Category: News For Kids
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Olympic Sport: Beach Volleyball
Imagine playing a sport on the sandy beach, with fresh cold air coming from the ocean to refresh you. This sport is Beach Volleyball also known as Sand Volleyball. Beach Volleyball is very similar to Indoor Volleyball where the object of the game is to send the ball over the net on the opponent’s court so…
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Salty Ocean beneath Titan?
Did you know that Saturn has 62 Moons!! What a fascinating view in the night sky that must be :) The largest moon of Saturn is Titan. Titan is so big in size that if it orbited the sun instead of Saturn, it would probably be a planet. A team of international scientists now say…
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Bugs For Clean Up Time!
Bangalore which was once called a “city of lakes” is slowly losing its charm. A lot of lakes in Bangalore are quite dirty and full of stench. In order to clean these dying lakes, a private firm, in association with the State Horticulture Department, has started a project to restore the water bodies with microbial treatment.…
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Spain wins Euro 2012 Championship
Spain defeated Italy by a huge margin, scoring 4-0 in the European Championship final on Sunday. Spain became the defending Euro champions.They are now the best team in world football. David Silva and Jordi Alba scored goals in the first half and gave Spain a good lead. Fernando Torres and Juan Mata added goals in…
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The Wimbledon Championship
The Wimbledon Championship is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.It takes place every year for over two weeks, from late June to the beginning of July. It is played in Wimbledon, England.It is one of the biggest and most prestigious sports event. Wimbledon is the third of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments…
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Earthquake Rattles China
An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude jolted Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region at 5:07 am on Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. So what are Earthquakes? Why do they happen? Why certain places are so earthquake prone? Our earth’s surface is made up of rocks/plates. An Earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of…
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Chinese Astronauts back from Space
A Chinese capsule with three astronauts aboard has parachuted back to Earth after a successful space module mission. Liu Yang, the country’s first female in space, was part of the crew. “Their spacecraft, the Shenzhou 9, parachuted to a landing on the grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region around 10 a.m.” The NYT reported. The astronauts…
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Euro 2012 – Spain Vs Italy for the Championship
Spain and Italy will contest the 2012 edition of the European Championships Final after they won their respective semifinals against Portugal and Germany. Mario Balotelli finally showed some quality finishing, scoring twice Thursday to give Italy a 2-1 win over Germany and an unexpected spot in the European Championship final. Will Spain continue to reign…
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Euro 2012 – Spain reaches finals!
Spain will get the chance to keep their dream alive of defending the UEFA title after beating Portugal 4-2 on penalties in the Euro 2012 semi-finals to reach the final. “After the game was deadlocked 0-0 after 120 minutes, Iker Casillas saved one penalty and Portugal’s Bruno Alves struck the crossbar, setting up Cesc Fabregas…
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Welcome Andatu – “A gift from God”
“A new male endangered calf Sumatra Rhinoceros named Andatu (L), literally meaning “gift from God”, kisses his mother Ratu at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung, Indonesia, June 26, 2012. The two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros Ratu gave birth to Andatu on June 23″. PeopleDaily Reported. Sumatra Rhinos have become endangered species because there are very…
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Lonesome Goerge: Galapagos tortoise extinct
Lonesome George, last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year. IBNLive…
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Euro 2012: Italy wins last Quarterfinal
Italy won the last quarterfinal of Euro 2012 by beating England 4-2 in penalty shootout. The semifinal will be between Italy and Germany on 28th June, Thursday. England has had poor record of winning penalty shootouts in the past and also of never having won a knockout game on foreign land against a top-level football…