People aren’t terribly pleased with Snoop Dogg at the moment.

The rap star took to the stage at president-elect Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Crypto Ball’ that took place on Friday (January 17) ahead of his inauguration tomorrow.

In videos of the night, Snoop Dogg is seen stood behind some DJ decks while performing some of his best-loved songs for the audience filled with cryptocurrency executives.

Speaking to Reuters, attendees said that Rick Ross and Soulja Boy also performed on the night.

In a video that’s doing the rounds online of Snoop’s performance, his fans were quick to criticize him.

“This is culturally embarrassing and disrespectful asf,” one fumed on Instagram.

Noting the late rap greats T-Pac and Nipsey Hussel, another wrote: “Nipsey and Pac would never!!!”

“Disappointed in Snoop,” penned a different person, as someone else said: “All money ain’t good money. There is no way Snoop NEED a check. You can turn down somethings.”

Others have suggested that the rapper is a hypocrite, having publicly spoken out against Trump around the time of his first inauguration in 2017.

Snoop says in an newly resurfaced clip: “So ain’t nobody gon’ perform for Donald Trump huh? Which of you jiggaboo a** ni***s gon’ be the first one to do it?”

He went on to say he would ‘roast the f**k’ out of anyone for doing it.

The same year, Snoop released a music video for his track ‘Lavender’ that saw him aiming a gun at a clown dressed like Trump.

But Snoop seems somewhat unbothered about people’s recent criticisms and, in a video shared by fellow performer Rick Ross, the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ rapper said: “It’s that crypto, see. Got a real Crip up in the Crypto Ball, bang bang.”

Away from the performances given on the night, Trump’s Crypto Ball was part of his campaign to become a so-called ‘crypto president’.

When he returns to office, the 78-year-old is expected issue executive orders aimed at reducing crypto regulatory roadblocks and promoting widespread adoption of digital assets.

Meanwhile, Trump has released his very own meme coin that’s so far made more than 500 people millionaires.

Within just six hours of its release, the coin went from a few cents to $14, and it just kept climbing from there.

It eventually went on to hit highs of nearly $5.5 billion, as per CoinMarketCap.com, thus making the few hundred investors very rich, very quickly.

Here’s why it’s possible to see the Moon in the sky when it’s daytime.

Depending on how much time you spend looking up at the sky, you may’ve noticed you can sometimes see the Moon.

The Moon? In the sky in daytime?! Yes, it sounds strange, but it’s not a result of some real life Black Mirror episode or photoshop, there’s an actual scientific explanation for it.

‘Post apocalyptic war lord’ Stew Peters took to X to share an image of the Moon visible in the sky earlier this week.

The caption reads: “This full Moon is out in the middle of the day. That’s not supposed to happen.”

Well, turns out, it’s not really ‘not supposed to happen’ and we don’t all have to go and run around in a panic just yet.

Planetary geologist and NASA scientist Sarah Noble explains that many people hold the misconception you can only see the Moon at night because it’s often portrayed that way in books and movies.

“Even the weatherman uses the Sun as a symbol for day and the Moon for night,” she says in a NASA video uploaded to YouTube.

However, that’s not the case, the Moon actually spending ‘almost as much as time in the daytime sky as the night’.

And you can see it ‘day or night’ as long as it’s in the right part of the sky? But how?

Basically, the reason we sometimes see the Moon in the daytime sky is all down to how close the Moon is to Earth, how it orbits around us and the phase of the Moon. Oh and the season and how clear the sky is on the day also play a role too.

Noble explains: “During a full Moon, the Moon is opposite the Sun in the sky. That’s why we can see the full face of the Moon reflecting sunlight.”

However, ‘as the Earth rotates,’ the Moon only rises ‘just as the Sun sets’ on ‘one day of the month’.

“In the days before a full Moon, if you look in the eastern sky, you can find the almost full Moon rising before the sun sets,” Noble continues. “And the days after a full Moon, you can look in the western sky and find the Moon setting after the Sun has come up.”

If you do want to be in with the chance of spotting the Moon in the daylight sky, you’ll have to be quick about it.

Noble notes she’s made a ‘game’ of timing her daily bike ride to try and spot it, but it sets ‘about 50 minutes later each day as it marches through its phases’.

Regulators are investigating reports of property damage after a SpaceX Starship vehicle exploded in the sky.

Along with government officials in Turks and Caicos, US regulators are figuring out the extent of the debris which fell after the explosion over the ocean.

The Starship mishap happened during a test mission on Thursday, January 16, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and in a Friday statement, the FAA and Turks and Caico officials reported that there were no injuries as a result.

