Kids News - Articles with 400-600 Words

What could be worse than living in the World's poorest country? - How about living in the poorest neighborhood in the poorest country. Welcome to Kroo Bay, a small community in Sierra Leone, Africa, that has been built on mounds of trash. This is the story of the children who call it home....

Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada is world-renowned for its 'World Championship Sand Sculpting Competition', held annually for the last 19 years. Three years ago, they introduced a second competition, 'The Tournament of Champions', where only winners of the past World Championships can compete....

Most Americans celebrate July 4th by relaxing on their lawn chairs and eating hot dogs - not Kent Couch. For the last three years, he has spent the day preparing to 'take off' in his lawn chair, with the help of 150 helium-filled balloons, in his quest to fly 230 miles, from Central Oregon to Idaho....

While the rules may be similar, the terrain is not - no well-manicured field for these soccer players - they like to get down and dirty as they battle it out for the World Cup Championships. Welcome to Swamp Soccer!...

While a lot of you may not know who Bill Gates is, most of you have probably heard about Microsoft - the world's biggest software company he founded in 1975 at the tender age of twenty. Yesterday, this amazing man, who until last year, was also the world's richest, called it quits....

The normally blue skies of Northern California are hazy these days, engulfed by smoke from the hundreds of fires that are still burning in the water-parched hills and valleys of the region. The 800 plus fires were started by an unprecedented 8,000 strikes of dry lightning that hit the region last weekend....

Fourteen-year old Tom Daley is a diving wunderkind. This year he has already won three gold medals, two in the 2008 British Championships and one in the European Championship, where he won with a perfect score. His next challenge? - The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics....

The Komodo dragon's encounter with the scuba divers has made them quite famous. With only 4,000 left in the wild, the chance that we will ever encounter one outside of a Zoo, is very slim. However, these pre-historic looking creatures are fascinating and we thought it would be fun to explore them further....

Five scuba divers were grateful to be on familiar land on Saturday, after surviving a 2-day ordeal that included swimming in shark-infested waters and a close encounter with a Komodo dragon. The divers saga began on Thursday, in the Komoda National Park off Bali, Indonesia....