Katy Perry bids $50K to date with a fan

    MSN News Katy Perry supported a good cause on Sunday and won a date with her boyfriend, Orlando Bloom, all at the same time. The singer sang at the One Love Malibu benefit concert at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, California, which raised money for those affected by the recent Woolsey Fire. One hundred…

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      Man ‘dressed up like dustbin’ a head-turner in India

      NTV Bishnu Bhagat, 36, dresses himself in colourful polythene bags and goes about his business every day in Odisha. He doesn’t mind being referred as a ‘chalta firta dustbin’ (walking dustbin), because the underlying message he wants to convey is, ‘If I look ugly to you, think about earth and what we have made it.’…

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        Sierra Leone’s ‘peace diamond’ dividend slow in coming

        AFP They were promised a “peace diamond” dividend in the Sierra Leone village of Koryardu after the stone they handed over for auction fetched $6.5 million (5.7 million euros) a year ago. But they are still waiting to see the benefits. “Absolutely nothing happened,” said Pastor Emmanuel Momoh, who manages the team of diggers that…

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          Astrocast successfully launches its first satellite

          Tech Explorist Monday, December 3rd was a big day for Astrocast. Evening at 7:34 pm Swiss time, Astrocast – a young start-up spun out of EPFL – launched its first demonstration satellite intended to test its Internet-of-Things system. The launch, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, went smoothly. The rocket was carrying…

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            The seven-year-old making $22m on YouTube

            MSN News YouTube Ryan of Ryan ToysReview Ryan’s earnings have doubled since last year 1. A seven-year-old boy who reviews toys has been revealed as YouTube’s highest-earning star, raking in $22m (£17.3m). The estimate by Forbes magazine found that Ryan of Ryan ToysReview pipped Jake Paul by $500,000 for the 12 months to June. Videos…

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              Girl walks around NYC with no pants!

              NTV Model Pranksters TV just conducted a pretty damn near genius social experiment. In an effort to see how observant New Yorkers are, the team hired body art company The Body Of Art to paint a woman’s legs to resemble jeans, and they sent her out sans pants on the streets of NYC. The point…

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                Soccer fan arrested for throwing banana skin into the field

                AFP A football fan has been arrested after a banana skin was thrown onto the pitch at the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrated scoring a penalty in front of Tottenham fans. The Gunners won a memorable match 4-2 on Sunday and London’s Metropolitan Police afterwards confirmed that seven arrests had been made….

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                  Viqarunnisa teacher suspended over ninth grader’s suicide

                  Sayeed Muhammad of DOT :  In the wake of raging protests over the suicide of a ninth grader, the authorities of Dhaka’s Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNSC) have suspended Zinnat Ara, the morning shift in-charge of the institution’s main campus. They also served a show-cause notice on her, said the institution’s Governing Body Chairman Golam…

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