The cryptocurrency market has lost momentum in the past number of months, but recent weeks have seen a massive surge in the value of bitcoin and other digital money.

Bitcoin was above $8,200, surging over 6 percent as of 20:00 GMT Tuesday. Ethereum, ripple, bitcoin cash and the other 10 largest cryptocurrencies were trading at a multi-month. The whole cryptocurrency market was worth just shy of $300 billion, according to Coinmarketcap.

FXStreet analyst Yohay Elam explains the surge in five reasons. Firstly, Google and Facebook, which earlier cracked down on cryptocurrency advertising, have eased the pressure they are exerting.

In recent weeks and months there has been much talk about the rights and wrongs of policies promoted by such bodies as education authorities to meet the needs of children who identify as "transgender".

One example is recent policy guidance from government which advocates allowing boys who believe they are girls to use the single-sex changing and toilet facilities, and also allowing these boys to compete as girls in sports. Many have voiced concerns about the rights and needs of girls in these circumstances.

However, I believe that there should be concern about such guidance, not just for girls or women but for all children. What are children being taught? Why has the transgender case been so readily accepted without any assessment of the impact on all children and on their mental and physical health and welfare?

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector came upon a pair of people walking north near the California border town of Calexico. The agents observed the two migrants walking northbound from the border area east of the border community, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

The agents questioned the individuals and determined they illegally jumped over the border wall. The illegal immigrants admitted their border crossing and told the agents they had left a young girl behind when she could not keep up because she became injured at the wall.

We still know precious little about what U.S. President Donald Trump discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin at their summit last week in Helsinki.

On one key agenda item, Syria, Trump said, "Cooperation between our two countries has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives." He added that the United States would "not allow Iran to benefit from our successful campaign" against the Islamic State and that Russia and the United States would "work jointly" to ensure the safety of Israel.

Relations between the United States and Russia are at their lowest point in a generation. Beyond serious foreign-policy differences over Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other issues, many Americans remain rightly concerned by Moscow's interference in U.S. elections in 2016 and the chilling prospect of a repeat in 2018.

Republicans are finally getting proactive about courting the young vote.

Democrats have been targeting the youth vote for decades, and while young voters often didn't turn out at the polls, they did - in droves - for the 2008 election. But after eight years of Barack Obama - when a lot of those Millennials ended up living in their parents' basements again - the time is ripe for Republicans to put on their own full-court press to win over young voters.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday dropped by the Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., and delivered an inspiring speech to conservative high school students, saying colleges today are doing nothing more than creating a generation of "supercilious snowflakes."

"Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes," Sessions said in his speech.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif fired back at US President Donald Trump on Monday, calling 45's all-caps Sunday threat via Twitter unimpressive.

"COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago," Zarif wrote in a tweet. "And Iranians have heard them - albeit more civilized ones - for 40 yrs."

"We've been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, [including] our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS!" he added.

Danish prosecutors have charged Imam Mundhir Abdallah after outrage over a 2017 speech, in which he called on Muslims to kill Jews to fulfill their destiny. It is the first charge of its kind under new religious preaching laws.

The disturbing comments, which were filmed and distributed on the imam's social media, prompted Danish prosecutors to issue charges for the first time under the new criminal code, introduced in January 2017.

Earlier this month, Syrian regime forces hoisted their flag above the southern town of Daraa and celebrated. Although there is more bloodletting to come, the symbolism was hard to miss. The uprising that began in that town on March 6, 2011, has finally been crushed, and the civil war that has engulfed the country and destabilized parts of the Middle East as well as Europe will be over sooner rather than later. Bashar al-Assad, the man who was supposed to fall in "a matter of time," has prevailed with the help of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah over his own people.

Washington is too busy over the furor of the day to reflect on the fact that there are approximately 500,000 fewer Syrians today than there were when a group of boys spray-painted "The people demand the fall of the regime" on buildings in Daraa more than seven years ago. But now that the Syria conflict has been decided, it's worth thinking about the purpose and place of the United States in the new Middle East. The first order of business is to dispose of the shibboleths that have long been at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and have contributed to its confusion and paralysis in Syria and beyond.

There probably isn't anyone inside the Beltway who hasn't been told at some point in their career about the dangers of reasoning by analogy. But that doesn't mean such lessons have been regularly heeded. The Syrian uprising came at a fantastical time in the Middle East when freedom, it seemed, was breaking out everywhere. The demonstration of people power that began in Daraa-coming so soon after the fall of longtime leaders in Tunisia and Egypt-was moving. It also clouded the judgment of diplomats, policymakers, analysts, and journalists, rendering them unable to discern the differences between the region's Assads and Ben Alis or between the structure of the Syrian regime and that of the Egyptian one.

Four more people have been arrested in connection to the alleged sex cult NXIVM, including group leaders with such titles "The Prefect" serving "The Vanguard."

Clare Bronfman, 39; Kathy Russell, 60; Lauren Salzman, 42; and Nancy Salzman, 64, were arrested Tuesday on a superseding indictment charging them with racketeering conspiracy.

Bronfman, a daughter of the late billionaire philanthropist and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr., is an heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune.

Previously charged and added to the new indictment were group founder Keith Raniere, 57, and former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack, 35.

Troops of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) found a field hospital and a medicine depot, which had belonged to militants in the village of Nabaa al-Sakhar in southern Syria, according to the state-run news agency SANA.

The facilities, which are located in about 16km southeast of the city of Quneitra, included "operating rooms, laboratory, medical equipment and a cache containing large amounts of medicines, some of which are made in Israel and Jordan".

According to the SANA, militants the field hospital was lcoated in one of the schools in Nabaa al-Sakhar.