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Hello readers. Australia overtakes Luxembourg to have the highest minimum wage in the world, and medical experts’ new explanation for Angela Merkel’s shaking spells.

30/09/2003 LIBRARY: Generic photo of fifty ($50) and twenty ($20) dollar notes in pay packet.

Aussie minimum wage highest in the world

Workers on the minimum wage in Australia officially have more purchasing power than those in any other country in the world, according to OECD figures for 2018 released this week.

Angela Merkel has been seen shaking during recent public engagements. Picture:

Is this why Merkel shakes?

Medical experts offer a new explanation for Angela Merkel’s shaking spells as the German Chancellor tweaked diplomatic protocol so she could sit during the national anthem.

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FW: Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and daughter Aishah Zaharie. Source: Facebook.

Pilot in control ‘until the end’

A pilot was in control right to the end of the flight of the Malaysian airliner that vanished over the Indian Ocean in 2014, French investigators say.

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The US Airforce's F-22 Raptors soar above Amberley Air Base in Queensland whilst in Australia to take part in Operation Talisman Sabre. PIC: Beau Chenery.

US regret over the $480m F-22

This is the aircraft the US wishes Australia had. The world’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, is down under for the joint US-Australia military exercise, Talisman Sabre.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attended a 2005 event in New York City. PHOTO: JOE SCHILDHORN/PATRICK MCMULLAN/GETTY IMAGES

Socialite, girlfriend, ‘sex fixer’

Focus shifts to Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of a British media baron, who was a fixture for years in Manhattan’s social scene, amid allegations she recruited young women for Jeffrey Epstein and trained them for sex.