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Australian restaurant fires staffer who issued receipt with racial slur

Melbourne: A staff member from a restaurant in Australia’s Melbourne city has been fired after issuing a receipt to a black man with a racial slur, the media reported on Saturday.

On Friday, Rutendo Ruth Muchinguri posted a photo on Facebook of the receipt her husband Nicholas received from the Burger Project restaurant, owned by celebrity chef Neil Perry’s Rockpool Dining Group, the Guardian reported.

“It is so disappointing that in a place where my husband spent his hard earned money, he received this sort of disgracefully discriminatory treatment. It’s exhausting that in 2017, in a modern and multicultural society some of your staff remain insensitive.” The employee had scribbled the ‘N’ word on the bill.

A company spokesperson told the Guardian Australia on Saturday they were “disappointed and saddened that Nicholas Muchinguri was treated in this manner by one of our employees.”

“It is not behaviour or language that we support or condone in any way and does not reflect the values or culture of our business,” he added. (IANS)

Trump celebrates student model rocket named after him

Washington: President Donald Trump is celebrating a student model rocket named after … him. Trump asked the students from Victory Christian Center School in Charlotte, North Carolina, why the rocket was named for him. A student replied, “Simply because it conquers all.”

Trump then said “they’re never going to put that on television,” referring to the reporters who were brought into the Oval Office for the visit.

The students are among 100 teams scheduled to compete Saturday in the finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge, a national competition being held in Northern Virginia.

Trump said the rocket “better work well.” He also told the students to come back to the White House for a celebration if they win. (AP)

Body farm for researchers and detectives opens in Tampa

Land O’Lakes: A body farm is being planted in Florida.

It’s a scientific facility for the study of how dead bodies decompose.

Officials broke ground on Friday on the Adam Kennedy Forensics Field, a five-acre patch of land north of Tampa.

Forensic experts and law enforcement officers hope to turn the center into the world’s biggest of its kind.

It will  enable researchers to study facets of decomposition.

It includes how the environment, weather and other factors affect the body.

Four bodies will be buried in the coming days.

Next January, professors at USF will exhume them and lead detectives through a course of study.

The scientific facility is named after a school principal who died in a car crash.

His body is among the first to be buried. (AP)