Iddris Sandu at just 21,is the tech genius behind Uber, Instagram and Snapchat!

When Iddris Sandu was in high school, he developed a mobile software that would later gain the attention of former U.S. president Barack Obama and land him at the White House, where he received the honorary presidential scholar award. He was only 16 years old.

CHUNKY MONKEY Muscle-bound chimp ‘four times stronger than humans’ shows why we pray Planet of the Apes NEVER happens

These terrifying images of muscle-bound chimp show why we should all pray the apes don't ever try to take over the world. The pumped-up chimpanzees who all suffer from the hair-loss condition alopecia show just how ripped the burly beasts actually are.

Twelve PRACTICAL ways to help the homeless this Christmas and New Year.

THE HOMELESS AND housing crisis in Ireland has continued to worsen and deepen since Christmas last year. Emergency accommodation figures for October found that there are now collectively 9,724 people living in emergency accommodation across Ireland. 

Watchdog bans 'harmful' gender stereotypes in adverts.

The UK's advertising watchdog has said it will ban "gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm or serious or widespread offence".The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) said harmful stereotypes in adverts "contribute to how people see themselves and their role in society", and can hold some people back. The ban will cover men struggling with household chores or girls being less academic than boys. The rules come into force in June 2019.

How Kunwar Bai Yadav a 105-year-old ended open defecation in her village.

Dhamtari became the first district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to be declared free from open defecation. And the credit for that is being given to Kunwar Bai Yadav, a woman who claims to be 105 and sold her only assets a few goats to build a toilet at home.

Mum finds missing son after spotting him in Bugzy Malone video.

The neighbourhood, the crew, the expensive car arguably all key ingredients in a grime video, however, Bugzy Malone has revealed his visuals helped reunite a family.

India girl took her dad to the police over a toilet!

A seven-year-old Indian girl went to the police after her father broke his promise to build her a toilet. Hanifa Zaara told the police in a letter that her father had "cheated" her and should, therefore, be arrested. She said that she was "ashamed" to defecate outside.

London schools teach self-defence and first aid to protect pupils from knife crime.

Schools and colleges are introducing self-defence and first aid classes to protect their pupils from harm as a knife crime epidemic seizes the capital. But headteachers’ efforts to make children feel safe could be undermined unless extra resources are secured, a school leaders’ union has said. The Ofsted chief will also insist this week that schools cannot tackle the recent rise in knife crime among young people on their own.

School bans designer coats to stop ‘poverty shaming’.

A secondary school in Merseyside has banned pupils from wearing expensive designer coats in an attempt to stop “poverty shaming”.After the Christmas break, students at Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead will not be allowed to wear brands including Canada Goose, Moncler and Pyrenex. Canada Goose coats range in price from about £275 to £1,400, while Pyrex and Moncler coats cost up to £650 and £9,175 respectively.

One school pupil in every classroom is bullied every single day, survey suggests.

One child in every classroom has been bullied every single day over the past six months, the survey suggests. Almost half (45 per cent) of 11 to 16-year-olds questioned said they had been bullied face-to-face, and more than a third (34 per cent) have been bullied online, at least once in the last six months. A survey, from the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA), suggests that 4 per cent of pupils are being bullied face-to-face or online every day which it says is the equivalent of one child in every classroom.