The fugitive ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, as of January 13, 2016, leads the ranking of the most corrupt individuals in the world according to Transparency International as part of the Unmask the corrupt campaign. In two months of voting on unmaskthecorrupt.org on the most egregious cases ...
Actress and director Angelina Jolie topped the list of foreign celebrities who were most often written about in the Russian media in the past year. This became known from a study conducted using data from the Scan-Interfax system. A total of 15859 mentions of Jolie were registered. Most often they wrote about her...
Google has published an annual list, Year in Search, which includes the most popular searches in the search engine in 2015. Traditionally, at the end of the year, the most popular travel directions became known by the number of searches in the largest search engine, writes The Telegraph. In particular, the rating ...
The data of the annual, twelfth in a row, the UN Human Development Index survey shows that Norway is the best country on the planet - with the most comfortable living conditions. The competition was held between 188 countries in three categories - life expectancy and quality, access to ...
Oregon State University. Photo: netimpact.org The American Institute for Economic Research has ranked the best US university campuses. The city of Ames, Iowa, tops the list. He got the first place due to his affordable cost of living and wide employment opportunities in the field of science and ...
Video hosting YouTube named the ten most popular videos of 2015. The most popular video has received 116 million views, although there are no stars in it, and the shooting itself did not cost anything - it's just a recording of dancing children. YouTube representatives compiled a rating based on ...
Apple annually publishes a ranking of the best apps from its app store. This year, according to the App Store curators, two applications from the Ukrainian company Readdle and the Israeli company Lightricks hit the top. PDF Expert is a Ukrainian project that has become the second among applications for Mac. This is the first application of a Ukrainian company ...
Instagram analyzed the frequency of geotags and hashtags in the images of its users and named the hotels most photographed by tourists. Many tourists take a rest, photographing new locations and taking selfies. The tags that Instagram users add to their posts make it easy to tell where people spend their time ...
Time magazine's annual ranking of the best inventions includes innovations that make the world a better, smarter, and in some cases even more fun. Hoverboard The name "hoverboard" comes from the English hover, which means "to hover." But in this case, this half-sigway, half-skateboard touches ...
Every year on November 19, Men's Day is celebrated, which was established to draw attention to gender discrimination and the problem of gender inequality. International Men's Day appeared in the former British colony of Trinidad and Tobago - where it was first celebrated in 1999. Later holiday ...