Ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has missed a court ruling on her controversial negligence trial, sparking a warrant for her arrest. The former PM’s lawyer argued that she had missed her court date due to illness. “Sick of courts” evidently was not admitted as acceptable.

The United Nations on Thursday warned Sudan not to interfere with its peacekeeping mission to the country. The organisation‘s Security Council made an announcement through its Egyptian secretary, who warned that “The members of the Security Council reminded all parties that the obstruction of activities of international peacekeeping may be subject to sanctions.”

American and South Korean researchers announced today that a new type of thread can generate electricity through twisting and stretching. Far from making a funky jersey, the material could power entire regions when placed in the right waves, for example. Made from carbon nanotubes, the revolutionary new fibre is called “twistron“.

A mother of two in Massachusetts has won a colossal $758.7 in America’s Powerball lottery. Mavis Wanczyk won the single largest lottery prize for an individual by picking numbers that included family birth dates. Tax will take a large chunk out, however.

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