Online Dating Study Reveals How Far People Are Willing to Go to Find Love.

The wide pool of candidates accessible during online dating can feel overwhelmingly large. With the ability to message candidates from sea to shining sea, the perfect person may be just a DM away  even if that person lives in the next state or county. But an analysis published Tuesday in Sociological Science reveals that even if that ultra-compatible human is out there, there’s a limit to how far we will go for love.

Afro-Dominicans kick against discrimination by wearing natural hair to school and work.

A section of students and educators in the Caribbean country of the Dominican Republic wore their Afro-hair to school and work on Monday in protest after a student in the eastern region of the country was sent home for donning her natural hair to school, according to Latino Rebels.

4 ways childhood emotional trauma impacts us as adults.

For those people who endured some sort of emotional trauma as a child, even if the trauma is long in the past, those emotional scars can still show themselves in adulthood. During the time of the trauma, regardless of whether it was experienced directly or witnessed by the child, the world often ceases to make sense to them. In order to cope, the child tries to find meaning in their experience. They draw a ‘mental map’ of the world and the way things work.

Africa was the most civilized continent 5,000 years ago.

Integration is the only way African countries will reach the status of Europe, the United States, and China, said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Friday at a public lecture in Kenya that was nearly marred by students. The police were forced to lob tear gas canisters at some rowdy Kenyatta University students who were shouting pro-Bobi Wine chants outside a building where Museveni was giving the lecture, reports Daily Nation.

16-Year-Old Teen Accepted into 9 Law Schools, Haley Taylor Schlitz.

Haley Taylor Schlitz, a 16-year-old teenager who graduated from high school at the age of 13, is now set to attend classes at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, one of the nine law schools that accepted her, according to the American Bar Association.

Lotto Winner Forgets Ticket After Being Picked Up By Limo To Collect £850,000 Prize.

A lucky lotto winner was so stoked by his fortune that he only went and forgot to bring the ticket when going to collect his £850,000 (€1,000,000) winnings, didn't he? Odhran Doherty, 23, had set off to claim his winnings in a stretch limo, only to realise he'd left the slip at home meaning the farm worker had to swing around 10 miles into his journey to Dublin from Donegal."My father put it in a safe place, a wee bit too safe now to be honest," farm worker Odhransaid.

40ft Sperm Whale Corpse Washes Up On West Coast Of Ireland.

A giant of the deep ocean has washed up on a beach in west Ireland.The 40ft corpse of a sperm whale was found at Mace Head, Moyrus in Connemara, County Galway on Sunday.It is believed to have died prior to beaching, as fishermen spotted a floating sperm whale off the coast last week.

Man Kidnapped When He Was Eight Returns Home 21 Years Later.

A man has been reunited with his family after being kidnapped more than 21 years ago.Xu Wenbin was abducted by a man on his way home from school in 1998 when he was only eight years old.The native of Chenggu County, Hanzhong, in China's northwestern Shaanxi Province, was then sold 750 miles away to a family in Jing County in northern Hebei Province.

29-year-old African lawyer who made history with Ghana’s first wholly owned oil and gas company .

Women’s participation in the workforce is a huge concern for development. The topic ignites passionate conversation during women’s history month each year. In the oil and gas industry, the issue of gender parity is especially acute.Globally, women account for only 22% of the workforce in oil and gas and their numbers dwindle as one approaches senior management.

Photographs capture an abandoned world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.