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Imagine the scene. It is the future, and scientists have learned how to 'read' human DNA with such accuracy that they are able to predict our future health, as well as the careers that will be most suited to our abilities. The genetically elite are identified early and groomed for lives of leadership and brilliance. The biologically impoverished are relegated to the performance of the most menialtasks.

Imagine winning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. No really, go ahead, close your eyes and visualize it. What did you see? Were you standing on the medal platform looking out at the crowd, waving and taking in the scene through your own eyes, or were you a spectator in the crowd watching yourself getting the medal put around your neck? This choice between "first-person" or "third-person" visualization actually makes a difference on our motivation to achieve a future goal.

Indian ODI captain MS Dhoni has worn all crowns of world cricket, but still he is not the most celebrated cricketer in India. 

Fortnite is an immensely popular Battle Royale that keeps adding new and exciting content to hook more gamers. It was made available for Nintendo Switch users in June during E3. Since then, reports have stated 'nearly half' of the Nintendo Switch users have installed Fortnite. Read about it here.

11 August 2016 At least two people are dead as a result of an explosion and a fire in a local Silver Springs, Maryland apartment complex. According to Pete Piringer of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, firefighters located two unidentified bodies on the scene.

11 August 2016 CBS suspended Criminal Minds actor Thomas Gibson after allegedly starting a physical fight with a writer on the show according to TMZ. According to the reports, the fight began as Gibson directed and acted in a scene for the twelfth season.

11 August 2016 A new video features the Secret Service Swarm beside the stage of a Hillary Clinton rally to stop a lunging protester on the scene. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton recently attended a rally in Des Moines, Iowa to speak with her supporters.

A young Google executive who helped ignite Egypt's uprising energized a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands Tuesday with his first appearance in their midst after being released from 12 days in secret detention. "We won't give up," he promised at one of the biggest protests yet in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Once a behind-the-scenes Internet activist, 30-year-old Wael Ghonim has emerged as an inspiring voice for a movement that has taken pride in being a leaderless "people's revolution." Now, the various activists behind it - including Ghonim - are working to coalesce into representatives to push their demands for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster. With protests invigorated, Vice President Omar Suleiman issued a sharply worded warning, saying of the protests in Tahrir, "We can't bear this for a long time, and there must be an end to this crisis as soon as possible," in a sign of growing impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations. For the first time, protesters made a foray to Parliament, several blocks away from their camp in the square. Several hundred marched to the legislature and chanted for it to be dissolved.