Category: World News

Hugo Chavez was re-elected the president once again by the people of Venezuela. He has held that position since 1999 and now with his third re-election gets another six years to be in the office. Venezuela is a major oil producer. Owing  to high oil prices in international market, his government is able to invest in health care,…

A new kind of extreme sport is catching up in Australia. The Flyboard, a combination between a jet ski and a jet pack, can shoot up to 10 metres in the air. Using this you can dive like dolphins. ( Flyboard is a product of zapata-racing.com, Photo Credit zapata-racing.com)  

If the tropical climate keeps on changing, rainforests might look very different from how they look today. US researchers have based  their findings on their study of Costa Rican forests over last 20 years. US researchers have found out that the changing temperature – lesser rainfall and drier weather is damaging to the growth of saplings…

One of the seven wonders of the world and India’s pride – The Taj Mahal, might be replicated in Dubai by  Falconcity of Wonders, a local multi-purpose development company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) . Salim al-Musa, the chairman of Falconcity of Wonders said that the proposed Dubai structure would be called Taj Arabia and will be…

What! A comet that is 15 times brighter than the moon will fly by Earth in 2013, now that is going to be spectacular. According to its current position the comet will be visible after sunset and so bright that moon will shy away. The comet, discovered by astronomers in Russia using the International Scientific…

The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover in the last 27 years. Loss of coral is caused mainly by cyclones and crown-of-thorns starfish as reported by Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville. There are two major reasons why this is happening tropical cyclone storms, growing population of crown-of-thorns starfish and…

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence of  a dried up river that flowed over the surface of Mars – the red planet. The picture shows a dried up bedrock, that is found  at the bottom of a river. The possibility of Mars having life once upon a time  just became huge. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The fight over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands has gotten worse as China is still protesting against it. Both the countries are refusing to step back from the brink as they are afraid that they will appear weak. China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi angered  Japanese diplomats at the United Nations by accusing Japan of stealing…

Heavy flooding took six victims including a young girl and an elderly woman. Rescue workers used boats to evacuate around 600 people that were trapped in their homes in  Andalusia province. More intense rain is expected in the southern Spain. Spain is having a tough time this year as hundreds were battling wildfires till sometime back…

Google had been working on the autonomous cars project for some time. It had been testing these cars in Nevada. Yesterday California joined in to allow testing of such cars. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin hopes that self-driving cars will be able to drive on public streets in five years or less. Another 30 years and no one…

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has completed its first up close examination of rocks on the planet. The robot pushed its high-tech arms against a rock to find out which elements it was made from. The rover has used the special technology – a “hand lens” and X-ray spectrometer. The mission of Curiosity is to find out…

The people of Iran will now have a domestic search network and Google and Gmail will be banned. The country had previously banned Youtube and Facebook. The government of Iran wants an Iranian Internet system which would be largely separated from the World Wide Web or the internet as we know it.