The scientist in charge of Queensland’s beleaguered state-run forensic laboratory has been sacked after a scathing inquiry into botched operations. Former managing scientist Cathie Allen’s employment was terminated on May 24 in a formal letter sent to her legal team, a spokesman for Health Minister Shannon Fentiman confirmed. Allen had been stood down since the…

A hapless fire crew is given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…

Indian seafarers hired to replace sacked P&O Ferries crews are being paid just 2.38 US dollars (£1.81) an hour, a union has claimed. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), which represented many of the 800 staff fired without notice last week, said their replacements are being paid well below the minimum wage in the…

The Chinese regime announced on March 13 that Peng Bo, deputy director of China’s “Gestapo”—secret state police—had been dismissed and is under investigation. Peng has become the first high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, known as “tigers,” to be ensnared in party politics after the regime’s most important annual political conference, its Two Sessions meeting,…