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Map Shows Where The U.S. Dropped 26,000 Bombs in 2016

According to newly released figures, Former president Obama had upped the number of bombs on foreign countries. US forces dropped over 3,000 more bombs in 2016 than 2015, at least 26,171 . This map by Statista and Independent shows where they were: Most Bombings (24,287) took place in Syria and Iraq. Other U.S. bombs also rained down in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan – seven majority-Muslim countries. According to analysis of official data by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the US dropped 79 per cent of all 30,743 coalition bombs in 2016. While Barack Obama reduced the number of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq under his leadership, he leaves the white house having authorized ten times more drone strikes than George W Bush and having been at war for longer than any President in US history. Credits -  The Independent 
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What Makes Hair Curly ?

If you like your curly hair, you can thank, your genes, your shampoo, your climate and your hairdresser. But the fact is they’re all bit players. When we touch our skin, it feels very smooth, but when we observe it under a microscope, it looks like this -             A notched mountain range with large holes sprouting hair.  These pits are known as  follicles, and they're responsible for making hair straight or curly. Straight hair are produced by round follicle, wavy hair are produced by an oval-shaped follicle and very curly hair are produced by a flat follicle.  The texture of hair chiefly relies upon the shape of the hair that can be observed in cross-section under a microscope. The shape of straight hair is round, that of wavy hair is oval and that of curly hair is flat.  The number of hairs depends upon your being brunette or blond. Blonds have around 1,40,000 hairs on their head and redheads have an average 90,000 hairs and the people who hav

Passenger Gets Kicked Off Plane For Speaking Arabic

Internet comedian, Adam Saleh, shared the footage of the heated confrontation on a Delta flight after other passengers reportedly became 'uncomfortable'. Saleh tweeted the clip saying: "We got kicked out of a @Delta airplane because I spoke Arabic to my mom on the phone and with my friend slim... WTFFFFFFFF please spread." We got kicked out of a @Delta airplane because I spoke Arabic to my mom on the phone and with my friend slim... WTFFFFFFFF please spread pic.twitter.com/P5dQCE0qos — Adam Saleh (@omgAdamSaleh) December 21, 2016 The footage opens up with Saleh speaking to camera in the plane aisle while appearing to be ushered out. In the video, He says: " Guys we spoke a different language on the plane and now we are getting kicked out. Now we are getting kicked out. We are getting kicked out because we spoke a different language. This is 2016... 2016!" Later in the clip Saleh suggests that other passengers complained to staff beca

Muslim Aid Donate 10 Tonnes Of food To Help Homeless Londoners At Christmas

Muslim Aid in UK has donated 10 tonnes of food to help homeless people this Christmas. An estimated 7,500 people attended a food drive at East London Mosque in order to make and collect donations. After they attended Friday Jummah volunteers gathered the supplies, which include rice, pasta, cereal, tinned goods and other items. Muslim Aid CEO @jehangirmalik w/ headteacher of @LEastAcademy , along with the local priest & Imam & our volunteer Fatma. #BigFoodDrive pic.twitter.com/AEgPmkdgeV — Muslim Aid UK (@Muslim_Aid) December 16, 2016 Donations came from local businesses, colleges, schools and universities. The Chief Imam affirmed that ‘it is a religious duty for Muslims to try to help others, irrespective of a person’s faith or background’. He said -   Muslims are inspired by their faith towards helping others in need. It is a religious duty for Muslims to try to help others, irrespective of a person’s faith or background. In the cold winter months w

The Earth's Magnetic shield cracked

According to a team from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research's GRAPES-3 data muon telescope in India, the Sun spit out a ginormous mass coronal ejection on June 22 2015 that essentially cracked the Earth's magnetic field. As a result, some cosmic radiation leaked through. For 2 hours, Earth’s magnetosphere was being bombarded by these particles, which emit immensely high-energy radiation, and travel through space at nearly the speed of light. These things are so powerful, they can easily penetrate the hull of a spacecraft, and Earth’s magnetic shield is our first line of defense against them. "This vulnerability can occur when magnetized plasma from the Sun deforms Earth’s magnetic field, stretching its shape at the poles and diminishing its ability to deflect charged particles," Katherine Wright explains on the  American Physical Society website. The results indicate that the magnetosphere had been temporarily cracked, and that’s why things we

Asian man's passport photo rejected as computer thought his eyes were closed

A man of Asian background had his passport photo rejected by a New Zealand government website Because computer thought his eyes were closed. Richard Lee, who was born in Taiwan but raised in New Zealand, ran into trouble when he tried to renew his passport. He was trying to renew his passport, but received an awkward error message when he submitted his picture to Internal Affairs's online passport photo checker. 'The photo you want to upload does not meet our criteria because subjects eyes are closed,' the message read. He later told by Department of Internal Affairs that the photo was rejected because of “uneven lighting on the face.” He added -   “No hard feelings on my part, I’ve always had very small eyes and facial recognition technology is relatively new and unsophisticated,”  “It was a robot, no hard feelings. I got my passport renewed in the end,”   

Pakistani Flight Crashes With 42 on Board

A Pakistan International Airlines flight with 42 passengers and six crew, including a famous pop singer headed to Islamabad from Chitral has crashed into a mountain after losing contact with the control tower shortly after takeoff, according to Danyal Gillani, a spokesperson for the airline. The flight, PK 661, was traveling from Chitral, a northern tourist destination near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, to Islamabad, the capital, when it crashed, said Saeed Wazir, the deputy inspector general of police in Abbottabad District. “It is a hilly area,” Mr. Wazir said. “The police are on their way.” “But what locals from the crash scene are telling us, the passengers are all burned,” he said. “Smoke and fire are billowing from the debris. No one can go near it. People are helpless.” Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane at 4:30 p.m. local time. They believe the plane crashed 12 minutes later, Gillani told ABC News. Controllers reported that they had rece