Category: News For Kids
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Big Fight Over Small Islands
The fight over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands has gotten worse as China is still protesting against it. Both the countries are refusing to step back from the brink as they are afraid that they will appear weak. China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi angered Japanese diplomats at the United Nations by accusing Japan of stealing…
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First WildFires and Now Floods in Spain
Heavy flooding took six victims including a young girl and an elderly woman. Rescue workers used boats to evacuate around 600 people that were trapped in their homes in Andalusia province. More intense rain is expected in the southern Spain. Spain is having a tough time this year as hundreds were battling wildfires till sometime back…
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Self Driving Cars
Google had been working on the autonomous cars project for some time. It had been testing these cars in Nevada. Yesterday California joined in to allow testing of such cars. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin hopes that self-driving cars will be able to drive on public streets in five years or less. Another 30 years and no one…
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T20: Sri Lanka beats New Zealand, Windies beats England
Sri Lanka and New Zealand match was what twenty twenty cricket is all about. Absolutey thrilling. Both teams were tied on 174 runs at the end of 20 overs. In such a situation of a tie like this, an extra over called super over is played by both teams. whoever scores more runs is the winner.…
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T20 : Super Eights
Super Eight matches are kicking off from today when Sri Lanka plays New Zealand. This time Super Eights have been divided into two groups. Group 1 includes West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and defending champions England. Group 2 includes South Africa, Australia, India and Pakistan. These groups will play matches amongst themselves and top…
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Third Wave of Floods in Assam
More fresh rains have lashed Assam, flooding more areas yet again. Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes. Relief packages containing food, medicine and aid material are being dropped by the defense heavy-lift helicopters. But whether this relief material is reaching the needy is unknown. As of yesterday, Upper Assam flood situation had improved but…
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Curiosity Rocks!
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has completed its first up close examination of rocks on the planet. The robot pushed its high-tech arms against a rock to find out which elements it was made from. The rover has used the special technology – a “hand lens” and X-ray spectrometer. The mission of Curiosity is to find out…
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T20: West Indies beats Ireland
It was an important game for both Ireland and West Indies as both teams had lost their first game in the tournament. Ireland started of well by hitting 33 for 1 in 5 overs but then rain interrupted the game repeatedly. Windies in the end benefitted from Duckworth-Lewis method and were declared winners.
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No Google for Iran
The people of Iran will now have a domestic search network and Google and Gmail will be banned. The country had previously banned Youtube and Facebook. The government of Iran wants an Iranian Internet system which would be largely separated from the World Wide Web or the internet as we know it.
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T20:India beats England
England lost to India by 90 runs while chasing a target of 171 runs. The defending champions, England got all out on 90 runs. Thanks to Jade Dernbach, England managed to make few more runs than the lowest ever total scored in history of twenty20. The star of the match was Harbhajan singh who stunned…
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It is Raining Meteors in UK, Scotland, Ireland
A lot of meteor sightings have been reported in many parts of UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland. There were several meteor showers expected to happen in September, but what happened last night was spectacular. Sky watchers described a huge fireball moving across the sky, before breaking up into as many as 100 pieces. It could be…
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Stone Age Dentists?
Scientists have found a pre-historic tooth with a filled cavity. The tooth belongs to a 6500 year old fossilized jawbone of a young person. This jawbone was found almost 100 years ago in the European country of Slovenia. On doing an X-ray on the jawbone the scientists discovered the tooth filling which seems to have been made…