News Headlines - 30 November 2016

Oil jumps over 10 percent as OPEC finalizes output cut deal | Reuters

Oil soared more than 10 percent on Wednesday to over $50 a barrel and its highest in a month as some of the world's largest producers agreed to curb production for the first time since 2008 in a bid to support prices.

Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires - Bloomberg

After Donald Trump ridiculed Wall Street on the campaign trail, the President-elect tapped former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive Steven Mnuchin to be his Treasury secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross to lead the Commerce Department. Trump even met with Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn inside Trump Tower.

Bank of England yields to vegan pressure over plastic fivers

The Bank of England has yielded to angry calls from vegans and vegetarians to change the new £5 note after it emerged that the plastic currency contained traces of animal fat.

Hundreds attend funeral of British girl who was 'true face' of childhood cancer - The Straits Times

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a young girl whose image as the "true face" of the pain and suffering of childhood cancer went viral worldwide on social media... His daughter died aged four on Nov 20 after a year-long battle against neuroblastoma, a rare aggressive cancer of the nervous system that mostly affects babies and young children.

Brave Syrian girl, 7, in Aleppo tweets photo of herself shrouded by smoke after bomb destroys her home - Mirror Online

The little Syrian girl who has captured the internet's heart while tweeting about the war in her Aleppo neighbourhood says her house has been bombed and she almost died.