Australia beat New Zealand in final

The fairy tale of the 2015 Cricket World Cup has come to an end with Australia dominating the final at the MCG.
Australia comfortably won the game by 7 wickets in front of a record 94,000 people. It is now the fifth time the Australian team have won the tournament.
New Zealand batted first and were in trouble early with Brendon McCullum getting out for a duck in the opening over. From there the Black caps struggled and could only manage a total of 183.
Grant Elliot was the star batsman with his score of 83.
In reply, despite losing an early wicket, Australia were in control and still had 20 overs to go when they passed New Zealand’s total.

Chiefs v Blues – Kiwi Kids News

For the first time in nearly two years the Chiefs will play the Blues on Saturday 4 April as part of an Easter rugby bonanza at Waikato Stadium.
Today we have the pleasure of bring you behind the scenes action from this important Super 15 game. Our Kiwi Kids News reporter for the evening is Lizzy Skelton from Tauranga. She is mad on sports, especially netball and cross country, and is a fan of the Chiefs. Lizzy attends Aquinas College and her favourite player is Sonny Bill Williams.
game kicks off at 7:30pm. We will give you a behind the scenes look at Hamilton Stadium.
So we will now here from Lizzy Skelton and she keeps us updated about the game and the atmosphere.

New Zealander Dies in Combat

A New Zealand Family has been left devastated after learning that their beloved family member , Kadhem Chilab Abbas has died whilst helping fight the Islamic State in Iraq. Whilst originally from Iraq, Kadhem Abbas has been living in Napier since 2003, before he recently returnt for a short visit to Iraq in past months.
His return to Iraq was in response to a call from the Iraqi president for civilians to join the national army’s fight against  uprising of IS militants.  While he was originally going to just visit his Son, Abbas reportedly was compelled to joint he military fight after witnessing the atrocities being committed against innocent Iraqi individuals.
Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee commented that it was somewhat peculiar that someone who had fled warn-torn Iraq as a refugee would want to go back and fight. However he understands that everyone has certain freedoms to exercise and he stopped short in telling New Zealand citizens that they should not join the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq.

Earthquakes hit Samoa

An earthquake has been recorded in Samoa, measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale.
The quake occurred 116 kilometres deep with an epicentre 124 km from the county’s capital Apia.
Thankfully, there have been no reports of damage to the people’s property or any deaths reported.
Earlier in the day, a 7.7 quake struck near the town of Rabul in the north of Papua New Guinea.
A tsunami warning was issued but was withdrawn some hours later.

Two year-old Indian sets archery record

A new national record in archery has been set in India; by a two year-old girl.

Dolly Shivani Cherukuri became the youngest Indian to score more than 200 points at a trial event on Tuesday.

She made a total of 388 points firing  36 arrows at a target 5m away, then again at a target 7m away.
Her achievement was witnessed by India Book of Records officials.
Dolly’s father said she had been trained since birth to be a champion.
When they found out they had a baby on the way, they decided that they would train and mould her to be a top archer.
“My daughter achieved the feat we have been dreaming… I can’t express in words how happy my family is,” her father said.
He said they would now try to get Dolly’s name entered into the Guinness Book  World Records.

Pee powered loo creates electricity-KKN

A toilet powered by humun pee generate electricity is being tested in Bristol, England.

The technology is called Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) and a small device is placed under the toilet to collect the wee and process it.
Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, who’s leading the project, says the important thing is how cheap this is. Each unit only costs $1000.

Microbes are little cells that feed on wee; they then create electricity as a side-effect which can be used to power the lights! The scientists behind that device hope that the new toilets will be able to power lights in refugee camps.

Andy Bastable, from Oxfam, says this could be a massive step forward: “Fuel for generators is expensive. As urine is free, this an extremely low-cost and sustainable way of producing light for people at night.”

A human produces 500 litres of wee every year, so there’s always a lot to use and it’s easy to get hold of.
How does it work?