If you’ve ever worried about whether or not the media is presenting a fair and balanced coverage of the news, then this data is not likely to allay your fears. Freedom of the press has been found to go hand in hand with democracy and human rights, so of course it is important. Freedom of the press is at a relatively high level in America which is good but it [...]

Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Meyer’s plan to buy Tumblr has been unanimously approved by the company board. The US web-giant is aiming to appeal to a younger audience under the guidance of new CEO Meyer and hopes the acquisition of the popular blogging site Tumblr will help with this. Tumblr was started six-years ago by David Karp and is based in New York. Mr Karp’s story is pretty remarkable considering he started [...]

An Australian Politician is under fire this week from the media after some Facebook activity he did in 2011 has come to light. Back in 2011, he clicked “like” on a photo of a video of a boy who was 16 years old at the time. He was doing the prank known in Australia as “sneaky nuts”, which means exposing your testicles without people directly realizing it. The video went quiet for a few [...]

A man in Bogota, Columbia saw an opportunity to rob a woman’s mobile phone whilst waiting in a bus depot. He was clever to pull a lever to open the doors which are supposed to be opened only in an emergency when a bus is not parked at the depot. The man continued with his plan and after a struggle he made his escape with the phone through the open [...]

A top detective has revealed that British police have identified a “good number” of  potential suspects in the ongoing hunt for the missing Madeleine McCann. The child went missing on May 3 in Praia da Luz in 2007 during a family holiday. It was the Prime Minister who asked the Metropolitan Police to join the search for the Madeleine. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, insist that the search for their daughter, [...]

Will Smith and his son Jaden were enjoying the Bulls/Heat basketball game on Wednesday night in Miami, and when the cameras focused on them, sideline reporter Craig Sager decided to get in the shot and achieved a funny ‘photobomb’. This photo has gone viral on the net gaining lots of attention, after being posted on the NBA official website. “Noticing the camera was on him, and encouraged by Marv and [...]

Apps are big business and the market is growing every month as more and more people own smartphones, tablet PCs and laptops. This is a new market having only begun in recent years but is now worth billions of dollars. This is especially true for tech giants such as Apple with the iPhone, iPod and iPad.   Tech talk these days often seems to go hand in hand with talk [...]

As well as people’s daily caffeine fix, coffee-shops like Starbucks are a great place to meet up with friends, read a book, and chill-out. Free wi-fi is put in place by Starbucks and other companies as a little incentive for paying customers who want a short internet browse. Some people have other ideas though, and seem to have decided to make their local cafe their own private office. They are there for [...]

According to sources, the younger of the two Boston bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, scrawled a note on the inside of the boat he was using as a hideout from the police and FBI. In the note Dzhokhar claims responsibility for the shocking attack on innocent runners and spectators at the Boston Marathon, and goes some way to explain his and his older brother Tamerlan’s motives for the attack. The note describes the [...]

Fighter Pat Healy made what appeared to be an extremely successful switch-over from Strikeforce to the Ultimate Fighting Championships after successfully submitting Jim Miller at UFC 159 in April. From this submission he made two bonuses, which amounted to $130,000. Unfortunately for Healy, he also tested positive for marijuana in a drugs test following the fight. The fight was reassessed as a no-contest and he has been ordered to give up the $130,000 bonus [...]