Alyssa Cassidy, 22, from Ontario, Canada was doing farm work in Australia when she noticed a bump on her leg. She later found it was a spider bite after it became a ‘flesh eating’ infection.

Gemma Hood (pictured) and two friends bought the meals from Istanbul Grill, in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, in the early hours of Sunday and the takeaway has since been raided by detectives.

The school on the outskirts of Istanbul is a rare place where Uighur child refugees from China can study their language and culture. Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in northwest China, some of their parents thought it was still safe to return occasionally for business and to visit family, only to disappear […]

Former Ivory Coast political leader Charles Ble Goude said Monday he had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by an Ivorian court over murder, rape and torture charges. Ble Goude was cleared of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague this year, along with his former boss, Ivory […]

Tesla delivered its first 15 cars assembled at its new factory in China. Investor Galileo Russell, the founder of HyperChange, expects the company to shift into high gear and become one of the few trillion dollar companies.

(Bloomberg) — McDermott International Inc. is in discussions with lenders about providing a $2 billion bankruptcy loan, ahead of a Chapter 11 filing that could come in the next few weeks, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The Houston-based engineering and construction firm is negotiating with a group including Baupost Group LLC and HPS […]

Andrew Bary breaks down Barron's list of the best stocks in 2020.

Thallium is believed to be operating from North Korea, Microsoft said in a blog post, and the hackers targeted government employees, think tanks, university staff members and individuals working on nuclear proliferation issues, among others. Most of the targets were based in the United States, as well as Japan and South Korea, the company said. […]

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait suddenly agreed to restart production in the PNZ, or ‘Neutral Zone’, after a butter dispute that showed no sign of ending, but what’s the real reason behind it

UFOs, mysterious creatures – 7 strange things that happened in 2019  RNZ