For nearly a decade, the Street League Skateboarding has been the world’s leading professional skateboarding series, and now SLS hosted its competitive tour this year after over a year of postponement. The League has been renamed the SLS Championship Tour an... More »
Princess Mako of Japan married on Tuesday in Tokyo without a spectacular ceremony or any of the typical ceremonies connected with Japanese royal marriages. She also declined the $1.3 million lump-sum payment that female royals receive when they lose their impe... More »
On September 2, 2021, the National Radio and Television Administration published a passage on improving the quality, organization, and ethics of entertainment and public tv shows. In point seven of the notification, the input of the derogatory slur “niang pao”... More »
225 fires in 47 provinces in Turkey have been raging across the nation from July 28, 2021, up until today. The large-scale fires have destroyed over 55,000 hectares (135,000 acres) of land, resulting in the demolishment of people’s homes, land, forests, livest... More »
In July, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Activision Blizzard. The lawsuit alleges that executives at Blizzard had fostered a “frat-boy” and misogynistic company culture that had subjected multiple female employees to sexual ha... More »
On March 1, World Trade Organization’s new director-general Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala began her term at the institution. Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as the seventh Director General of the WTO is monumental, as she is the first Nigerian (and African) as well as t... More »
Global Chip Shortage GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are nowadays regarded as the most essential component when building a desktop computer. They are what allow your computer to render high-end 3D objects in games, use editing software for both creative and p... More »
President Joe Biden of the United States has issued a deadline of 90 days for intelligence agencies to come “closer to a definitive conclusion” on the origins of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) is under the renewed demand of finding out th... More »
After years of quiet, a little-noticed police incident in Jerusalem last month became the first of many that sparked the explosion of the current crisis. Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired by Gaza last week, Israeli police officers entered the... More »
After 27 years of marriage, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced to the media that they are ready to end their marriage. On May third, it shocked everyone when they announced to the media that they “no longer believe [they] can grow together” and decided to ... More »
Every year, the college application season is one of the most stressful times for high school students. Years of hard work compiled into a compact resumé, months of grinding out essays and racking brains during interviews all culminate in a single letter from ... More »
On July 23, 2020, China launched a rocket named Long March 5 from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan. Attached to the rocket was a rover called Zhurong, named after a god of fire from Chinese mythology. Zhurong spent 7 months travelling to Mars unti... More »