World Articles

Solar eclipses, which occur when the moon comes in between the earth and the sun, are always fun to watch - So you can only imagine how cool it must have been to watch on...

54-Year old Taiwanese hairdresser Shiou-ying Tsai has always been good at her craft - Her creative haircuts and decorative hair extensions have won many accolades. Now, s...

While Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding was spectacular as a whole, there are a few images that will remain etched in people's memories forever - Kate Middleton...

About a year ago, the world witnessed a majestic eruption from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano - the ashes from which disrupted European air travel for weeks and caused...

What can be cooler than playing with Ben 10 toys? How about being the first one to receive them and even better, getting to keep them for free. That's exactly the job des...

On Sunday May 15th, 160 men from all over the world came together in Trondheim, Norway with one simple mission - To impress the judges with their carefully coiffured full...

Six year-old Ivan Stoiljkovic was born with an unusual talent - A magnetic upper body to which metal seems to stick like it would on a normal magnet. All he has to do, is...

Friday, May 10th, started out like any other lunch period at Scotland's Bell Baxter High School cafeteria. Some 600 students were mulling around eating their midday meal,...

On May 7th, 2011, 51-year old Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy made headlines when he flew over the Grand Canyon with his world-famous jet-propelled wings strapped to his back...

How's this for an excuse the next time you are caught yapping away on your cell phone or singing loudly to the music on your iPod? I was just charging it! If the team of...

There are very few new frontiers left for humans to explore, especially on Earth. We have scaled the tallest mountains, gone deep into our deepest oceans and far into our...

At just 13-year of age, Felix Finkbeiner is enjoying the kind of fame that most celebrities only dream of - He has a huge fan following in his home country of Germany, me...

Six years and a staggering 4.8mm USD later, Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland has finally opened its latest attraction - The world's largest model airport. And judging from t...

Ever since the royal engagement was announced last November, the world has been waiting for the day Catherine Elizabeth Middleton would transform into a princess. The big...

When the powerful tsunami that devastated the coastal areas near Sendai, Japan on March 11th receded, it took back with it an estimated 200,000 buildings along with all t...

This week, some Indian detectives are working on a rather tough case - Searching for the termite bandits who stole or should we say chewed up a large horde of cash! Their...

A team of scientists from the Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas recently unearthed what is believed to be the largest spider fossil ever found. Discov...

Think going to the office is all work and no play? While it may be true in some places, it is definitely not true in the small town of Bad Koening, Germany, where grown m...

We have all thrown rocks into the water, but very few of us have been able to appreciate how beautiful the water looks, as it splashes up - Partly because we are too busy...

When one thinks of household pets, a penguin is not the first thing that comes to mind. But don’t tell that to Lala. This fourteen-year-old King Penguin not only lives wi...

On Thursday April 7th, the skies above the Dover strait were filled with colorful hot-air balloons all trying to make their way across the English Channel, in a bid to es...

Japan's devastating 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami has not only resulted in indescribable destruction, but also, caused a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant l...

We are so programmed to thinking that animals can do only what we believe they are capable of, that whenever one does something out of the ordinary, we are stunned. For e...

Many young girls fantasize about marrying a dashing young prince and living happily ever after, like Cinderella or Snow White. For Kate Middleton, this childhood dream is...