A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Ex-president of India dies, aged 85
NEW DELHI - Former Indian president KR Narayanan died on Wednesday of pneumonia and renal failure, the government said in a statement. He was 85.
Mr Narayanan was president of the world's second most populous nation from 1997 to 2002. He had been admitted to hospital on October 29th and was put on life support two days later.- (Reuters)
Miller to leave 'New York Times'
NEW YORK - New York Times reporter Judith Miller, hailed by her editors as a champion of press freedom but later criticised in the pages of her own newspaper for her pre-war reports on Iraq, will leave the paper, the Times said on Wednesday.
Lawyers for Ms Miller, who was at the centre of the CIA leak controversy, and the paper negotiated a severance package. As part of the agreement, the paper will publish a letter from her explaining her position. - (Reuters)
Life expectancy highest in London
LONDON - Men in in the most prosperous parts of London live 11.5 years longer than contemporaries in central Glasgow, the UK office for national statistics reported yesterday.
It said male life expectancy was highest in Kensington and Chelsea, where the average man will live to 80.8 years, compared with 69.3 in Glasgow city, whose men have the shortest average lifespans in Britain. The gap between rich and poor areas was not so pronounced for women. Kensington and Chelsea topped the female league, averaging 85.8 years, compared with 76.4 in Glasgow city. - (Guardian News Service)
Elks attack old people's home
STOCKHOLM - A herd of elks, thought to be drunk on fermented apples, surrounded an old people's home in Sweden and had to be driven away by armed police, Sweden's media reported yesterday.
The elks attacked the home in the town of Ostra Goinge, near Malmo, after devouring large numbers of the apples, the paper Dagens Nyheter said. - (Guardian News Service)