When choosing baby gifts, you run the risk of getting it wrong, whether it’s inadvertently buying something that doesn’t align with the parents’ child-raising principles, or simply something they already have. My personal tip is to buy clothes in the six to 12 months range—since everyone will give them newborn clothes (it’s tough to resist, I know, they’re absolutely adorable), it’ll be a relief for the parents a few months down the line to find that suddenly-chubby little one still has something in the closet that fits.

New York City may not sleep, but it does age. Today the Big Apple celebrates 350 years of being New York City, after being officially renamed from New Amsterdam on Sept. 8, 1664. From the best of times to the worst of times, songwriters have captured every corner of the city and the lives lived in its five boroughs through music. Artists ranging from Nas to Billy Joel have found themselves in a “New York State of Mind.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has declared that the fate of Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has been sealed and can’t return as the Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Naija News reports El-Rufai made the submission on Wednesday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He added that the same thing applies to the CECPC Secretary, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe.

A video went viral of three women playing with the endangered plant species Nepenthis holdenii, nicknamed the "penis plant." Here's why. Source: Cambodian Ministry of Environment / FacebookThe weather is getting warmer and you know what that means: It’s flower picking season! But for folks in Cambodia, they’ve been given special instructions by the government to keep their hands off one specific plant species known as Nepenthis holdenii. The tropical pitcher plant, which has been nicknamed the “penis plant,"

The terms of the deal are almost complete, and the negotiating teams decide to go out on the town to continue their discussion in more relaxed surroundings. A few drinks later, the lights go low and somebody flicks a button. Suddenly, images of a dreamlike California are drifting across a screen, a low-key musical accompaniment is floating through the room and the company chairman, heaving with emotion, is crooning into a microphone: You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog… It’s time to praise (and occasionally curse) the muse of a million cocktail lounges, the genius who gave voice to the common man in the 20th century, Daisuke Inoue.