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"Sixty-six years after passage of the California Equal Pay Act, many women still earn less money than men doing the same or similar work," Governor Jerry Brown said in a statement after signing the bill into law.

Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-27869 was acquired on September 23, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 28 millimeter lens.

The force from the injury led Taylor's head to be pulled apart from his neck in an internal decapitation.

Close to 200,000 people in southern China were evacuated before Typhoon Mujigae roared into Guangdong province, officials said.

The 38-year-old will have to comply with strict rules such as putting up clear signage telling customers not to drink alcohol outside the premises and CCTV will have to be installed at the shop with alcohol allowed to be sold between 10am and 9pm.

Sharif stressed that the UNSC needs to be "more democratic, representative, accountable and transparent".

Senior investigator at the eSafety Commissioner, Toby Dagg said that on one site with at least 45 million images "about half the material appeared to be sourced directly from social media"

Warren Buffett, the head of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, ranked second while former Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison is third.

In his meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, Modi brought up the issue of Indians held hostage in Iraq and Libya. President Abbas said that the hostages are alive.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that his US visit "demonstrates the extraordinary depth and diversity of our relationship".

Maldivian authorities said that President escaped unhurt while his wife suffered "not serious" injuries.

In a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, Modi discussed ways to prevent radicalisation of youth and to counter extremist messaging.

On occasion, the haj and events surrounding it have been marred by accidents and tragedies, such as Thursday's stampede near Mecca that killed at least 220 people.

The G-4 summit on September 26 will be the first since 2004 and will bring together German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The NCA concluded that India’s growing nuclear programme and absence of a conflict resolution mechanism were upsetting strategic stability in the region.