10 METRO Tuesday, October 13, 2009 D METROWorld GERMANY: Swingers who were offered free entry to a Bremen rock musical called Naked if they turned up nude have inundated the events box office. Organisers cancelled the offer after hundreds applied for free tickets. They say they feared the show had been hijacked by groups of militant nudists who intended to use the performance to put on their own show. INdIA: The army has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 350km. The test was considered routine and unlikely to aggravate tensions with long-time rival Pakistan. The surface-to-surface missile, Prithvi-II, was fired twice within five minutes from a range in Chandipur in the state of Orissa. It can carry a warhead weighing up to 500kg. The army has already inducted a shorter version of the missile Prithvi-I with a range of 150km. The current crop of missiles is mostly intended for confronting Pakistan. The two countries routinely test-fire missiles, but usually notify each other ahead of the launches in keeping with an agreement. AfGhANIstAN: A member of a UN-backed panel set up to investigate complaints of fraud in the presidential election has resigned, blaming what he called the interference of foreigners. Maulavi Mustafa Barakzia was one of only two Afghans on the Electoral Complaints Commission. He alleged that the foreigners on the panel were making all of its decisions on their own. The panel will decide this week whether to throw out enough votes to force a run-off between President Hamid Karzai and his challenger, Abdullah Abdullah (pictured). ChINA: Six people have been sentenced to death for murder committed during riots that killed nearly 200 people in the far western region of Xinjiang in July. Xinjiang has been under heavy security since the unrest, in which minority Muslim Uighurs attacked members of the dominant Han ethnic group. Hundreds were detained following the rioting in Urumqi, the regional capital, which broke out when Uighurs protested to call for an investigation into a fight at a factory in Guangdong. The government blames the rioting on overseas groups wanting greater Uighur rights in their Xinjiang homeland, while the Uighurs complain of oppression by authorities. Mitterand backed over sex scandalBy con doherty TWO-thirds of French people do not want Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand to resign for having writ- ten about paying young male prosti- tutes for sex in Thailand, an opinion poll has found. Mr Mitterrand has rejected calls for his resignation sparked by reve- lations in his 2005 autobiography, The Bad Life, and said the male prostitutes were consenting adults. The French government has also come out in support of Mr Mitter- rand, who has threatened legal ac- tion to protect his reputation. The controversy surfaced after Mr Mitterrand defended film-maker Roman Polanski, who faces extradi- tion from Switzerland to the US for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Both the far-right National Front party and the main Socialist opposi- tion party have said he should step down. However, 67 per cent of French people do not want him to resign, as opposed to 20 per cent who think he should, according to the survey of 1,005 people carried out by pollster BVA. Mr Mitterrand has called his expe- riences in Thailand, described in the book that mixes autobiography and more dreamlike reflection, as a mistake, certainly, a crime, no. I got into the habit of paying for boys, he wrote. All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market, excited me enormously. Mr Mitterrand, who is the nephew of former Socialist President Franois Mitterrand, shot to the top of popularity polls after he was drafted into Nicolas Sarkozys cen- tre-right cabinet in June. Frederic Mitterrand: Paid for male prostitutes Ambassador struck by lightning Polands ambassador to Montenegro has been injured and another person died when they were struck by lightning during a mountain-climbing expedition, it was revealed yesterday. doctors diagnosed ambassador Jaroslaw lindenberg with a broken arm and burns when he was admitted to a hospital in the capital Podgorica late on Sunday. no one at the Polish embassy was available for comment. according to reports in the local media, the ambassador was in a group of 11 people who set off to climb a mountain peak in central Montenegro when lightning killed climber andrej Tomovic and injured the ambassador and one other person. Miroslaw Balkas installation how It Is is revealed in the tate Modern, London, yesterday. It consists of a giant steel structure encasing a cavernous unlit area in which visitors are invited to walk Picture: Getty a walk on the dark side... index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html