6 d. ago Are YOU rich and do you earn more or less than your neighbours? Our calculator reveals how your salary stacks up for your town and job

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6 d. ago Are YOU rich and do you earn more than your neighbours? Our calculator reveals how your salary stacks up for your town and job

Do you earn more or less than the average person who does your job, or the typical worker where you live? Use our special calculator to see how your salary stacks up

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2 w. ago Madonna's daughter Lourdes Leon turns heads in a sleek black satin and lace slip dress as she performs with her band Lolahol in Ibiza

The singer-dancer, 28, who is the daughter of Queen of Pop Madonna, took to the stage at beach restaurant and bar El Silencio in Cala Molí, Ibiza, on Saturday.

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3 w. ago ‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health

More than 750 health workers say Kennedy’s misinformation fuels violence and endangers livesCurrent and former employees at US health agencies released a letter on Wednesday outlining how misinformation spread by Robert F Kennedy Jr is endangering the lives of federal employees and the American people.Experts emphasized to the Guardian that he’s “an existential threat to public health”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Woman assisting police after infant found dead in Perth storm water drain

Police say woman in her 30s ‘receiving appropriate care and support’ after workers made confronting discovery on MondayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman is assisting police after a baby boy was found dead inside a storm water drain.Two workers carrying out routine maintenance made the confronting discovery in Alexander Heights in Perth’s northern suburbs on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Locals hit out at the ‘Disneyfication’ of this Paris suburb as overtourism strikes again

Butchers, bakeries and grocers are vanishing, replaced by ice-cream stalls, bubble-tea vendors and souvenir stands

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4 w. ago Ibiza bar workers are living in tents as island hit by overtourism and rent crisis

One bar worker said she slept in a tent with her 3-year-old son until they were evicted

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4 w. ago As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris

There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UKMontse Aguilar was only 51 when she died. She lived in the El Poble-sec area of Barcelona – it translates from Catalan as “the dry village” – where she cared for her 85-year-old mother and sang in a local choir. For three years, she had worked as a city street cleaner for an outsourcing company, wearing a lime-green uniform – made, her family later said, from “100% polyester a material used to make coats”.On 28 June, her shift in the city’s Gothic Quarter began at 2.30pm and ended seven hours later. The temperature that day had reached more than 35C, which left workers like her exposed: Spain has a clearer system of regulations covering heat and work than a lot of other countries, but it is still full of gaps.John Harris is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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last month Kensington hotel worker jailed over child rape livestream had twice dodged prosecution for abuse images

Lester Sharpe was jailed for more than eight years for organising the livestream rape of a girl

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