A judge in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh ruled that Kamla Jaan, a eunuch, was legally a man and thus could not serve in a mayoral post reserved under a quota system for women. While Indian eunuchs as a group consider themselves female even though an estimated 99 percent are castrated males, Jaan argued that she was a "born eunuch," meaning a hermaphrodite with ambiguous or deformed genitals.

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Lawyers for Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority applied to the federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to allow an exemption to disability-rights law on behalf of airline personnel. The action came after the Australian Attorney General's office released a finding that applicants for positions as pilots and air traffic controllers could not legally be tested for physical or mental disabilities.

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The city council of Berkeley, California, passed a resolution declaring "that the space 60 kilometers [37 miles] and above the City of Berkeley is a space-based weapons free zone."

[Ed.: The sky is falling in more ways than one. The following month, the city warned consumers of the risk of food poisoning from eating undercooked sprouts.]

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