Kids News - Articles for Grade 2

It was only about a month ago when Usain Bolt stunned the world with his 9.58 second 100m dash. Yesterday, the 'lightning' was usurped from his throne by a faster mammal - An 8-year old cheetah called Sarah....

A team of research scientists searching for a place to build an observatory believe they may have just found the perfect spot - The coldest, driest and calmest place on Earth!...

The next time you hail one of the 1,300 cabs in New York city, cross your fingers that it's the Cash Cab - For it could make a star! That's because the taxi is the setting for a Discovery Channel mobile quiz television show, aired under the same name....

If you are a fan of the famous honey-loving bear (who isn't?), then you probably remember that his last book 'Pooh At The Corner', ended quite abruptly with Christopher Robin heading to boarding school, leaving his friends to pursue their own adventures....

We have heard about people collecting freshly-cut hair from saloons for wigs, but this has to be a first. Paula Sunshine, an expert in restoring old homes and buildings, is using human hair to strengthen the walls of her four-bedroom farmhouse in Lawshall, Suffolk....

We are all familiar with spectacular bolts of lightning that come down toward us during thunderstorms - But those shooting up from the cloud ? Those are rare indeed and scientists have just released some rarely seen images of what they call 'gigantic jets'....

Anjana, a chimp that resides at The Institute of Greatly Endangered Species in South Carolina, has always had a penchant for wild cats. It was not too long ago when she adopted Mitra and Shiva, two orphaned baby tigers. This time around, she has decided to take on an orphaned baby Puma....

Just when we think Alain Roberts, A.K.A 'Spiderman', has climbed everything possible, he emerges again. This time atop the 1,482ft Petronas twin towers in Malaysia....

What do you do when a bear accidentally stumbles into a concrete skate park and can't climb up again? Toss in a ladder of course!...