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Did you know that today, March 8th is a day for women? International Women’s Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member countries to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace. Yes! We have to celebrate this day by loving , honoring and respecting every woman that […]

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And what if that friend is a dog. In Poland, a dog proved this saying true when he saved a little girl. Three year old, Julia, disappeared from her house on Friday. She lost her way and ended up in nearby marshes. The temperature was 5 degrees […]

Nothing can be truer than the saying that “Where there is a will, there is a way”, especially if you look at the life of Jessica cox. This amazing girl was born without hands. Today she can ride a bike, drive a car and fly an airplane. Confused? How does she do it? She uses […]

A team of  archeologists have unearthed a 3000-year-old pyramid in Luxor, a city in upper part of Egypt. The excavation was carried out by Belgian archealogists under the joint mission carried out by two Belgian Universities – Free University of Brussels and the University of Liège. The pyramid is believed to be holding the burial chamber […]

The incident took place at the Brussels airport where armed robbers stole huge diamonds worth tens of million of pounds. The robbers got in through a security fence on Monday evening in cars that were flashing blue light. Interestingly, these masked robbers were dressed up as the policemen. They reached the Swiss plane, operated by Helvetica […]

A group of engineers and researchers in UK, are working towards developing self driving cars. These cars would be capable of driving themselves on familiar routes while on unfamiliar routes manual control will be necessary. Such cars would use lasers and small cameras to remember the route frequently taken like trip to office or school. In […]

Thanks to the DNA profiling it has been confirmed that the skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park belongs to English king Richard III. The bones matched the descendants from the king’s family. The bones are carbon dated back to 1455-1540 which confirms the history as the king died in a battle in 1485. The scientists are also working […]

Mary Leaky was a British archaeologist and anthropologist. She made a lot of valuable fossil discoveries around the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. Mary discovered Proconsul  skull, belonging to an extinct species of primates that existed from 23 to 5 million years ago. She also discovered skull of Zinjanthropus (name given to extinct early human species). Her findings […]

Space entrepreneurs have been coming up with the idea of “Asteroid Mining”, to tap the valuable mineral resources that may be found on asteroids. Asteroid mining refers to the possibility of extracting raw materials from asteroids and other minor planets. Minerals and volatiles could be mined from an asteroid or a spent comet, then taken back to Earth or used in space for […]

A barbie cafe, first ever authorized by toy maker Mattel, has opened up in the capital city of  Taiwan, Taipei. The cafe is result of years of research and preparation. There are barbie decorations everywhere, food servers look like they are straight out of a barbie movie and the food is barbie themed as well. Wouldn’t it be […]