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Senators fled a committee meeting in Parliament, high school students abandoned exams and office workers filled downtown Ottawa's streets after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit the city on Wednesday afternoon.

We also reported on a study from Save the Children, which found that the US ranks lower than Kazakhstan and Algeria on gender equality, due to its low representation of women in parliament, high teenage pregnancy rates and and record on maternal deaths.

Fuel prices have become an increasingly hot political issue during this parliament, as high oil prices have pushed fuel costs close to 150p a litre.

He was 36 and he liked to ride to get away from his inherited and elected ­responsibilities: a chateau and estate in the ­Dordogne and a seat in the Bordeaux parliament (or high court).

That 45% of Scots want to leave the UK (with polls suggesting that such voters were in the majority amongst those aged under 54) suggests the level of voter dissatisfaction; resentment towards the English and the Westminster parliament runs high.

Christian missionaries came to the country in the late 10th century, and about 1000 the Althing (the national Parliament and high court) averted a civil war between pagans and Christians by deciding that the country's population should be Christian.

What a reliefJun 12th 2003 Britain and the euro: Can they be serious?Jun 12th 2003 History lesson: What if Britain had joined in 1999?Jun 12th 2003 Bagehot: Body doubleJun 12th 2003But unlike the fate of the first Treasury report on the euro six years ago, the chances of a referendum early in the next Parliament are high.

Recent roof leakage incidents at numerous prestigious buildings such as parliament house, high court and other government buildings has sparked more awareness among the engineering fraternity on the importance of good and systematic building maintenance.

Melander reproduced these findings, demonstrating that societies with higher female representation in parliament and higher female to male education attainment ratios have lower levels of internal conflict [ 12].

Women now make up 49percentt of the Rwandan Parliament, the highest percentage in the world.

Benn is now the chair of the new Brexit select committee in parliament, a high-profile role as Britain moves towards leaving the EU.