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1. 1. The ten most read stories of 2009

   Asian News, Thursday 31 December 2009 The top ten articles on the Asian News website during 2009, as measured by the number of visitors:

2. 2. Eid funfair was a hit

   Asian News, Tuesday 29 December 2009 MORE than 500 people descended onto the Oldham Muslim Centre for the borough's very first Eid in the Community funfair.

3. 3. Ex-mayor sentenced over death

   Asian News, Tuesday 29 December 2009 A FORMER mayor has been sentenced to 50 hours' community service for causing the death of a passenger in a car she was driving.

4. 4. High-flying student joins leaders in NYC

   Asian News, Wednesday 23 December 2009 A YOUNG Accrington scholar rubbed shoulders with peers from around the world at a Global Young Leaders conference in New York City and Washington DC.

5. 5. Mum spared jail over ‘crash for cash’ scam

   Asian News, Wednesday 23 December 2009 A MUM has escaped jail despite living the high life thanks to her boyfriend's £12m ‘crash for cash’ scam.

6. 6. Interview: Brindley Sherratt

   CityLife, Tuesday 22 December 2009 SINGING Handel’s Messiah at Christmas is a tradition that goes back a long way – almost to Handel himself. And on Christmas Day 2009, on Radio 3, you can hear a version very much of our own time - featuring north west born singer Brindley Sherratt.

7. 7. Celebrations for Victory Day

   Asian News, Tuesday 22 December 2009 THE Rochdale Bangladeshi Partnership Project (RBPP) have had double reason to celebrate after establishing a friendship Link between Rochdale and Sylhet and marking the 38th Victory Day or Bijoy Debosh, as it's known in Bangladesh, since the end of the Liberation War.

8. 8. Oldham Coliseum: Spring/summer season 2010

   CityLife, Friday 18 December 2009 OLDHAM Coliseum has just announced its 2010 spring/summer season, including a world premiere production of the best-selling book A Journey To Nab End, as well as 2010’s pantomime.

9. 9. Of bells and minarets

   Asian News, Thursday 17 December 2009 When Jerusalem was conquered in 635 AD, the second caliph Omar Ibn Al-Kattab refused to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, despite an invitation from the Christian patriarch Sophronius, for fear that his men invoke the precedent to turn the place of worship into a mosque and thus deprive the Christians of their right to freely practice their religion.

10. 10. Ibn Battuta on the big, big screen

    Asian News, Thursday 17 December 2009 For many Muslims worldwide, the name Ibn Battuta evokes a sense of great pride and conjures up a golden era of Islamic history.

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