[Brasil]
Agências brasileiras exigem atestados de saúde aos seus modelos
As agências de modelos brasileiras anunciaram sexta-feira que exigirão um atestado médico antes de contratar as jovens que sonham em subir às passerelles, depois da badalada morte da modelo Ana Carolina Reston, vítima de anorexia.
(atestados médicos??? reparem na foto: eram mas é todas internadas. A Espanha deu um exemplo que devia ser seguido cá e no Brasil, ou tem de se importar o Zapatero???)

[India]
Chuva vermelha pode ter trazido vida extraterrestre
Em 2001, o sul da Índia foi assolado por uma misteriosa chuva vermelha, para a qual os cientistas encontraram uma rápida explicação. No entanto, há quem defenda que estas gotas traziam organismos alienígenas.

[India]
Court calls for documents in sexual harassment case
Taking note of the sexual harassment meted out to a teenaged transgender person (known locally as Aravani) by police personnel of the Vyasarpadi police station, the Madras High Court has called for the case diary and documents relating to the incident.

[VT, USA]
Day of Remembrance celebrates transgendered
For years, Lynda Moureau listened to her son recount daily verbal abuse, taunts and threats he experienced in school. They called him "a fag," but they didn't understand that he wasn't gay; he was transgendered.

[TX, USA]
Day recalls transgender victims

Citing ongoing harassment, discrimination and, in some cases, violence, advocates for men and women who live their lives as the opposite gender will gather Monday at the Houston Holocaust Museum to memorialize those who have been slain as a result of their sexual expression.

[USA]
F.D.A. Will Allow Breast Implants Made of Silicone

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday lifted a 14-year ban on the use of silicone gel breast implants in the United States after decades of contentious debate and litigation over their safety.