Nepal Earthquake
£5m Rescue and Relief Aid Boost
The UK’s rescue and relief efforts in Nepal will be boosted with trauma medics, heavy lifting equipment to move aid supplies at Kathmandu airport, and humanitarian experts to help coordinate the international response,...
Pandas Brought Back From Edge of Extinction
Celebrations are in order after the giant panda was brought back from the edge of extinction. Between 2004-2014, the population of the beloved panda rose by 17%. This allowed the International Union for Conservation of Nature to elevate it...
25000 Low-caste Dalits Protest Class Violence
Earlier this month, four young men were stripped and flogged for taking a cow across the road. The four men were Dalits, previously known as untouchables, and the lowest-rung in the Indian caste-system.
It is thought the attackers accused the boys of killing...
Saudi Arabian Prince Executed for Murder
Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabeer as been executed for murder. According to the interior minister, the Saudi prince, one of thousands of members of the royal House of Saud, shot dead another Saudi, Adel bin Suleiman bin Abdulkareem al-Muhaimeed,...
Jagmeet Singh Elected As Canada’s New Democrats Leader
Sikh politician Jagmeet Singh has been picked by Canada’s federal New Democrat party to lead their party into the next general election.
The 38-year-old will be the first ethnic minority to lead a major federal party in the country.
In the...
A Senseless Killing
On the night of August 12th, Arab-American Khalid Jabara was shot on his porch by a neighbour who had been racially harassing him and his family for years. The 37-year-old died in his hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma was killed by...
Pakistani-Americans Win $1m Hult Prize At UN
Four Pakistani American students from Rutgers University in New Jersey won the prestigious Hult Prize award at the UN headquarters on Sunday.
The students secured $1 million in startup capital for their business, Roshni Rides, providing a private shuttle service...
Any Devices Larger than Phones to be Banned on Middle East-US flights
The US will be barring passengers from eight largely Muslim countries from having any device larger than a phone in their carry-on.
Nine airlines from a number of Middle Eastern and North African countries were given 96 hours to implement...
French Priest Killed
Two attackers claiming to be from Islamic State raided a church during mass and cut Fr Jacques Hamel's throat. Four people were also taken hostage before police shot two of the hostage takers.
The French media has named one of...
Tribunal Finds Australian School Discriminated Against Sikh Boy
A tribunal has found an Australian school discriminated against a five-year-old Sikh boy when it prevented his enrolment because he wore a turban.
Melton Christian School in Melbourne prohibits non-Christian head coverings for boys as part of its uniform policy.
The...
