A convicted murderer is challenging an Australian state’s ban on prisoners eating Vegemite, claiming in a court suit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.”

Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj party contested 238 of Bihar’s 243 Assembly seats but failed to win any of them.

A family’s joy turned to tragedy when 18 members of the Shaik family perished in a bus fire in Saudi Arabia while en route to Medina. The family, who lived in a bustling home in Hyderabad’s Vidyanagar, were on a pilgrimage. Only one immediate family member, living in the US, survives this devastating loss.