15-year-old Syrian, Omaima Hoshan, is campaigning against child marriage, offering drawing and acting classes to her peers at the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan to stop them from making the life-changing decision so young. Full story: http://on.mash.to/1VeCApc Read more… More … Read More
Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted 367-137 in favor of moving impeachment proceedings forward for President Dilma Rousseff. Next month, the Senate will vote on whether to put her on trial. Read more… More about Brazil, Politics, Us World, Dilma … Read More
The search for survivors continues Monday, after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Ecuador’s Pacific coast on Saturday evening. At least 272 people are confirmed dead and over 2,500 are injured. Read more: http://on.mash.to/1VdPHqE Read more… More about Natural Disaster, Us … Read More
Mananya Boonmi scrolls through the thousands of photos on her phone with the mile-wide smile of a proud mother. Every now and again she stops scrolling to show off a photo with one of her “children.” “This was when he … Read More
The death toll in Ecuador has risen to 238 following a powerful earthquake on Saturday evening. Government officials, who released the new figures in a press release Sunday, said hundreds of buildings were also destroyed in the magnitude-7.8 quake. Major … Read More
Mashable went to Baltimore to have a conversation with activist, educator and organizer DeRay Mckesson about his journey to becoming a Baltimore mayor hopeful. Though his odds at winning the election may be slim, his storying is undeniably triumphant. Full … Read More
The Democratic debate in Brooklyn on Thursday night got pretty intense as the presidential hopefuls duked it out. Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders didn’t hold anything back as they criticized each others policy differences among other things. If … Read More
After British Prime Minister David Cameron and the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, it was the turn of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to be put on sale on eBay. Sharif is currently facing scrutiny over his family’s alleged secret … Read More
Researchers have developed a technology that empowers movement in paralyzed limbs. This neural bypass technology has been brought to life by 24-year-old Ian Burkhart, the first person to use this system. Five years ago, Burkhart crashed into a hidden sandbar … Read More
As several parts of India face a severe water crisis, a video shows the extreme nature of the scarcity. In a drought-affected village, children can be seen climbing down the walls of an almost dried-up well to fetch the remaining … Read More