Asian security group to form crisis response team
Asia’s largest security forum, which includes the
U.S., the European Union and China, is forming a quick-reaction
group to respond to outbreaks of war and political crises, diplomats
said Wednesday.
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Maldives opens first virtual embassy on Second Life
The Maldives became the first country to open an
embassy in the virtual reality of web-based Second Life, a fantasy
world inhabited by computer-generated residents, the Maldives
mission to the United Nations in Geneva said.
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Pakistani judge jails sex-change couple
A Pakistani judge jailed a married couple after
ruling that the husband was also a woman despite earlier sex-change
surgery.
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