Category: World News

New York and New Jersey residents have been warned to evacuate their homes as a new storm hits the area. The storm moving towards NY area has already brought some snow. So far around 1200 flights have been cancelled and there will be more power cuts. Although the storm is not as strong as Sandy…

Barack Obama has been re-elected by the people of  United States of America to be the 45th president of their country. He gets a second term which means another four years to serve the office. He had a very tough challenge from Republican Mitt Romney. Obama thanked all the voters online by tweeting from his official account “This happened because of you. Thank…

United States general elections will be held on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012. Current President and Democratic Party member Barack Obama is contesting for a second term of presidency against Republican Party Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. Latest polls reveal that the race among the two presidential candidates will be very close. Both of them are equally…

Indian-American Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams recently completed her seventh spacewalk. Any time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also called an EVA meaning extravehicular activity. She ventured out along with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide for about six hours to fix an ammonia leak…

Nasa’s Curiosity rover tasted Mar’s soil and tested it using it’s  CheMin instrument. Scientists say the Martian soil at the rover Curiosity’s landing site contains minerals similar to what’s found on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano. Could it be that Mars was once like Hawaii?  

Hurricane Sandy caused huge damage to US East Coast. Power remained out for roughly six million people, including a large area of Manhattan. No Bridges are functional, and seven subway tunnels under the East River were flooded. The storm was the most destructive in the 108-year history of New York’s subway system.    

Hurricane Sandy is eyeing the US admist  the  political storm. This has forced  presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to adjust their schedules and cancel events. The next United States presidential election is to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Coelacanths are the world’s oldest fish. They are primitive, slow-moving fish were thought to be extinct until 1938, when one was found in Africa. There are now over 40 known coelacanth species out of which only two are living. These two specimen have remained unchanged for 320 million years. And now a new species of…

Hurricane Sandy’s howling winds and harsh rains first hit Jamaica and is now headed towards Cuba and the Bahamas. People reported flooded homes, electricity outage and damaged roads. Schools and businesses were closed and the administration moved residents in low-lying shelters as steady rain and winds pounded Jamaica.

Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland “for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level”. Chemistry:  Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka. Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka. Literature: Mo Yan “whose writing brought folk tales, history and the current events together”. Peace Prize: European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation,…

Felix Baumgartner travelled faster than the speed of sound when he jumped from the edge of space back down to earth. Mr. Baumgartner  jumped from from the stratosphere, which is 120,000 or so feet up, about 23 miles. He managed to  land safely in the desert in New Mexico, America after having problems on the way…

Mo Yan, Chinese author who wrote a stunning piece “Feeds of suffering” about troubled twentieth century China during the times of Japanese invasion won Nobel Prize for Literature this year. He became the first writer in China to be awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. Ironically, his name ‘Mo Yan’ means ‘Don’t Speak’. The Nobel Prize is a…