A worker has disappeared after his bosses accidentally transferred nearly GBP 250,000 into his bank account. The man - whose name has not been released - was working for processed meat packersCIAL Alimentos in Chile when the huge sum appeared in his pay packet. When he checked his pay for…
A British company has provoked fury after releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild that could produce new strains of super-mozzies, say critics. UK-based Oxitec say the hacked insects contain a modified gene that will ultimately kill off all-female offspring and wipe out huge colonies of the bug. In time,…
A Brazilian port company has been left in chaos after 44 employees became overnight millionaires on the lottery. The workers, who pooled together to try their luck on Mega-Sena's 2468 contest, scooped the jackpot of BRL 122.6 million (GBP 20.2 million) on the draw on 2nd April. The 44 lucky…
The Washington State Attorney General’s Office has launched a lawsuit against a Seattle-based company for "deceptively marketing stem cell treatments for COVID-19 and dozens of other serious medical conditions". Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed the lawsuit against the company US Stemology and its owner Dr Tami Meraglia because there…
The owners of a fake cryptocurrency company based in Florida have allegedly scammed new employees out of thousands of USD. The private non-profit organisation Better Business Bureau (BBB) said in a statement: "Since November 2021, BBB started to receive complaints and/or BBB Scam Tracker Reports concerning job opportunities." BBB said…