Category: World News

Aren’t there some days where you don’t want to take a bath, but mom just won’t listen. Well now there is a way you can feel refreshed without taking a bath, all thanks to a young South African. Want to know more?.. So this young man has invented a product which can make you clean ,…

This is really cool. Imagine this, what if you freeze the seeds of a plant and keep it frozen for 30,000 years. Now take them out and plant them. Will they grow? Surprisingly some scientists have recently done this, “They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia — a…

On July 1, In eastern U.S, pleasant summer showers suddenly turned into a series of nasty thunderstorms. Sounds like a scene from a movie right? But sadly this is really what had happened. U.S was hit by something what the weathermen (meteorologists) call a ‘Derecho’. Derecho is a severe thunderstorm which is made up of…

Well we all love to spend hours on this game, don’t we ? If you think you are really great at the game, read this. There is a Robot, created by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan which will beat you in this game all the time. How can this be? Is it magic? Or is…

Imagine playing a sport on the sandy beach, with fresh cold air coming from the ocean to refresh you. This sport is Beach Volleyball also known as Sand Volleyball. Beach Volleyball is very similar to Indoor Volleyball where the object of the game is to send the ball over the net on the opponent’s court so…

Did you know that Saturn has 62 Moons!! What a fascinating view in the night sky that must be :)  The largest moon of Saturn is Titan. Titan is so big in size that if it orbited the sun instead of Saturn, it would probably be a planet. A team of international scientists now say…

The Wimbledon Championship is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.It takes place every year for over two weeks, from late June to the beginning of July. It is played in Wimbledon, England.It is one of the biggest and most prestigious sports event. Wimbledon is the third of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments…

An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude jolted Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region at 5:07 am on Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. So what are Earthquakes? Why do they happen? Why certain places are so earthquake prone? Our earth’s surface is made up of rocks/plates. An Earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of…

A Chinese capsule with three astronauts aboard has parachuted back to Earth after a successful space module mission. Liu Yang, the country’s first female in space, was part of the crew. “Their spacecraft, the Shenzhou 9, parachuted to a landing on the grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region around 10 a.m.” The NYT reported. The astronauts…

  “A new male endangered calf Sumatra Rhinoceros named Andatu (L), literally meaning “gift from God”, kisses his mother Ratu at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung, Indonesia, June 26, 2012. The two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros Ratu gave birth to Andatu on June 23″. PeopleDaily Reported. Sumatra Rhinos have become endangered species because there are very…

Lonesome George, last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year. IBNLive…

Mohamed Morsy is set to become Egypt’s first elected President following a historic election, brought about by an uprising that first threw out the former dictator, Hosni Mubarak. The Hindu Reported. Are you scratching your head ? What does elections, voting, president mean ? Hmmm, Let us try to understand. Every country needs a government…