Melbourne MC Mantra will soon be hitting the road with Urthboy for a nationwide tour. Mantras recently released debut album Power of the Spoken has been named ‘Feature Album’ for this week, by Triple J radio station. 

A video showing a US military Apache chopper gunner mowing down a group of journalists in Eastern Baghdad in 2007 has been recently leaked onto the internet by Wikileaks. The U.S military has always claimed that the civilians killed were insurgents; this has been disproved by the recent release of this footage. 

Australian band, Powderfinger, at a press conference today, announced plans to disband following the completion of their most extensive Australian tour to date.

Mirroring events in early 2009, Israeli F-16 fighter planes unleashed eight air strikes upon Gaza in response to increased Qassam rocket attacks out of Gaza that targeted southern Israeli communities.

Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiya, the head of al-Quds International Institution, has warned that the reopening of Hurva synagogue is part of an Israeli plan to erect a Jewish temple on al-Aqsa ruins. The reconstructed synagogue was officially opened on March 15, 2010 in the presence of Israeli politicians and chief rabbis. The reopening of Hurva has reignited fears in the global Muslim community about the possible destruction of al-Aqsa.