Kids News - Articles for Grade 3

'Yangtze River Number Two', must be one special dog - His new owner apparently forked out a whopping $500,000 USD for the fluffy black Tibetan Mastiff....

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!...

Lucky and his girlfriend Lovey, lived a peaceful happy life with their owner Sally Pyne, her six cats and three snakes in sunny Petaluma - until that fateful July 31st night when a vicious raccoon attacked the box turtle, leaving bloody stumps, where his two front legs used to be....

If you thought kids were the only ones who love pogo sticks, think again. Adults like them too - In fact so much, that Nick Ryan, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, organizes the Pogopalooza, an annual Pogo stick competition that attracts extreme athletes from the US, and...

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....

On Wednesday, a thousand little people were seen melting away in the sweltering heat at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt Square - and there was no saving them, because these little guys were sculptures made out of ice by Brazilian artist, Nele Azevedo....

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'....