News Headlines - 14 March 2016
▽Saudi Crown Prince Asks Paris to Award Him Legion of Honor Order
French President Francois Hollande granted secretly last Wednesday the order of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration in France, to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Nayef, during the latter's visit to Paris, without announcing it in the presidential statements before press reported it two days later, which raised a wave of protests amid the political class and rights organizations in Paris.
▽Google car crash 'not a surprise' - US transport secretary - BBC News
The recent crash involving a Google self-driving car and a bus was "not a surprise", the US transport secretary has said.
Anthony Foxx told the BBC that accidents were inevitable, but that the emerging technology should not be compared "against perfection".
The biology student at Loyola University in Chicago, came up with the idea in 2012. She's been editing and writing on Wikipedia since she was 12-years-old - and has been receiving abusive, sexist and sexually inappropriate messages (largely from the Wikipedia community) ever since.
The global temperature in February smashed monthly records to become the warmest month in more than a century of recordkeeping.
According to Nasa data, global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35°C warmer than the average temperature for that month, measured from the 1951-1980 baseline.
▽Microsoft Drops Support For Bitcoin Payments In Windows Store
Microsoft has recently announced that they are no longer accepting payments in Bitcoins for their Windows store but no particular reason was given as to why.
