Svati Kirsten Narula

Elon Musk’s electric car firm is recalling all 90,000 Model S sedans it has sold to check for possible seat belt defects.

We know an awful lot about the rise of ISIL, or the Islamic State—including where it got its start.

If eight-legged crawlers creep you out, you’re not alone. But if the mere mention of spiders provokes heart palpitations, you might have a genuine phobia—and the London Zoo is here to help.

A recent spate of attacks in Egypt, Lebanon, and France have focused the world’s attention once again on terrorism, and triggered “a heated debate about whether western leaders and media underplay atrocities in other parts of the world. But a new study suggests that terrorism, far from being a 2015 phenomenon, has actually skyrocketed in the last several years, with most of the casualties concentrated in just a few countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria.

French security officials have honed in on Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27- or 28-year-old Belgian-born ISIL fighter, as the likely mastermind of the Paris attacks that killed 129 and wounded more than 300 on Friday (Nov. 13), according to French media and NPR.

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The US navy conducted its first patrol within 12 nautical miles of the Spratly Islands, China’s artificial archipelago, on Oct. 27. It was a provocative act, challenging Beijing’s disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea, through which an estimated 30% of global trade is transported. Though the sail did not trigger an international conflict, it was watched closely by both sides, and details are still emerging about communications between the American and Chinese navies before and after.

The German government pays about €100,000 ($109,000) annually in pensions to 50 surviving members and relatives of Spain’s Blue Division, the volunteer army that assisted Hitler’s invasion of Russia during World War II. Lawmakers disclosed this fact during recent discussions in Bundestag, Germany’s national parliament, prompted by questions from left-wing minister Andrej Hunko.

A former Uber driver in Delhi was sentenced to life in prison today for his rape of a passenger in 2014—a crime that sparked international outrage and jeopardized the ride-sharing service’s business in India.

A 45-year-old father of four in Congo has been launching homemade space rockets from yam farm fields for the past 10 years, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. He’s the country’s “best-known rocket expert,” and his name is Jean-Patrice Keka.

The popular “fast-casual” chain Chipotle closed 43 of its restaurants in Washington state and Oregon this weekend, after nearly two dozen people who ate at its restaurants became sick with E. coli infections. Health officials expect more sick people to come forward today as awareness of the outbreak spreads.

The one thing the Republican candidates on stage agreed on during Wednesday’s primary debate was their dislike of “mainstream media” organizations. And the one thing audiences (even liberal ones) seemed to agree on was how poorly CNBC, the media network broadcasting the debate, framed the event. Who “won” the debate is up for argument, but there’s no doubt that the night’s biggest loser was CNBC.

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The Duranno Father School was established in South Korea in 1995, with religious roots, to fix the perceived “growing national epidemic of abusive, ineffective and absentee fathers.” It became a nonprofit and has since organized thousands of multi-day retreats—in South Korea, the US, and 35 other countries—for Korean dads who need some guidance on how to be present and loving family men.

In Bridgeton, Missouri, a suburb 20 miles (32 km) northeast of St. Louis, a deep underground landfill fire has been burning for five years. Bridgeton residents have smelled it, and complained about it, and worried that it’s giving them cancer, for about as long. “It smells like dead bodies,” someone told Rolling Stone in 2013.

In a fractious and unpredictable Republican primary season, the candidates at tonight’s CNBC debate finally found a theme they could all agree on: Bashing the moderators and the “mainstream media” for their perceived anti-Republican bias. The audience ate it up, responding with loud cheers and booing CNBC’s journalists.

A month after adopting a new national constitution, Nepal has elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari as its next president. She will be the country’s first female president and only the second president since Nepal became a democratic republic in 2008.

In the eyes of Republican voters, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who recently said the Holocaust might have been prevented if more German Jews had owned guns, is now an even more worthy presidential candidate than real-estate mogul Donald Trump, who wants to build a giant wall between the US and Mexico.

Turkey, like other countries on Eastern European Time (EET), was supposed to turn its clocks back by one hour on Sunday (Oct. 25) for the annual end of daylight saving time—or, as it’s known in Europe, “summer time.” But this year, the Turkish government told citizens to wait until Nov. 1 to allow more hours of light for voting in the nation’s upcoming parliamentary elections, reports the BBC.

US president Barack Obama said today (Oct. 24) that his administration is moving to reduce the amount of time public schools spend administering standardized tests, including annual exams linked to the controversial “Common Core” mandates for measuring math and reading skills.

Hurricane Patricia was one of the strongest storms in recorded history when it approached southwestern Mexico yesterday (Oct. 23), but the tempest weakened dramatically after hitting the coast and sweeping inland.

Police in the Maldives have arrested Ahmed Adeeb, the country’s vice president, on charges of treason, alleging that he was involved in plotting an explosion that could have killed president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom in September. (The president is commonly known as “Abdulla Yameen.”)

The Quartz newsroom erupted in fits of laughter shortly after 3pm in New York today, stunned and puzzled by the missives emerging from the New York Times Magazine’s Twitter account, @NYTMag.

Don’t mess with Texas? Someone forgot to tell Norway: The US state’s name has taken on an unusual and not entirely complimentary role in Norwegian, with people using it as slang to mean “crazy” or ”chaotic.”