Many parents are just plain overwhelmed – and often far too trusting, says a cybersecurity consultant CHICAGO: The 7th grader looks desperate as she approaches. She’s just been to a cybersecurity talk at her school, where she raised her hand when asked if she has a social media account – Snapchat, in her case. Most […]

Last week Canada announced a landmark decision in the history of legal cannabis when the Senate put the final stamp of approval on the law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana all across the country. This will make the Canucks the first G7 nation, and the second country in the world, to legalize recreational cannabis […]

  It was almost half a century ago that Ines Madrigal was born in Spain and handed to a woman who was not her mother. In all those years, she has seen no trace of her birth mother, nor any evidence that she was willingly given up for adoption. Madrigal suspects she was one of […]

You may have heard of popular tourist destinations on Croatia’s Dalmatian coastline such as Zadar or Split. But this small seaside town is probably not on your radar, yet. Šibenik has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years. Its impressive centuries-old fortresses are being restored, the old town’s historic Venetian palazzos are given a new […]

A lyric on his new album about potentially taking his own life is an accurate reflection of his thoughts, the rapper says, Kanye West says he has considered suicide in the past in an interview where he also talked about the backlash from his comments about slavery. The US rapper said he had been concerned […]

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. Lower courts had deemed the ban unconstitutional, but the US top court has reversed this decision in a 5-4 ruling announced on Tuesday. The ban prohibits most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen […]

Actor Tom Holland, best known for his role as Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), revealed the title of the upcoming sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. Holland who is fast become famous for spoiling major Marvel announcements revealed the title for the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming as Spider-Man: Far From Home in an Instagram message. In the video, Holland first apologizes […]

With a plethora of business blockchains vying for prominence, banks are under increasing pressure to pick a winner – after all, without network effects, surely the benefits would be lost? While that might be conventional wisdom, Commerzbank AG, one of Germany’s largest financial institutions, is taking a different tack. Rather than choose one protocol on […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already modern Turkey’s longest serving ruler. Sunday’s election result is an endorsement of the President’s increasingly hardline measures that will raise alarm bells in the corridors of Western powers. Other leaders, from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, were quick to congratulate the former footballer and Istanbul mayor on his win. […]

Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says unofficial results from the presidential elections show he has won outright in the first round. Mr Erdogan has 53%, while his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, is on 31%, state media report, with most votes counted. Mr Erdogan also said the governing alliance of his AK Party had secured […]