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The Airbus A380 is the largest jet airliner ever built and is the world's first full double-deck passenger aircraft. First flight took place from Toulouse, France on 27 April 2005 and led to a flight test programme involving five Airbus A380s. The Airbus A380 is truly a giant. It has a wingspan of 261.8 feet... Read more...

The Largest and Busiest Rail Network The India's Rail transport is one of the biggest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting millions passengers and tones of cargo daily. Indian Railways also known as IR is a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Railways and is the world's largest... Read more...

The largest planet in the Solar System is Jupiter. And it's not just a little larger than everything else, Jupiter is 2.5 times bigger than all the other planets in the Solar System combined.Let's take a look at just how big Jupiter is. Jupiter is one of the four gas giants; that is, it is not primarily composed of solid matter... Read more...

Everest is the highest elevation on land, but it is only a single peak in an entire mountain range. The highest mountain is not necessarily the largest. Mauna Loa (4,169 m (13,678 ft)) is the largest mountain on Earth in terms of base area (about 2,000 sq mi/5,200 km2) and volume (about 10,000 cu mi/42,000 km3), although... Read more...

The world’s biggest house is Windsor Castle, located in England, Berkshire, with a surface of around 484,000 square feet (about 45,000 square meters). Having its structure changed over the centuries, the castle now occupies 13 acres of land, having 1,000 rooms. Along with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh... Read more...

Man made dams represent some of the most incredible architectural feats in the world today. While most dams were designed to impound or retain water, others (like floodgates and levees) are often used to control water flow into certain areasRegardless of how they're used no one will question the sheer power and force each dam... Read more...

Royal Caribbean's new Oasis of the Seas is the largest, widest, tallest, most expensive cruise ship afloat, a cornucopia ofamusements aimed at quashing the notion that cruising is a sedentary vacation, said chief executive Richard Fain. Then he donned swim trunks, jumped on a boogie board and challenged fellow executives to a contest in one of the Oasis' two ... Read more...

Described as South Asia's biggest monastery, a new Buddhist place of worship, is set to be unveiled by the Dalai Lama at Chandragiri in Orissa's Gajapati district on January 12. The spiritual leader, who is arriving in Orissa on Monday on a four-day visit to the state, would consecrate and inaugurate the monastery, built at a cost of Rs 8 crore, religious chief... Read more...

China is the world's worst polluter nation with the highest overall annual emission of greenhouse gases (6,018 million tonne). However, in terms of per capita emissions it is ranked 44th in the world, emitting 4.5 tonne (per person). It has a renewable energy target (15 per cent of total energy by 2020) and an energy efficiency target (20 per cent reduction by 2010... Read more...

Identifying the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived isn't as easy a task as you might think: sure, these giant beasts left giant fossils, but it's very rare to unearth a complete skeleton (tiny, bite-sized dinosaurs tend to fossilize all at once, but lumbering giants like Argentinosaurus can often only be identified by a single, massive neckbone). Here are the 10 winners... Read more...

These giants are among the world s last remaining pockets of so-called easy oil. They don t require ultradeep drilling or innovative production techniques, just the application of Big Oil know-how. No wonder the oil companies agreed to develop Iraq s fields without even getting an ownership stake in the fields and collecting as little as $1.15 per barrel recovered.... Read more...

The honor of greatest earthquake of all time goes to the 1960 Chile earthquake because scientists were able to 'catch this one on tape'. In other words, there have been a lot of really big earthquakes throughout human history (and even greater ones before we came on the scene), but this one they were able to measure.... Read more...