Source: rt.comPeople wave Catalan separatist flags during a demonstration organised by Catalan pro-independence movements ANC (Catalan National Assembly) and OmniumCutural, following the imprisonment of their two leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart, in Barcelona.The head of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, has denounced Madrid’s decision to transfer the powers from the regional authorities to the central government as a “coup” as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Barcel

Source: dw.comRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after 20 days in detention for unauthorized protest. Police arranged the release to take place away from assembled journalists.Navalny said he was ready for work immediately after being released from a Moscow detentioncenteron Sunday.The 41-year-old lawyer, who has declared his intention to stand as a 2018 presidential candidate,was jailed for organizing protestsagainst Russian President Vladimir Putin without permission.Hi

Source: amazingnews.comEndangered species are anever growingproblem around the world.Unfortunatelydue to human interaction, environmental effects, and otherdamagesmany endangered species are not recovering very well.One such animal is the wild tiger, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been counting wild tigers for over 100 years and they’ve never had a positive year, until this year.The WWF put out their official count this week and for the first time since1900there was an increase in the wild t

Source: dailycaller.comGerman prosecutors charged a 96-year-old former SS concentration camp guard with accessory to murder Friday for his role in the deaths of over 17,000 prisoners.The Frankfurt prosecutor’s office did not identify theman,but specified that he was a member of the SS Death’s Head unit, fifthcompany,and that he was 22 years old when he worked as a guard atMajdanek death camp in Poland between 1943 and 1944,according to AFP News.The unidentified man is alleged to have taken par

Source: thiscolossal.comThis past April a massive 80-foot steelkrakenwas purposefully sunk into the Caribbean Sea on top of a decorated WW2 ship.The former Navy fuel barge and its monstrous passenger were placed underwater in order to jumpstart a new coral ecosystem, while also serving as a cutting-edge educationcenterfor marine researchers and local students from the surrounding British Virgin Islands.The project is titled theBVI ArtReef,and aims to use sculptures like the porouskrakenas a base

Source: venturebeat.comBitcoin surged to a record high of more than $6,000 on Friday, pushing its market capitalization to $100 billion at one point, as investors continued to bet on an asset that has a limited supply and has paved the way for a whole slew of crypto-currencies.The original virtual currency has gained over 500 percent this year, more than any other tradable asset class. Bitcoin though is very volatile – posting gains and losses as high as 26 percent and 16 percent respectively o

Source: goodnewsnetowrk.comThis green-tinted chandelier is not just a gorgeous lighting fixture – it also purifies the air around it.The Exhale chandelier is the world’s first “living” bionic chandelier that uses algae to convert surrounding carbon dioxide emissions into clean oxygen.The microalgae,which are nourished by a special life-support system, are contained in the 70 glass “leaves” of the chandelier, which then cleanse the atmosphere of CO2 by using photosynthesis.The fixture can a

Source: uk.Heuters.comHeavy rain and powerful winds are expected to lash large areas of Japan on Sunday as a strong typhoon sweeps ashore, possibly hindering voter turnout in a national election.Typhoon Lan was classified as an intense Category 4 storm on Saturday, with winds of up to 250 km/h (156 mph), according to the Tropical Storm Riskweb site.By midday, it was south of South Borodino Island, east of Okinawa, and moving northeast at 15kph, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.It is expected

Source: theguardian.comGoogle’s artificial intelligence group,DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo – an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human knowledge of the game before inventing better moves of its own, all in the space of three days.Named AlphaGo Zero, the AI program has been hailed as a major advance because it mastered the ancient Chinese board game from scratch, and with no human help beyond being told the rules.In games a

Source: goodnewsnetwork.orgWhen was Ireland preparing for its first hurricane in 50 years, this mosque was making sure that every citizen was safe – even the homeless ones.TheIslamic Cultural Centre of Irelandannouncedthat it would be welcominginthe homeless community of Dublin for the duration of Hurricane Ophelia.Additionally, they served free snacks, soup, tea, and coffee.Mosque representatives told theIndependent: “it’s the minimum that we can do as humanitarians.”Thecenteralso wrote on