Although banned in many countries the practice of FGM still goes on, with the latest research revealing that 125 million girls and women across the globe are suffering the consequences of it. Charity Plan UK want the practice to be completely eradicated and need the world to act as one to help achieve this.

Shouldn’t you be at work? That’s going to be the question to answer when the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in a few weeks in Brazil—as people across the globe throw sickies and make up all kinds of excuses to their boss/partner/friends they were supposed to meet so they can watch their team play.

The city of Bucharest in Romania may be beautiful and may have a rich history, but beneath its streets is a hidden secret—an underground city. Below the bustling capital lies a labyrinth of bunkers, catacombs and sewers inhabited by forgotten orphans, the homeless and HIV-infected drug addicts.

It’s an annual tradition at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner for the prez to slam the press, mock his rivals, himself, Donald Trump and anyone else he cares to. So you can imagine what a tough act to follow it must be to come after Obama making with the lolz while everyone laughs like [...]

Ukraine could be on the brink of civil war—after the Russians annexed Crimea the next place they decided to sow dissent was in Donetsk in Ukraine. This region is now being called the Donetsk People’s Republic, as pro-Russian militants form a barricade around the city. A few weeks back, on only the second day of [...]

Brian Williams doesn’t immediately strike you as the kind of guy to be sipping on some gin and juice while his mind is on his money and his money on his mind—but he is in the mind of Jimmy Fallon, who remixed various newcasts of Williams on his Tonight Show to make it sound like [...]

Like a lot of people, you were probably caught up in the hype and ended up liking Upworthy on Facebook. Several months later their ceaseless fart of clickbait headlines that lead through to insubstantial articles made from the written equivalent of hot air, are now the bane of our newsfeeds.

If you were wondering what the Oculus Facebook hook up might result in, these guys have totally nailed it in this video—sure Facebook might say they’re not going to interfere with Oculus but you just know that when the hardware finally gets released to us norms, Facebook will make sure their product is intimately entwined [...]

To mark the third anniversary of the civil war in Syria, Banksy, Idris Elba and rock band Elbow have teamed up to release this remindful video as part of a global vigil. The video features one of Banksy’s most iconic images, that of the little girl holding a red balloon, but this time it floats [...]

Filming one second of your (or your children’s) life every day and editing it together into a continuous film, popularised by Cesar Kuriyama, is a great way to look back at the happy memories, the good, good times—but this version of that popular trope will give you a bit of a jolt. Posing the question, [...]

Shot in one-take, this advert sees one man morphing from one iconic scene to another, from film to TV and art to music, from Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam to Mr Pink and Mr White facing off in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs to Daft Punk—the piece stylishly looks at what makes something iconic, tipping its hat [...]