The SpaceX vehicle disintegrated during the seventh uncrewed test flight, which was launched out of South Texas.

Because of the falling debris, the FAA created a ‘Debris Response Area’, which delayed travel plans for many, as planes were forced to avoid the area.

On social media, pictures and videos traveled fast, which showed bright orange streaks as pieces fell from the sky.

The Turks and Caicos National Security Secretariat said in a statement that the ‘Turks and Caicos Islands Airport Authority diverted all flights in (Turks and Caicos Islands) airspace as well as grounded all flights until an all clear had been given’.

As the investigation continues, the any flights for the spacecraft and rocket will not be going forward, which isn’t unusual as authorities typically do this while carrying out the ‘mishap investigation’.

While SpaceX will lead the investigation, the FAA will issue a list of corrective actions that the company needs to fix so that the Starship can resume its tests.

The Turks and Caicos government said it met ‘with relevant partners in the United Kingdom including the UK Space Agency, who are supporting the post incident response, including technical expertise on the handling of debris, health and safety risks, protocols and procedures’.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told CNN that the vehicle may have exploded ‘over Bahamas, (with) debris passing over Turks and Caicos a couple minutes later at ~120 km altitude (~75 miles)’.

Because of the falling debris, the authorities urged anyone who finds it not to handle it, and instead to contact relevant officials.

Dr Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins, also told CNN that sonic booms caused by the falling debris could have caused minor damage to its surroundings.

He said: “This event was over one of the most populated areas in the Caribbean, with one of the largest things we’ve ever seen re-enter the atmosphere.

“So if (sonic boom property damage) is going to happen, it’ll be an event like this that does cause it.”

Noting that it can ‘cause damage to things like windows, roofing tiles, etc’, he said that it’s not strong enough to destroy your home.

During the flight test on Thursday, SpaceX’s San Huot and Kate Tice, who hosted a webcast of the test flight, noted that the first few minutes was going as planned, until one of its engines flamed out and then five of the six engines became offline.

Then, 10 minutes after they last checked that the flight, the Starship spacecraft was lost.

After the incident, Elon Musk took to Twitter and made it clear that he didn’t consider this more than a ‘bump in the road’.

He commented: “The booster flight was a success, the ship flight was 1/4 successful, hence cup being ~5/8 full.

“New ship forward flaps, higher thrust engines and tile adherence on ascent were tested.

“Improved heat shield performance was the only major thing that wasn’t tested, along with the “Pez” payload dispenser. Probably solved in next month’s launch.

“The 9 meter diameter version of Starship will probably fly ~10,000 times, so this is barely a bump in the road. Doesn’t change the likely date at which Mars becomes self-sufficient.”

Olga Moskalyova tragically lost her life in August 2011 after she headed out for a summer walk with her stepdad, Igor Tsyganenkov.

The pair had gone out to a river in the village of Termalniy, near Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy in the east of Siberia, Russia.

They had just gone to retrieve a fishing rod the man had left there previously. But things took a turn when a brown bear launched at them as the teen dodged it before witnessing it attack Igor.

Olga’s mum, Tatiana, then received a shocking call as the teen shouted over the phone: “Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!’

She thought her daughter was joking, but recalled to the Daily Mail: “But then I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing.

“I could have died then and there from shock.”

Tatiana tried to get in touch with authorities for help but received another call from Olga: “Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies.

“They’re… eating me.”

After being left for dead, she called her mum one more time to say she wasn’t ‘hurting anymore’ and asked for forgiveness ‘for everything’ before adding: “I love you so much.”

Olga was soon found dead while the mother bear feasted on Igor’s body.

Theories on just what went down that day have flown around the internet and on the Man Eaters true crime podcast, they rounded up various ‘experts’ opinions on just why the bear ‘ate’ the pair.

Firstly, it’s thought that the bear may have been ‘spooked’ by Olga and Igor and therefore attacked them out of self-defence for her cubs. This seems likely as it’s well-known how territorial and protective mother bears can be.

Others however reckon the bear had an injury, preventing her from her usual hunting practice. So, Olga and her stepdad may have been targeted because they were a convenient prey, readily available and not perceived as a threat.

While another theory is that the bear had become ‘habituated’ to human contact. Overall, brown bears are unpredictable animals and will typically only attack if they feel threatened or surprised.

After the pair were found, emergency services called hunters to kill the mother bear and her cubs.

Just half an hour after the killings, Igor’s brother, Andrei, appeared at the scene with police, finding the mother bear feasting on his body, with Olga’s dead body also on the ground.

