On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. ET, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off the "Eagle" onto the surface of the moon and said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." 

A capsule thought to contain the first samples grabbed from the surface of an asteroid has returned to Earth.The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia.It had a shield to cope with the heat of re-entry and a parachute for the final drop to the ground.A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range.

In the digital era, where cameras have become a house hold thing , many people are now capable of covering breaking news. So the way we are watching news is changing day by day. We can experience it in elections, natural disasters, human disasters. Almost any event happens in todays world has a chance of getting  up. Now a days when we search for some burning issues on Google it shows latest news from pouplar news agencies like BBC and some unknown sites together. With social sites like twitter,orkut,facebook dissemination of breaking news was so fast that with in moments news blast out. This all paved way for the "Citizen Journalism" where news are not only "for the people" but also "by the people"..

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck Chile early on Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and a half. Buildings collapsed and phone lines and electricity were down... 

As the time ripe and we add on age, our memory draws back every now and then to those time when we are young. With added age and maturity in mind and body, we often repent getting old. Youth is the one with force and energy , which can change the course of International events and happenings, and if focused may be  even the rotation of earth. Don't mind myself being a bit poetic  , as I have already touched the quarter century of Innings on this planet,  I sometimes feel how great it is to be young and bubbling. Now the occasion of all this 'meant to be emotional' syllable is "UN proclaimed 2010 as the Year Of Youth" .... 

 Mt. Everest the highest point on earth , which many adventure enthusiasts try to conquer every year is also one of the  geological hot spots with regular tectonic activity and where evidences of  damage by climate change are quiet apparently visible .

To highlight the impact of climate change and to attract the attention of world leaders, one week before the Copenhagen Summit on Climate change, Nepal government held a cabinet meeting on the Mount Everest .

 The Rector of the Moscow Institute of Open Education and Jordan's Ministry of Information and Communications Techonology have been chosen as the winners of an annual United Nations prize for the use of ICTs in education. They were chosen from among 39 projects in 29 countries by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) for the 2009 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize.