MANILA - Thirteen Philippine policemen have been sacked and more than 350 others placed under investigation for allegedly cheating in written exams, the police governing body said. The National Police Commission said it had invalidated the results of the exams taken last year by 386 people in the southern city of Zamboanga as so many had put exactly the same wrong answers. The exams were being taken by would-be officers applying to enter the force as well as serving officers seeking promotion. AFP
NEW DELHI - Hundreds of gay rights supporters marched through New Delhi to demand they be allowed to lead lives of dignity in India's deeply conservative society. Dozens of activists carried a 15-metre long, rainbow-coloured banner and waved placards demanding that the government extend anti-discrimination laws to schools and offices. Activists said three years after the Delhi High Court made changes in India's colonial-era law that made gay sex a crime, homosexuals are still not socially accepted. AP