Pregnancy is Miserable No Matter What You Are!

This picture is being reposted by women all over the world. Her expression says it all when she’s showing how most pregnant people everywhere feel at some point. The fact that she’s hairless also helps make the image funnier because we imagine the stretchy skin and misery as parts of pregnancy. I wonder if people tell her she’s glowing all of the time.

Michelle Obama’s Becoming is Barnes & Noble Fastest-selling Book of 2018.

Former first lady Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” has become the fastest-selling book of 2018 at Barnes & Noble, surpassing the Trump administration tell-all “Fear: Trump in the White House” by veteran journalist Bob Woodward. In addition to being this year’s fastest seller, Barnes & Noble also announced that “Becoming” had the best first-week sales of any adult book since 2015’s “Go Set a Watchman,” the highly anticipated second novel from “To Kill A Mockingbird” author Harper Lee.

South Africa’ President Signs $266 Minimum Wage bill, 6 million to benefit.

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a new minimum wage bill, local media portals in the country reported. Although signed, the new minimum wage of 3,700 rands (about $266) a month is expected to take effect on January 1, 2019.

5 Friends Who Were Bridesmaids In Each Other’s Weddings Are All Now U.S. State Senators.

Nothing beats you and your friends making strides and advancing in your careers together, and that’s exactly what these 5 women have done.

Teenage girl’s underwear used as evidence in Irish rape trial prompting mass protests.

Women across Ireland could go on strike over how rape trials are conducted after a jury was told a 17-year-old's underwear suggested consent, an Irish MP has revealed. The lawyer of a 27-year-old man who has been cleared of rape argued that the trial should consider whether the young woman's clothing and lace thong meant she had consented to sex.

Northernmost US city of Utqiagvik in Alaska begins 65 days of constant darkness after its shortest day of the year saw just 64 minutes of sunlight.

Polar night has begun in the northernmost U.S. city of Utqiagvik, Alaska, which now faces 65 days of darkness. Utqiagvik, formerly named Barrow, saw only 64 minutes of sunlight on Sunday, and following sunset at 1.44pm, local time will not see the sun again until January 23, 2019, at 1.04pm.

13-year-old who penned letter about gun violence killed by stray bullet.

When she was in sixth grade, Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about gun violence and crime in her hometown, Milwaukee. This week, two years after she described how “we are in a state of chaos,” she was fatally shot when someone outside fired a gun at her home and a stray bullet went into her bedroom.

Two legends. One Day. $9 million on the line.

Phil Mickelson won “The Match” on Friday, or perhaps we should say he survived it, finally outlasting Tiger Woods over 22 holes and eventually a chip-and-putt shootout to clinch a $9 million bounty and some bragging rights over his long-time rival.

The Funniest Wildlife Images of 2018.

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have announced its 30 finalists for the year 2018 which is usually determined by the standard of imagery and quality; the humour continues to improve from year to year with new animals that have not been represented. Entries for this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have been whittled down to 41, with funny bears, owls and moose among the favourites. 

These new vitiligo and albino dolls for Black girls beautify diversity.

The quest for diversity inspired two women to team up and create a collection of dolls with facial and body features of African and Caribbean children to help encourage black girls to embrace their natural beauty. Caroline Hlahla, a Zimbabwean based in the UK, and Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu, a South African, started the Sibahle Collection brand in 2017, and have since not looked back. In March 2018, the duo launched a line of albino dolls called Zuri Swahili name for “beautiful” to address discrimination and violence against those living with albinism, and for girls with albinism to have a doll they can relate to.

Africa’s first blind photographer Taiwo Lawal and how she gets the best shots.

She sets the tripod, checks the angles to ensure good balance. She then feels the buttons on the camera and looks into the lens. Camera. Ready. Action!, That is the normal work routine for the Nigerian woman, Taiwo Lawal, believed to be Africa’s first blind photographer who is showing the world that passion is stronger than obstacles.

Australian town's genius way of stopping rubbish from polluting rivers and streams goes viral.

An Australian town's innovative rubbish filtering system is impressing people across the globe for its simple way of reducing river pollution. Two drainage nets were installed on a trial basis in Kwinana, 38km south of Perth, in an attempt to reduce waste seeping through the town's drainage system.

Florida man’s mugshot goes viral, draws a slew of ‘neck’ jokes.

 

A Florida man was in the wrong neck of the woods Tuesday, and now he’s become a viral sensation. Charles Dion McDowell was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding police, possession of meth, cocaine and other drug charges but it’s not the crime people are talking about.

Tiwa Savage featured on British Vogue’s list of female artists changing modern music.

While congrats are in order for yet another milestone for Tiwa, the feature was only made possible by the Chief Editor Edward Enninful, who celebrated his one-year anniversary with the release of the December issue. In this edition, Enninful brings his #newvogue campaign aimed at increasing diversity in the magazine’s pages to an end for the year.

Canada's first dollar bill to ever feature a black woman will go into circulation in this month.

Described as Canada’s Rosa Parks, Viola Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema in 1946 nearly a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama igniting the country’s civil rights movement.72 years after the event, Canada will put into circulation a $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond’s portrait in November. She will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote and also the first black person to be on any dollar bill.