Monday, 13 October 2014
Friday, 10 October 2014
Malala Yousafzai wins Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world's most respected awards.
She has been recognised for her hard work promoting the right for girls to have an education.
The prize judges said about Malala: "Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education."
Malala won it jointly with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi is sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Malala
Malala, 17, is the youngest person to ever get the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was attacked by the Taliban, an extremist group, in Pakistan two years ago for her campaign work.
Malala was seriously injured in the attack, but she was flown to the UK for treatment and has recovered well.
She now goes to school in Birmingham and continues her campaigning.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
What have Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama got in common? They've all won a Nobel Prize.
They're given out every year to people or organisations who have achieved amazing things in different areas.
The Nobel Peace Prize is probably the most famous, but there are others, including ones for medicine, science and economics.
The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite.
All this week, the winners are being announced. Ricky's been finding out why they're such a big deal.
From CBBC newsround
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Eiffel Tower gets glass floor in refurbishment project
A vertigo-inducing glass floor has been installed at the Eiffel Tower, France's most visited tourist attraction
For those scared of heights, the Eiffel Tower's new floor may be something of a challenge.
Visitors will be able to look down on Paris through a glass floor as part of a refurbishment of the tower.
The transparent floor will be on the first level of the tower, at 57m, where operators hope that visitors will linger before heading to the highest viewing platform at 276 metres above the ground. Traditionally, tourists to the Eiffel Tower spend little time here before moving on to catch the better views from the two higher levels.
“We wanted people to realise how the building is anchored with its four pillars in the ground”, Alain Moatti, the architect in charge of the renovation, told le Journal du Dimanche, the French Sunday newspaper.
The refit of the half-hectare first floor, which began in May 2012 and was unveiled to the public today, also includes shops, restaurants and a museum telling the story of the 125-year-old construction. The tower’s eco-friendliness has also improved, with the installation of four solar panels that will provide about half of the tower’s hot water requirements. Some of the toilets will also be operated using rain water.
A tourist captures the view (Photo: Reuters)
About seven million people visit the Eiffel Tower each year – 85 per cent of them foreigners – making it the world’s busiest paid-for tourist attraction. The tower’s management also hopes that the renovation will attract more Parisians to the “Dame en Fer” (The Iron Lady), as it is sometimes referred to in French.
The tower opened in 1889 and was named after Gustave Eiffel, whose company engineered the project. At 324m in height, it was the world’s tallest building for 41 years until the Chrysler building was built in New York in 1930.
From CBBC newsround and The Telegraph
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Students build electric sofa to travel around campus
A team of engineering students from the University of New South Wales in Australia has created a robotic sofa to travel around campus.
It can move in any direction and is controlled manually using an Xbox gamepad.
Movement can also be pre-programmed by the students.
Watch the interview with Stephanie McArthur, one of the students behind the project.
From CBBC Newsround
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