HOME AND ABROAD
Spain Doesn't Want a Big Brother
Madrid, Spain: Spain urged the United States on Monday to give details of any eavesdropping, saying new reports of mass telephone surveillance in the country would be "unacceptable" if proven to be true. The Spanish foreign ministry said it delivered the message to the US ambassador to Spain, James Costos, just hours after the publication of a leaked document purportedly showing that the US security services tracked 60.5 million Spanish telephone calls in a single month.
Call For Greater Security
Patna, India: India's home ministry ordered increased security at election rallies after a string of bombs killed six people before a speech by opposition leader Narendra Modi. Seven small devices activated by remote control caused panic on Sunday when they were detonated shortly before Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took to the stage in the eastern city of Patna.
Bad Parents
Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France: A couple kept their newborn locked in the trunk of a car for presumably over a year. They were escorted by police into a court in Brive-la-Gaillarde on October 28. The child, a girl, was discovered in the trunk of the car when the mother brought her vehicle to a car repair workshop where mechanics found the child and warned police.
For the Love of Classic Cars
Yangon, Myanmar: The Myanmar-Burma-Road Classic tours through the country was organised on October 28 by a group of classic car enthusiasts, who hoped that the road trip around Myanmar would help save the country's ageing automobiles from the scrapheap.
(last updated on 28/10/2013 before the magazine went to print.)
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