Indian Students Targeted in Melbourne Attacks

The violence is now threatening to spill over into neighboring New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state. Hundreds of men of Indian background rallied overnight in Sydney to protest a spate of attacks against students and migrants, the Sydney Morning Herald said today.

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Microsoft moves forward on plan to ax 5,000

Microsoft Corp. is pulling the trigger on thousands of the 5,000 job cuts it announced in January.

When Microsoft announced its first-ever companywide layoffs, the software maker cut 1,400 of the jobs it said it would slash, with the rest coming over an 18-month period..

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