A 29-year old Indian student has been sentenced to at least two years and three months in prison for sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl here.
Mujahed ur-Rahman, a student who also worked as a Foxtel salesman, had approached the resident of south-east Melbourne on September 30 last year, asking her to buy the pay television service.
After she declined, Mujahed went outside to the front yard and picked up the woman’s nine-year-old daughter and kissed her on the cheek before he sexually penetrated the girl in front of her younger brother, according to an AAP report.
Judge Paul Lacava said Mojahed’s conduct was the sort of thing every parent feared.
“Your offending involved touching a young girl, that is totally unacceptable,” he told the Victorian County Court today.
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UAE bans green tea,coffee for weight loss
Dubai : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has slapped a ban on the sale of two weight-loss products found to be containing potentially harmful substances. Tests showed that the products — Leptin Green Coffee 800 and Leptin Slimming Bag Green Tea — had such ingredients but they were not indicated on their respective labels.
The ban, declared by the ministry of environment and water, prohibits the item from being imported and marketed in this Gulf nation, Gulf News daily reported. It said Saudi Arabia banned the products last month after checks revealed that they contained Sibutramine and its linkages to cardiovascular diseases.
—Bernama
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Civilian and Nato soldiers die in Afghan
Kabul : Nato said on Monday that one of its soldiers was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, where another foreign soldier was killed in a small arms fire. One Afghan civilian was also killed in the eastern region, while roadside and suicide bombings injured 18 people elsewhere in the country, officials said. Both foreign soldiers were killed on Sunday, Nato said.
Most of the troops stationed in the southern region are from the United States, Britain, Canada and the Netherlands. The latest deaths took to 223 the total number of foreign soldiers killed this year in the country, according to icasualties.Org, an independent website that tracks fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
—DPA