Category: News For Kids
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North Korea Launches Rocket, upsets Neighbours
North Korea successfuly launched a long-range missile. It insists that the launch was not a banned inter-continental missile test, but only a mission to place a scientific satellite in orbit. However, neighbouring countries Japan and South Korea along with The US are fearful that the launch is being used as cover for testing long range ballistic missiles. Long…
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Earth had A Close Call
Two asteroids ‘2012 XE54’ and ‘4179 Toutatis’ passed Earth really close. Yesterday 2012 XE54, a small asteroid and 4179 Toutatis, a lumpy shaped asteroid, almost 3 miles (5 km) long passed Earth. “4179 Toutatis” has passed Earth several times before, in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. It is termed as a potentially hazardous object (PHO). PHOs…
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Messi’s Record Breaking Goal
Lionel Messi scored a goal for the 86th time in year 2012 on Sunday. So what, you might ask? Here is what it is. He broke German great Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for scoring most goals in a year. Mueller had scored a total of 85 goals in the year 1972. Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer…
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Mexico gets a New President
Enrique Peña Nieto is the new president of Mexico. He’s just 46-years old. He won the election in July but started on job earlier this week. Mr. Peña Nieto won Mexico’s recent election with the support of the the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). The U.S. is following these developments closely as they share a 2000-mile long border…
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Our Earth at Night from Space
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) for the first time in history, have created photo-stitch of our planet Earth, as seen from space at night. They have titled it “Black Marble.” The night side of Earth twinkles with light and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing tells us more…
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Powerful Earthquake hits Japan
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening. Thankfully, it caused little damage. The buildings in Tokyo wobbled for a few minutes and only some minor injuries have been reported. This earthquake is nothing compared to the huge 2011 earthquake of magnitude 9 that killed more than 19,000 people in Japan. It…