An elderly French woman became a multimillionaire last Sunday, as a 13th century painting found in her kitchen, was sold for 24 million euros at the Acteon (ack-te-on) Auction House. 

The painting was scouted by an auctioneer, who was inspecting the woman's house in June, and advised her to bring it to an expert evaluation.

Dominique Le Coent, who sold the masterpiece to an anonymous buyer, stated that the painting was a unique and monumental Renaissance piece- marking a discovery that sent ripples of excitement through the art world.

One of the several women who came forward during the 2016 presidential election campaign accusing trump of sexual misconduct says she has documents corroborating the claims.
 
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, has presented evidence in court filings to support her claims that the president sexually assaulted her in 2007.
 
A memorandum with the court states: “The plaintiff reported the defendant’s assaults to family members and close friends immediately after they occurred and then again over the years.”
 

Sixteen people have been sentenced to death for the murder of a schoolgirl, setting her on fire after she was sexually assaulted.
 
The headmaster of a Bangladeshi religious school has been sentenced to death along with 15 others over the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against him.
 
Public prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters “The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law,” 
 

A man who filmed himself mowing down emus in victoria’s mallee district has had his sentence reduced. 

The man was originally charged with 42 days in jail and fined $800 for driving through the mob of emus last year. 

His sentence has been reduced to just 21 days in jail and a 9 month community corrections order including 100 hours of unpaid work. 

In his County Court appeal on Thursday, Macdonald's barrister Jacqualyn Turfrey argued he was a young man with no criminal history who voluntarily helped out farmers in his isolated community.
 

The NSW government will make maths compulsory for year 11 and 12 students under a plan to ensure school graduates have key numeracy skills.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the NSW government would begin consultation with education stakeholders over how mathematics could be incorporated from kindergarten to the end of the HSC.

“My vision is for every child in NSW to have the necessary maths skills to succeed in life, whether that’s managing home budgets or preparing them for the jobs of the future in science, technology and engineering.”Ms Berejiklian said.
 

A quick, cost-effective, cloud-based platform, which could solve one of fish farming’s biggest challenges, has received a US $100,000 grant for concept development and testing according to the University of Queensland.
 
The cloud-based service accurately diagnoses a range of fish diseases by using DNA sequences from infected fish.
 
 

An Award-winning Cameroonian journalist has been denied a visa by Australian authorities after being invited to give a speech at a conference in Brisbane today.
 
Mimi Mefo, winner of this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award, was intending to give a keynote address at the Integrity 20 conference hosted by Griffith University.
 
However, Australian authorities told her they “were not satisfied that the applicant’s employment and financial situation provide an incentive to return”.
 

Mr Boochani’s boat came ashore on Christmas island four days after a new agreement was signed with Papua New Guinea that meant he would never be resettled in Australia.
 
After fleeing Iran and attempting to seek refuge in Australia, the writer and journalist spent six years in the offshore detention system on Manus Island until it was closed last month.
 
Mr Boochani wrote an influential book detailing his experience by texting messages to a friend and has since been freed from the detention centre.