HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis began a 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States on Saturday, embarking on his first trip to the onetime Cold War foes after serving as secret mediator of their historic rapprochement. He will be offering a show of solidarity with Cubans and delivering the message in the United States that Hispanics are the bedrock of the church there. (more…)
[] So forget about gays, lesbesians, bi-sexuals, transgender (hi caitlyn lol), and queers for just a moments and let's talk about the intersexies, to simply put, people born with both a penis and a vagina but much more complex. (more…)
Muslims pray in front of MacArthur High School at a prayer vigil in support of Ahmed Mohamed in Irving, Texas. Ahmed, 14, was arrested Monday when teachers and police mistook a clock he built for a possible bomb. Jeffrey Mcwhorter / AP A woman walks past a migrant sleeping, covered only in a blanket, near the Keleti railway station as they wait to board trains leaving for the Austrian border in Budapest, Hungary. Since the beginning of 2015, the number of migrants using the so-called ‘Balkans route’ has exploded with refugees arriving in Greece from Turkey, then
Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, died on Saturday morning of a heart attack. Sheikh Rashid was the eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is the ruler of Dubai and also the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. (more…)
Martin Vargic is a 17-year-old senior student and amateur graphic designer from Slovakia who specialises in creating intricate maps drawn from modern data and pop culture, he rose to international fame in late January 2014, when his work Map of the Internet 1.0 went viral, generating hundreds of thousands of hits and Facebook shares. It was subsequently featured on Mashable, Yahoo, The Daily Mail online, The Independent Slate, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Gizmodo and dozens of other sites worldwide including Awomkenneth. He also works under the name
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