Sydney

SYDNEY - Violence against Indian students in Australia was a reflection of the dearth of policies relating to the quality of education and experience of international students, according to the International Education Association of Australia.

SYDNEY - Four Australian female soldiers have been sent home from the Middle East after falling pregnant on deployment.

SYDNEY - South Korea's Asiana Airlines has been named the airline of the year at the annual World Airline Awards in Hamburg, Germany.

SYDNEY - Australia's Department of Immigration has released the identities of half a million foreign students from India, China, South Korea, Malaysia and the United States to police across the country as it tries to find if any attacks against them were racially motivated.

SYDNEY - Aussie mountaineer Duncan Chessell will be scaling Mount Everest in the hope of finding the missing remains of Briton Andrew "Sandy" Irvine who alongwith countryman George Mallory had ascended the mountain in 1924 but had reportedly perished near the summit of the mountain, sparking off speculation about whether they had managed to conquer the peak or not.