A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Australian hanged in Singapore
SINGAPORE - An Australian heroin trafficker has been executed in Singapore despite a warning by Australia's prime minister that the hanging would sour relations between their countries.
Vietnam-born Tuong Van Nguyen (25) received a mandatory death sentence after he was caught with 14oz of heroin at the Changi Airport in 2002.
WHO bans hiring of smokers
LONDON - The World Health Organisation has become the largest international employer to ban the hiring of smokers in an effort to promote its public health campaign against tobacco use.
The WHO has taken the lead in the fight against tobacco, which it says kills five million people a year.- (Financial Times)
Violence at final round of elections
CAIRO - Violence escalated yesterday in the final round of Egypt's legislative elections, with at least one man killed amid accusations that the government was trying to curb support for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.
Candidates running as nominally independent - because the Brotherhood is banned - have already won 76 seats in the first two rounds of staggered voting. - (Reuters)