Pay milestone highlights inequality
Bosses at the UK’s biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker’s annual wage, according to the High Pay Centre. By the end of today, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full-time workers. A spokesman said the data should “prompt debate about the effects of high levels of inequality”.
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Outcry over China death sentence
Human rights activists have criticised the death penalty handed to a former Chinese finance chief found guilty of corruption. Lai Xiaomin was convicted of taking bribes during his time as chair of Huarong Asset Management. Human Rights Watch said China is “clearly taking a major step backwards”.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he was never informed about the Rule of Law Defense Fund’s involvement in the riots at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
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