Cryptocurrency enables true peer-to-peer transactions through an electronic system without needing to go through a bank or payments company. This allows people to engage in frictionless, borderless transactions for the first time and enables 3 billion people to have access to the financial system.
A gamer and creator named Momo Pixels has decided to tackle the issue of poeple touching black womens hair by creating a video game in which a female African American character of the players choosing swats away random people trying to touch her hair.
Scientific analysis has revealed that the first object to pass through our solar system from interstellar space is an asteroid with an unusually elongated shape. The asteroid was first spotted on 19 October by NASA researchers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, and named Oumuamua, which means a messenger from afar arriving first in Hawaiian.
The Hollywood actors online antics reached a new level of bizarre on 20 November when he documented his kidnap of comedian Michael Blackson. In the four clips posted on Blackmans page, the funnyman − stripped to his underwear − is bound and gagged and appears distressed.
The Georgia Dome was demolished by controlled implosion on the morning of 20 November, in downtown Atlanta. The stadium, which was once home to the Atlanta Falcons as well as the 1996 Olympics and two Super Bowls, has been replaced by Mercedes Benz Stadium right next door.
An off-duty military policeman was being hailed in Brazilian media on November 18 after he shot and killed two suspected robbers in a pharmacy, all the while holding his young son in his arms. Dramatic CCTV footage shows the incident, in which Sgt Rafael Souza, of the 49th Metropolitan Battalion, fired on the intruders while in the company of his wife and young son.
Officers investigating a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young man on a night out in east London on 8 October have released footage of the incidentk. A man suddenly punched the victim in the face, before booting him in the face when he was on the ground.
Britains Queen Elizabeth II will add another landmark to her record-breaking reign on Monday (20 November) as she celebrates her 70th wedding anniversary with Prince Philip.
Charles Manson, the leader of a 1960s cult whose followers murdered seven people, died of natural causes at the age 83 on 19 November 19. Mansons death was confirmed by Debra Tate, sister of actress Sharon Tate, who was one among the seven killed in 1969.
Charles Manson, the leader of a 1960s cult whose followers murdered seven people, died of natural causes at the age 83 on 19 November 19. Mansons death was confirmed by Debra Tate, sister of actress Sharon Tate, who was one among the seven killed in 1969.
Air Race 1 is pure motorsport at its fastest. It is a thrilling test of pilot skill in a class known as formula one air racing. Americas Tim Cone won the gold classification, while his compatriot Swaid Rahn settled for the silver.
A small plane clipped a tree and crashed in west Florida on 19 November as the 61-year-old pilot tried to make an emergency landing. He reportedly experience engine trouble. Two deputies from the Pinellas County Sheriff and amp;#39;s Office released a dashcam footage of the plane crashing on a highway around half a mile from Clearwater Airpark. The officers were in the area on an unrelated call. Both the pilot and a passenger escaped unhurt.
Cult leader and convicted mass murderer Charles Manson has died at age 83. Manson was rushed to a hospital in Bakersfield, California on Nov. 14 due to unknown medical illness - the second time in 2017. He died at 8.13pm US Pacific Time, local media quoted Californias Corcoran State Prison as saying.In the 1960s, Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts known as the Manson Family. In the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war.
Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe defied expectations he would resign on Sunday (19 November), pledging to preside over a ZANU-PF congress next month even though the ruling party had removed him as its leader hours earlier. Speculation are growing over whether Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech.
Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe defied expectations he would resign on Sunday (19 November), pledging to preside over a ZANU-PF congress next month even though the ruling party had removed him as its leader hours earlier. Speculation are growing over whether Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech.
In the last 500 million years there have been five mass extinction events wiping, over 90% of all species that have ever lived on earth has gone extinct. Now, according to some reports the impact of the human race has increased extinction rates and threatens to cause another mass extinction event. So are we really facing another mass extinction event?