Human Interest

Kurds in northern Iraq have jumped on the Trump bandwagon and opened a fish restaurant to honour his name. A new fish restaurant bearing the president-elect’s name has  opened in the northern city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdisatan. Donald Trump has shown admiration for Kurdish fighters who have single handedly managed to stand up to and push back the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi Kurds have faith in the newly elected US president Donald Trump, with some going as far as naming their newborn babies after him.

Bitcoin just topped $1100 for the first time since Dec 2013, bringing it closest to gold ever...

The last time bitcoin approached parity with gold, it marked the top in the virtual currency...

But the current price of gold in bitcoin is now at a record low...

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "as good as gold."

A creepy picture that appears to show a “demon” or a “fallen angel” has gone viral on Facebook this week. The photo was posted by user Richard Christianson and has been shared over 80,000 times. The image shows a large dark demon-like figure with broad wings and spikes on its head, towering over a nearby home. Shortly after snapping the weird picture, Richard asked his friends “what the hell do you see in this picture?” At that point, the post went viral, accumulating thousands of shares in a matter of hours.

Researchers in Russia have been left baffled after discovering a microchip device that they say appears to date back 250 million years.  According to lab tests, the artefact is between 225 and 250 millions years old. Ancient-code.com reports: The million dollar question is, who and what used a microchip that dates back 250 million years? Is there a possibility that this is in fact the remains of ancient technology? Technology that belonged to a highly advanced civilization that inhabited Earth millions of years ago?

Following Q3's 2% contraction, and with analysts' highest expectation at +5.1% (StanChart), Singapore GDP grew at a shocking 9.1% in Q4 QoQ.

This is the biggest QoQ growth since Q1 2012...

This was four standard deviations above average estimates.

These are preliminary numbers based on the first two minths of the quarter but the rebound was seemingly based on China's exuberance...

• Manufacturing +14.6% q/q;
• Services +9.4% q/q

Because domestically: