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AAP James Ashby has won his appeal against the Federal Court to throw out his sexual harassment case.

The man who accused former parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper of sexual harassment will have his day in court again after winning a Federal Court appeal.

Justice Steven Rares threw out James Ashby's case against Mr Slipper in a scathing decision handed down in 2012.

He found the former staffer's main purpose in bringing the case was to pursue a political attack against Mr Slipper.

But the full bench of the Federal Court on Thursday reversed the dismissal and awarded Mr Ashby costs.

"We are satisfied that Ashby should be granted leave and that his appeal should be allowed," the decision read.

"We have concluded that Ashby's unchallenged claim that he felt harassed and distressed by the alleged conduct of Slipper was not inherently improbable or incredible."

There were high emotions outside court, where Mr Ashby told reporters he had cried after hearing the decision.

"I've always believed the original court decision was wrong. It was unjust and not based on all the facts," he said.

"As you can imagine this has been a long and torturous journey, but I am determined not to give up until my claim has been vindicated."

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New research from the International Monetary Fund suggests societies with less inequality of incomes, after tax, have higher and more sustainable growth.

It also found that government actions in redistributing income - through taxes and spending - were generally not bad for growth.

Details of the study were released in a paper published this month by IMF researchers Jonathan Ostry, Andrew Berg and Charalambos Tsangarides.

In a blog, Ostry and Berg said they had used new international data to investigate the real-life relationship between inequality, growth and redistribution.

"To put it simply, we find little evidence of a 'big tradeoff' between redistribution and growth," they said.

The study found that "inequality continues to be a robust and powerful determinant both of the pace of medium-term growth and of the duration of growth spells".

Furthermore, "contrary to the big tradeoff hypothesis, the overall effect of redistribution is pro-growth, with the possible exception of extremely large redistributions".

Commenting on the study, Oliver Hartwich, of the New Zealand Initiative, said the conclusions were interesting and challenging. However, they omitted some important positive aspects of income redistribution, such as education spending.

"If you severely tax the rich to pay for education for the poor you get a very different effect compared to taxing the rich to give a cash benefit," Hartwich said.

"By leaving that out they left out the most interesting story of all."

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Digitimes Research sheds some light on the the Apple supply chain -- the source of many a rumor -- before the release of the product.

With a large-screen iPhone 6 possibly showing up this year, Digitimes Research provides some insight into where and when Apple rumors likely originate.

In an article posted Friday titled Explaining the Chaiwan Model for the Mobile Supply Chain, Digitimes Research talked about, among other things, timing.

"We may provide shipment data for Apple 1-2 months before [the product] even begins selling in the market, because that is when the supply chain delivers it to Apple," Digitimes Research said.

That may explain the crush of relatively reliable rumors that typically hit about a month before the product appears.

But there are stages before that. "When Apple is getting a product ready for the market, the product is in the supply chain pipeline 6-9 months before Apple even announces its launch," Digitimes Research said.

That assertion about a product being at suppliers but still going through changes six to nine months before release sheds light on some of the more dubious rumors that appear early on.

And where does the process begin?

"A brand like Apple or Samsung controls everything in the process of bringing their products to market...For example, it starts with the key component provider, which in the case of smartphones is the application processor."

So, a chip, like the Apple A7, or rumored A8 -- generally referred to as application processors -- may play a big part in the early stages of the product.

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RAMALLAH, West Bank A Gaza teen stabbed to death by her brother while she prayed in her room has become the latest addition to a grim statistic: Palestinian women killed by relatives, often for allegedly shaming the family.

Twenty-six women were slain by relatives in the West Bank and Gaza in 2013, twice as many as the year before, according to official figures. The rise stems from mounting economic difficulties in the Palestinian territories, compounded by ongoing leniency for those killing in the name of "family honor" and social acceptance of violence against women, women's rights activists said Wednesday.

They urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to repeal sections of a penal code that allows for short sentences of at most a few years for the perpetrators. Abbas suspended one article of the code in 2011, but others remain on the books, said Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO official and former legislator.

Ashrawi said she repeatedly has urged Abbas to adopt legal reforms, especially of articles that discriminate against women, but so far to no avail. She said she last met with Abbas in November, but that he referred the matter again to his legal adviser.

