Australian hairdressers set new record while helping the homeless
A new Guinness world record for the number of haircuts conducted in eight hours was set on Monday in an event designed to raise awareness of the homeless. Sixteen hairdressers from Just Cuts salons around Australia were flown to Sydney where they managed to trim the hair of 409 people within the time limit, breaking […]
IRANIAN CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS JAIL FOR “EVANGELICAL ACTIVITIES” SAY ACTIVISTS
7th August, 2013 An Iranian Christian convert has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on what his supporters say are false charges linked to his evangelical church activities, local activists said this week. Mohammad-Hadi (Mostafa) Bordbar, a 27-year-old resident of the city of Rasht, was "tried by Judge Pir-Abbasi on the morning of 9th June, […]
BOOKS: COMING THROUGH THE FIRE – ANN FOGARTY’S ‘JOURNEY OF HONESTY’ IN THE WAKE OF THE ASH WEDNESDAY BUSHFIRES
LLOYD HARKNESS gives his thoughts on Ann Fogarty’s candid tale of survival in the aftermath of the Ash Wednesday bushfires…