Lesbian couple wants to be put in same jail
The lawyer for a Pakistani lesbian couple, who have been put in separate jails recently for marrying, has petitioned the court that they should be put in the same prison, reports PTI from Islamabad.
Rana Sajjad Hussain, lawyer for the lesbian couple Shumail Raj, 31, and 26-year-old Shahzina Tariq, who underwent a sex change operation 16 years ago, filed a petition in the Lahore High Court asking for an order to put them in the same jail and to seek permission to meet them for legal consultation.
The couple was sent to separate jails on May 22 by the Lahore High Court. Raj was sent to the Kot Lakhpat Jail and Shahzina to a jail in Faisalabad.

Thai ex-PM loses cash to thieves in Moscow
Thailand’s globe-trotting deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra garnered an academic honour by visiting Moscow this week, but lost thousands of dollars and his passport when he stopped at a McDonald’s in the Russian capital, AP reports from Bangkok.
Thaksin, who has been living in exile since a coup last year ousted him as prime minister, had entrusted his briefcase to an aide sitting at a nearby table as they had a meal on Monday.
When the party got up to leave, they found that Thaksin’s briefcase, with his passport and about USD 9,200 worth of money in US and Russian currency, had been snatched. Thaksin was in Moscow to accept an honorary degree in science from the Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy.

Heroin worth $ 360m seized in Moscow
In the largest ever haul, the anti-drug authorities have seized 436 kilogram of high quality “Afghan origin” heroin worth USD 360 million from a truck that arrived in Moscow from the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, PTI reports from Moscow.
“With that amount, the traffickers could have prepared over six tonnes of street drugs worth over about USD 360 million,” an Anti-narcotics Service official said.
Four people  have been detained. The Tajikistan-based ring leader of illicit drug traders is absconding.

Nicole’s stepbrother denies rape charge
Anna Nicole Smith’s stepbrother Larry Dale Hart has angrily denied reports that he’s the man who sexually abused the late model and insists he never even knew she had been raped in her youth, IANS reports from New York.
Hart, who is serving time in a Texas prison for sexual assault, was tracked down by the news show Entertainment Tonight as part of a follow-up to an interview with Smith before she died in February, in which she angrily revealed, “You wanna hear my child life? The rape?” Hollywood.com quoted him as saying: “I’ve never even heard that before. I don’t think she’s said that. I don’t think so. That’s a shock to me.”

Clinton gets $1mn cheque for AIDS
 Former US President Bill Clinton pocketed a million-dollar cheque for his fight against AIDS during a brief visit to the Austrian capital, AP reports from Vienna.
Clinton received the cheque on Thursday at an open-air classical music concert on the sprawling grounds of Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Palace.
Earlier, Clinton was the guest of honour at a charity gala in the palace attended by Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and actress Sharon Stone, among others.
Earlier this month, Clinton announced agreements with drug companies to lower the price of so-called “second-line” AIDS drugs for people in the developing world and to make a once-a-day AIDS pill available for less than $1 a day.
Vienna’s city hall on Saturday hosts the 15th annual Life Ball to raise cash for people with HIV and AIDS.