She said that male politicians often brush aside women's concerns, with the argument that more important issues are at stake, such as ending Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state.

Ashrawi said archaic laws harming women also undercut Palestinian aspirations. "We are fighting for freedom and human dignity," she said. "How can you deprive women of all these things?"

Abbas aides, including his adviser on legal affairs, did not return requests for comment.

So-called honor killings are committed regularly in traditional Arab societies that enforce strict gender separation and view an unmarried women's unsupervised contact with a man as a stain on the family reputation.

The most recent killing was carried out Saturday in the town of Bani Suheila in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which cited a police report.

The victim was identified as 18-year-old Islam al-Shami. The girl was stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife while she was praying in her room, the rights group said. Her 21-year-old brother was arrested and later told police he killed his sister to defend the family honor, according to the rights group.

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A three-story addition to the Water Street Inn in downtown Stillwater is being proposed by the building's owner. (Image courtesy of the Water Street Inn)

The Water Street Inn in downtown Stillwater is planning a major expansion.

Owner Chuck Dougherty wants to build a three-story addition that would include a rooftop patio and a new primary entrance and lobby. It also would have a tower element, a nod to the clock tower that graced the old Union Depot train station that formerly stood on the site.

The 21,000-square-foot addition, designed by ARCHNET in Stillwater, would add about 20 rooms to the 41-room hotel. The hotel lobby in the southwest corner would be moved to the building's north side, and the existing lobby would become the main dining area.

Plans for the addition were considered in 2008, but the economic downturn "put it on the back burner," Dougherty said Monday.

He said the time is right to make a major investment in downtown Stillwater.

"I think with all the improvements, with the new bridge, with the bike trails -- both the Loop Trail and Brown's Creek State Trail -- coming into town, we're at a renaissance," he said. "In talking to the business owners, everybody is really seeing these as great, positive moves. The city rebuilding Lowell Park and the parking lots and the public restrooms and the amphitheater are all very positive moves, and we feel ... that the future looks very bright."

The project would require a variance to the front-yard setback and a special-use permit for the rooftop patio, said Bill Turnblad, the city's community development director. The matter is expected to go before the planning commission March 10 and the city council on March 18.

The proposed addition, at the corner of Water and Myrtle streets, would be in the "view corridor" of people who looked down Myrtle Street to the Lowell Park gazebo and the St. Croix River, Turnblad said.

"It's more or less exactly where the original tower was, but it's closer than our ordinance allows to the street now, so that becomes the public balancing act," he said.

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A Gaza teen stabbed to death by her brother while she prayed in her room has become the latest addition to a grim statistic: Palestinian women killed by relatives, often for allegedly shaming the family.

Twenty-six women were slain by relatives in the West Bank and Gaza in 2013, twice as many as the year before, according to official figures. The rise stems from mounting economic difficulties in the Palestinian territories, compounded by ongoing leniency for those killing in the name of family honour and social acceptance of violence against women, womens rights activists said Wednesday.

They urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to repeal sections of a penal code that allows for short sentences of at most a few years for the perpetrators. Abbas suspended one article of the code in 2011, but others remain on the books, said Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO official and former legislator.

Ashrawi said she repeatedly has urged Abbas to adopt legal reforms, especially of articles that discriminate against women, but so far to no avail. She said she last met with Abbas in November, but that he referred the matter again to his legal adviser.

She said that male politicians often brush aside womens concerns, with the argument that more important issues are at stake, such as ending Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state.

Ashrawi said archaic laws harming women also undercut Palestinian aspirations. We are fighting for freedom and human dignity, she said. How can you deprive women of all these things?

Abbas aides, including his adviser on legal affairs, did not return requests for comment.

So-called honour killings are committed regularly in traditional Arab societies that enforce strict gender separation and view an unmarried womens unsupervised contact with a man as a stain on the family reputation.

The most recent killing was carried out Saturday in the town of Bani Suheila in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which cited a police report.

The victim was identified as 18-year-old Islam al-Shami. The girl was stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife while she was praying in her room, the rights group said. Her 21-year-old brother was arrested and later told police he killed his sister to defend the family honour, according to the rights group.

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