Western officials also named the seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed in the 30 days since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine on February 24.

A hardline Christian school in Brisbane has told staff to sign a contract warning them they could be sacked if they are openly gay – after their principal resigned over hateful practices.

Sports sciences lecturer Dr Maria Konstantaki was sacked from Bucks New University, High Wycombe, after falsifying the exam results of two students she believed had disturbed her family on a night out.

Mick Willing, who used to be the NSW Deputy Commissioner, said he was ‘not really expecting’ to have his contract torn up in January by his new boss, Karen Webb.

Clare Pestell was in line to become interim chief executive of South Somerset District Council, but a whistleblower claimed taxpayers’ money was being misused.

Nusrat Ghani, 49, alleges she was told she was being axed as a transport minister because her status as a Muslim woman and a minister was ‘making colleagues feel uncomfortable’.

John Brelsford’s unfair dismissal claim against St Wilfrid’s Primary School in Sheffield was thrown out by a tribunal, which found he could have been sacked ‘much sooner than he was’.

Dr Denys Tucker lost his job at the Natural History Museum due to his belief in the existence of the Loch Ness monster. When Dr Tucker was 39, his career came to an abrupt end.

Carl Pamment started taking the class B drug not for ‘hedonistic’ reasons but to help him sleep after suffering severe pain, a tribunal heard.

Western Australia premier Mark McGowan’s widespread vaccine mandates require police to be vaccinated for Covid by December 1 or face being sacked.