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Boys at an Australian school were made to “stand up and apologise to every girl for rape [and] sexual assault” at an assembly, according to pupils. Posting on the Snapchat social media app, a schoolboy at Brauer College in Warrnambool, Victoria said that the school “made every guy stand up and apologise to every girl for rape [and] sexual assault” at an assembly.

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for past US "crimes" against the Islamic republic, after the new US leader extended a hand of diplomacy to Tehran. The firebrand Iranian leader also called on Washington to withdraw its troops from across the world as a proof of Obama's promised policy of change. "You were standing against the Iranian people in the past 60 years," Ahmadinejad said in an address in the western region of Khermenshah that was broadcast on state television. "Those who speak of change must apologise to the Iranian people...

Islamic and Christian historians have called for a number of Muslim states to apologise for their part in the slave trade during a live radio debate. The programme, broadcast on Premier Christian Radio, featured Islamic expert and lecturer, Anthony McRoy and ex-Christian and Islamic convert, the author Abdul-Haq al-Ashanti. The debate began with McRoy explaining how North African Islamic states raided European countries for slaves, and have yet to apologise for these actions. "It's essential that all states that ever engaged in this nefarious activity [slavery] should themselves apologise. I think there is a special case for the North African...

Armed intruders broke into a family's house in Britain, only to apologise and leave again, having realised they intended to beat someone up next door instead. A woman was upstairs with her children in Swinton, Yorkshire, northern England, when two men armed with a knife and a plank of wood broke in through a back door. "The intruders made their way upstairs where the occupant was with her two children," a South Yorkshire police spokesman said. "It became obvious the intruders had got the wrong address and they left, apologising. No threats were made, although the woman was in a...

American press calls on Bush to apologise June 17 2004 at 10:09AM Washington - The New York Times on Thursday called on United States President George Bush to apologise to the American people for going to war on Iraq after an official probe into the September 11 attacks found no evidence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda. "Now President Bush should apologise to the American people, who were led to believe something different," the Times editorial said. "Of all the ways Mr Bush persuaded Americans to back the invasion of Iraq last year, the most plainly dishonest was his effort to link...