Senegal's football team have been given a hero's welcome upon their return home after winning the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time. Tens of thousands of ecstatic revellers celebrated the players' return to Dakar, sitting on top of cars and dancing in the capital's streets. President Macky Sall was among those greeting the team at the airport. When coach Aliou Cissé raised the trophy cup from the roof of the team's victory bus, crowds cheered in delight. "It's a street party. I don't think Senegal has ever seen anything like it," the BBC's Emeline Nsingi Nkosi said. Players were transported inside and on top of a coach along a packed parade route to the centre of Dakar. One of those among the crowd was 17-year-old student Die Mbaye who described it as an unforgettable moment that will last forever. "We deserved it, we have been waiting for 60 years," she told AFP news agency while wearing the Senegalese flag in her hair. The ce...
Learn more about the CIA's uncrackable code in the latest episode of Great Big Story, a new podcast from CNN about the delightful, surprising stories all around us. In the middle of CIA headquarters, there sits a sculpture that contains a secret code that has stumped top cryptologists for decades. In the late 1980s, artist Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture to be displayed at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Knowing some of the world's top intelligence officials would see the piece practically every day, Sanborn made a work of art that is, in a word, puzzling. Unveiled on November 3, 1990, it's called Kryptos, and it contains a cryptographic challenge. Surely, someone would crack the code in just a couple of weeks, Sanborn thought. But no one did. And, today, Kryptos remains one of the world's most famous unsolved mysteries. "I didn't think it would go on this long -- thirty years -- without being deciphered," Sanborn says. Krypto...