MALAYSIA'S highest court on Tuesday allowed indigenous tribespeople from Borneo the right to challenge the acquisition of their ancestral land, in what campaigners hailed as a historic test case.
Their legal battle for native title began 12 years ago after the state government of Sarawak on Malaysian Borneo requisitioned land for the controversial Bakun dam and a timber pulpmill.

Some 50 representatives of indigenous peoples from Russia's North have put a curse on Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov and A Just Russia, a pro-Kremlin quasi-opposition group that he heads, over the use of "dirty electoral technology."

The remains of a 4,500-year-old sauna have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a Stone Age temple.
They unearthed the foundations of the building at Marden Henge, near Devizes in Wiltshire.
Located close to the River Avon, the neolithic ‘sauna’ was in a key position overlooking a ceremonial area at the site.

BURLINGTON Archaeologists assessing an expansion site for the Burlington wastewater treatment plant have excavated thousands of artifacts believed to date back as far as AD 700.

POLICE in the Indonesian province of Aceh are investigating the murder of a man who was allegedly burned alive in front of a large group of villagers after being accused of practising black magic.
The victim, identified as 67-year-old Teungku Ilyas, also known as Nek Liyah, was reportedly dragged to an area in front of the town hall, where a large crowd gathered and watched on as he was doused in petrol and set alight.