Day to Day Headaches : First hydrogen-balloon flight (August 27, 2016)

Today's World News

To Start off 

Polish Olympian sells Rio medal to save three-year-old battling cancer : 'I fought for gold in Rio. Today I’m calling on everyone to fight for something even more precious.'

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who took silver at the Rio Olympics, said that he auctioned off his medal this week to fund treatment for a three-year-old boy struck with cancer. Know more

India set to slap terror charges on Zakir Naik, ban his NGO : The Indian government, while declaring the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) an ‘unlawful’ organisation, is set to slap terror charges on the televangelist Zakir Naik, whose ‘hate speech’ was reported to have inspired one of the five Dhaka cafe attackers. Know more

Kim’s man in Russia BETRAYS North Korea as Vladimir Putin prepares to meet the South : KIM Jong-un’s regime has taken another blow as one of his top bosses in Russia has defected just weeks before Vladimir Putin meets with South Korea.

North Korea has lost another of its leading foreign diplomats following the defection of their man in London. Know more

The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals : ALMOST A YEAR and a half into Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals. Know more

The Pentagon has shipped more than a million small arms to Iraq and Afghanistan’s defense forces : The quantity of arms contracted for export – worth several billion dollars – is greater than the number of personnel in their security forces and far more than the Pentagon has routinely indicated. Know more

Son of Russian lawmaker convicted of masterminding global online theft ring : A federal jury convicted the son of a Russian lawmaker Thursday of hacking into U.S. businesses to steal credit card information and orchestrating an international online theft scheme that netted him millions of dollars. Know more

Germans want a burqa ban : A new poll has indicated that more than three quarters of Germans don't want to see a full body veil in public places. The issue is currently the subject of heated debate across the country - and the rest of Europe. Know more

Dutch party wants to outlaw mosques, Islamic schools, Koran : Freedom Party says it wants to reverse the ‘Islamization’ of the Netherlands.

The Dutch far-right Freedom Party will run in the country’s parliamentary elections next year on a platform seeking to ban some of the key tenets of Islam, according to a manifesto published by its leader Geert Wilders Thursday. Know more

There you have it our Top News of the day. 


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"Smell the flowers"

There you have it our Top 5 Most funniest image of the day.



Today's Historic Event

27th of August 1783 

First hydrogen-balloon flight (unmanned) by Jacques C. Charles.

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