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The leader of Australia’s rightwing One Nation party, Pauline Hanson, has been rebuked for arriving at a Senate session dressed in a black burqa. A form of dress usually worn by some Muslim women. Hanson caused a huge commotion as she walked into the chamber, during daily question time, dressed in the full body wear. She wore a burqa to highlight security conners of people wearing the dress and she hopes to get them banned. The leader of the opposition...

More than 13,000 of the UK’s lowest paid workers will get around £2 million in back pay as part of the government’s scheme to name employers who have failed to pay National Minimum Wage and Living Wage. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has today published a list of 233 businesses that underpaid workers. As well as paying back staff the money owed, employers on the list have been fined a record £1.9 million by the government. Retail,...

Peter Tefft travelled across the US to attend the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, with hundreds of white supremacists. His father, Pearce Tefft wrote a letter about his son and his presence at the right-wing gathering, that ended in rioting and the death of a woman due to a hit and run, by a right wing fanatic. Father Peter Tefft My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed...

A Cambridge University college has paid tribute to an "exceptional" PhD student who was among 18 victims of a terror attack in Burkina Faso. Tammy Chen, 34, who was pregnant, was at a restaurant with her husband Mehsen Fenaiche when they were gunned down on Sunday. Chen was studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge's Gonville & Caius College, specialising in poverty, gender and women's empowerment. Tammy Chen with husband Mehsen Fenaiche who were among 18 victims of...

Staff at the London Stock Exchange have been offered counselling after a financial worker in his fifities jumped to his death yesterday (Tues). The lobby and reception area of the exchange, where the man landed after falling seven stories, remains closed to workers today as police continue their investigation. An LSE spokesman confirmed that staff have been offered counselling, he said: ''As with any large organisation counselling has been offered.'' The scene near the London Stock Exchange where a man...

A British Gas employee is about to save the energy giant £3.4 million over the next five years thanks to a single brainwave. The employee submitted the idea to the company on the social network Make A Good Idea Count on Yammer which was facilitated by London tech firm Sideways 6. The brainwave is to do with the customer complaints process and is projected to reduce costs by up to £3.4 million over the next five years alone. It has made lodging a complaint easier...

An extinct rainforest tree has been identified from its beautiful flowers - dislodged by a rampaging dinosaur 100 million years ago. A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex could have been crashing its way through a pine forest when it knocked off the blooms, which then became trapped in chunks of amber. It's the first time seven complete flowers this old have been found together. They are tiny - ranging from 3.4 to 5 millimetres in diameter - but so well-preserved they...

The late George Carlin, a man who knew well the subtle trickery of language, used to do a routine based on the shifting terms used to describe the same condition. The easily understandable shell shock gave way to the slightly vaguer battle fatigue, ending up with today's post-traumatic stress disorder. One now hears of the term PTSD applied to all manner of life's shocks – everything from a nasty divorce to the loss of one's job; or you know, the...

GMB has called for action after new statistics show average wages have fallen once again. According to ONS figures, the value of earnings fell by 0.5 per cent in the three months to June. They previously fell 0.6 per cent in the three months prior to that. GMB calls on the Government to step in and implement a real living wage and an end to the public sector pay cap. Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary, said: “Yet again, the Government's...