Category: World News

Heavy rains in northern China caused huge flooding, and tons of water swept down from the mountains and swept away a part of the wall at Dajingmen. The cascade of rain left a 36 meter wide gap in the ancient Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China, listed as a World Heritage site by…

Does mankind has a future beyond the planet Earth? We might get to know because the NASA rover Curiosity just sent back the first colored image that shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater. The rover took the shot with a camera that was attached to its robotic arm. The landscape looks fuzzy because…

(Photo Credit: NASA) The moment has arrived where the humankind will get some answers about the red planet “MARS”. “NASA’s $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, will make its dramatic entrance into Martian territory in a spectacle popularly known as the “seven minutes of terror.” This exciting landing process, involving a sky crane and the world’s largest supersonic parachute,…

The Queen officially declared the games open. A group of seven young athletes had the honor of lighting up 205 petals ( number of competing nations) of the ceremonial flame. The flame was brought by Beckham over Thames on a speedboat. That’s dramatic! The show took the watching world through “great revolutions in British society”, from an agricultural…

  The moment we all had been waiting for! Today is July 27, 2012 and the Olympics are finally going to start today. Much awaited event right? Here are some more fascinating facts about Olympics that you would like to know: Art competitions were a part of modern Olympics from 1912 to 1952. Since the tradition of Olympics…

In an amazing discovery, a 145 million years old, huge oyster fossil has been found by fishermen in UK. The oyster has been scanned to reveal that it could have a pearl as large as a size of a golf ball. Whoa! The fossil, about 7 inches across, was discovered when it got caught in…

The surface of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said. This is a completely unexpected event and scientists are wondering if it is a natural thing or the effects of Global Warming. “Melting even occurred at Greenland’s coldest and highest place, Summit station.The thawed ice area…

In celebration of the first day of the London 2012 on Friday July 27, Big Ben and thousands of bells across the U.K. will ring out as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes. Big Ben is the main bell hanging in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminister , the home of the Houses of Parliament in the…

Amelia Earhart was the most famous aviator in history. An aviator is someone who is actively involved in flying of an aircraft. Today marks Amelia Earhart’s 115th birth anniversary. She was the first woman aviator fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, this celebrated woman disappeared 75 years ago while flying over the South Pacific on July 2, 1937, and was…

Tennis is one of the most popular sport in Olympics. World’s top tennis stars come to represent their country at Olympics. At Beijing 2008, Rafael Nadal won the Men’s Singles, while the Williams sisters triumphed in the Women’s Doubles. This year since Olympics are held in London, players will have a face off on the…

India’s national flag was unfurled at the Olympic Games Athletes Village on Sunday in the presence of a small group of sportspersons and contingent officials. It was a formal welcome ceremony for the Indian contingent and was attended by the hockey players, boxers, archers, shooters and tennis players. Let the Games begin.

A huge chunk of an iceberg has broken free, creating a large wave trying to submerge a boat off the coast of Greenland. The incident took place at the Ilulissat Icefjord, a popular tourist destination and Unesco World Heritage Site. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by the UNESCO as…