Aboriginals receive ancestors' remains from Sweden in formal ceremony
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Sweden returned to Aboriginal elders the remains of 15 of their ancestors taken from Australia for scientific research a century ago.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home Wednesday morning to a nation which fears it  may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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More and more we re revering our ancestors as fresh information pours out about the amazing men and women who migrated here and started our nation.
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On Wednesday, girls across Sweden took part in an age-old celebration of light. They donned white robes tied with red sashes, settled crowns of candles on their heads, and served their families coffee.
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: The chief of Sweden's Ethnographic Museum Anders Bjorklund awards a sculpture to Peter Francis of the Kimberley region in West Australia 30 September 2004 in Stockholm.
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Australia's parliament opens with its first-ever Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs.
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The first bodies of 52 Swedes killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami came home in flag-draped coffins before dawn Wednesday as sobbing relatives, the royal family and government leaders stood in frigid rain, faced with the grim reality that 1,903 missing Swedes might never be found.
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Candles outside Australian parliament spell out apology as official opening ceremony is marked by aboriginal welcome for first time
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"The killings that took place here have no comparison in Europe. In two months after the war, more people were killed here than in the four years of war"  After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two. via Scotsman.com News
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An aboriginal man who died in police custody is buried amid local anger in northern Australia.
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The distinctive culture that arrived via a land bridge between Asia and Alaska were not the first people in the New World, new radiocarbon analysis suggests.
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A user-centred digital rights management system has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was given a peace pipe at the funeral blessing of a native American Indian chieftan who died 270 years ago en route to see king George II about the theft of his land.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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Australia signalled a new hardline approach on welfare for its Aboriginal people as it vowed to end &quot;sit-down money&quot; -- generous handouts for doing little.
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Sweden held a memorial service Monday for victims of Asia's tsunami in an effort to deal with what may be its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago.