also interviewed Craig Farquharson, who was the candidate for the 2020 Groom by-election following John McVeigh's resignation as the MP. 14th Red Hat to move focus away from CentOS in favour of Stream alt=The CentOS logo with a series of colorful arrows overlapping| Logo of CentOS. US-based software company announced they were shifting their investments from to a rolling-release of CentOS Stream as an upstream for the development of (RHEL). This led to many users expressing their frustration on (IRC), Reddit and CentOS project's mailing list. 18th Gregory Kurtzer discusses plans for Rocky Linux alt=Kurtzer smiling| Gregory Kurtzer announced Rocky Linux to take the place of CentOS. alt=The Rokcy Linux logo| Logo of Rocky Linux After Red Hat's announcement to stop investing in CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer announced to fill in the void of CentOS. Kurtzer had started CAOS Linux, which was then succeeded by CentOS when Rocky McGaugh, a developer of CAOS rebuilt the source code of RHEL to provide a monetarily free alternative. 25th Dr Seager tells about organisms thriving in oxygen-less environment alt=Seager speaking into a microphne, standing at a lectern| File photo of Dr Sara Seager. A study published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr and other researchers in May showed like and were able to survive in 100\% as well as 100\% atmosphere. Wikinews reached out to Dr Seager to discuss the findings of this study in which organisms thrived in an oxygen-less environment.
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