Category: World News

Now this is very amusing !! Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams and her Japanese Colleague Akihiko Hoshide used a toothbrush to fix an important power unit in International Space Station(ISS). The bolt cleaned by the toothbrush is the same one that had given both the astronauts much trouble during their spacewalk last week. They were unable…

China and Japan are fighting over some islands in East China Sea. Now  reports from Japan say that the government has decided to buy the disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea from their private owner. The government will pay 2.05bn yen (japanese currency) which is around $26m…

The President and Vice-President of the US are elected every four years. The Political Parties amongst themselves choose their candidates to run for president and vice president. Last time the elections were held in 2008 where Illinois Senator Barack Obama from the Democratic Party went to become the first African American president in the history…

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the sea ice in the Arctic had reached its lowest level since satellite measurements began breaking the lowest level record of 2007. We still have two more weeks to go before the summer ends. In 2007, it was predicted that the arctic will be free of…

Around 30 pilot whales found themselves on the beach of Fife coast in Scotland. Each of the whales was almost 20 Ft long. That’s huge! Sadly around 20 of them died. Nine whales have been saved by the vets from British Divers and Marine Life Rescue, with help from the emergency services. A vet is…

Labor Day is being celebrated all across the United States today. It always falls on the first Monday of September every year. Who thought of Labour day? How did it start? All working men and women are called ‘Labor’. Labor day started on the suggestion of an American machinist named Matthew Maguire. It is celebrated…

Lunar crater Shackleton, near the moon’s south pole is found to be made up of 5 to 10% of ice. Scientists had always guessed that there could be ice present there as the crater is permanently dark and cold due tilted spin axis of the moon. Since water which is essential for any life, is evolving on the…

An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck off the Philippines on Friday destroying roads and bridges. A lot of people moved to higher areas because of tsunami warnings. The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles (146 km) off the town of Guiuan. The region has been hit by devastating quakes in the past decade. Last year,…

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, stepped outside the International Space Station to attend some maintenance issues in ISS. However, they had difficulties driving the bolts to secure the replacement switching unit and therefore were unable to fix it. The outing was fifth spacewalk for Sunita and it lasted 8 hours and…

The Cook Islands announced the creation of the world’s largest marine park Tuesday. It is an enormous marine park almost twice the size of France at 1.065 million square Kilometer. It is amazing that tiny island nations have created such a huge marine park. The Cook Islands, nation of 20,000 people on 15 islands. Previously the world’s…

An Air India plane had crashed in the French Alps in January 1966. Exactly 46 years after the incident and around the same spot, a jute bag containing diplomatic mail from India was found by a mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger. “Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining…

New Orleans is getting in a defensive mode as Hurricane Isaac is beating the city with strong winds and drenching rain. Louisiana city is currently under attack exactly seven years after the devastating Hurricane Katrina. Thankfully Issac is not as strong as Katrina. Sea water has already crossed the safe levels in the  southern part of…