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THE grieving parents of an autistic man whose decomposing body was found in a cupboard up to nine months after he died slammed council officials last night. Ayman Habayeb battled depression and received social care from Milton Keynes Council before his body was discovered on August 21. Ayman Habayeb was …

City council members in Austin, Texas, voted Tuesday to allocate $150,000 to make abortion care more accessible to low-income women by funding services like travel, lodging, child care and other logistical support for women who need the procedure. The funding, part of the municipal budget package passed Tuesday night by …

City council members in Austin, Texas, voted Tuesday to allocate $150,000 to make abortion care more accessible to low-income women by funding services like travel, lodging, child care and other logistical support for women who need the procedure. The funding, part of the municipal budget package passed Tuesday night by …

A FAMILY of seven are living in a single hotel room after they were evicted from their council flat. Jon Mitchell, his partner and five young children have been given temporary accommodation in a hotel room in Northfield, Birmingham which they say has no access to a cooker and is …

The meeting rooms at law firm Gilbert + Tobin, high in the Barangaroo complex with expansive views across Sydney, are named after historically-significant locations. Basra, Melos, Worms – cities that have witnessed turning points in history. It is an apt place to interview Moya Dodd, now a partner at the …

The Council of Catholic School Parents NSW/ACT (CCSP) is urging all parents, particularly parents of children in Catholic schools, to speak up in opposition to the bill passed in the Lower House of the NSW Parliament last week. As the bill now moves to the Upper House for further debate, …

After six years abroad, Khadija Saleh returned to Sudan in March to join protesters in the streets demanding change. She was taking part in a sit-in near the defence ministry in Khartoum on 3 June when security forces stormed in. The area had become a centre for anti-government protests. The 41-year-old …

Roughly 850 children “shopped” for new clothing, school supplies and other items at the seventh annual Back 2 School Store sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula and South Shore sections at Hewlett High School on July 28. More than 300 trained volunteers accompanied the kids as they shopped …

What’s your biggest challenge right now? I would say that the biggest ongoing challenge is that there is constant demand for Maine’s natural resources, and somebody has to continue to stand up for them. And that’s what NRCM does. On the more immediate front, we’ve just had one of the …

What’s your biggest challenge right now? I would say that the biggest ongoing challenge is that there is constant demand for Maine’s natural resources, and somebody has to continue to stand up for them. And that’s what NRCM does. On the more immediate front, we’ve just had one of the …