Sudan, The World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies Aged 45
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died.Sudan, aged 45, was being treated for age-related complications that had affected his muscles and bones and gave him extensive skin wounds, which...
View ArticleHm, I Wonder What Mark Zuckerberg’s Up To On Facebook Right Now
Since this past Friday, we’ve been hit with revelation after revelation about Cambridge Analytica, the nebulous British firm accused of harvesting the Facebook data of over 50 million users and...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s Portrait Is So Popular It Had To Be Moved
Former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait continues to live up to her reputation.The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced earlier this month that it had to move the painting...
View ArticleJ. K. Rowling Has Magical Message For 'Harry Potter' Fan With Depression
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling tweeted some heartfelt words for a fan with depression.Someone named Sally said on Twitter Monday that she was rereading the Potter books during “another bout of...
View ArticleWhatsApp Co-Founder Says People Should Delete Facebook
A high-profile tech industry billionaire has lent his voice to the #deleteFacebook hashtag in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal ― Brian Acton, the co-founder of messaging platform...
View ArticleWhy The Rohingya Can't Return
Just months after a vicious military crackdown sent over 700,000 Rohingya fleeing from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, the two countries have agreed on the eventual repatriation of the refugees, but...
View Article39 Indians Missing In Iraq Since 2014 Are All Dead, Declares Sushma Swaraj
NEW DELHI -- India said on Tuesday that 39 Indians, who were kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq in 2014, had been confirmed dead after their bodies were found and DNA samples matched.The...
View ArticleFaced With Delhi's Pollution, Modi's Government Bought Air Purifiers
As pollution choked India's capital Delhi in recent years, a total of 140 air purifiers were purchased for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's offices and at least six other government agencies, according...
View ArticleThe World’s Tiniest Computer Is Smaller Than A Grain Of Salt
IBM is working on what it has called the ‘world’s smallest computer’ and as you can see from this picture they’re not fooling around.The finished computer is smaller than a grain of salt, and yet has...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About Zuckerberg’s Media Blitz
In a series of media interviews Wednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally apologized for the social media giant’s role in enabling a massive data breach by British firm Cambridge Analytica...
View ArticleWe're Engaged To Be Married. We're Also On Tinder Looking For Threesomes.
Swiping on Tinder is so much more time-consuming when you’re also busy planning a wedding.Just ask Michael and Zara. The 20-something couple, who chose to use pseudonyms for this interview for their...
View ArticleFootage Shows The Moment Cops Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Man Stephon Clark
Police helicopter and body camera footage shows the moment two California cops killed Stephon Clark, an 22-year-old unarmed black man, in a hail of gunfire.Two officers with the Sacramento Police...
View ArticleInstagram Influencers Reveal What It's Like To Live Life In One Color Palette
As anyone who has spent any time on Instagram knows, color-themed accounts are everywhere. You know the ones. You open their profiles only to be greeted by a perfectly color-coordinated grid ― maybe...
View ArticleIndia Warns Against Social Media Data Misuse Ahead Of Elections
NEW DELHI - India's information technology minister on Wednesday warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that a British consultancy improperly accessed information on...
View ArticleWhat Truly Inclusive And Diverse Organizations Do Differently
My previous article talked about why an organization which successfully attracts, welcomes and integrates individuals across myriad demographic spectra makes business sense.Even organizations which...
View ArticleKim Cattrall Offers Curt Response To Cynthia Nixon's New York Governor Run
Kim Cattrall offered measured support for her “Sex and the City” co-star Cynthia Nixon’s political ambitions on Twitter this week. Nixon, a lifelong New Yorker, announced Monday that she plans to...
View ArticleCheck Out Tokyo's New Godzilla Statue
A new Godzilla statue stomped its way into Tokyo on Thursday.The statue, which replaces a previous version first installed in 1995, depicts Shin Godzilla from the film of the same name that was...
View ArticleIndia Allocates 100 Billion Rupees For 'Modicare'
NEW DELHI -- India has allocated 100 billion rupees ($1.54 billion) for its ambitious health programme aimed at providing insurance cover for about half the population, Health Minister J.P. Nadda said...
View ArticleWhy The Existing Support And Awareness Around TB In India Is Not Enough For...
Sitting in his one-room house in Dharavi, on a rainy Mumbai morning, Owais, India's first patient to be put on Bedaquiline, one of the newest drugs in the arms race against DR TB, once asked me, 'Who...
View ArticleAir India Makes History By Flying To Israel Via Saudi Airspace
BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel - Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel...
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