Showing posts with label CURRENTEVENTS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CURRENTEVENTS. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Clear-up after Afghanistan quakes

There was a very huge clear-up after two earthquakes at Afghanistan on Friday. There were at least 21 people were killed and 4 villages damaged and about 200 houses were destroyed. The workers arrived to the area as soon as they can, but they were too late for some of the people, many have died from this tragic disaster.


Saturday April 18 2009
from BBC
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8000000/newsid_8005200/8005202.stm

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Children killed in US plane crash


There were fourteen people killed by a plane crash in Montana. The plane was flying fourteen people from California to Montana for a ski trip; seven of them were children. This horrible accident took the life of seven young children. The accident is still under investigation, the official claimed that they didn’t have much information at this moment and not really sure what caused the terrible accident.

Monday, March 23 2009
By BBC
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7950000/newsid_7958500/7958563.stm


School meals rules "too strict"


The schools in England are having a plan of making healthy food for the students. There are some special rules need to be followed and it is really interesting. There's also a group called The Local Authority Caterers Association which provide the school meals which says that the best way to help those students have a healthy body is to have a balanced healthy diet.

Wednesday, March 25 2009
By BBC
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7960000/newsid_7962700/7962738.stm



Sunday, February 8, 2009

Climate change "makes hurricanes"

The number of the extreme big storms in the Atlantic Ocean has been rising, it was because the climate has changed and effected by the major problem –“ the global warming”. The hurricanes over the Atlantic Ocean have been doubled compared in the past hundred years. The ocean has been warmer and warmer, the sea temperature has been affected and changed the climate and increased the number of the hurricanes in the ocean. The experts estimated that in 2007 it will be a hurricane active year and about nine hurricanes were forecast. In this article, I have learned that the climate changing had affected the nature and created many problems. The hurricane is a terrible thing to most of the farmers because it will damage the crops and make them lose their money, all the hard work will go down in the drain. The prices in vegetables will go up to the public. The hurricane not just created a horrible situation to the human being, but also to the animals as well.

Monday July 30 2007
By BBC
source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6920000/newsid_6922700/6922763.stm

Calls for more deer to be culled



In Britain, there are calls for the number of deer were too many, and need to be controlled and try to cut down some on the road accidents. In the past, there were many creatures on the road and caused 200 car crashes per day. Some of the experts said that the deer should be killed; therefore some of the deer had been shot to control the population of the deer. But there were also some experts disagreed of culling the deer, they think that there will should other ways to control the numbers of the deer. People think that too much creatures will have many problems and they will be over populated in numbers, so some of the creatures still have to be killed for controlling the balance of the population. They have tried to make signs and special markings on the roads to stop the crashes but accidents still occurs.
For the deer article, I think the caused of the accident was that the deer population was out of control, and there is no effective way to protect and keep the population in the right numbers. I think if I worked in the city council, I will set up a hunting season, which will allow people to hunt deer during the hunting season, which can keep the deer population in the right number. Or I will have a reserved area for the deer, so they can get protected, and during the hunting season, the reserved area can also open to public for hunting.

Thursday January 29 2009
By BBC
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7850000/newsid_7859000/7859019.stm

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Investigation into NY plane crash


There was a plane crash into a river in New York on Thursday. Due to the experienced pilot, everyone on the board made out safely. Investigators were already talked to the pilot about what really happened. The officials wanted to pull out the plane in one piece, a giant crane and a huge boat have already been brought to do the job. According to the Captain, he thinks that the crash was caused by birds flying into the engines.

Saturday January 17 2009
By BBC
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7830000/newsid_7835000/7835037.stm

Bafta award nominations revealed



The film Wall-E had just won a Golden Globe, and after a few days, it has been nominated again for another three awards. The rubbish collecting robot is the best film and the best sound at the Bafta awards. Wall-E is going head to head with the musical movie Mamma Mia. Kate Winslet, winner of the Golden Globes was also nominated as the best actress at the Bafta awards, so does Heath Ledger for best supporting actor for his role as Joker in the Dark Knight.

