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Leading  women confronting the fear of public speaking at an event to be held next week.

Sikh Pensioner Joginder Singh, 80, died in hospital on Nov. 3 three months after suffering a violent attack from Coral Millerchip, 19, on a Coventry shopping street. The postmortem examination conducted on Nov. 4 to establish a cause of death was inconclusive.

Detective Chief Inspector Matt Markham from Coventry CID said:

Following the assault, Mr Singh was re-admitted to hospital and was being treated for a diagnosed condition. At this stage it is unclear if that is directly connected with the assault.”

This is the first of what we hope will be many articles from Discover Society who we are keen to support and collaborate with. The insight and debate of these discussion will be of the highest level, which we know that OBV readers want. In this article, the authors explore why the lack of opportunities to both teach and study Black studies and why this academic area is so important. We look forward to reading many more.

Writing for the Institute of Race Relations, Besty Barkas reports on the victory by the family of Mikey Powell to expose the truth about his shocking death and the role the West Midlands police had with it.

On the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht - Night of the Broken Glass - the Jewish Socialist Groups writes about this horrendous act and assesses race relations today.

Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm of its kind on record with winds up to 235km/h (147mph), devastated swathes of the Philippines and left the island nation reeling in ‘absolute bedlam’, according to the head of the Red Cross.

On Monday, a Philippine military spokesman confirmed millions homeless and 942 people dead in the typhoon’s aftermath, but officials estimate that 10,000 could have died in the hardest hit city of Tacloban alone.

Shaun Bailey may not thank me for this next statement, but; I’m glad he didn’t win at the 2010 General Election. Like most people, but perhaps particularly politicians who thought they might win something and then came up short, their self-confidence entwined with an often overinflated ego are forced to self reflect, reassess, have a heart to heart with oneself.

Olympic Javelin gold medallist Tessa Sanderson strongly believes that both Newham Council and the London Legacy Olympic Committee are at best being unhelpful and at worst being obstructive towards her plans to deliver another successful half marathon and Fun Run through the East End of London.

Calling for an era of progressive change, New Yorkers elected Bill de Blasio as their next mayor in a landslide election on Tuesday. The candidate appealed to the diverse mix of voters and secured victory by keeping to the same liberal agenda throughout the campaign, as well as showcasing his biracial family and humble life.

New Yorkers longed for a change from former mayor Bloomberg's billionaire businessman era, opting for a firm liberal who's against stop and frisk and rising income inequality.

Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, called caste discrimination “a base act of hidden denigration” that “leaves an insidious stain on society”.

It is hard to wipe out, and in this country, hard to see,”

she addressed the Anti-Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA) gathered in the House of Lords Wednesday morning.

Caste-based discrimination is illegal in India and other South Asian countries, but not yet in Britain.