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The capital city?
Peru finds human sacrifices from Inca civilization
Incan civilization is best known for its capital city, Machu Picchu, the ruins of which are Peru’s top tourist destination and considered one of the new seven wonders of the world.
That is incorrect. Their capital city was never Machu Picchu – it was Cuzco. Machu Picchu is simply the more famous site today. Please correct. Thanks.
S.G.H.
Lots of readers noticed this one. We corrected: GBU Editor
A boy smells a replica of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu made of chocolate at a local hotel in Lima December 16, 2008. Peruvian chef Edwin Solis used 160 kilos of Belgian chocolate for the replica that took 45 days to make. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
Not a former colony?
ArcelorMittal says delays Liberia iron ore mine
ArcelorMittal is a key investor in the poor former British colony, whose President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has made attracting foreign investment into its natural resources a centrepiece of her efforts to rebuild the country after a 1989-2003 civil war.
Liberia was not a former British colony. Please correct your reporter’s mistake in this story.
M.K.
We should be better than that at our history. We corrected the reference: GBU Editor
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, April 16, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing
The Gulf, again…
Lamprell’s profit rises but dividend slashedLONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Lamprell, an oil and gas services company in the Arabian Gulf, posted higher full-year profit, but slashed its final dividend by 74 percent citing difficult market conditions.I was reading a news article on your site and I came across the word “Arabian Gulf.” For thousands of years the body of water between Iran and the Arabian peninsula has been called the Persian Gulf. It’s an absolute disgrace to see politics used in such a fashion. Purposefully changing the name of the Persian Gulf is absolutely unbelivable. Journalists aren’t supposed to be politicians. N.R.That was an error. Our style on that body of water is simply The Gulf, with neither Persian nor Arabian attached: GBU Editor
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford is underway in the Gulf, March 20, 2009. REUTERS/U.S. Navy photo/Handout
The Gulf of What?Mexico?If you are a news agency you must report with accuracy. Arabian Gulf could be another geographically different area from the Persian Gulf, if it existed.And “Gulf” there are aplenty but each has a different name. To omit important details is to stab your own credibility as a news source.
Once again, check our Slovakia…
In your article “Slowakei: Gasparovic gewinnt erste Runde der Präsidentenwahl” on your German Website is a big mistake.
The article is about Slovakia but the writer talks about the Slovenian people?!
Rainer
This one is pretty embarrassing, considering I just pointed out here a couple of days ago that we confuse Slovakia and Slovenia way too often.
Once again, we corrected: GBU Editor
Not surprising to see these corrections. Reuters is an inept third-rate and very liberal biased news agency.
Not the largest state…
US leaders say more infrastructure spending needed
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) – The governor of America’s largest state and the mayor of its largest city called on the federal government on Sunday to dramatically boost its spending on bridges, sewers, high-speed rail and other infrastructure.
You say that the governor of the largest state is Arnold Schwarzenegger. California is the third largest state.
Roland
Yes. Several readers pointed this out. We corrected: GBU Editor
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pictured during a town hall meeting at the Miguel Contreas Learning Complex in Los Angeles, California, March 19, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing
Your March 31 article about the congressional election in New York’s 20th congressional district, by Michele Nichols, claims the six New England states have a total of 51 congressional seats. Actually the total is 22 seats.
Check our Slovakia
Slovakia’s Petra Majdic (C) reacts on the podium as the winner of the final of the Royal Castle FIS World Cup Cross Country Sprint in Stockholm, Sweden, March 18, 2009. Finland’s Aino Kaisa Saarinen (7) finished second and Sweden’s Anna Olsson (3) finished third. REUTERS/Bertil Ericson/Scanpix Sweden
Petra Majdic is not from slovakia! she’s from slovenia!! journalist please take a atlas in your hands and you will see that you are make a huge mistake!! Shame on you!! Go back to school!! I hope that you are going corect your mistake immediately!!
David from slovenia not slovakia
We corrected it. And yes, we do seem to confuse Slovakia and Slovenia way too often: GBU Editor
Dear Editor
Just a quick question.
In relation to the excerpt:
“Defence Minister Ehud Barak responded to those accusations by repeating Israel’s description of its forces as the most moral in the world.”
does the journalist mean that Barak ACTUALLY SAID something like “the Israeli forces are the most moral in the world”
OR
this was an ironical and judgemental comment made by the journalist about a previous comment made by Barak???
In case Barak ACTUALLY SAID that, I believe it would be more appropriate to have his exact words in direct speech, in order to make clear who said what.
Regards,
Ibal
We’re not in Tampa…
U.S. President Barack Obama greets wellwishers upon his arrival at MacDill Air Force Base in Fort Myers, Florida February 10, 2009. Obama travelled to Fort Myers to push his administration’s economic stimulus package. REUTERS/Jason Reed
The picture on the web states “Reuters – President Barack Obama greets wellwishers upon his arrival at MacDill Air Force Base in Fort Myers, Florida.”
MacDill is in Tampa – Southwest Florida Regional Airport is in Ft. Myers.
Art
We heard from a number of readers on this one: GBU Editor
I have something to get off my chest, it has nothing to do with this story.
I, for one, am sick and tired of any American addressing our PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as anything other than Mr. President, President Obama, or President Barack Obama, etc.
He is our President, we elected him, lets show respect for our President.
It’s a good thing that we are not living in the 40′s or 50′s, It would be very easy to be brought up on charges of TREASON.
D. Johnson
USN Retired
Mt. Clemens, MI
Goin’ to Kansas City…
Rare Beatles film of ’64 Kansas gig sells for $6,600
The two-minute silent, color 8mm film was uncovered by American Drew Dimmel who attended the concert as a young boy in Kansas City in September 1964 but had forgotten about the footage until he was clearing out his parents’ home.
The stadium referred to in this story is in Kansas City, MISSOURI, not Kansas City, Kansas.
Barbara C.
Several readers pointed this out. Our headline was wrong. We corrected:
Former Beatle Ringo Starr flashes peace signs as he arrives in downtown Chicago to celebrate his 68th birthday July 7, 2008. REUTERS/Frank Polich
The wrong place…
The picture that is paired with the story shows a map of the state of Arkansas and it implies that the shooting incident occured in Conway County, Arkansas. That is wrong. The University of Central Arkansas is located in a town called Conway, Arkansas, but that is located in Faulkner County, Arkansas and not Conway County.
Jaz
Several readers pointed this out to us. We corrected: GBU Editor
The wrong country…
Slovenia, or Slovakia?
Julius
It should have been Slovakia. We corrected: GBU Editor
I have a crisis.Its called no money, why worry about how people spell ,tell us how to live on money that will not match the price of everything going up.
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Resident Mediafile Expert
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Re:”Missing” U.S. governor was on private Argentina trip
Well, at least he wasn’t up on the Appalachian trail hiking naked. Or that’s what they want us to think. Argentina? Naked? Hmmmmmm, tough choice.