NISA

In Japan, debate is growing over whether an ordinary company employee can build assets of 100 million yen, using the new NISA investment scheme. One widely shared calculation suggests that investing 100,000 yen a month under the new NISA could put savers on the path to becoming 'okuri-nin' — yen millionaires — with the timeline depending on investment returns.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says one of its staff members has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The case marks a rare infection among frontline aid workers responding to the outbreak, where health teams face difficult conditions and high exposure risks. Attention is turning to how the organisation protects its personnel and whether further cases emerge among medical staff or the surrounding community.

Primary Ethics, an independent not-for-profit that provides a free philosophical ethics curriculum to New South Wales school students from Kindergarten to Year 8, is advertising for an area manager. The organisation delivers age-appropriate ethics classes in primary schools, and the vacancy has been shared among people interested in education and volunteering roles.

Teachers, healthcare workers, firefighters and other public sector unions in France are preparing hundreds of strikes, with tens of thousands of people expected to march in Paris. Unions including the CGT and FO are behind the mobilisation, scheduled around September 29, in a broad show of strength by public employees over pay and working conditions.

Nine years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people in west London, the Crown Prosecution Service has revealed the first organisations to face criminal charges over the 2017 disaster. The announcement follows a lengthy police investigation and public inquiry into the fire and the failures that led to it. Campaigners and bereaved families have long called for corporate accountability, criticising years of delay.