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• Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base
• Australian columnist 'offended, insulted, humiliated' fair-skinned Aborigines
• Unauthorised autobiography of Julian Assange sells less than 700 copies

Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base Posted: Friday, September 30, 2011  A U.S. citizen working for the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan was killed by an Afghan also working there. The incident took place in the CIA Annex of the U.S. Embassy at Ariana Hotel in Kabul. The victim was not named. More...

Australian columnist 'offended, insulted, humiliated' fair-skinned Aborigines Posted: Friday, September 30, 2011  Conservative commentator Andrew Bolt has been found in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act, following a pair of newspaper articles in 2009 where Bolt criticised fair-skinned people identifying as Aborigines. Australia's Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg said "I am satisfied that fair-skinned Aboriginal people (or some of them) were reasonably likely ... to have been offended, insulted, humiliated or intimidated by the imputations conveyed by the newspaper articles," Justice Bromberg said. "People should be free to fully identify with their race without fear of public disdain or loss of esteem for so identifying." More...

Unauthorised autobiography of Julian Assange sells less than 700 copies Posted: Friday, September 30, 2011  Despite copious publicity, the unauthorised autobiography of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, published Thursday, September 22, sold less than 700 copies that week, according to Nielsen BookScan. Assange's autobiography, published by Canongate publishers despite his lack of consent, was subject to much media coverage. Yet Nielsen BookScan, the sales figures monitor, showed readers that week only bought 644 copies of the book. More...

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