Category: News For Kids
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Massive Iceberg ‘tsunami’ off Greenland!!
A huge chunk of an iceberg has broken free, creating a large wave trying to submerge a boat off the coast of Greenland. The incident took place at the Ilulissat Icefjord, a popular tourist destination and Unesco World Heritage Site. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by the UNESCO as…
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London Olympics 2012 Mascots
First of all what is a Mascot? You must have heard about mascots before every olympic games or some other big event, but what are they? Mascot is a person or a thing that symbolises an event and brings good luck to it. Wenlock and Mandeville are London 2012 Olympic and London 2012 Paralympic mascot.…
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70 year old Silver Treasure recovered
Britain has recovered 48 tonnes of silver from the wreckage of SS Gairsoppa, a ship that was carrying the 240 tonnes of silver from India to Britain in 1940. For more than 70 years, the treasure lay buried at the bottom of the North Atlantic because it was too heavy to be lifted. But along…
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Olympic Torch reaches London
The Olympic flame has arrived in the host city into the Tower of London from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter at the fitting time of 20:12 BST. “Dame Kelly Holmes – who won the 800m and 1500m gold medals in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games – became the capital’s first torchbearer as she carried…
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Rafael Nadal pulls out of Olympics 2012
Olympic gold medal winner in Beijing four years ago, Rafael Nadal has withdrew from the Olympic Games because of an injury. Nadal has has failed to recover from a nagging knee problem. This is shocking news for tennis fans all over the world. Nadal will also miss out on the honour of bearing his nation’s…
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Elections held for the 14th President of India
UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee is all set to be elected the 14th President of the country. Votes polled in the election held on Thursday will be counted on Sunday. The Hindu Reported. Given the strength of the parties in the presidential electoral college which have agreed to support Mr. Mukherjee, there is doubt about his…
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Chimpanzee Frenzy
Five chimpanzees ran freely around Hanover Zoo after they escaped their enclosure. Hanover Zoo is located in the city centre of Hanover, Germany and is visited frequently by local residents. A few days ago, the visitors were taken by surprise when they had a close encounter with chimpanzees that had escaped out of their enclosures by…
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Huge Iceberg formed in Greenland
Iceberg breaks off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The new iceberg is nearly twice the size of Manhattan. In 2010 an ice island measuring 250 square km (100 square miles) broke off the same glacier. The calving of Glaciers – which means breaking of big chunk of ice from parent glacier, is a natural process, but…
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Sunita Williams, two other astronauts reach Space
Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts on Tuesday docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay. The two other astronauts are Russian Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide. When these three astronauts hatch, they will join current station residents Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba. ‘Hatching’ in space terms…
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Nelson Mandela – A Universal Hero
Nelson Mandela is a South African politician who served as the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, first ever to be elected in a democratic selection. Before being elected as the president he was an anti-apartheid activist. Apartheid was a practice in South Africa where people of African race were not treated as equals…
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Greenest Olympics Ever
London Olymopics 2012 is all set to be the most environment friendly Olympics ever. Here is how the London Olympics authorities are going to make it possible. When the Games start on July 27, spectators will take public transport instead of each taking vehicle of their own. This will save fuel and pollution caused by thousands of…
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Endangered birds Spoon-billed sandpiper hatched in UK
Some of the world’s most endangered birds have hatched in Gloucestershire, UK. Their eggs were brought in from Russia. “A total of 20 spoon-billed sandpiper eggs were brought to the Slimbridge Wetlands Centre and so far 14 chicks have emerged.” BBC reports. There are only 200 birds left in open wild. Check out how the…