Category: World News
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A Penguin That Returns to its Savior Every Year
Mr Joao Pereira de Souza is a retired bricklayer who lives in Provetá Beach, Ilha Grande, in the state Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro is a big seaside city in Brazil. One day, in May 2011, Joao was going about his daily work when he saw something very strange. He saw a sick looking…
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Blue Algae Boom In Hong Kong
Many of Hong Kong’s shores are shimmering with bright blue waves. The Tolo Harbour, in northeast of HongKong and the Silver Mine beach in the Lantau island, the biggest island of Hong kong, are one of the few places that are lit up by the glowing waves at the night. What makes this phenomenon exceptional is that humans have nothing to do…
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A Historic Rock Climb
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson climbed the summit of El Capitan, 19 days after they took the first step to fulfilling their dream. El Capitan is a 3000 feet granite rock in Yosemite National Park in California, US. To climb the granite rock has always been challenging for climbers because it is steep and not…
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What is Turning Taj Mahal Yellow?
Since long, dust and industrial pollution have been known to have a hand in tanning of the beautiful Taj Mahal. Now we have one more culprit, and it is the least expected one. Just like how it happens in most of the mystery novels. It is cow dung! How can cow dung turn Taj Mahal…
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Ancient Egyptian Spell Book Decoded
A 20 page Egyptian book of magic spells had been in possession of Macquarie University, Australia since late 1980’s. The 7th-century spell book is made of a stiff, flat, thin material(known as parchment) made from the prepared skin of an animal, usually a sheep or goat. The researchers at the University, have finally managed to…
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Living Legend forced to sell his Nobel Prize
Well, the Nobel prize that is won by a lot of hard work in a particular area of research was recently on sale. This has happened for the first time when James Watson, 86, sold his Nobel prize that he won in 1962. He had won the Nobel prize in Physiology of medicine for discovering the…
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Deadly Snow Storm Cuts like a Knife in US
Buffalo in US was waiting for its usual share of snow.It gets a lot of snow every year. But this year it was different. On Tuesday, all fifty states recorded below freezing temperatures and Winter Storm Knife deposited over five feet of snow out of nowhere in Buffalo, NY. People were stranded, stuck on roads…
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Hawaiian Volcano Lava creeps into a House
Aloha! Hawaii! The fresh flowers and the calm waters is what one mostly thinks of when we talk of this island. But all is not that hunky dory!! The largest island amongst an archipelago of eight major islands, is home to probably the most active volcano on earth – Kilauea (pronounced as Kil-uh-wai-aa) volcano. Kilauea…
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The Solar-Powered Floating Schools
Where there is a will there is a way! Whoever said those words was so right. A perfect example of this is a young architect Mohammed Rezwan in Bangladesh. In 1998, he was shocked by the fact that so many children are dropping out of school. He started Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangsthaa ( Shidhulai is the…
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Mass Whale Stranding on New Zealand Beach
A mystery that has left scientists baffled for years – a phenomenon where whales or dolphins swim to shallow waters and then getting stranded on the beach. Why do they do that? Scientists guess that there might be two reasons either the whales get sick and swim to shallow waters for safety or they lose…
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Nobel Peace Prize for Malala
Everybody has a right to education. You kids already know that going to school is very important and a must. However, there are some kids that are not able to go to school. Sometimes because they do not have enough money to pay for school and sometimes bad people do not allow them to go to school. A…
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What is Happening in Ukraine?
Where is Ukraine on the world map? Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It was born in 1991, when the enormous USSR disintegrated in 15 smaller countries. The capital city of Ukraine is Kiev and the official language of the country is Ukrainian. Look at the above featured map of Ukraine. The east and south…