Category: World News

Somalia is enjoying a some peace after nearly thirty years of conflict. The trouble maker militant group al-Shabab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu more than a year ago. Somalia’s new parliament is preparing to hold a vote to name a president for the country.

Can you believe it? It is difficult to believe or even imagine that a person who has lost both his arms and legs can even move. But frenchman Philippe Croizon has made the impossible possible. Mr. Croizon, who lost both his legs in an electric accident in 1994 when he was 26, used paddle-like prosthetics to…

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hit Sulawesi islands in northern part of Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was 61 kilometers southeast of Palu city on Sulawesi Islands. This not the first time that Indonesia is undergoing such a disaster. In  2004 (earthquake magnitute 9.1) and  in 2005 (earthquake magnitute 8.6), had hit Indonesia.…

Curiosity has a Chemcam laser that can emit rays that vanish the target in an instant and reveal interesting information about it. Whoa! Don’t you wish you had that power where you could vanish a target?? Especially all that homework :) The Mars rover has selected its first target which is most probably a typical Mars basalt – basaltic…

What is the name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of? Milky Way. Now Scientists have found a new galaxy that they’re calling a ‘super mom’. This new galaxy makes more stars in a day than our galaxy make in an year. No wonder it is called the “super mom” :…

Afghanistan is a nation that has suffered a lot in the past and still is suffering. Let us try and understand what is happening in Afghanistan. First of all, who are the Afghanis? Geographically, Afghanistan  lies in between Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. It is therefore a nation made up of many different nationalities…

We know that a lot of insects are blind but  not to have eyes at all..Yes! scientists have now discovered an eyeless huntsman spider. Sinopoda scurion is the first eyeless huntsman spider in the world. This is indeed one of the oddest spiders ever discovered. This species has been shown to have adapted to living in the cave…

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams wished all the indians a very happy independence day from her temporary home, the International Space Station(ISS). Sunita also proudly unfurled the Indian flag. Her Indian roots lie in Gujarat as her father is from Gujarat.”You know that I am half Indian. My father is from Gujarat. So, I am familiar…

Arctic is the name of the region that is around the north pole. The weather in arctic is mostly very cold winters and short cool summers. In recent times, due to global warming, arctic glaciers and ice caps have been fast melting. But what is shocking now is that arctic ice is melting at its fastest pace ever.…

The Canary Islands Wildfire are on the verge of becoming  a disaster now as the firefighters are unable to control these fires. Five planes and seven helicopters are supporting firefighters on the ground. “About 25% of the Garajonay nature reserve, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been destroyed by fire. The area measures about 750 hectares (1,853…

Spain is in trouble as the Firefighters are fighting a forest fire on La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands. A Wildfire/forest fire is any uncontrolled fire in deep dense forest. Wildfires often start unnoticed. These fires are usually triggered by lightning or accidents. They spread quickly, igniting trees, and homes which are in the nearby areas. The worst affected area on La Gomera…

The Curiosity rover is exploring red planet a little bit more every day. It has been transmitting back to Earth latest images that show the environment around its landing site on Mars. Curiosity will make the red planet its home for next two years. It will spend its time taking samples from the surface of mars…