Gay sex legalized

INDIA’S Supreme Court legalized gay sex in a historic judgment Thursday, scrapping a 158-year-old colonial law that criminalized homosexuality.

A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, made it clear that the top court would not tolerate any kind of discrimination on the basis of anyone’s sexual orientation as it struck down Section 377 of Indian Penal Code under which gay sex was an “unnatural offence.”

8 dead

THE death toll from a flood and a mudflow that hit Southwest China’s Yunnan Province has risen to eight, with the bodies of three victims recovered Wednesday, according to the local rescue headquarters.