Category: World News

Britain has recovered 48 tonnes of silver from the wreckage of SS Gairsoppa, a ship that was carrying the 240 tonnes of silver from India to Britain in 1940. For more than 70 years, the treasure lay buried at the bottom of the North Atlantic because it was too heavy to be lifted. But along…

Five chimpanzees ran freely around Hanover Zoo after they escaped their enclosure. Hanover Zoo is located in the city centre of Hanover, Germany and is visited frequently by local residents. A few days ago, the visitors were taken by surprise when they had a close encounter with chimpanzees that had escaped out of their enclosures by…

Iceberg breaks off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The new iceberg is nearly twice the size of Manhattan. In 2010 an ice island measuring 250 square km (100 square miles) broke off the same glacier. The calving of Glaciers – which means breaking of big chunk of ice from parent glacier, is a natural process, but…

Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts on Tuesday docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay. The two other astronauts are Russian Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide. When these three astronauts hatch, they will join current station residents Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba. ‘Hatching’ in space terms…

Nelson Mandela is a South African politician who served as the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, first ever to be elected in a democratic selection. Before being elected as the president he was an anti-apartheid activist. Apartheid was a practice in South Africa where people of African race were not treated as equals…

Some of the world’s most endangered birds have hatched in Gloucestershire, UK. Their eggs were brought in from Russia. “A total of 20 spoon-billed sandpiper eggs were brought to the Slimbridge Wetlands Centre and so far 14 chicks have emerged.” BBC reports. There are only 200 birds left in open wild. Check out how the…

A tornado is a violent rotating column of air that forms between a thunderstorm and the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of huge destruction with wind speeds of up to 300 mph. This speed gives them enough power to feed on large buildings, uproot trees and hurl vehicles hundreds of yards, whatever comes…

Sun was in a very different mood yesterday. Seemed like it was a bit angry. Yesterday, The Sun sent strong solar flares of energy into the atmosphere. A solar flare is a violent blast that takes place within the Sun, releasing huge energies. A solar storm arrived on Saturday morning and will last through Sunday.…

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is all set for her next space journey. Her spaceship is ready to blast-off on July 14, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. She will be revisiting the International Space Station where she spent six months in 2006. Williams holds three records for women space travellers: longest spaceflight (195 days), most number…

The South China Sea  is a small part of the Pacific ocean, the largest water body on earth. This sea is surrounded by six states: China,Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. All the six surrounding countries often dispute over what part of the sea and its islands should belong to whom. The area around these…

What are Wildfires? A Wildfire 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. So Why is the west of North America burning ? “The early weeks of summer have been marked by brutal forest fires in states…

In 2003, NASA launched ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER). It involved two automated motor vehicles called Rovers exploring surface of the planet Mars after landing. The two rovers are named ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’. Nasa has recently joined together 817 different images taken by  Mars Rover – Opportunity, over a four-month period, to create a spectacularly detailed…