There’s hardly anything concerning social media that hasn’t been discussed in one of our many heated conversations on Twitter. This time, however, thanks to a particular table-shattering tweet from Noble Igwe, the economic value of yahoo boys, and just how involved they are in the local economy, two very important topics, have now been added to the menu. The case often made for internet fraudsters is that they have added massive financial value to the local economy in self-owned businesses that they fund with their ill-gotten wealth and vendors that they patronise. Read More...
To understand the relationship between Frederick Richard and Paul Juda, the latter likes to tell the following story: when the two went to compete at the world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, last year, Juda remarked about how cool it was to be at the competition, and to be competing for the U.S. Richard’s response? What about the cooler thing—winning a medal.
They both earned a bronze medal in the team event, and Richard also took home a bronze in the all-around competition—even cooler. Read More...
March 17, 2016 2:25 PM EDT
Police arrested 13 suspects in Italy and Moldova for the incredible November robbery of 17 paintings from a Verona art museum, officials announced Wednesday.
Footage released by police shows how three suspects entered the Museo di Castelvecchio at approximately 6:35 p.m., after the guards had vacated their posts but before the museum’s alarm system activated. They tied up a cashier and took works by painters including Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Peter Paul Rubens and Hans de Jode. Read More...