Outraged Muslims today demanded an Australian newspaper apologise after it published one of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked angry protests around the world.

Police formed a strike force today to track down the instigators of a day and night of racial riots that left more than 30 people injured in a string of Sydney beachside suburbs.

Islamic officials today said that they believe that an attack on an Islamic school in Australia and the home of a Muslim leader was vengeance for the deaths in the bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali.

A 55-YEAR prison sentence handed down to the ringleader of a gang of young Lebanese men who raped four women in western Sydney has shocked lawyers.

Islamic groups in Australia held a crisis meeting today to condemn a series of brutal gang rapes by young Muslim men.