Thursday January 15 2009
By BBC

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7830000/newsid_7830200/7830201.stm

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Wall-E wins at the Golden Globes



Wall-E has wan the prize of the best film which was the Golden Globes in Los Angeles. The story was about the human produce too much garbage and Wall-E was the rubbish - picking robot. This movie has beat off another two films Kung Fu Panda and Bolt and won the award. Blot is the film that features the voice of Miley Cyrus. Golden Globes are considered the prediction of future Oscars winners.
Kate was also a big winner of that night, she had won2 Golden Globes, and Kate was very shocked when she won her prize because she had been nominated for many times, but never won anything.

Monday January 12 2009
By BBC
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7820000/newsid_7823500/7823522.stm

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Zavvi to close 22 shops


The retailer music store Zavvi had been badly affected by the closure of Woolworths and 22 stores were closed down because of that. Zavvi still has 92 stores remaining and are struggling to survive under the recession. They hope that some parts of their business could be sold out to new owners so the rest of the stores can still operate normally. There will be 178 people losing their jobs resulted from this world-wide recession.

Thursday January 08 2009
By BBC

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7810000/newsid_7817700/7817781.stm

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Britain gripped by big freeze


It has been freezing in some of the parts in UK , and it is as cold as the Arctic . The south east of England has dropped to eleven degrees below zero . The bad weather is going to stay until this weekend . The temperature in Scotland is rising during the day , but at night it is still very cold. The weather in UK now might get worse overnight .

Tuesday January 06 2009
by bbc
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7810000/newsid_7813000/7813060.stm

Search on for escaped beaver



The beaver has been hunted for their fur back in the 16th century in Britain . There were three beavers from the southern of England had escaped from their home . It occured in October, but two of them had been found in no time. Unfortunately, the third beaver has been abducted to a farther place and it was never been found. Beavers live near rivers, streams, ponds, small lakes and marshes. They build lodges of sticks and mud on islands, on pond banks or on lake shores. Beavers have to keep chewing on the woods so that their teeth wouldn't grow too long.

Tuesday December 30 2008
by bbc
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7800000/newsid_7805100/7805199.stm

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Big idea to help wild tigers


There is a news about a long-term project on helping the wild tigers in Malaysia. The conservation groups and the government in Malaysia are still trying to pick up the numbers of tigers from 500 to about 1,000 to 2020 . Hopefully the numbers of tigers in Malaysia will be doubled over the next twelve years . Many tigers were killed by the hunters illegally over the years, and now they are trying to ban the killing of tigers in Malaysia. The hunters usually hunt down the tigers because of their valuable body parts and many body parts are use in Chinese medicine. Tigers were been protected in Malaysia by the laws since 1970 . But the numbers of wild tigers has dropped from 3,000 to only about 500 over these past 50 years.

Tuesday December 23 2008
by bbc
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7790000/newsid_7797400/7797416.stm

Panda gift helps China friendship



There are two giant pandas coming to Taiwan , it was a gift from China . The two pandas were a girl and a boy , they are named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan . In Chinese , tuanyuan means reunion . Taiwan and China has been countries . There is also a team of animal expert that is coming to Taiwan with them , enable to make sure everything is all right . The pair of panda will be living in the Taipei Zoo after they arrive in Taiwan .

Tuesday December 23 2008
by bbc
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7790000/newsid_7796900/7796999.stm

Monday, December 15, 2008

Fresh rioting hits Greek cities



There was a riot in three different cities in Greek . The story was between the police and the protesters. There was a fifteen - year - old boy that was shot by the police and died during this riot . There were hundreds of students battling with the police officers , two officers have already arrested because of the death of the fifteen-year old boy . The Greek government wanted to put this riot into an end , but a BBC journalist claimed that many people think that the Greek government should be blamed for the caused of this violence riot.

Monday December 08 2008
by bbc
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7770000/newsid_7771500/7771511.stm

Thursday, December 11, 2008

4 Children Are Killed in Indiana Bus Crash

There were four children who were killed from this bus crash accident. The accident took place in northern Indianapolis of America . The bus driver was airlifted to Indiana hospital for treatment . The bus driver has already prepared to meet with the four children's family. On a Friday afternoon, the school bus driver were taking the children home. The accident occured while a truck was swerved to avoid the another bus, even though all four children were wearing seat belts at the time, the children were still tragically killed.