■ Pakistan
Prisoner in light bulb shocker
Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus. On Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object. "We had to take it out intact," said Dr Farrukh Aftab at Nishtar Hospital. "Had it been broken inside, it would be a very very complicated situation." Mohammad, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, prohibited for Muslims, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his discomfort. He swears he didn't know the bulb was there.
■ Hong Kong
Woman killed with umbrella
A murder victim has been found with a bloody umbrella lodged in her stomach in Hong Kong, a news report said Friday. The body of 36-year-old mother-of-three Tam Yiu-so was found with a blood-stained, broken umbrella partially lodged in her stomach, the South China Morning Post reported. A second bloody umbrella was lying on the ground and divorcee Tam also had a slab of concrete pinning down one arm as well as multiple face and head wounds, the newspaper said. Tam's body was found near a reservoir in the territory's rural Tuen Mun district Thursday morning and had been dead for up to 24 hours, the newspaper said.
■ Hong Kong
Dad tries to freeze baby
A father accused of killing his four-month-old baby daughter tried to put her in a refrigerator to keep her quiet when she was crying, a news report said yesterday. Lam Wai-shu, 27, told police he also rolled up a towel and put it in baby Iris Lam's mouth to keep her quiet and put a cushion over her head to muffle the crying, the South China Morning Post reported. On one occasion, he tried to scare the baby into silence by putting her in the fridge when she was crying but was stopped by girlfriend Chiu Mei-sze, a manslaughter trial heard on Thursday. Baby Iris died of widespread brain injuries and pneumonia in December 2003.
■ Vietnam
Woman ate 1kg of nails
A mentally ill woman who ate 119 nails weighing more than 1kg has survived an emergency operation to remove the objects from her stomach, doctors said yesterday. Nguyen Thi Manh, 43, was admitted to a military hospital in southern Vinh Long province on Wednesday after complaining of intense stomach pain. "I had never seen a patient like her," Doctor Colonel Ly Viet Hung said. "We took from her stomach 119 nails measuring between 7cm and 8cm in an hour-long surgery." The doctor said the woman had suffered severe injuries but added that her life was no longer in danger.
■ China
Hu targets corruption
President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) called yesterday for a "resolute" fight to stamp out corruption within the Communist Party, following a recent spate of arrests and sackings of party members for graft. In a speech to mark today's 85th anniversary of the founding of the party, Hu told a ceremony attended by hundreds of cadres in Beijing that continuing to root out corruption was crucial to the organization's survival. "We must deeply recognize the long-term nature, complexity and difficulty of the anti-corruption drive. We should make it an important strategic task to maintain the vanguard character of the Party," Hu said in the nationally televised speech from the Zhongnanhai leadership compound.
■ Uae
Brad Pitt wannabe busted
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