An IAF Cheetal chopper sets Record for density altitude landing, at 25,150 ft, in Saserkangri, Leh.
Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi is the UAE’s first woman minister, appointed by President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 90, who died this week. The Abu Dhabi ruler had governed the 7-member Gulf federation since inception in ’71.
Sir David Gore-Booth, 61, the irascible ex-UK high commissioner to India whose ‘fame’ rose with the ’97 Queen’s visit muddles, dies.
Tabare Vazquez is the new Uruguay prez, heading a first-ever Left combine with ex-rebels.
French mothers will now be able to give their surnames to children via an Amendment. Strict Gallic ‘naming’ laws have taken much flak: till ’93, a state list governed all first names for newborns.
