Floods in Southern Asia

We aren't the only ones experiencing difficulties with floods at the moment. Weeks of torrential rain, landslides and floods in China have left more than 700 people dead and forced about 5 million others to flee their homes.
Click here and here to see more pictures from the region.

Earthquake in Japan

Today, a significant earthquake hit the island of Honshu in Japan. Tsunami warnings were issued, and a nuclear power station was damaged. Read the story here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6901213.stm

and look at some pictures here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6900355.stm

Video footage of the quake can be seen here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6900000/newsid_6900200?redirect=6900209.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1

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Planet Earth as you may never have seen it before....

Thanks to coolpics from Slideshare for this....

Makes you think.....

Turn your sound on then watch the video below from You Tube....

Create pictogram using excel

For those of you doing coursework at the moment this site here might be helpful - it shows you how to create a pictogram using excel

World Population Clock

World population clock. If you click on 'Now' button the statistics start again at zero so you can see how fast things are rising.


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For those of you who wanted to see Yakko's World (the countries song) again here it is....

Find out the distance between two places.....

This might be useful, especially for those doing coursework.... click here to take you to a website where you can find out the distance between any two UK cities.