If you are in search of a private island for you and your loved ones, an island wih the most possble privacy you can get , the gladden private island resort is built to give you the best privacy you are looking for – a luxury island villa meant for just one couple and probably […]

A school in Merseyside has banned pupils from wearing expensive designer coats in a bid to stop “poverty-shaming” among its students.  In a letter to parents, Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead said pupils would not be allowed to wear branded coats such as Moncler, Pyrenex and Canada Goose.  Head teacher Rebekah Phillips said pupils and […]

People with albinism in Africa face a lot of challenges in their quest to gain acceptance in society. In that feat Uganda has held its first-ever beauty contest for people with albinism. Among the twenty two candidates from six districts, the judges chose 5 men and 5 women to represent Uganda at the Mr. and […]

Poland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its rebirth as an independent state on Sunday with a multitude of events across the country, including marches, Masses, and the national hymn being sung in more than 600 public places. With celebrations around the country and the national white-and-red flag fluttering from buildings and buses. Poland regained […]

China has become the latest Asian country to warn its citizens in Canada about marijuana after it was legalized for recreational use there. A statement posted on the website of the Chinese consulate in Toronto reminds citizens in its jurisdiction to avoid using marijuana to ensure their physical and mental health. Canada legalized the sale of recreational marijuana […]

‎Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned as president.  The position of president is ceremonial in Ethiopia, with executive power vested in the office of the prime minister, but the appointment is deeply symbolic and follows up on last week’s cabinet reshuffle in which made half the ministers are […]

China will open the world’s longest sea bridge to traffic from 24 October. The 55-kilometre-long bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao took six years of preparations and eight years to build. Construction began on 15 December 2009 and is expected to slash travel time from Hongkong to mainland China from three hours to 30 […]

The world’s longest commercial flight, a 19-hour journey from Singapore to New York, took off Thursday from Changi Airport. The Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900ULR will touch down at Newark Liberty International Airport early Friday after traveling 15,350 kilometers. The Airbus A350-900ULR (“Ultra Long Range”) is a new two-engine plane with far greater range and fuel […]

lawmakers in Greece announced that their popular coastal donkey rides would be limited to tourists “weighing less than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) or one-fifth of the donkey’s body weight,” the law states according to CNN. Tourists often take donkey rides along the steep and narrow terrain of the popular island of Santorini, which has prompted […]

Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour. The company, whose value topped $1 trillion briefly in September, was facing political and economic pressure to […]

Pop superstar, actress, entrepreneur, fashion icon Rihanna has added a new apppoitment to her resume as an Ambassador in her home country barbados. She is now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, the Barbados government announced on Friday, September 21. Rihanna will be responsible for “promoting education, tourism and investment for the island,” said the official statement, […]

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has enrolled its first passenger for a trip around the moon. When the trip goes ahead, it will be the first time someone has traveled as far as the moon since NASA’s Apollo missions in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and also the furthest into space that a private […]

Archaeologists have made an incredible finding of a human drawing that dates back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever discovered. The finding, published in Nature, was made in Blombos Cave, which is located on the southern coast of South Africa. The research was led by Professor Christopher Henshilwood from the […]

South Korea is set to ban the sale of coffee in schools in a bid to improve the health of pupils. Selling highly caffeinated drinks to students in schools has already been banned since 2013, but with coffee vending machines still available for teachers, wilst students have been able to get around the rules and […]

GERMANY has lifted a ban on computer games that include content featuring Nazi symbology and will now review each game on its artistic and educational merits, following an ongoing debate around the computer game franchise Wolfenstein. The Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK) announced on Thursday that they would allow Nazi symbols in video games. The […]

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that U.S. action film star Steven Seagal has been appointed Russia’s special envoy for humanitarian ties with the United States. The action film star who was granted Russia Citizenship in 2016. “The task is to promote the further development of Russian-American relations in the humanitarian sphere, including interaction in the […]

Former WWE  superstar Glenn Jacobs aka Kane The Big Red Machine, has won the bout for mayor in Tennessee’s third largest county. Jacobs, a Republican who also runs an insurance and real estate company, was leading Democrat Linda Haney by a large margin with most of the votes counted in Knox County on Thursday. The […]

Richmond, British Columbia is about to open the area’s first-ever stadium created specifically for esports. The Gaming Stadium facility will be considered the city’s home for esports events and will play host to all tournaments, major events, and a smattering of other happenings within the esports world. The sizable arena will feature enough seating for […]

Russian news agency TASS has reported that a journalist working for the BBC was drugged and robbed early Friday morning. It is believed two men are responsible for knocking him unconscious by dissolving an unconfirmed substance into his coffee. The journalist then awoke to find all his belongings had been stolen. The Russian interior has confirmed […]

Three Canadian social media Vloggers died Tuesday after they were swept over a 100-foot waterfall at Shannon Falls, near Squamish, British Columbia, the CBC reports. Two of the three, Ryker Gamble and Alexey Lyakh, who were two of the creators behind the popular travel. The accident happened when the three hiked up Shannon Falls and […]