This week in numbers
2.3
per cent rise in retail card spending in the September quarter, the fastest pace in nearly 8 years.
13 deaths.
Indian wildlife rangers are using Calvin Klein Obsession scent to attract the tigress blamed for the attacks.
250
km/h winds reached by Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States.
5
big food companies produced the packaging responsible for about half the plastic trash found on Canadian shorelines.
4
th child expected by musician and songwriter Anika Moa, who has released her 6th studio album.
19
people sentenced to hang by a court in Bangladesh for their role in a 2004 grenade attack in Dhaka that took 24 lives.