Born in Soweto, Nkosinathi was a 25-year-old student of the University of Cape Town who began to gain national attention in October 2017 for his invention of a water purification system called AquaRenu to solve Cape Town’s water crisis. Nkomo could not afford to finish his civil engineering degree at UCT so he decided to launch AquaRenu and it was starting to generate revenue and pay for all of his college fees.

Rapinoe announced her engagement to Sera Cahoone via Instagram on Friday, Aug. 7 She has always been one of the sports world’s most vocal openly gay athletes since she came out in 2012 in an Out magazine article. ADVERTISEMENT After being a part of the women's U.S. soccer team that won the World Cup just last month, she has something possibly even more exciting to celebrate as she engaged her long-time girlfriend SeraCahoone a Sub Pop recording artist.

August 5, 2019 10:45 AM EDT Victoria’s Secret has hired its first openly transgender model, the Brazilian model, Valentina Sampaio. Sampaio announced the news via her Instagram on Thursday, where she posted a behind-the-scenes picture of herself and tagged a Victoria’s Secret official account in her caption, adding the hashtags #vspink and #campaign. On Monday, Sampaio’s agent, Erio Zanon, confirmed to CNN that the model was hired by Victoria’s Secret for a campaign for its Pink line, with the campaign debuting in mid-August.

They weren't the only memorable part of the 2010 World Cup (this was the year, after all, of Paul the Psychic Octopus, may he rest in peace) but vuvuzelas dominated the international soccer event, even more than victorious Spain. The plastic horns, popular in host-nation South Africa, were persistently blown during matches, making what many fans and players considered to be an insufferable sound akin to sitting inside a beehive.

The little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon him. He had been the wartime Premier of Japan; before that he was commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, then Vice Minister of War and Minister of War.