The Cuban government has announced that its doctors will get extra for nightshifts for the first time in 50 years. President Raul Castro admitted last year that doctors are badly paid earning an average 20 dollars a month. They will now get one extra dollar for the 12-hour night period.
A collection of ten dresses worn by Diana Princess of Wales have been sold at auction for 1.2 million dollars 16 years after her death. The highlight was a navy velvet ball gown worn by Diana when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985. It went to a British collector who bought it as a surprised present for his wife.
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[00:01.72]BBC News with Jonathan Izard.
[00:03.80]Parliament in Cyprus has rejected an international bailout package which would have imposed a one-off tax on savings.
[00:10.05]Hundreds of protesters outside parliament cheered the result.
[00:13.32]Not a single MP voted for the deal despite an amendment sparing small savers.
[00:18.05]Mark Lowen is in Nicosia.
[00:19.74]The bailout bill has been comprehensively rejected in parliament.
[00:23.70]Nobody voted in favor; 36 MPs voted against; 90 abstentions; one MP was absent from the chamber.
[00:30.80]Where does it go from here? Well, the whole bailout deal is in total disarray.