Category: World News

  Someone once said, “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” This certainly holds true for Yuichiro Miura, an 80 year old Japanese man who successfully scaled Earth’s highest mountain – Mount Everest. He is the oldest man ever to climb the Everest. So how did he do it? Miura said…

An enormous powerful tornado tore through city of Oklahoma particularly causing massive damage  to property and lives in two of the suburbs – Moore and Shawnee. A tornado is a funnel like violently swirling structure of wind. It starts from the surface of the Earth to reach high upto the sky. They are often also…

A road construction company  has destroyed one of the country’s largest Mayan pyramids in Belize. 2,300 years old Noh Mul temple was completely destroyed. They were using the gravel and limestone content to fill roads in nearby Douglas Village. The Archaeologists of the Belizean Institute of Archaeology  said that sadly this is not the first time such…

Have you ever picked up a beautiful shell or a shiny pebble from the beach, just so you could gift it your good friend – like a memoir? Two friendly nations Nepal and Israel decided that to promote tourism in their countries they would do something remarkable, like erect new monuments that people would love…

Yes! A man was lucky enough to survive from the clutches of a saltwater crocodile. This french fisherman named Yoann Galeran was swimming near the town of Nhulunbuy when the incident occured. This crocodile which was 2.5m long bit him in the head, neck and shoulders. He fought furiously and escaped narrowly. He did need stitches for…

Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who is known as the world’s oldest living person celebrated his 116th birthday today. Mr Kimura was born on 19 April 1897. He worked as a postman until he was 65 years old. After that he took up farming and did so until he was 90. He is in Guinness World…

An earthquake of 7.8-magnitude hit the south-eastern city of Khash, in Iran. This was one of the strongest earthquake to hit Iran in more than 50 years. Since the city of Khash was the epicentre of the earthquake, is very close to Pakistan, the earthquake was strongly felt there. Outer crust of Earth is broken up into…

After hugely popular Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez passed away last month, Nicolas Maduro has been chosen as Venezuela’s New President-Elect. A president-elect is a political candidate who has been elected president but who has not yet been sworn in, or officially taken office. Maduro got 50.8% of votes in presidential election held on Sunday, while opposition…

Venice is also known as “City of Water”, “City of Canals” and “The Floating City” because the Italian city that is built on 117 small islands that are separated by 150 canals. A canal is a kind of “road of water” made by humans to get things from one place to another. Grand Canal, is one of…

    Running a marathon is a not an easy feat at all. Imagine a marathon in arctic conditions!! Not many of you must have heard about it but North pole marathon is indeed one of the toughest races on the earth where participants have to run for miles in deep snow and below freezing…

  Uhuru Kenyatta is has been sworn in as Kenya’s new president. The 51-year-old will be Kenya’s youngest president. He replaces Kenya’s ex president Mwai Kibaki. Mr Kenyatta is the son of Kenya’s founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and is heir to one of the largest fortunes in Kenya. He has previously served in Kenyan…

  Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, passed away on April 8 from a heart stroke. She was 87 years old. Ms. Thatcher was one of the most influential politicians of her times. She was a confident leader. Even as a young child just nine years of age, when Margaret received a prize in school…