10 METRO Wednesday, November 18, 2009 D METROWorld JUNGLE DUTY: An activist dressed in an orangutan costume takes a break during a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia. Environmental activists yesterday staged a protest against the ongoing effects of deforestation and illegal hunting in the region Picture: EPA England: A man has admitted tried to marry off his mentally disabled sister in an immigration scam but police stopped the wedding when they burst into the ceremony. Michael Wright, 22, charged a Chinese national 8,000 (9,000) to marry his sister so the man could stay in the UK. Wright himself married a Chinese woman last year, charging her 4,000 (4,500). ViEtnam: The communist government is thought to be blocking Facebook, which has become difficult to access. Over the last week, access to the popular social networking site has been intermittent in the country, whose government tightly controls the flow of information. Access to other popular websites is uninterrupted. A technician at Vietnam Data Corp said officials ordered his firm to block access but a top executive denied any such order. Earlier this year, Hanoi tightened restrictions on blogging, banning political discussion and restricting postings to personal matters. Several bloggers have also been arrested for discussing politically sensitive subjects. amErica: A passenger on a flight from Philadelphia to London was arrested after the pilot deemed his behaviour unruly enough to make an unscheduled stop to have him removed. Shortly after the US Airways flight landed at Bostons Logan International Airport, John Alexander Murray, of Glasgow, Scotland, was arrested for interfering with flight crew. Murray, 50, had some type of arm or hand injury which required a splint and allegedly refused to move the bandaged limb out of the aisle despite several requests from the crew. A US Airways spokesman said the pilot decided to have Mr Murray removed in the interest of safety, but there did not appear to be any terrorist threat. italY: President Robert Mugabe, speaking at a UN food summit in Rome, yesterday called for the West to lift sanctions against his country, saying neo-colonialist enemies are trying to make his land reform fail and his country dependent on food imports. The Zimbabwean president (pictured) denounced the punitive policies of certain countries whose interests he said were opposed to the success of his farm and food policies. He concluded by asking Western countries to please remove their illegal and inhuman sanctions on my country and its people. mozambiquE: The main opposition party claims the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the October 28 presidential election. Saimone Macuiana said his Renamo party does not accept that the Frelimo party won three-quarters of the vote and wants the results annulled and a new election held. Preliminary results gave Frelimos Armando Guebuza (pictured) more than 76 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, foreign observers have deemed the voting free and fair. tajikistan: The production of incandescent light bulbs has been banned. President Emomali Rakhmons office said the ban, the latest effort to conserve power in the energy-starved country, would complement similar restrictions on the import of the light bulbs introduced earlier this year. Government offices began replacing incandescent bulbs with energy-saving bulbs in May, but the expense of buying costly long-life fluorescent or halogen lamps is likely to prove burdensome for much of the impoverished population. The countrys vast hydropower potential has suffered since the collapse of the Soviet Union, forcing a reliance on expensive imported electricity. iran: The building of a second uranium enrichment site is a political message that neither sanctions nor possible military attack will halt its nuclear programme. Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured), Irans envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog, said its concern that Tehran may be hiding more nuclear work after it unveiled the enrichment site in September was an unfair political judgment beyond its mandate. He said the disclosure of the site near Qom showed it was heeding obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency. india: Suspected rebels bombed a rail line yesterday, derailing a freight train and setting more than a dozen oil tanker railcars on fire in the insurgency- wracked Assam state. There were no casualities. The attack was blamed on the United Liberation Front of Asom, which is fighting for an independent state for ethnic Assamese. It is the largest among dozens of militant groups in the region. Separatists accuse New Delhi of taking the regions natural resources while doing little for the indigenous people most of whom are ethnically closer to the people of Burma and China than to India. More than 10,000 people have died in separatist violence over the past decade. Pirates free ship, hijack anotherPIRATES have freed a Spanish trawler and its crew that were hijacked six weeks ago. The pirates originally said the vessel would not be freed unless two gunmen captured by the Spanish navy near the ship were freed but agreed to a ransom of $3.5million (2.3m). The Alakrana was seized with 36 crew aboard, and is one of at least 13 ships being held off the coast along with more than 230 crew held as hostages. There was a lull in hijackings during monsoon rains, but sea gangs have stepped up raids in the past two months. Attacks off the Seychelles have surged as pirates extend their range to evade navies patrolling off the Horn of Africa. Meanwhile, the multi-national naval force operating in the area yesterday said another ship, the MV Theresa VIII, a chemical tanker with 28 crew members aboard, had been seized. Twins separated in 25hr operation bodies began to work individually. The twins are actually in better condition because the degree of sep- aration has increased and this prob- lem weve had with their circulation affecting each other has actually gotten less, he said. The girls shared parts of their skull, brain tissue and blood flow. Before the surgery, doctors had said there was a 50 per cent chance they could suffer brain damage and a 25 per cent chance one of the sis- ters would die. five hours after the separation sur- gery ended. Their bodies have to recover from this, and weve got a lot of unknown territory were moving into, Mr Donnan said. All I can say is that everything is in place for the best possible out- come. The main thing is that the girls are healthy. Earlier yesterday, Ian McKenzie, a member of the surgical team, said the girls were improving as their By roger weathers A TEAM of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery yesterday to sepa- rate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue. It is too early to know whether the two-year-old girls, Trishna and Krishna, suffered any brain damage during the marathon operation an outcome doctors in Melbourne, Australia, said had a 50-50 chance. The girls will remain in an induced coma for monitoring for several days after the completion of the sur- gery. The medical team began the work on Monday morning on separating the girls, who were brought to Aus- tralia as infants after they were found in an orphanage in Bangla- desh in 2007 by aid organisation Children First Foundation. The teams managed to separate their brains and they are both very well, Royal Childrens Hospital chief Leo Donnan told reporters. Now we have the long task of the reconstructive surgery, which will go on for many hours. Plastic surgeons finished recon- structing the girls skulls using a combination of their own skin, bone grafts and artificial materials about relief: trishna and Krishna before the operation Picture: Getty a man prays among combat boots during an anti-war protest in times square, New york, at which protesters hit out at Barack obamas likely plan to send more troops to afghanistan Picture: EPA give war The booT index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html