What seemed to be an innocent moment during the APEC summit in Beijing has grown into a topic of debate, after China’s censors moved to erase Russian President Vladimir Putin’s act of placing a shawl over the shoulders of Peng Liyuan, the wife of China’s President Xi Jinping. NPR reports, the gesture at a fireworks show Monday night was soon ... Read More »
A young Chinese man has attempted to celebrate China’s Singles Day by proposing to his girlfriend, except it didn’t all quite go according to plan. The young Guagzhou tech worker spent 500,000 yuan (£51,543) on Apple‘s latest gadget, the equivalent of more than 17 years the average worker’s salary, according to CNN. He carefully arranged the iPhones into the shape ... Read More »
Iran claims it has put into operation a final version of the sophisticated U.S. RQ-170 drone, which was captured in 2011 and later reverse-engineered by Iranian experts, the commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced on Monday. The domestically produced version of the RQ-170 stealth aircraft is said to have made a successful inaugural flight, ... Read More »
The tech site CNET reports if you have a lot of cash to burn and want to own a “sports car for the water,” then you should check into preordering a Quadrofoil, a hydrofoiling personal electric watercraft. The luxury vehicle seats two people, operates quietly and zooms up to 25 mph. The Quadrofoil is expected to be delivered to customers ... Read More »
Space now comes at a premium in most major cities worldwide, which is forcing people to live in smaller and smaller apartments. One such city is Paris, where people are beginning to convert the tiny “maid rooms”, into studio apartments. huhmagazine.co.uk reports In this particular case, an 8 square-meter studio has been fitted out with everything the inhabitant needs to ... Read More »
Last week, an on-the-street video of a woman walking around New York and getting catcalled by men went viral: In the video, the woman was catcalled more than 100 times in 10 hours, and seemingly couldn’t walk a single block without someone making a pass at her. elitedaily.com Reports today that “Model Pranksters” has just released a response video of ... Read More »
This brunette lady nearly lost her job reporting on a soccer team because the players found her looks too much of a distraction. Katarina Sreckovic found herself in a rather unique predicament recently. The 25-year-old is a reporter for the Red Star Belgrade soccer team. Katarina says the players had a hard time taking her seriously at her job. The ... Read More »
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship campus Fellow Max Mohammadhassan Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi won the Gold Medal prize as well as the ‘Best Inventor 2014’ prize in eHealth at the World’s Digital Health Forum for their invention, CAD Detector! CAD Detector helps screen and diagnose heart disease and several other types of diseases at a significantly earlier stage and in a ... Read More »
US President Barack Obama has secretly written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging progress on nuclear talks and stressing common interest in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Wall Street Journal says. Obama sent the letter to Khamenei in mid-October, according to the report published on Thursday citing unnamed White House officials. “Mr Obama ... Read More »
The Zayandehrood, which means “life-giving river”, is the largest river in central Iran and was a major source of water for the country. In the old days, the banks of the flowing river were the centre of all social and economic activities in the city. For the most part recently the river, which flowed for 400 kilometres from the Zagros ... Read More »