Outrage, Indian student killed in Australia
04 Jan 2010: The governments of India and Australia have condemned the murder of an Indian student in the city of Melbourne over the weekend. Nitin Garg was stabbed to death while walking to work on Saturday night. "I obviously unreservedly condemn this attack," JuliaAborigines ask UN for refugee status
26 Aug 2009: A group of Australian Aborigines has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees, claiming emergency laws brought in to curb alcoholism and sexual abuse have made them outcasts in their own land. Richard Downs, a spokesperson for the AlywawarraMore Aboriginal children put into care now than during 'Stolen Generations'
04 Jan 2009: There are now more than 4,500 Aboriginal children in state care in New South Wales (NSW), compared to 1,000 in foster homes, institutions and church-run missions in the state when the forced removals policy ended in 1969. A recent report on child welfareBiting the bullet on Iraq
02 Jul 2008: This month’s admission by Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, that the Iraq war was wrong has not gone unnoticed. In an address to Parliament on June 2, Rudd dismissed one-by-one the reasons used by his predecessor, John Howard, to join theAustralia's stolen generation: 'To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, we say sorry'
13 Feb 2008: It has been a long time coming, but at last Australia has said the word its Aboriginal population wanted to hear. It was uttered three times, early this morning, when the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, addressed the Australian Parliament. That word wasAFP Chief having a sook over the Dr Haneef Case
31 Jan 2008: AFP Chief having a sook over the Dr Haneef Case. The head of the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has come out to blast the media for its reporting during the Dr Haneef case. He has called for a media blackout in all terrorist casesAustralia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
13 Jan 2008: As one of Australia's 'stolen generation', John Moriarty was only four when he was taken away from his mother: loaded on to an army truck and sent thousands of kilometres away from his home in the Gulf of Carpentaria to be raised in a series of bleakslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
