A video has gone viral of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showing off his geek side by nailing a reporter’s question about quantum computing. Speaking Friday at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, where he was making a funding announcement, Trudeau dared reporters to ask him about how quantum computing works during a question period. When a reporter obliged, Trudeau, a former teacher, gave a detailed and elaborate mini-lesson on […]

The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Born on February 12 in the year 1809, Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. On April, Lincoln was shot after remaining in coma for over 9 hours, Lincoln succumbed to his wounds on April 15 in the year 1865. Do you know that Abraham Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler or that his […]

Soccer`s embattled world governing body must make human rights one of its primary goals, on a par with promoting the sport and making money, according to a set of recommendations by a top UN official released on Thursday. FIFA should be prepared to use its negotiating leverage to ensure that countries bidding for its World Cup championship protect the rights of people who toil to build stadiums, John Ruggie, the […]

Successful entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes; young and old, highly educated and high school dropouts, bootstrapped and venture-funded. There’s no one size fits all combination that you could possibly use to model the “perfect entrepreneur.” What similarities do successful entrepreneurs have in common? What factors helped determine their level of success? Through my research & analysis, my findings show that all successful entrepreneurs share a common set of […]

The entire family can get up close with colourful birds, mammals and reptiles at this tropical haven There aren’t many places on the planet where you’d be able to see the ostrich-like South American greater rhea having a drink of water in the same pool as a sub-Saharan spur-winged goose, or where you’d find the pre-historic looking Australian cassowary hanging out in the same habitat as a common turkey from […]

A sea lion learned a thing or two about California traffic when it wandered onto a highway, bringing traffic to a standstill during morning rush hour. While causing quite a commotion, the rescue effort revealed that he could be ill. School Daze is a juvenile sea lion who can’t be tamed, apparently. Daze started causing trouble just before 10:00 am on April 4, when the Marin County California Highway Patrol […]

She was buried in a churchyard of the Saint Petca Bulgarian Church in the Rupite region. Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova’s interest in politics was not incidental. She was born on the territory of modern Macedonia – the land which was an apple of discord for years between Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Her native land experienced two World Wars in which the Bulgarians and the Serbs were struggling in different camps. […]

This is a story that is bound to move you to tears. In January this year, a picture of Danish philanthropist Anja Ringgren Lovén offering water and biscuits to a highly malnourished child on the streets of Nigeria was widely shared on social media. Lovén had found the child, named Hope (two-year-old), in January and he was, as pictures confirm, was on the brink of starvation. The child had been […]

In the name of ‘scientific research’ the Japanese fleet has recently killed a large number of Minke whales in the Antartic Ocean. Four ships from the country’s Institute of Cetacean Research returned to their home port after 115-days long expedition capturing 333 whales including more than 200 pregnant females. Japan has been illegally hunting whales for decades.The Japanese government claimed that this mass slaughter is a part of their ‘scientific […]

Bridget Jones, the fictional bumbling Londoner obsessed with her love life, is back, this time pregnant as well as with more men woes, in a new trailer for the latest film based on the hugely popular novels. Fans got a first glimpse of Bridget Jones’s Baby with a two-minute trailer released on Wednesday, showing Oscar winner Renee Zellweger returning as the much-loved, weight-fixated singleton, now in her 40s. Beginning with […]