Mario Salcedo is a Cuban national who made the bold move to leave his stressful job as an international finance director at a mega-successful business in the US for a life sailing the seas.

The sea-lover has since visited countries and beaches across the world, while relaxing and experiencing different cultures.

But it seems the cruise ship veteran is now paying the price for his lifestyle choice, as he has started to suffer from a unique health issue.

In the late 1990s, Mario decided that living on water was the way for him after getting sick of plane travel because of how much he had to do it for his 9-5 job.

Mario had lived in hotel rooms for longer than he lived in his Miami home, so he handed in his notice at the age of 47 and set out on the voyage of a lifetime.

Over the next few years, he embarked on more than 100 back-to-back cruises before falling in love with one special ship – Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas.

Describing the vessel as ‘revolutionary’, Mario was firmly under the spell of the ship thanks to it boasting ‘so many elements that took cruising to another dimension’.

His extraordinary experience sealed his loyalty to Royal Caribbean and he has called the firm’s array of different cruises home ever since – recently completing his 1,000th cruise with the company.

As you can imagine, he has become part of the furniture and counts the staff onboard various ships as his pals – so much so, that they gave him the nickname ‘Super Mario’, which has firmly stuck.

Luckily, he has free internet access thanks to him rising up the ranks to the top of Royal Caribbean’s loyalty tier and can run his investment management business remotely while satisfying his craving for cruising.

Mario does still have an apartment in Miami, but he now dubs this his ‘hotel’ due to the fact he spends barely any time there – and when the time does arise to abandon ship, it isn’t exactly enjoyable.

That’s because all those years at sea have seemingly caught up with his body… so although he can handle seasickness like a champ, he isn’t that great at being on dry land anymore.

Mario is literally like a fish out of water when he’s stood on the Earth’s surface, as he’s accidentally earned himself a permanent set of sea legs after acclimatising a bit too well to life on a cruise.

Discussing the physical side effect, the cruise connoisseur told Condé Nast Traveller: “I’ve lost my land legs, so when I’m swaying so much I can’t walk in a straight line.

“I’m so used to being on ships that it feels more comfortable to me than being on land.”

Mario reckons the approximately £66,980 ($82,000) a year he spends on keeping up his unusual lifestyle is worth every penny seen as though he can work from a pool deckchair with an ocean view each day.

If he’s not busily working away, you can find him scuba diving in stunning waters, throwing some shapes while ballroom dancing or unwinding with a cigar in the dedicated lounge.

Back when most people didn’t even own a computer, let alone knew how to send an email, the world was a much simpler place.

Aged one at the time, I would know.

But it’s clear that TV was most the popular choice of entertainment, and over in the US, The Jerry Springer Show was the one of the most-viewed daytime talkshows of its time.

Zach went on the show as a toddler and was known as the ‘70 pound’ baby.

He suffered from a condition called Simpson-Golabi-Behmel Syndrome (SGBS), which caused him grow an inch and gain 2.5lb every couple of weeks.

What is SGBS?

The rare genetic condition causes overgrowth syndrome, which means that ‘infants are considerably larger than normal at birth and continue to grow and gain weight at an unusual rate’, according to MedlinePlus.

Those with SGBS often have distinctive facial features, such as a broad nose, large mouth, and wide-set eyes.

They can also develop skeletal abnormalities, heart defects, and an increased risk of certain tumours.

Where is Zack now?

Zach, 29, who grew up in Port Jervis, New York, said he ‘felt like a circus act’ after appearing on other shows like Oprah and Inside Edition.

“They presented me as different, which only separated me further from everyone else,” he told The Mirror. “I was known as the kid that was on TV.

“Nowadays, people ask me what it was like. They assume my mom was chasing fame or money, but that wasn’t the case.” he continued to say. “We just wanted help with geneticists, which wasn’t easy to come by with our insurance.”

Zach said his family wanted to raise awareness on what it was like to live with SGBS, adding: “We didn’t really get a lot of take-home pay after all the affairs were done. It was strictly to make sure that her kid was okay.”

On the recent release of Netflix documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera Action, he admitted: “It’s just a spin on what’s already out there. It didn’t reveal anything new. It’s the same content, just packaged with bells and whistles.”

Jerry Springer – who hosted The Jerry Springer Show for 27 years – passed away at his home in Chicago in 2023.

“Jerry’s ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word.” said family spokesperson, Jene Galvin, at the time, who also confirmed he’d died from pancreatic cancer.

“He’s irreplaceable and his loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humour will live on.”