Britain to delete term ‘prostitute’
Britain is proposing to remove the term “prostitute” from the criminal statutes because it carries too much stigma, reports Reuters. Instead, a new bill that the Justice Ministry has drafted refers simply to persons who sell sex persistently — defined as twice or more in three months.
“We just wanted to remove the stigma of the label ‘common prostitute’,” said a spokeswoman for the Justice Ministry.   “It’s been around since 1824, so it was a bit outdated. It just wasn’t really helpful to label people.”

Assets of rich sum up to $37.2 trillion
Suppose all of the world’s richest people got together and pooled their assets into one lump sum. How much money would that be? According to the World Wealth Report released on Wednesday, the combined wealth of the globe’s richest individuals rose more than 11 per cent to a grand total of USD 37.2 trillion last year. The report also found that the expansion of the world’s richest class was strongest in both India and Singapore. The rise marks the first double-digit increase in seven years.

Buck’s manuscript surfaces after 40 yrs
A typewritten, hand-corrected manuscript of Pearl S Buck’s novel set in China, The Good Earth, surfaced in a Philadelphia auction house 40 years after it disappeared, US authorities said, reports AFP.
The auction house had been asked to estimate the value of the manuscript, but took it to the FBI, instead. “The manuscript is considered to be priceless,” said an FBI statement.