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Australia has already dealt with extreme fires, flooding and hail this year. Now experts are warning people to watch out for deadly funnel-web spiders due to "perfect conditions" for the arachnid to thrive. Source

Lawyers for Canada's attorney general will make the case Wednesday for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition to the United States. After two days of listening to defence arguments, the Crown will try to convince a B.C. Source

One man is dead and five others are missing after their snowmobiles went through the ice along Lac Saint-Jean Tuesday night. Emergency services and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) were called to a channel at the edge of the lake, between the towns of Saint-Henri-de-Taillon and Alma, at 7:30 p.m. Source

Chinese health authorities have urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning on Wednesday that a new viral illness that has infected hundreds and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. Source

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES -- The Saudi embassy in Washington on Tuesday dismissed suggestions the kingdom hacked the phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as media reports linked the security breach to a WhatsApp message from an account of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Source

Two UN officials will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos' phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with the matter said. Source

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Armed Forces needs to nearly double the number of women it has been recruiting in recent years to reach its goal of having women represent one-quarter of all military personnel by 2026, according to an internal study from the Department of National Defence. Source

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Commercial flights were set to resume out of St. John's, N.L., this morning, as eastern Newfoundland continues to dig itself out from last week's record-breaking blizzard. Today is the sixth day the provincial capital has been under a state of emergency after a storm dumped more than 76 centimetres of snow on the city. Source

VANCOUVER -- Lawyers representing the Canadian attorney general are set to begin arguments today at an extradition hearing for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. The hearing in Vancouver this week is focusing on the legal test of double criminality, meaning that the allegations against Meng must also be a crime in Canada for her to be extradited to the United States. Source

Medical screening at airports, border crossings and health-care institutions takes on new urgency when a viral threat looms. Tuesday's announcement of the first infection in the U.S. — a man who returned to the Seattle area last week after travelling to the outbreak's epicentre in Wuhan, central China — adds to more than 400 people infected with the new coronavirus, which has sickened people in China as well as Thailand, Japan and South Korea. Source