Category: World News

What is Economy? When you choose whether to buy a pizza, a candy or a toy with your pocket money, that’s Economy! Similarly countries also must decide the best possible way to use their resources and money. A lot of times, countries depend on other nations for some goods and services. No nation has all…

China will launch its Shenzhou-9 manned mission, carrying the first Chinese woman into space, on Saturday evening in a major step towards the country’s plan to build its own space station by 2020. Officials on Friday confirmed, as many had expected, that the honour would go to 33-year-old Ms. Liu Yang, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air…

  Can you see that mole on Sun’s face? That’s Venus passing through the Sun!! Transit of Venus simply means passing of Venus between Sun and Earth.We know that the only planets that can ever pass between the Earth and the Sun are Mercury and Venus (since they are the only planets closer to the…

World Environment Day  is celebrated on June 5 every year to create worldwide awareness for the environment. World Environment Day was celebrated for the first time in 1972 by United Nations(UN). UN is an international organisation that works towards building cooperation and understanding amongst all the nations of the world so that the whole world can live…

Tourists cruising near the Upsala Glacier in Argentina recently spied an unusual sight: a massive iceberg flipping over in the middle of the ocean. For the rest of the world, luckily,  someone recorded it. As the BBC reports, the Upsala glacier was once the biggest in South America, but has been retreating at a rapid pace, some 656…

Viswanathan Anand won the chess championship against challenger Boris Gelfand to retain his world title on Wednesday. After three weeks of regular play ended with the score tied at 6-6, Anand and Gelfand faced off in a series of tie-breakers on Wednesday, with the title of world champion and $1.53 million going to the winner. The…

Flutes made from bird bone and mammoth ivory were found in a cave in South Germany. Scientists have been able to prove that the flutes are almost 43,000 years old. This proves that humans lived in Europe around that time as the scientists were assuming earlier. Musical instruments may have been used for religious activities or…

Thousands of people braved the rain Tuesday to see the Tokyo Skytree, reportedly the world’s tallest tower, as it opened to the public. It is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the tallest tower, beating out the Canton Tower in China, which is 600 meters (1,968 1/2 feet). The world’s tallest structure is Dubai’s…

China now has the fastest train in the world. It runs from the central city of Wuhan down to the south coast, at a speed of more than 380km/h. BBC News reported. The fast trains are called CRH, China Railway High-speed. This train took three years to be functional. The country is further building 42 high speed…

A rare solar eclipse will be visible Sunday in parts of the Western U.S. and Asia. CNN reported. A Solar Eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are in a straight line with the Moon in between the Sun and the Earth. During a solar eclipse if the Moon is close enough…

David Beckham will bring the Olympic flame back to the UK from the Greek capital Athens along with Princess Anne. Both of them will be at a ceremony where the flame is passed to London on Thursday evening, after a week-long relay around Greece. BBC News reported. The delegation, including five young people, will fly…

Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will watch the Euro 2012 football championship and London Olympics while in space, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. They will not be watching these events live as cosmonaut Gennad Padalka  along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin  is scheduled to fly to the ISS on May 15 from Baikonour. However…