By Leslie Dawn Zamile Gantana takes a crate, sits in the middle of the stage, and gives a straightforward but lyrical explanation of what happened to the SS Mendi. In 1917, a total of 823 South African men boarded the ship to aid the British war effort; a month later, more than 600 of them drowned […]

Celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in June, left the bulk of his estate to his 11-year-old daughter, Ariane Busia-Bourdain. His will, obtained by USA TODAY Friday from Manhattan’s Surrogate Court, was filed by estranged wife Ottavia Busia-Bourdain Thursday. The document shows that Bourdain’s $1.2 million in assets was made up of $425,000 in savings […]

The Declaration of Independence is arguably the most important document in U.S. history. It was also briefly in violation of Facebook’s standards. Through its Facebook page, The Vindicator — a local paper based in Liberty, Texas — wanted its audience to read the Declaration of Independence. It published a series of daily posts to the social network with […]

Singer Chris Brown was arrested on Thursday night after a concert at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to news reports. Law-enforcement authorities arrested Brown on a felony battery warrant from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office, WPTV said. Brown was taken into custody immediately after his concert was over, TMZ.com said. He was […]

Cannabis is still a Schedule 1 drug making it illegal in the U.S. That law may not change any time soon. The Federal Drug Administration this month approved the first marijuana-based drug for use in the United States. Called Epidiolex, the drug treats rare forms of childhood-onset epilepsy that have typically resisted other types of treatment. The […]

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has initiated studies of blockchain technology with a view to subsequently embrace the technology and integrate it into the bank’s business processes, local news outlet NewsDay reported July 5. Speaking at the Alpha Media Holdings’ Banks and Banking breakfast meeting in Harare yesterday, RBZ governor John Mangudya reportedly said that the bank is looking to […]

Switzerland’s principal stock exchange SIX announced today, July 6, that it will open a “fully-regulated” cryptocurrency exchange next year. In an official press release, SIX confirmed it would use so-called distributed ledger technology (DLT) –– of which blockchain is one type –– to build what they are dubbing a “digital asset ecosystem,” Six Digital Exchange (SDX) to “put banks at the […]

U.S. stocks rose on Friday as stronger-than-expected jobs growth in June and a surge in Biogen’s shares eased concerns about an escalating U.S.-China trade dispute after the two economies slapped tariffs on each other’s imports worth $34 billion. Biogen jumped 15.6 percent and was on track for its biggest percentage gain in over seven years […]

Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs worth hundreds of billions of dollars on Chinese imports to the US as a trade war between the world’s two largest economies began on Friday. US tariffs on $34bn (£25.7bn) of Chinese goods have come into effect. China retaliated by imposing a similar 25% tariff on 545 US […]

By Alex Mardikian Social media and digital signage are a perfect match for one another. Yoked together, these two tools of information can deliver much more than what one may think. In this partnership, one plus one does not equal two; it’s eleven. The big similarity with these mediums is that personalized communication can be […]