The World This Week.

Or Random Stuff You Couldn’t Care Less About Either Ways.

Special Judge Rama Jain pronounced a sentence of death for Pandher and Kohli in the Nithari murder case. Not that it is of much use since the Supreme Court still stands by it’s reasoning of death in the rarest of rare case. Effectively this means that justice will be measured by the judge’s foot, as the saying goes. But a round of applause, none the less, for her judgment.

Pakistan registered a case against Ajmal Kasab at the Dockyard Police Station in Karachi under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Given the fact that Kasab is currently in India, committed henious acts of terrorism on Indian soil, against Indian citizens, one wonders what is being achieved by this particular move. Really, anyone, any practically appealing answers?

Jade Goody decided to have her last days captured on film for public viewing. Honestly, why?

An intact American satellite collided in space with a Russian satellite, spewing debris somewhere over northeren Siberia. As if one planet was not enough, we’ve started to make a mess in space too. We really are extremely short-sighted and self-centered creatures, aren’t we?

Hell discriminates between men and women: Vatican 

Sex discrimination is destined to continue in the scorching fires of Hell, according to a study approved by the Vatican which suggests that men are most likely to commit lustful sins whereas women are beholden to pride. The men, it seems, are the ones whose souls end up being pelted with fire and brimstone, while the women’s souls are more likely to be broken on a wheel. Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, personal theologian to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household, said there was “no sexual equality” when it came to sin. “Men and women sin in different ways,” he wrote in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. Pride ranks only at No 5 for men, who are likely to have indulged in so much lust and gluttony that they are too slothful to feel angry, proud, envious or avaricious. Women are not averse to lust, but are primarily occupied with pride, envy and anger. Sloth does not set in until after gluttony and avarice. Seriously, what does anyone say to this?!

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