Quick: What's the national minimum wage? If you're, say, one of three Republican candidates running in Missouri's U.S. Senate primary, you might be hard pressed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7cIEMHYG0E to remember it. (It's $7.25) But if you're one of about 173,000 people living in Missouri, you can probably rattle it off the top of your head. That's the number of people in Missouri-- enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot--who signed a petition to raise the state's minimum wage from the national average per hour to $8.25 in 2013, and provide for cost-of-living adjustments in the future.

Doctors' representatives are holding an emergency meeting to decide whether or not to ballot for industrial action.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls a ballot for the leadership of the Labor Party on Monday to end a tussle with Kevin Rudd.

The British Medical Association is to hold a ballot on industrial action over pensions - but has ruled out strike action.

Police officers in England and Wales are to be balloted on whether they want to be given the right to strike, the Police Federation says.