East African garb was just one of many inspirations behind the works of local and international designers Prajje Couture, Kosibah Creations, and others at Boston Fashion Week, reports the Banner. 

India will have its own edition of the world's oldest technology publication, MIT's Technology Review, as of early 2009, reports IndUSBusinesJournal.com

A rabbi in Anchorage, AK, tells TheJewishAdvocate.com his views on Gov. Palin, calling her "a friend of the Jews."  Sen. Obama would be just as friendly, too, he says. 

Mass. state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, defeated in the primary election, will still run on Nov 4.  One of her supporters questioned her opponent's ethnicity, reports DotNews.com.

Presidential candidate John McCain vowed to address the immigration issue, if elected, and put the undocumented on a path to citizenship, reports Feetin2Worlds.org. 

Medical bills have left many in Massachusetts in debt, but nonprofit and government-subsidized programs exist to ease the financial burden for eligible state residents, reports NEWz.

Enjoy your Sunday at Health and Family 2008 in Boston, with the Ringling Brothers Circus, NEWz partner Hispanic News Press and 70+ exhibitors for diabetes screening and more.

Gov. Richardson of New Mexico met with Latinos in Nashua, NH, for the Obama campaign. He introduced the presidential candidate's three-point immigration plan, reports NEWz.

The Cape Cod district attorney's investigation of the death of Andre Martins, who was fatally shot by a police officer, concludes that there will be no legal action against the cop, reports NEWz.

Two Indian immigrants in New England have launched an Internet-based radio station, whose DJs produce content locally in India, reports INDIAnewEngland.com.

A Fall River, Mass., school has been named after the late Mary Fonseca, the US's first woman of Portuguese descent elected to state senator, reports OJornal.com. (**EM PORTUGUES**)

Cambridge-based One Laptop Per Child seeks private-sectors sales in India, saying all children there will have computer access in five years, reports IndUS Business Journal.

Ex-convicts who have turned their lives around face stigma and hardship in getting jobs, stable homes and re-entering mainstream society, reports BayStateBanner.com.

A professor at Yeshiva University is getting opposition from colleagues because of her transgender status from Jay to Joy Ladin, reports TheJewishAdvocate.com.

William Mahon, a Gaelic expert and former Cambridge-area musician, has written a publication about Irish-speaking people of Lawrence, Mass., reports IrishEmigrant.com.