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Most of you might know Lil’Wayne as an American rapper, but Newsflash! He actually has some Nigerian genes! During an interview on Revolt TV’s “Drink Champ” he disclosed that he is biologically Nigerian. He confessed to taking an ancestry test to find out his genealogy and the result came back showing that he is 53% Nigerian. “Shout out to Nigeria, I did my 23 and me ancestry dot com and my shit came back like 53% Nigerian.

In April 2019, Carlos Martinez was visiting a prison for gang members inEl Salvador, having gained rare access to help with a photography project. A reporter for national newspaper El Faro, Martinez, 41, was used to dealing with the gangs that have over decades made his country one of the most violent in the world. But this time he saw something that shocked him. The prison director showed him an isolation cell, where nine former gang members—from each of the country’s three main organized crime groups, MS-13, and two factions of Barrio 18—had been moved after coming out as gay.

Profession: Physicist and Chemist Biography: Irène Joliot-Curie was a distinguished French scientist who made significant contributions to the fields of chemistry and physics. She was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, both Nobel laureates, and she continued her parents' pioneering work in radioactivity. Together with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity, a significant milestone in nuclear science.

The mob has gone global. That’s the conclusion of Italian prosecutors in charge of an international sweep on Tuesday that sought the arrests of 41 suspected members of the notorious ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization, with arrest warrants issued as far away as Canada and Western Australia. The often brutal ‘Ndrangheta is native to the southern Italian region of Calabria, the toe in the peninsular boot, where tight ties of blood and marriage and a deep penetration of nearly all aspects of society have challenged those who have tried to bring it down.

Full Name: Benjamin Kubelski Profession: Comedian, Radio and TV Host Biography: Jack Benny was one of the most popular American comedians of the 20th century. He was known for his radio and later TV show, "The Jack Benny Program", which aired for more than 30 years. He was also known for his appearances in films and on television. Benny began his career in vaudeville and later transitioned to radio. His radio show became one of the most popular programs of the 1930s and 1940s.

Profession: Singer Biography: James Brown was an American musician and songwriter who was one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Soul," and his music had a profound impact on the development of funk, soul, and hip hop. Brown was born in South Carolina and raised in Georgia, where he began his musical career as a gospel singer in the 1940s.

Braving the Radiation Though the Japanese government has quarantined areas near the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, many tsunami survivors return to their affected homes to retrieve things they had to leave behind More » Images Released of the Tsunami Striking Fukushima TEPCO makes public pictures of the massive wave engulfing the nuclear power plant More » Japan's Nuclear Wasteland A photographer ventures into the highly dangerous, deserted wasteland that's within a 12-mile radius of the beleaguered Japanese plant More »

In July, Lil Uzi Vert scored his third chart-topping album, and his fourth in the top 5, when “Pink Tape” debuted at No. 1. That paved the road for a 23-date tour in October, with some of those shows — including one at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco — selling out. Roc Nation’s partnership with the NFL yielded another attention-getting Super Bowl performance, again shining the spotlight on one of its own artists: Rihanna, whose show led the world to discover that the artist, actor and entrepreneur was expecting her second child.

This year, during the heat of summer, when temperatures in New York surpassed 90°F, the 22 solar panels on the roof of my house were doing absolutely nothing. This is not something I learned until September, four months after my husband and I bought this house with a purportedly functional leased solar system in upstate New York, months after logging into a website that inaccurately told us that the panels were working, months after we forked over $6,000 to prepay the remainder of the 20-year lease to the company supposed to be maintaining the solar panels, Spruce Power, which happens to be the largest privately held owner and operator of residential solar in America.