The Mother Teresa Show and a New Frog

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is being beatified at the Vatican on Sunday. She died in 1997, at the age of 87. There's a bizarre article about the event in the Washington Post:

In Rome, a Passion for Mother Teresa

ROME, Oct. 15 -- It's unlikely that the late Mother Teresa, the nun who gained fame for helping the poor in the slums of Calcutta, ever wore a sari with a slit up the front. But in a Rome theater this week, she is not only so adorned but also belting out pop tunes to standing-room-only crowds.

The show, "Mother Teresa -- The Musical," is part of Mother Teresa mania sweeping the Italian capital in advance of her Sunday beatification. Pilgrims are pouring into town, souvenir vendors hawk figurines, plates, scarves and medallions, and Italian state television has scheduled a made-for-TV biography...(more)

Mother Teresa by M. F. Husain

New frog species is 'living fossil'

A species of frog, whose ancestors hopped around at the feet of the dinosaurs, has been discovered in India. The frog, which resembles a flattened aubergine with a white snout, has been described by scientists as a "living fossil".

Franky Bossuyt at the Free University of Brussels and SD Biju at the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in India found the frog in the Western Ghat hills of Kerala in southern India...(more)

cartoon by Neelabh,The Economic Times