Category: News For Kids

  An elderly woman’s Do It Yourself  has become a nightmare for a spanish church. The old lady decided to try and fix a famous painting of Jesus Christ after it was damaged by water. This unique 19th century fresco in Zaragoza in the north of the country has a lot of emotional value for the locals…

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Curiosity begins the test drive on Mars proving that it can indeed move. Although moving at a very small speed, lesser than 4cm per second, it covered a distance of six meters. If Curiosity keeps making a slow and a steady progress we might learn a lot more about Mars, mostly about…

After Olympics it is now turn for the London Paraolympic games 2012. The official countdown to the Paralympics games begun on Wednesday when some mountaineers and people with disabilities, trekked the tallest peaks in the four regions of the United Kingdom –  Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland and lighted the Paralympic flame. The four…

  Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador has been showing increased volcanic activity and the emission of steam, gas and ash. The volcano is located near Banos, 140km south of the country’s capital of Quito.  There was a sudden activity around 19th August and finally an outburst on 21st August. The Tungurahua, aptly named as “Throat of Fire” in…

Huge crowds gathered across China to protest against their neighbouring country Japan over the ownership of disputed Diaoyu islands. What is a Dispute or Disputed thing? Have you and your friends ever fought over a same piece of toy?  Oh Yeah !! So the toy is a disputed toy? Here China and Japan are arguing over…

Don’t like those annoying 3D glasses that keep falling down? Well now there is a new technology for a  three-dimensional movie that you can enjoy without the glasses. The technology that changes the conventional 3D films to be shown on the new TV  will be shown in Berlin IFA trade show next month. IFA is the world’s biggest exhibition for…

Somalia is enjoying a some peace after nearly thirty years of conflict. The trouble maker militant group al-Shabab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu more than a year ago. Somalia’s new parliament is preparing to hold a vote to name a president for the country.

Can you believe it? It is difficult to believe or even imagine that a person who has lost both his arms and legs can even move. But frenchman Philippe Croizon has made the impossible possible. Mr. Croizon, who lost both his legs in an electric accident in 1994 when he was 26, used paddle-like prosthetics to…

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hit Sulawesi islands in northern part of Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was 61 kilometers southeast of Palu city on Sulawesi Islands. This not the first time that Indonesia is undergoing such a disaster. In  2004 (earthquake magnitute 9.1) and  in 2005 (earthquake magnitute 8.6), had hit Indonesia.…