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WA's nursing union has accepted a three per cent pay rise but says its 40,000 members remain the lowest paid in the country.

Today is Black Friday, the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. Americans are expected to spend $966 billion, $30 billion more than a year ago. As a result, two of the country’s most popular retailers are exhibiting unusual options activity on the final day of the week.

The WA Industrial Relations Commission has fined the nurses' union $350,000 over a state strike during which thousands of health workers took to the street.

WA's Australian Nursing Federation is fined $350,000 for a strike outside state parliament last year that attracted thousands of nurses at the height of a bitter dispute over pay and conditions.

The WA government will pay $12,000 towards the university fees of nursing and midwifery graduates who agree to work in regional parts of the state.

In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.

The union agrees to accept a potential $350,000 fine after "flagrantly" flouting orders not to strike at parliament house, but the final figure still needs to be approved by the Industrial Relations Commission.

The Industrial Relations Commission's registrar alleges the ANF's WA branch breached its orders 3,590 times, which the union says could see it fined more than $27 million.

German officials have criticized plans by French firm Framatome to produce nuclear fuel in a joint venture with Russia’s Rosatom at a facility in western Germany